By Matthew Little,
Epoch Times Staff
China's communist regime could be behind a rash of angry, sometimes violent, protests in the United States and Canada, said a retired Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) agent and expert on the regime's clandestine operations in Canada.
Meanwhile Chinese media appear to be covering these events in a way that channels emotion about the recent quake in Sichuan into animosity against the regime's critics.
In Flushing, New York City, on the weekend, Chinese people were reportedly heard being offered money to attack critics of China's communist regime while Chinese media closely recorded events.
Large groups of outraged Chinese people have gathered for protests, or counter-protests, in Toronto, Calgary, Winnipeg, Ottawa, New York, Madison and other cities. The protests often take place at human-rights events in which people raise awareness about the Chinese regime's human rights abuses.
This week saw an escalation of those protests when a mob of hundreds swarmed a small rally in Flushing where a group had a booth set up so that Chinese people could withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The mob shouted, spit, threw eggs and physically attacked the small group of volunteers that tended the booth outside the Flushing Library. Two attendants were assaulted after attempting to take picture of their assailants. Police arrested Guang Chen and Fu Ni following the attack.
The booth encourages Chinese people to withdraw from the CCP. In China many citizens are compelled to join the CCP out of fear or to gain material advantages. Since coming to power 60 years ago, the CCP policies are blamed for causing up to 80 million deaths in China.
But Chinese people in North America who rely on Chinese media, and people within mainland China, will hear a very different account of what took place.
On the video reports covering the Flushing protests released on the internet yesterday, Xinhua News, China's state-run news outlet, said Falun Gong adherents disrupted an earthquake relief donation activity and that is why they were swarmed. No mention was made of the violent attacks or arrests.
In a press release the Falun Dafa Information Centre said the Flushing attacks, coupled with aggressive coverage from state-run media in China, suggest that Beijing authorities are orchestrating these events, post-earthquake, as a means of channeling emotions against political targets.
It's a strategy the regime has employed continually throughout its reign. One of the booths attendants compared her experience that day to the Cultural Revolution, a strategy nearly tore China apart.
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