Virginia Resident Feels Beijing’s Unfriendly Attention
October 23, 2018 Updated: October 23, 2018
WASHINGTON—Many people in the United States may have recently heard about the “influence operations” and spying by the Chinese communist regime in America and other countries. Angela Wang, a 69-year-old resident of Virginia, has not only heard about these things, but also experienced and suffered from them.
Wang migrated to the United States from Tianjin City in China in 1998, after she had met and married an American citizen who had gone to China to work. When she came to the United States she was on long-term sickness leave due to her poor health.
Several years later, she officially retired from her workplace, No. 78 Middle School in Hebei District, Tianjin City, where she had worked for about 20 years as an English teacher. Since then she received her retirement pension, until about two years ago, that is.
At the end of 2016, Wang was suddenly told that her pension was suspended due to her involvement in “anti-(Communist) Party” and “anti-China” activities in the United States.
A local police officer in Tianjin City, whose surname was Dong, told Wang several times that if she stopped practicing Falun Gong, “This issue can be easily resolved.”
Falun Gong
Falun Gong is an ancient Chinese mind, body, and spirit improvement discipline based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. It was first introduced to the public in 1992 in China.
Since then it has spread all over the world. The website FalunDafa.org lists local contacts in 82 countries. The practice’s main book, “Zhuan Falun,” has been translated into 41 languages.
Due to its popularity, the communist regime in China started an overwhelming suppression of Falun Gong in 1999, after having supported it for 7 years for its health benefits.
According to the Falun Dafa Info Center, millions have been detained in jails, labor camps, and brainwashing centers; 4258 deaths due to torture and abuse can be confirmed, although the actual number is believed to be much larger, due to the difficulty of getting information out of China.
An unknown but large number of Falun Gong practitioners have been killed on demand so that their organs could be sold to domestic patients and international organ tourists. Researchers have classified the forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners as a “cold genocide.”
Wang said that she only took up Falun Gong in 2004 in the United States, six years after she left China, after having battled severe health problems, including stomach cancer, for many years. She doesn’t know how the authorities in China became aware of the fact that she practiced Falun Gong in the United States.
“During 2006 to 2011, I had been going to the Falun Gong practice site in front of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington to demonstrate Falun Gong exercises and to clarify the truth about Falun Gong to Chinese tourists who were deceived by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ’s lies about Falun Gong,” Wang said.
“When I first went there, fellow Falun Gong practitioners told me that people hired by the Chinese Embassy would usually come to take photos of us and collect our information. But I didn’t pay much attention. I thought to myself, ‘Why should I care, as I am a U.S. citizen already?’”
Wang has been astonished that the Communist regime in China not only suspended her retirement pension, but has also harassed and threatened her relatives in China.
“My only remaining direct relatives in China now are my brother, sister, nephews and nieces. The communist officials have given pressure to them all. My brother and sister were actually forced to call me and record the telephone conversation to show to the authorities that they carried out their ‘task’ of trying to convince me to stop being involved in Falun Gong activities,” Wang said.
In February this year, leaders from the city level, district level, and workplace level all went to Wang’s sister’s home to give pressure to her and again asked her to persuade Wang to stop practicing Falun Gong.
“This is very annoying. I don’t know how many Communist spies there are in the United States. I only know that the CCP is very evil and is capable of anything. I am very much worried for my family’s safety in China. I hope the U. S. government can do something to stop this evil,” Wang said.
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Angela Wang does a Falun Gong meditative exercise in her backyard in Fairfax, Va. on Oct. 22, 2018. (Courtesy Angela Wang)
