Who is terrorism?
“The terrorism poses a serious internal threat, that foreign
economic influence over the economy and natural resources might be more
tightly controlled by the state, and that national security is
endangered by a brain drain of technologists and the leakage of
intellectual property.”
Underscoring its darkening view of the west, the Kremlin has issued a
national security strategy that inveighs against an expansionist Europe
and United States and contemplates the use of nuclear weapons in war “if
all other means of resolving the crisis have been exhausted,”
the deputy chief of the Russian Defense Ministry’s general staff,
Colonel Valey Manilov, said that (Jan. 15, 2000).
In Taiwan we heard, “if one (the people of Taiwan) does not
dare call the ROC a country, what are we?” ROC President Lee
asked, adding that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait can create a
win-win situation only if contact is implemented under the principles of
equality, respect, peace and reason (Jan. 13, 2000).
Jail for Falun Gong professor
Jan. 15, 2000 ---
A high-ranking Chinese Air Force official has been sentenced to 17
years in prison on charges he played a key role in the banned Falun Gong
meditation movement, a rights group said yesterday. Yu Changxin, 74, a
former professor at the Air Force Command Institute, was tried in secret
on Jan. 6 by the Air Force Military Court, the Hong Kong-based
Information Center of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China said. Yu, who held a cabinet minister-level rank,
was convicted of using a cult to undermine the law, the center said. A
spokesman for the Ministry of Defense refused to confirm the report or
release the court’s telephone number, which is not listed. Yu was
accused of being a power behind the scenes and helping Falun Gong
founder Li Hongzhi to publish and sell the group’s materials.
