Extracts.
Europe Warns Bush of Repercussions Over Global Warming Stance
European officials warned President Bush on Thursday that U.S. relations
with the rest of the world could suffer if he sticks by a decision to pull
out of an agreement on reducing global warming.
"This isn't some marginal environmental issue that can be ignored or played
down," European Union Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstroem said at a
news conference. "It has to do with trade and economics."
Bush administration officials announced Wednesday that they would not
implement the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, under which countries agreed to legally
binding targets for curbing heat-trapping "greenhouse" gases, which are
mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels. The move reversed a
position Bush took during last year's presidential campaign.
While stressing it was too soon to discuss "tactics to punish the United
States," Wallstroem said she will go to Washington next week with an EU
delegation to seek clarification of the Bush administration's position.
Dutch Environment Minister Jan Pronk, chairman of the last U.N. climate
conference, left Thursday on an unscheduled trip to Washington to try to
salvage the Kyoto agreement.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, in Washington on a previously scheduled
visit, also pressed the EU case in a meeting with Bush on Thursday.
Bush defended his stance by saying stricter limits now on greenhouse gas
emissions could further weaken the U.S. economy and worsen energy shortages
plaguing parts of the country.
European officials, however, expressed annoyance that Washington would risk
wrecking an agreement thrashed out over years by more than 100 nations
because of its current domestic woes.
British Environment Minister Michael Meacher also warned of repercussions,
although he ruled out the threat of sanctions.
Others are already suggesting countermeasures, ranging from an e-mail blitz
of the White House to pickets outside Exxon, Texaco or Chevron gas stations.
Some have suggested the EU could hold up resolution of trans-Atlantic trade
disputes.
Critics contend that a U.S. withdrawal would probably doom the pact, since
the United States emits about a quarter of the greenhouse gases warming the
planet.
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China "Seriously Concerned" Over Israel-Palestine Conflicts
China is "seriously concerned" over the escalation of violent conflicts
between Israel and Palestine, said Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Sun
Yuxi.
Sun made the remark at a regular press conference Thursday afternoon when
asked to comment on the recent explosions in Jerusalem which brought about
deaths and injuries and Israeli military forces' revenge attacks on
Palestine-controlled areas.
Noting that the current Middle East peace process faces severe challenges,
Sun said that China hopes the two sides exercise restraint so as to avoid
further escalation of conflicts.
China also hopes that Israel and Palestine would resume their peace talks at
an early date on the basis of related UN resolutions and agreements reached
between the two sides.
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DPRK Condemns US for Attempt to Reverse Positive Trend on Korean Peninsula
An official newspaper of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK
<http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/dprk.html> ) on Thursday condemned
the US administration for carrying out hostile policies toward the DPRK, in
an attempt to reverse the trend of positive development on the Korean
Peninsula.
US President George Bush is openly calling for the use of force against the
DPRK, saying the DPRK's military might "still remains a threat," the
official newspaper Rodong Sinmun said in an editorial.
It pointed out that US warmongers are trying to reverse the trend of
positive development on the Korean Peninsula by escalating their anti-DPRK
moves to an extreme pitch.
It is the invariable intention of the United States
<http://www.peopledaily.com.cn/english/data/usa.html> to realize their wild
design to invade the whole of Korea, which they failed to do in the 1950s,
at any cost, even by bringing the Korean nation into the scourge of a
nuclear war, it added.
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Chinese, Sudanese Leaders Hold Talks
Chinese Vice-President Hu Jintao
<http://www.peopledaily.com.cn/english/leaders/vpresident.html> hold talks
with visiting Sudanese First Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Thursday.
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China to Conduct Strategic Adjustment of Economic Structure
Wang Chunzheng, vice-minister of the State Development Planning Commission,
delivered a speech entitled "China's Economic Adjustment in the Process of
Economic Globalization" at the China Development Forum on March 26.
Wang said that China's economic restructuring is a strategic adjustment of
major effect on the overall economic situation and long-term development,
which is conducted under the impetus of new technological revolution. It is
an all-round adjustment that covers industrial, regional and urban and rural
structures.
Wang said that the Outline of the "10th Five-Year Plan", passed at the 4th
Session of the 9th National People's Congress, set forth the main
anticipated goals for economic restructuring in the coming five years as
follows: industrial structure will be optimized and upgraded, international
competitiveness will be largely enhanced. By 2005, the added-value of
China's primary, secondary and tertiary industries will respectively account
for 13 percent, 51 percent, 36 percent of China's GDP. The national economy
and social informationization level will be remarkably raised.
Infrastructure will be further improved. The trend of widening development
gap between regions will be brought under effective control. The
urbanization level will somewhat rise. To this end, we must tackle the
following fields of work:
First, to speed up adjustment of industrial structure and improve tertiary
industrial structure. Strengthening primary industry, improving secondary
industry and developing tertiary Industry are the focus of China's economic
restructuring as set in the "10th Five-Year Plan". We should put information
service, banking and insurance, information and other modern service
industries in an important position of structural adjustment while
developing the tertiary industry.
Second, to vigorously boost national economic informationization and
integrate structural adjustment with inforamtionization.
Third, to raise the urbanization level and optimize the urban and rural
economic structure. During the "10th Five-Year Plan" Period, along with the
rise in China's agricultural productivity level and the quickening
industrialization process, China will lose no time to carry out urbanization
strategy, develop small towns in selected areas and vigorously develop small
and medium-sized cities, improve the functions of regional key cities, and
give play to the radiating and activating role of big cities.
Fourth, to adjust the distribution of productive forces, promote a
coordinated development of regional economies. Speeding up the development
of central and western regions and continuing to give play to east coastal
regions' promotional role in system innovation, science and technology
innovation, opening-up program and economic development are the important
component parts of the endeavor to boost economic restructuring and a vital
strategic move. China is striving to achieve breakthroughs in the
construction of infrastructure and ecological environment in the western
region, and to record significant development in science and technology and
education in 5-10 years' time.
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Hard Ice Melts in Spring Breeze and Rain
"We are wrong, we must cease doing harm to our country!" On the morning of
March 12, two crazy "Falun Gong" followers and their families embraced each
other weeping in the reception room of the third brigade of the Henan
<http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/province/henan.html> Women
Reformatory.
These two "Falun Gong" followers are He Haihua and Wang Juanjuan, wife and
daughter of Wang Jindong, the chief organizer and plotter of the immolation
incident at Tiananmen Square on January 23. More than a month ago when they
learned of the news about Wang Jindong setting himself on fire, they still
clung to their obstinate attitude, saying, "He is very great, we are proud
of him!".. Now, thanks to the patient and painstaking help from the
reformatory staff, they have become aware of their errors and turned back
from the wrong path, expressing their feeling of shame and uneasiness.
"Spiritual Control" Makes One Suffer
In 1996, the three-member family of Wang Jindong, He Haihua and Wang
Juanjuan began to be infatuated with "Falun Gong". On December 19 last year,
they participated in trouble-making at Tiananmen Square in gross violation
of laws and decrees, holding a banner bearing the words "the universe Dafa
(abhidharma) of truthfulness, benevolence and tolerance". On January 23 this
year, Wang Jindong, instigated by Li Hongzhi, participated in the immolation
at Tiananmen Square, causing immense harm to his own body and also damaged
his originally very happy family.
On February 27, He Haihua and Wang Juanjuan were sent to the Henan Women
Reformatory for violating laws and decrees.
He Haihua, after being transformed, said, "During that period of time, I
suffered greatly in my heart, but I wanted to let people outside know I was
very firm and steadfast, I could not cry though I wanted to."
After He Haihua began practicing "Falun Gong" for feeling physically unwell,
she was gradually being deceived by Li Hongzhi and the lies he fabricated,
but since she watched the TV program showing the pitiful sight of her
husband who set himself ablaze, she had begun to doubt about Li Hongzhi who
guided his followers onto the path of death. She recalled the days when she
enjoyed the happiness and harmony between her family members who got along
with each other day and night, tears ran down her cheek unnoticed many
times. But when she thought of Wang Jindong who left behind a slip of paper
written with the words "My respected wife, you're really terrific, the
Master is on your side, I congratulate you with my palms held together.", He
Haihua, with a regretful mind, began to suffer mental torment again.
She, bogged down in a dilemma, kept thinking over these questions: If "Falun
Gong" were correct, then why couldn't I answer the persuasive questions put
to me by the reformatory staff? Something she was sure to be wrong and
wanted to confess her mistake, but she was afraid of "dropping to a lower
level". At the same time, her husband was suffering from the pain of ailment
She feared that admitting her mistake would bring harm to her husband.
Since she followed her father in practicing "Falun Gong", Wang Juanjuan who
knew little about the ways of the world had been pursuing "nirvana" with
blind passion and her mind was thus deeply poisoned. She had once been one
of the best students in the Japan
<http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/japan.html> ese language class of
Kaifeng University. Turning a deaf ear to persuasions from her teachers,
elderly and her boy friend's family, she continued practicing "Falun Gong",
and for this she even gave up the opportunity for advanced study in Japan.
Indeed, she had abandoned much, and her relatives and friends had also
suffered a great deal because of the "Dafa"
On the afternoon of February 27, He Haihua and Wang Juanjuan came to the
Henan Women Reformatory. Since the mother and daughter came here, the
reformatory staff have tried to find out their main real thoughts through
the method of chitchat in order to make their ideological work fruitful.
After dispelling Wang Juanjuan's precautionary psychology, the staff members
asked her to contrast Li Hongzhi's "truthfulness, benevolence and tolerance"
with his instigation of the practitioners to create disturbances at
Tiananmen Square and think over the question whether a "good man" would
disrupt social security. These incisive remarks enabled Wang Juanjuan to see
the light. That same night she wrote, "Through our talks, I was overcome by
their sensible way of thinking, I've come to realize that "Falun Gong" is a
heresy." Wang Juanjuan has made up her mind to break with Li Hongzhi and his
"Falun Gong" cult.
Using Sentiment to Shift One's Affection from "Turing Falun (the Wheel of
the Law)"
The reformatory staff told He Haihua the news about the conversion of Wang
Juanjuan, she was rather dubious of this, but she expressed her wish to meet
with her daughter. Using sentiment, the staff arranged a meeting between
mother and daughter. Wang Juanjuan, who had been ideologically converted
began to help her mother to untie her ideological knot. After returning from
her daughter's lodging place, He Haihua was greatly touched. She made a
clean breast of her mind, saying, "My husband set fire on himself, my
daughter and I are put in the reformatory, what a great contribution we've
made to 'Falun Gong!', some of our fellow practitioners regard my husband as
a monster. I feel I sustain great pressure in my heart. Hearing these, the
staff asked her, "What kind of Dafa you are protecting?". In the light of
her family condition, the staff persuaded He Haihua to make an early
transformation of herself, so that she could go to save Wang Jindong. He
indicated that she had understood this truth, but in feeling she could not
accept this all of a sudden.
In the evening, He Haihua and other former fellow practitioners sat together
to watch TV program that exposes and criticizes the "Falun Gong" cult, the
tragic figure of her husband pricked her heart. She said as she recalled,
that night I simply could not fall into sleep till the wee hour of two
o'clock, "my heart is bleeding".
On March 1, seeing that He Haihua had somewhat changed her attitude, the
reformatory staff decided to transfer He to the third brigade where Wang
Juanjuan was in. That same day, the reformatory organized all the personnel
serving reform-through-education to watch video tapes, such as "Li Hongzhi
the Man and His Deeds", "The Truth about April 25", "Falun Gong Harming
People and Killing Their Lives", as well as CCTV programs. Through watching
TV programs and studies, He Haihua had taken a gratifying step forward. That
night, she made up her mind to say goodbye to the "Falun Gong" cult.
Thereafter, she also persuaded other obsessed "Falun Gong" followers not to
go too far in the queer circle of the "Falun Gong" cult, instead they should
repent and mend their ways. He asked herself: I had practiced "Falun Gong"
for so many years, what had I brought for the country and my family? She
thought to herself: I had only myself in my heart, to pursue "Nirvana", I
did not care about the death or danger of others, what I had gained in
practicing "Falun Gong" was the term "selfishness".She appealed: "Wake up,
all obsessed followers, we must cease harming our own country, and must not
do anything that sadden our friends and gladden our enemies¡-."
When One Jumps Out of the "Falun Gong" Circle, One Finds the Vastness of the
World
He Haihua and Wang Juanjuan who had said goodbye to "Falun Gong" cult felt a
sense of relief, now they have renewed their personal experience of their
long-forfeited true feeling of the human world.
On March 10 when learning about the conversion of He Haihua and Wang
Juanjuan, Wang's boy friend immediately took a long-distance bus to come to
the reformatory, the young man's father also asked him to bring 100 yuan for
Wang Juanjuan. Unfortunately since it was not visiting time, he could not
see her, still, Wang was very glad when she learned about this matter.
On March 12, the reformatory made an exceptional arrangement for the mother
and daughter to meet with their relatives-sisters and niece of He Haihua,
they had all came. Holding their relatives' hands, they chatted endlessly.
Let the bygone be bygone, only after repented and mended their ways that the
mother and daughter felt the beauty of love and affection.
Wang Juanjuan said: "In the past I was really too selfish, for the
impossible thing of "going to heaven", I did not hesitate to do harms to the
country and my relatives. As we have changed, our relatives laugh, people
who show concern for us also laugh. It was not until now that I discover
that the true feeling in the man's world is most beautiful."
He Haihua said: Members of my family all took to the evil ways, this is
because we slacked off in my studies and had a fading awareness of the law.
>From now on I'll start afresh and earnestly remold myself."
The reformatory staff told the reporters that Wang Juanjuan had brought her
Japanese teaching materials to the reformatory, she would study while she
was remolding herself there. She was prepared to work herself up to be a
person useful to the country. He Haihua also ceaselessly strengthened
studying, trying as far as possible to shake herself off, from the depth of
her mind, the yoke of "Falun Gong" cult. She would try her best to help more
people bogged down in the mire. She also expressed the hope to go to Beijing
<http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/province/beijing.html> together
with her daughter when opportunity arises, so that she would do ideological
work with Wang Jindong in the hope that he would transform himself at an
early date.
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China Appreciates Arab Summit Meeting's Positive Efforts
China appreciates the positive efforts made at the just-concluded Arab
summit meeting to safeguard and strengthen unity and cooperation among Arab
states, push forward a peaceful resolution to the Middle East and Gulf
issues, and accelerate economic integration.
Chinese Foreign Ministry <http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/> Spokesman Sun Yuxi
made the remark when asked to comment on the meeting here Thursday afternoon
at a routine press conference.
Noting that this is an important meeting convened under new situations by
Arab states,), Sun pointed out that China has always supported the just
cause of Arab states and all their efforts for realizing regional peace and
development.
He also voiced the sincere hope of China to further promote friendship and
cooperation in various fields with Arab states.
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