Audio Book – One In A Billion By Kai Chen – Episode 22
Sound of Hope Radio Network is proud to present you a series of audio book ‘One In A Billion” by Kai Chen. This is a book of “Freedom is not free” and can also be found at web site http://kaichenforum.com. Happy listening.
Shen Yun Is Coming To Chicago Civic Opera House_April 10 and 11, 2010
Chicago Civic Opera House is 8 blocks west of this Millennium Park Landmark.
Civic Opera House
: 20 N. Wacker Drive, Chicago
: April 10, 2010 (Sat) 7:00 PM
: April 11, 2010 (Sun) 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM
: TicketMaster.com/shenyunchicago
: or call hot line 1_800_515_3468
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: www.chicago-shows.com
Asia Cast for Tuesday 19th January
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All parents, including baby Charlie's, will have to watch out for harmful phthalates in plastic toys from India, China and Taiwan. (futurestreet/Flickr)
In this Bulletin…
Advancing Human Rights and Democracy in China/China and the World Economy
External Podcast: Visit Digging-to-China.com to listen
Segment 1: Advancing Human Rights and Democracy in China
Falun Gong and the China Democratic Party emerged almost simultaneously ten years ago. In 1999, ten thousand practitioners of Falun Gong appeared silently and respectfully at the Chinese government leadership compound in Beijing to protest the beatings of forty fellow members in a nearby city. At the same time, the China Democratic Party registered as an opposition party to advance prospects for political pluralism in China. Both groups were met with a tidal wave of repression generated by former president Jiang Zemin which left a sea of human suffering in its shocking wake. One of the victimized groups is a spiritual apolitical movement and the other group is extremely political, so what are the prospects for Falun Gong and the CDP helping advance human rights and democracy in China?
Guests: Caylan Ford, Senior Analyst, Falun Dafa Information Center, and Tim Cooper, Executive Director, Worldrights
Shen Yun Performing Arts Bringing Chinese Culture to the World
External Podcast: Visit Digging-to-China.com to listen
Segment 1: Shen Yun Performing Arts: Bringing Chinese Culture to the World
Shen Yun Performing Arts, formerly known as Divine Performing Arts, will return to Washington, DC, August 26-30th with its breathtaking classical Chinese dance and orchestral music after a successful run in February. The six shows at the Kennedy Center Opera House from February 11-15th were so well-received that the company is returning for a Summer encore. Consisting of three dancing companies, two orchestras, and a host of choreographers, composers, costume designers, backdrop artists, and artistic staff Shen Yun has just completed its tour of over 80 cities on five continents attracting over 800,000 audience members. Show-goers have witnessed an unparalleled and unprecedented tour-de-force of the best of 5000 years of Chinese culture.
Guests: Mrs. Lantos, wife of the late Congressman Tom Lantos, and Annette Lantos Tillemann-Dick, Director of the Executive Committee of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice
Twentieth Anniversary of Tiananmen Pro-Democracy Protests/U.S. Economic Recovery
External Podcast: Visit Digging-to-China.com to listen
Segment 1: Twentieth Anniversary of Tiananmen Pro-Democracy Protests
June 4th marks the twentieth anniversary of the brutal crackdown on China’s 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations. The student-led protests, which started in April, grew throughout May until early June when troops were sent in killing hundreds of protesters. Every year the Tiananmen Mothers send China’s top leaders a letter demanding to know what happened to their children on June 4, 1989, and every year they have been ignored. Officials in China don’t acknowledge their existence-or consider that they are owed an explanation, an apology, or a factual account of what happened to their sons and daughters 20 years ago. How does China’s next generation remember this atrocity?
Guest: Grace Wang, Duke University Student
U.S. in Afghanistan/Obama’s First 100 Days
External Podcast: Visit Digging-to-China.com to listen
Segment 1: U.S. in Afghanistan
Afghanistan isn’t called the graveyard of empires for nothing.
Alexander the Great was struck by an Afghan archer’s arrow. Genghis
Khan established a powerful empire only after reaching painful
accommodations with the Afghans. While exercising their influence on
surrounding lands, the Greeks, Arabs, Iranians, and Buddhists each
sought to bring their culture’s influence into Afghanistan and all
failed to remain there in the end. To make the list longer, we can add
would-be rulers from India, Britain, and Russia, as well as from the
Soviet Union. And now, at this point in history, while the U.S. would
assert that it is not seeking to conquer, we have a world superpower
striving to once again exert influence upon the graveyard of empires.
Will the United States see Afghanistan become a stable, democratic
country and U.S. ally, or will the U.S. superpower suffer the same fate
as these empires?
Guest: Dr. Ved Pratap Vaidik, Chairman, Council for Indian Foreign Policy
Segment 2: Obama’s First 100 Days
South China Sea Incident/China’s Purchase of U.S. Treasuries
External Podcast: Visit Digging-to-China.com to listen
Segment 1: South China Sea Incident
On Sunday, March 7, the Navy surveillance ship Impeccable was harassed by a group of Chinese naval vessels. Both sides questioned the other’s motives, with Beijing accusing the U.S. of conducting “activities in China’s special economic zone in the South China Sea without China’s permission”. In other words, the U.S. was engaged in surveillance activities in and around Chinese waters. The U.S., on the other hand, said it was operating in international waters, thus casting China’s behavior as aggressive in nature. You may recall in April 2001, a U.S. Navy surveillance plane operating in international airspace over the South China Sea had a midair collision with a Chinese fighter jet that was stalking it. The incident resulted in the death of the Chinese pilot and led to the detention of 24 U.S. service personnel for 11 days when the plane made an emergency landing in China. It was speculated at the time that the Chinese were testing the resolve of the new Bush administration. If so, this new incident, not long after the inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama, could have set a pattern for Beijing’s “warm welcome” of new U.S. presidents.
Guest: Admiral James “Ace” Lyons, former Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
U.S.-China Clash Near Hainan Island/Success of Divine Performing Arts
External Podcast: Visit Digging-to-China.com to listen
Segment 1: U.S.-China Clash Near Hainan Island
On Sunday, March 7, the Navy surveillance ship Impeccable was harassed by a group of Chinese naval vessels. One of the vessels tried to snag the sonar device and came within 25 feet of the American ship. The Chinese government has asserted that the U.S. maneuver was an illegal activity within Beijing’s 200-mile economic exclusive zone, a charge American officials insist is based on an inaccurate reading of international law. Legal experts attribute the apparently conflicting accounts to ambiguities in international conventions and different views about what types of activities are permitted in economic exclusive zones.
Guest: Rear Admiral Eric McVadon, former U.S. Defense and Naval Attaché in Beijing
Obama’s China Resume/FDA’s Beijing Office
External Podcast: Visit Digging-to-China.com to listen
Segment 1: Obama’s China Resume
President-elect Obama has a thin resume. This is particularly true regarding his record on U.S.-China relations. At the April 2007 debate among Democratic candidates, Obama said China is “neither our enemy nor our friend. They’re our competitors.” Senator Obama has noted the problems with China’s revaluation of the Yuan, and he considered to co-sponsor a bill with Senator Clinton to impose high duties on Chinese goods. In March 2008, he condemned China’s crackdown on Tibetan Buddhist monks. Senator Obama has expressed support for the one China policy.
Guest: Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Professor of History, Georgetown University
