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Article: Jiang almost meets the Falun Gong; China and Hong Kong; Jiang Zemin goes to Hong Kong.(Asia)(peaceful Falun Gong demonstration in Hong Kong, during the visit of President Jiang Zemin)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 12, 2001
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THE campaign by China's president, Jiang Zemin, against the Falun Gong may be achieving partial success on the Chinese mainland, but supporters of the strange quasi-Buddhist movement in Hong Kong are far from cowed. During a visit to Hong Kong this week, Mr Jiang, who has made crushing the movement a personal quest, was subjected to the provocation of peaceful public protests by some 400 Falun Gong practitioners. Although he probably never caught sight of them-a huge police presence kept them well out of range-Mr Jiang was surely riled by their presence on sovereign Chinese territory.
The Chinese-appointed Hong Kong leadership bent over backwards to keep Mr ...