Central News Agency: "U.S Government Officials Predict Religious Freedom to be Important Topic During Jiang-Bush Meeting"

(Clearwisdom.net) On October 8, 2002, a U.S. government official said that the issue of religious freedom will "almost certainly" be the main topic of the meeting between Party leader Jiang Zemin and President Bush later this month, and the U.S government will mention religious freedom and the "very serious problem" of many Falun Gong practitioners' deaths while in custody in Mainland China, making those probably the main topic.

Houston Chronicle: Falun Gong plans Texas protest

Oct. 15, 2002

WASHINGTON -- About 50 Falun Gong [practitioners] demonstrating outside the Chinese Embassy on Monday plan to carry their protest to Texas next week for President Bush's meeting with Chinese President Jiang Zemin.

AFP (Agence France-Presse): China's Jiang to visit Chicago, Houston, San Francisco on US trip

Tuesday, 15-Oct-2002

BEIJING, Oct 16 (AFP) - Chinese President Jiang Zemin will visit the US cities of Chicago, Houston and San Francisco as well as President George W. Bush's Texas ranch on a trip from next week, the foreign ministry said Wednesday.

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