The slandering of Falun Gong by Chinese officials visiting other countries and on embassy Web sites has reportedly come to an end.
According to the Yazhou Zhoukan, a Chinese weekly news magazine, many Chinese embassy Web sites have not posted defamatory articles since mid-October. The report says that a few Chinese Embassy Web sites, which originally contained sections specifically for defaming Falun Gong, have removed the sections or the content has been deleted. Although a few embassies have kept the anti-Falun Gong sections on their Web sites, the links are broken and no longer display the Web pages.
According to a source named Jian Feng: “(November 14 and 15), I searched several Chinese embassy Web sites on Google and found that most of the articles defaming Falun Gong had been deleted. The Chinese embassy sites I visited were in Norway, Spain, Portugal and Germany. In addition, Chinese embassies in Thailand, the United States and South Africa, which previously had articles defaming Falun Gong on their Web sites, had only article titles but the contents had been deleted.”
In a related development, a Thai diplomat stated: “Whether it is the Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan or General Xiong Guangkai of the Chinese Liberation Army, Chinese officials that recently visited Thailand surprised everyone by ceasing to defame Falun Gong to the Thai government.”