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The CCP once again extended its paws into the international community, suppressing and interfering with NTDTV Chinese New Year Spectacular shows. The South Korean Government bowed to the pressure from the CCP and cancelled the performance that was due to open on January 6th, 2007 at the National Theatre of Korea in Seoul. NTDTV held a press conference on January 9, 2007 at Taiwan’s Legislative Council to expose the CCP’s willful obstruction of an international high-quality artistic performance.
 NTDTV holds a press conference in Taiwan’s Legislative Council to condemn CCP interference in New Years Spectacular shows |
NTDTV began broadcasting in February 2002, and is headquartered in New York City. The basic purpose of the NTDTV is to report the facts and defy suppression from any political power. It provides thorough reports on sensitive topics that the CCP tries its utmost to block, but are closely linked to Chinese people, such as SARS, the truth about Falun Gong and about proposed Article 23 legislation in Hong Kong, and about human rights in China.
NTDTV holds its Global Chinese New Year Spectacular in many cities around the world each year for the last four years. Pure artistic contents and superb performance standards have been widely praised by the Chinese people. The performance held in 2006 in Radio City Music Hall in New York City won the seventh place of outstanding large-scale stage performance commented by Billboard, a magazine on top musical performances and professional performing arts.
NTDTV spokesperson Liu Ying-chuan said that the cancellation of the Seoul show was the latest among many CCP attempts to suppress NTDTV. South Korea's largest newspaper "Chosun Ilbo" and South Korea's national news agency "South Korea-Associated Press" recently reported that NTDTV reported on the human rights scandals in China and angered the CCP. The CCP pressured South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture to force the Korea National Theater to cancel the NTDTV New Year Spectacular show in Seoul, threatening to cancel the National Theatre’s performance in June in China if they did not comply. The South Korean government accepted the CCP’s demand, and the theater only notified the performance side a day before to cancel the contract. Today, in addition to exposing the matter, what is important is to let the world know the truth and evil nature of the CCP.
In addition, Liu Ying-chuan also referred to the Eutelsat satellite issue two years ago. The CCP attempted to knock NTDTV off the air, yet as a result, made NTDTV known to the world. The support gained from all sectors resulted in the European satellite company signing a six-year extension contract with NTDTV. She said as long as people bring righteous strength to full play, to present moral conscience, unfair treatment can be readily solved. The CCP’s wickedness can also be suppressed.
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Wang Yumin, artistic director of the NTDTV's Chinese New Year Spectacular thought that the art of dance is an international common language. Where there are arts and culture, there are beautiful, affluent countries with favorable weather and good people. No matter how the CCP suppresses the NTDTV, we are confident and will carry forward traditional Chinese culture in the form of dance and meet with international culture.
Member of Legislative Council Tian Chiu-Jin who watched the NTDTV's Chinese New Year Gala with her mother last year said that the gala was full of warmth and the beauty of Chinese culture. She could not understand why the CCP’s dark paws would extend to the International art's field, and did such an ugly thing. She said that she had thought of [why the CCP interfered with the NTDTV shows] for a long time, and there was only one reason she could think of, she confirmed that the NTDTV's long-term news coverage on the CCP is true, and has truly stepped on the CCP's sore spot. She further pointed out that the CCP has been shaping the rise of great power, but it has no means to rest assured for a show. It repeats the Empress Dowager's approach, believing that so long as ships are firm and artillery is effective, the country would be prosperous and strong. However, only true culture roots and human rights can support the country's century-long great cause. Today, the CCP's trick exposes its weakness, allowing people around the world to see that the CCP is extremely guilty.
The three tricks the CCP uses to threaten, entice and block the Chinese New Year Gala
The NTDTV presented five shows in the first performance in 2004 to 76 shows in the fourth performance in 2007. The CCP has been suppressing all the time. Liu Ying-chun pointed out that the fact is that the NTDTV has been covering news on the CCP's human rights abuses, therefore the CCP regards the NTDTV as its No. One enemy. Liu Ying-chun revealed the three tricks that the CCP used to persecute NTDTV's Chinese New Year galas through local Chinese Consulate. First, the CCP exerts pressure to the venues rented overseas, such as the National Theatre of Korea in Seoul. Second, it threatens and intimidates performers who participate in the performances. For example, during the Christmas holidays in 2003, Australian singer Christian Bischoff was invited by the NTDTV Chinese New Year Gala and specially flew to New York to participate in the performance. Three hours before the plane took off, he received a phone call from the Chinese Embassy which attempted to stop him from taking part in the performance. Christian repeatedly told them with tremendous courage, "I'm an actor, I'll participate in an unprecedented international event. This is a very beautiful thing. I'll sing 'Old Man River' and 'Song of Matador'. No one can stop me." Two Australian ballet dancers in 2006 gala were threatened by the CCP. They would no longer be allowed to go to China to give performances. Third, the CCP threatens non-governmental organizations or enterprises that sponsored the NTDTV's Chinese New Year galas, claiming that their trading in Chinese markets would be reduced or canceled. A typical example was the Eutelsat incident two year ago when the CCP threatened the European satellite company with transactions during the 2008 Olympic Games, so that the company would no longer renew the contract with the NTDTV.
Fail in putting pressure, the CCP used "The Same Song" to export evil
Fail to exert pressure to cancel the NTDTV Chinese New Year galas in United States, Canada, and Australia, the CCP organized rival shows at the same time. Before the 2006 Chinese New Year, the CCP organized a "The Same Song" evening show in Toronto, Los Angeles and New York. Observers pointed out that it is the CCP's oft-used trick. The so-called promotion of traditional Chinese culture organized overseas actually the trick of the CCP's "united front," to deceive the overseas Chinese people in the disguise of art, actually it is only to whitewash for its crumbling power.
"The Same Song" is the tool the CCP used to brainwash detained Falun Gong practitioners in prisons. The CCP uses it to control their thinking, intensify reformation, deceive and coerce detained Falun Gong practitioners to give up their belief. This thing that has been degraded into being used by the evil CCP to suppress people's belief, and persecute good people, was even brazenly performed in free and democratic countries, many people who have learned about the truth resisted it.
During recent days, Mr. David Kilgour said in an interview that he had obtained new evidence supporting the allegation of live organ removal in his trip to thirty capitals across the world. Mr. Kilgour indicated he would add the new evidence to his report and release a revised version.
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The More People that Know the Facts, the More Pressure on the CCP
Mr. Kilgour said in the interview, "We've been traveling to about 30 capitals all over the world We've found a lot more proof that this is happening and it's still happening, and it must stop and it must stop now." He added, "We're now working to produce a revision of our report. I think we now have 9 or 10 new pieces of evidence, of proof showing that this is happening."
"I think that with the Games coming up, and I think the government knows that if it doesn't stop it before the games happen that a lot of governments and people will arrive in Beijing with big banners on their jackets or blouses saying 'What is happening to human rights in China? What's happening to Falun Gong?'"
Mr. Kilgour continued, "I think the government knows that if they don't stop it very quickly that they'll be getting a lot of pressure between now and the time the Olympic Games are held. I think the government there knows that they have to stop this practice of killing their own people in order to sell their organs, primarily to people abroad. I think they know that the world is now more and more on to the fact that it is happening and they're going to have to stop it. At least that's what we're hoping."
Lawyer Gao Zhisheng �" Representative of the Majority of Chinese People
Mr. Kilgour also praised Lawyer Gao Zhisheng who was recently imprisoned and sentenced by CCP. Mr. Kilgour said, "He simply spoke out in favor of the rule of law, of independent courts, democracy, all the things that makes for a modern society."
"Gao is standing up for the view that we have to have the rule of law, we have to have courts that are honest, that are not just charades, that are not theater, and we need courts that have human rights, that respect human rights."
"So he's standing up in the best traditions of people like Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi in India and every small 'd' democrat in the world, and lawyer Gao is represented."
"Above all he's representing the vast majority of the people of China, standing up against what I call a "totalitarian party dictatorship. He's standing up for the average hardworking honest member of China's huge society. He's standing up against a little group of people who think that the country exists for them, that they own the country, that they own the people."
Mr. Kilgour thought that the unlawful sentence of Lawyer Gao was related to the Olympic game in 2008 in China. He said, "China made commitments when they were asking for the Olympic Games in terms of things like human rights. And as everybody knows they are showing no commitment to human rights or to every other undertaking they've given to get the Games."
He continued, "Gao Zhisheng is a canary, as we put it, a canary in the mind, and how he's treated between now and the time the Games start and end will show exactly whether the pledges made by the government of China are enforceable."