Monday, March 4, 2019

AMERICA FLOODED WITH CHINESE SPIES WHILE CONGRESS FILLS THEIR POCKETS WITH BRIBES FROM CHINESE

$ERVANT OF RED CHINA FOR RAW CA$H, $ENATOR FEIN$TEIN’S DRIVER IS A $PY FOR HER CHINE$E PAYMA$TER$!

“All in all, it was an incredible victory for the Chinese government. Feinstein has done more for Red China than other any serving U.S. politician.Trevor Loudon

THE CLINTONS AND RED CHINA:

A MONEY MAKING TRAITORSHIP!
"Ask Jeff Sessions about the charges.  Money was flowing into the Clinton Foundation from all over the world, disguised, rerouted through a Canadian charity, all to obscure its origins."

WAR PROFITEER and her DADDY WARBUCKS
FEINSTEIN HAS SPENT HER ENTIRE POLITICAL LIFE STALKING THE HALL OF CONGRESS SNIFFING OUT DEALS THAT HAVE PUT MILLIONS IN HER HUSBAND, RICHARD BLUM’S BOTTOMLESS POCKETS!

IN THE November 2006 election, the voters demanded congressional ethics reform. And so, the newly appointed chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is now duly in charge of regulating the ethical behavior of her colleagues. But for many years, Feinstein has been beset by her own ethical conflict of interest, say congressional ethics experts.
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“All in all, it was an incredible victory for the Chinese government. Feinstein has done more for Red China than other any serving U.S. politician.Trevor Loudon

A NATION DIES OF OPIOID ADDICTION
AMERICAN BIG PHARMA, RED CHINA and NARCOMEX PARTNER FOR THE BIG BUCKS
“The drug epidemic is the product of capitalism and the policies of the capitalist parties, both Democrats and Republicans. There is, first of all, the role of the pharmaceutical companies, which have amassed huge profits from the deceptive marketing of opioid pain killers, which they claimed were not addictive. Prescriptions for opioids such as Percocet, Oxycontin and Vicodin skyrocketed from 76 million in 1991 to nearly 259 million in 2012. What are the numbers and profits now?
OPIOID AMERICA: CHINA AND MEXICO PARTNER TO ADDICT AMERICA
American middle-class is addicted, poor, jobless and suicidal…. Thank the corrupt government for surrendering our borders to 40 million looting Mexicans and then handing the bills to middle America?

OPIOID MURDERS BY BIG PHARMA

“While drug distributors have paid a total of $400 million in fines over the past 10 years, their combined revenue during this same period was over $5 trillion.”


“Opioids have ravaged families and devastated communities across the country. Encouraging their open use undermines the rule of law and will do nothing to quell their continued abuse, let alone the problems underlying mass addiction.”







White House Fights Chinese Spying, but U.S. Legislators Welcome Chinese Hires



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Hill legislators are pushing a bill that would put roughly 70,000 Chinese visa workers on a fast track to green cards, even as White House officials are trying to slow the theft of U.S. technology by Chinese employees and researchers.

White House officials are using trade talks to change Chinese “behaviors so they don’t steal our technology by infiltrating people into companies and into even national laboratory,” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said May 1. A leading goal is “changing the practice so they don’t force technology transfer,” when U.S. companies invest in China, he said in a talk at the annual CPAC meeting.
Ross’s push is backed by Sen. Lindsey Graham, who is the new chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. “How many are worried about Chinese espionage?” Graham asked conservatives attending the CPAC conference on February 28. “How many are worried about Chinese students and professors coming to American to basically steal our stuff?”
“Because I’m chairman, we’re going to take that up,” he said.
The pressure from President Donald Trump seems to be forcing the Chinese government to make concessions in a new law, according to a March 3 report by the Associated Press:
“I think the (American and European) complaints have been reflected in the revision of the law,” said Citigroup economist Li-Gang Liu.
Under the proposed law, officials would be barred from using “administrative methods to force technology transfers.”
The chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China, Tim Stratford, called the measure a “step forward.” But business groups say they need to see how it will be enforced.
But any diplomatic progress, however, may be dissipated by the many U.S. companies who want to make deals with the Chinese government and who also want to hire Chinese students and researchers for work in the United States.
In February, legislators in the House and Senate announced legislation that would help Chinese students get jobs in the nation’s research laboratories and high-tech companies.
Almost 200 House legislators and 13 Senators introduced legislation that would push roughly 70,000 Chinese visa workers onto a fast track to green cards and citizenship. The boost for Chinese researchers is a side effect of the legislators’ primary goal — helping roughly 300,000 cheap Indian visa workers get on a fast track to green cards, residency, and citizenship.
Most of the Indian workers work in the information technology business, often as software testers or as operators of corporate computer networks.
Many of the Chinese visa workers already hold jobs in U.S software and telecommunications firms, in banks, and in government-funded laboratories that are developing novel technologies, medicines, and materials. Many thousands of Chinese researchers have already obtained green cards or citizenship from their employers in universities, in Silicon Valley, and in the financial sector.
This inflow of Chinese workers denies good jobs to American college graduates, many of whom must pay off college debts as they try to buy homes and raise families.
US college grads lose jobs, careers & salaries b/c companies' have imported 1.5 million+ low-wage, indentured, non-immigrant, perma-temporary visa-workers. Media ignores their peers' losses but displays noble concern for migrants. Wall St. laughs http://bit.ly/2EErxCO 




Even when asked about technology theft, U.S. companies and universities defend the inflow of Chinese students, researchers, and cheap H-1B visa workers. In May 2018, for example, the Washington Post reported:
Dean Garfield, chief executive of the Information Technology Industry Council, which represents Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon and other companies, said its members are alarmed at reports the White House is considering a ban on Chinese citizens conducting high-tech research at American universities and businesses.
The firms rely on skilled foreign labor to develop new products, Garfield said.
“We’ve heard from many, if not all, of our members,” he said, “that steps to limit access to talent have a direct negative impact on their ability to run their businesses.”
Chinese companies in the United States also use the H-1B visa program and the green card system to import Chinese employees instead of hiring American college graduates.
The danger of national security espionage and commercial technology theft has been repeatedly highlighted by numerous media reports.
In May 2018, the New York Times reported:
WASHINGTON — It sounds like something out of a science fiction movie: In April, China is said to have tested an invisibility cloak that would allow ordinary fighter jets to suddenly vanish from radar screens.
This advancement, which could prove to be a critical intelligence breakthrough, is one that American officials fear China may have gained in part from a Chinese researcher who roused suspicions while working on a similar technology at a Duke University laboratory in 2008. The researcher, who was investigated by the F.B.I. but never charged with a crime, ultimately returned to China, became a billionaire and opened a thriving research institute that worked on some projects related to those he studied at Duke.
In 2016, according to the Free Beacon website:
Su Bin, also known as Stephen Su and Stephen Subin, reached a plea deal in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Tuesday, following a 2014 criminal complaint and later indictment for illegal computer hacking and theft and transfer of export-controlled data.
The plea deal includes an admission by Su of conspiring with two people in China from October 2008 to March 2014 who broke into U.S. computer networks at Boeing and other defense companies.
The hackers stole large amounts of military information that was supplied to China, according to court documents and a statement by the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California.
The fast-track green card bill for the Chinese workers is being pushed by Utah GOP Sen. Mike Lee and California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris.
Their February 7 statement says, “the bill has also been endorsed by Immigration Voice, Compete America Coalition, the Information Technology Industry Council, Google, Microsoft, The Heritage Foundation, La Raza, and many others.” The bill is numbered S. 386.
The Senate co-sponsors of the green card giveaway bill include Republicans and Democrats:
  • Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO)
  • Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)
  • Sen. Jim Moran (R-KS)
  • Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE)
  • Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)
  • Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
  • Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO)
  • Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR)
  • Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
  • Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
  • Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO)
  • Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
  • Sen. Krysten Sinema (D-AZ)
The House bill is being pushed by GOP Rep. Ken Buck and Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren. Their matching House bill is numbered H.R. 1044.
Breitbart News reported the details of the bipartisan push to provide the fast-track green cards to Chinese and Indian college graduates.
Legislators and U.S. executives claim the foreign workers are needed because too few Americans are trained for technology jobs.
But in 2015, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics debunked the claimed shortage of Americans in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers. It said:
Michael S. Teitelbaum, vice president of the Sloan Foundation, opined that there are no general shortages of scientists and engineers.9 He went even further, to state that there is evidence suggesting surpluses: there are significantly more science and engineering graduates in the United States than attractive positions available in the workforce. Similarly, B. Lindsay Lowell and Harold Salzman have pointed to the disproportionate percentage of bachelor’s degree STEM holders not employed in STEM occupations.10
Looking at the STEM labor market, Salzman and colleagues concluded that, for every two students graduating with a U.S. STEM degree, only one is employed in STEM and that 32 percent of computer science graduates not employed in information technology attributed their situation to a lack of available jobs.11 In 2014, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that 74 percent of those who have a bachelor’s degree in a STEM major are not employed in STEM occupations.12
New study shows foreign college-grads are far less skilled than American graduates. But investors & CEOs prefer to import 1.5 million+ cheap foreign visa-workers - H-1Bs etc - instead of hiring US grads. So Congress sides with biz and US grads lose careers http://bit.ly/2EyqBQf 













Trump Touts Legal Immigration System for ‘Our Corporations’ at Expense of American Workers






WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 09: U.S. President Donald Trump (R) presides over a meeting about immigration with Republican and Democrat members of Congress in the Cabinet Room at the White House January 9, 2018 in Washington, DC. In addition to seeking bipartisan solutions to immigration reform, Trump advocated for the …
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During the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this weekend, President Trump broke from his past opposition to the country’s mass legal immigration system, instead touting a legal immigration system that benefits “our corporations.”
While Trump mentioned he wanted to end the process known as “chain migration,” where newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the country, and the Diversity Visa Lottery, which admits 55,000 random foreign nationals from around the globe to the U.S. every year, the president said he supported admitting more foreign workers to take coveted American jobs to help the big business lobby and corporate interests.
“We need an immigration policy that helps all Americans thrive, flourish, prosper. We need an immigration policy that’s going to be great for our corporations and our great companies,” Trump said. “We need an immigration policy where people coming into our country can love our country and love our fellow citizens.”
“And now, we want people to come in, we need workers to come in but they’ve got to come in legally and they’ve got to come in through merit,” Trump said.
Over the last two months, Trump has regularly touted his support for admitting more foreign workers to the country to compete against America’s working and middle class for jobs, a reversal from his commitment in 20152016, and 2017, where he vowed to reduce overall legal immigration levels to boost the wages of U.S. workers.
Trump was once so supportive of reducing the current unfettered foreign labor competition that American workers have been subjected to through legal immigration levels that he pledged to halt all immigration until the country was at full employment.
“Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers,” Trump’s 2015 immigration policy papers stated.
Trump’s shift from a wage-boosting legal immigration system to one that benefits corporations and their shareholders concides with recent big business lobby influence over his White House, at the behest of advisers Jared Kushner and Brooke Rollins.
As Breitbart News reported, an alliance of mostly globalist organizations and business groups have had access to the White House to discuss the national legal immigration policy. These groups include Koch Industries, the George W. Bush Center, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).

Increasing legal immigration would cut the job prospects of the at least 13 millionworking-age Americans who are either unemployed, not in the labor force but want a job, or who are working part-time jobs but want a good-paying full-time job.
Out of those 13 million Americans who are available for U.S. jobs, about 6.5 million are unemployed. Of those unemployed, close to 13 percent are American teenagers who are ready for entry-level U.S. jobs — the exact jobs that low-skilled foreign workers generally tend to take.
About 1.6 million Americans are not in the labor force at all, but they want a job, including about 426,000 discouraged American workers who are demoralized by their job prospects. Also, there are 5.1 million Americans who are working part-time jobs but who want full-time jobs. More than 1.4 million of these U.S. part-time workers said they had looked for full-time jobs but could not find any.
Mass immigration, whether legal or illegal, puts downward pressure on Americans’ wages, researchers have repeatedly noted.
Every one percent increase in the immigrant composition of an American workers’ occupation reduces their weekly wages by about 0.5 percent, researcher Steven Camarotta has found. This means the average native-born American worker today has their weekly wages reduced by perhaps 8.5 percent because of current legal immigration levels.
In a state like Florida, where immigrants make up about 25.4 percent of the labor force, American workers have their weekly wages reduced by perhaps more than 12.5 percent. In California, where immigrants make up 34 percent of the labor force, American workers’ weekly wages are reduced by potentially 17 percent.
Likewise, every one percent increase in the immigrant composition of low-skilled U.S. occupations reduces wages by about 0.8 percent. Should 15 percent of low-skilled jobs be held by foreign-born workers, it would reduce the wages of native-born American workers by perhaps 12 percent.
Those benefitting from increasing legal immigration levels are corporate executives, Wall Street, real estate investors, big business, and multinational conglomerates that would enjoy a flooded labor market with reduced wages, more workers, added residents who need housing, and additional consumers to buy their products.
The mass importation of legal immigrants — mostly due to President George H.W. Bush’s Immigration Act of 1990, which expanded legal immigration levels — diminishes job opportunities for the roughly four million young American graduates who enter the workforce every year wanting good-paying jobs.
In the last decade alone, the U.S. admitted ten million legal immigrants, forcing American workers to compete against a growing population of low-wage foreign workers. Meanwhile, if legal immigration continues, there will be 69 million foreign-born residents living in the U.S. by 2060. This would represent an unprecedented electoral gain for the Left, as Democrats win about 90 percent of congressional districts where the foreign-born population exceeds the national average.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.


WAR PROFITEERS!
SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN AND PARASITE HUSBAND RICHARD “BRIBSTERS” BLUM


Blum has long handed out bribes in the form of “campaign contributions” to other corrupt Democrat politicians so they keep their mouths shut about the staggering corruption that has profitably followed Feinstein from day one!
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“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes.  This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan  THEAMERICAN THINKER.com

Chinese Entrepreneur Risks Life to Expose Persecution in China

February 27, 2019 
Facing injustice in his home of China, the successful businessman Yu Ming has sought to tell the world about what he has seen.
To expose the torture that was part of China’s preparations for the Olympic Games, he orchestrated an escape attempt from a labor camp that sounds like something from Hollywood; he wrote articles about how prisoners were used to help publish pirated books, stealing the authors’ intellectual property; he worked with China’s fledgling human rights lawyers to appeal through China’s courts for redress; and having fled to the United States, he now tells his story.
In early August 2008, while the world was amazed by the grand, breath-taking opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, 35-year-old entrepreneur Yu Ming was bedridden in a hospital affiliated with the notorious Masanjia Forced Labor Camp after having suffered long-term, severe torture.
He had been shocked by high-voltage electric batons. For three months he was locked inside a special iron cage, in which he could neither stand nor sleep. Once he was dragged downstairs with his face facing down and his head knocking bitterly on each of the steps.

Yu Ming is greeted by his wife and son at San Francisco International Airport on Jan. 27, 2019. (The Epoch Times)

This was his third time being imprisoned for practicing the spiritual discipline Falun Gong, which has been persecuted in China since July 1999.
Yu started practicing Falun Gong in 1996, through the introduction of a customer. The customer had given a copy of Falun Gong’s main text, Zhuan Falun, to his wife.
At that time Yu was already a successful entrepreneur in Shenyang City, the capital of Liaoning Province in northeast China. His fashion business would later hire over 100 employees, and provide jobs to another 1000 workers in six state-owned suppliers.
So both his customer and his wife thought he wasn’t the type of person who would be interested in a spiritual practice, and they didn’t show him the book. However, the more they wanted to “hide” the book from him, the more Yu wanted to find out what it was about.
So he grabbed the book from his wife and finished reading six of the book’s nine lectures in one night. The next morning, he began searching for a Falun Gong practice site in the park, where he could learn the practice’s exercises.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, consists of five meditative, slow motion exercises and teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. Its adherents have reported often extraordinary improvements in health, along with less stress, better relations with family and colleagues, and a better sense of the purpose of their lives.
In 1992, Mr. Li Hongzhi began teaching Falun Gong publicly—previously this ancient practice had only been passed down from one master to one disciple—and it immediately began spreading throughout China by word of mouth.
By 1999, Western media were reporting 100 million people in China had taken up the practice. The then-dictator, Jiang Zemin feared the large number of people who had begun doing something outside of the control of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and he feared the Chinese people might find its traditional moral teachings more attractive than communist ideology, which is based on materialism, atheism, and class struggle.
In July 1999, Jiang turned all of the resources of the party-state against Falun Gong, which led, among other things, to Yu being in his hospital bed in 2008.

A Successful But Failed Escape

With the approach of the Beijing Olympics, Yu saw more and more people arriving at the camp, sentenced for “planning to commit robbery” or “preparing to steal.”
According to an Epoch Times report, in order to ensure the “safety” of Beijing before the Olympics in 2008, over three million people were driven out of the capital city, more than 60,000 houses were demolished, and over one million people were taken to labor camps.
Inside the camp, the torture and terror were accelerating in order to “transform” the Falun Gong practitioners—forcing them to renounce their beliefs, name others who practiced Falun Gong, and profess loyalty to the Communist Party.
Yu couldn’t bear to see innocent people tortured so terribly. Plus, he believed that the outside world should know what had happened in China after Beijing was granted the right to host the Olympics: Instead of improving its human rights as expected by the international community, the Communist regime was persecuting and even killing people because of the Olympics.
Yu decided to expose this.
But how? He made a plan.
According to his plan, two fellow Falun Gong practitioners would escape from the camp, and then try to get in touch with foreign journalists who were in Beijing to cover the Olympics, in a hope that the situation in the camp could draw some attention.

A drawing showing the type of cage in which Yu Ming was once imprisoned for three months in this way. (minghui.org)

Due to the less tight security in the hospital, Yu somehow managed to get hold of cell phones, some cash and, most importantly, a saw blade.
As many labor camp inmates would often be sent to the hospital and then taken back to the camp, through painstaking communications and complicated calculations, Yu was able to coordinate this escape from the hospital.
He found people outside the camp to come to these two escapees’ aid after they fled the camp, and he found another person to rent a place for them to hide while the police would be madly searching for them.
And there was another thing to consider: after the two practitioners escaped, the on-duty police guards and 22 fellow inmates from the same cell would definitely be implicated and severely punished.
As somebody who followed the teachings of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance, Yu didn’t want that to happen. He wanted to treat these innocent bystanders with compassion.
So he managed to scrape together some sleeping pills. He told the doctor that he couldn’t sleep. When given sleeping pills, he pretended to swallow them down in front of the nurse, but in fact hid them in his other hand.
In this way he saved bit by bit enough pills to put all the inmates and guards in his cell to sleep on the day of the escape. If they were put to sleep when the escape happened, they wouldn’t be held responsible for not preventing it.
On Aug. 11, 2008, the plan was carried out. The iron bars of a window of the cell were cut and broken, the two practitioners climbed down from the third floor of the building using a rope made out of quilt.
Everything went smoothly. They were picked up at the right time, right place by the right people, until … The second person who rented the place for them to stay didn’t show up.
Nobody knew what had gone wrong. Yu had to arrange to have his wife Ma Li pick up these two escapees and hide them at his own home, knowing very well that this was too risky.
Sure enough, three days later, hundreds of policemen, some armed with guns, surrounded the entire residential area of Yu’s home, and took away the two escapees, as well as Ma Li.
This almost successful escape during the Beijing Olympics from the “model” labor camp drove the highest leaders of communist regime mad. The escape was classified as a “major incident”; at least 7 police officers were fired, and two deputy directors of the camp were punished.
Yu and the two practitioners who had escaped were tortured ferociously.

A drawing showing the torture of being hung by one’s arms that Yu Ming was subjected to after the attempted escape from Masanjia Labor Camp. He was hung like this for a month. (Minghui.org)

Yu was hung to a door, with his arms stretched up, and his feet hardly touching the ground. He was hung in this position for over a month, day and night. Sometimes he could be released when he needed to relieve himself; sometimes the police wouldn’t release him even when he needed to relieve himself. So he took as little as possible of the food or water that was pushed into his mouth.
He nearly died because of this.
The other two were tortured worse, Yu said. The labor camp was given a two death quota after this incident, which means, the labor camp could torture two persons to death without being held responsible.
As a matter of fact, Yu had been about to be released on Sept. 2. If he had not planned the escape, he could have been released in only about 20 days.
After the successful and then failed escape, apart from being tortured nearly to death, each of the three people involved was given another year in the camp.
Asked whether the attempt was worthwhile, especially given that it didn’t succeed, Yu replied without any hesitation: “Yes, it was. We had to do it. More than ten fellow Falun Gong practitioners around me had already been tortured to death during the persecution. How could you measure the value of lives? I never regret risking my life to prevent more killings.”

Pirated Copies of Harry Potter Books

China’s labor camps exist to force prisoners of conscience to betray their beliefs, but they are also money-making enterprises. They are a source of cost-free labor.
Yu remembers how he and many others were forced to make pirated copies of the Harry Potter books in the labor camp.
“That was towards the end 2001, shortly after China joined the World Trade Organization. I was detained at Beijing Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp. We were forced to cut, fold, sort, and bind the sheets of Harry Potter and other books, in both English and Chinese, as well as several other languages. The books were printed somewhere else. After we finished binding them, they were then taken away.”
Yu and all the inmates in Brigade 6 worked over three months on the books.
Yu remembers piles of printed sheets about a meter high could be seen everywhere in the hall and corridors of the floor where Brigade No. 6 was located. Brigade 3 and 5 were working on the books as well.
The whole enterprise had a dreary feel to it. People delivered the printed sheets to the forced labor camp furtively, and the vehicles used to carry the sheets looked pretty worn out. The print quality was extremely poor: The paper looked yellowish and had misprints and marks everywhere.
In order to get more books ready before the Chinese New Year and to sell them to students during the winter holidays, the police forced detainees to work for very long hours, sometimes all night, without giving them any pay.
Yu estimated that they could have made hundreds of thousands of these pirated copies in those few months.
Yu said he actually exposed this in a series of articles as early as 2004, in a hope that J. K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, or the authorized publishers of the books, could be alerted so that an investigation could be conducted to protect both the rights and interests of the author and publishers, as well as that of the detainees.

Foreign journalists interview Chinese rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong in Beijing on May 2, 2012. (Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images)

Yu Gains Freedom While His Lawyers Are Jailed

Since 2009, after being released for the third time, Yu began working with some lawyers who later became well-known as leading figures among China’s rights defense lawyers, to try to defend jailed Falun Gong practitioners. Among them were Wang QuanzhangWang Yu, Dong Qianyong, Jiang Tianyong, and others.
On Aug. 29, 2013, while attending his nephew’s wedding, Yu was arrested for the fourth time. Over a dozen other Falun Gong practitioners in Shenyang City were arrested too.
CCP leader Xi Jinping was going to visit the city on the following day, and Yu and other practitioners were arrested as a “precaution,” so that they couldn’t stage any protests or appeals during Xi’s visit.
After learning about Yu’s arrest, several lawyers who used to work with him started to work on his case too, but he was sentenced to four years all the same.
In addition, his lawyers, Wang Quanzhang, Wang Yu, and Dong Qianyong were all arrested during an infamous crackdown on July 9, 2015, in which more than 200 Chinese lawyers and human rights activists were arrested.
After serving his four years in jail, Yu was released in 2017.
At the end of 2018, he managed to escape to Thailand, where he was able to obtain a visa to the United States. His wife had already gained refugee status from the American government.
On Jan 27, 2019, after spending nearly 12 years in labor camps and jails, Yu finally joined his wife, daughter, and son in San Francisco.
However, on the same day that Yu gained freedom, his lawyer Wang Quanzhang, after being secretly detained for more than three years, was sentenced to 4 years and a half in prison.
Yu Wensheng, a lawyer who defended Wang Quanzhang, is also currently detained at Xuzhou Detention Center.

Yu Ming, holding up his handcuffed hands, arrives at the court in Shenyang City on Nov. 20, 2014. (Minghui.org)

Twisting the Facts, in the US and China

Yu said the public had no way to know what actually happened at this fourth trial, on April 22, 2015. China Central TV (CCTV) edited and twisted the video and in particular defamed his lawyer, Wang Yu.
Li Dongxu, a female Falun Gong practitioner, was tried together with Yu. She tried to speak about her case, but guards harshly knocked her down and pressed her into her seat.
Li’s 84-year-old mother couldn’t endure seeing her daughter treated like this, and stood up to protest.
With the police guards apparently about to use force against the 84-year-old woman, the lawyer Wang Yu left her seat to stop them. After she angrily condemned the police for their violence, Wang was dragged out of the court.
However, CCTV’s broadcasts told an entirely different story. After careful re-editing and manipulating of the video of the trial, the CCTV was able to produce serval “news” pieces showing Wang repeatedly leaving her seat to create “trouble” and make quite a scene in the court.
“People can hardly image how base CCTV is,” Yu said. “What saddens me is, although I have only stayed in Thailand and the United States for a very short period of time, I have bumped into CCTV’s programs a number of times at different places. However, I’ve never seen any U.S. or Thailand TV programs in China.
“I think President Trump is very correct to insist on ‘reciprocity’ in the trade talks. I hope the same principle can be applied to the media sectors too.”

Businessman Yu Ming in Washington on Feb. 19, 2019. He arrived in the United States to join his wife, daughter, and son in January 2019 through the help of the U.S. government, after being imprisoned for 12 years and tortured nearly to death in labor camps in China for his beliefs in Falun Gong. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)

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