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Chen Pokong (born December 20, 1963 in Santai , Sichuan , People's Republic of China ) is the stage name of Chen Jinsong , a Chinese author and political commentator who lives in the United States . Chen is a graduate of Hunan University and Tongji University in China and Columbia University in USA . In 1985, as a doctoral student , he sent a joint letter to the former general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party , Hu Yaobang , in which he called for political reforms . Chen is a former professor of economics and one of the leaders of the 1986 student protests in Shanghai and the 1989 pro-democracy movement in Guangdong .

Chen initiated, organized, and participated in a student movement in Guangzhou in 1989 , and in January founded a "Democracy Salon" at Sun Yat-sen University . In April 1989, he joined Chen Wei , Yu Shiwen, and other student leaders in joint founding a democracy movement in Guangzhou Province and in support of student protests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing . He was arrested for activism and served in prison and forced labor from 1989 to 1993 . In 1994, he provided evidence to the United Nations and other international bodies that China was exporting goods produced in labor camps for sale. This is a violation of international law and human rights . Chen went to the United States in 1997 , where he studied as a visiting scholar at Columbia University and later earned a master's degree.

biography

Chen Pokong was an assistant professor of economics at Zhongshan University in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province when the pro-democracy demonstrations began in China in 1989. Chen helped organize the protests and was arrested in 1989. After nearly five years in prison, Chen was exiled to the United States in 1996. There he became a visiting scholar at Columbia University, where he received a master's degree. Chen built a career in the United States as the director of a business school in Manhattan , New York.

In the United States , Chen Pokong appears regularly as an analyst on Chinese current affairs programs including Voice of America , Radio Free Asia , New Tang Dynasty Television , BBC, and others. Chen's topics concern the political system of the People's Republic of China, such as democracy , freedom of expression , instability, corruption , economic affairs , military affairs, foreign relations, cross-border and strategic matters, and political reforms. Chen frequently writes political columns for Radio Free Asia, the Hong Kong Open Magazine, and other publications . Chen is the author of several books on Chinese political culture and has published several books in Hong Kong , Taiwan and Japan .

As a critic and writer, Chen has written and made speeches for several media outlets including Radio Free Asia, Voice of America, and Beijing Spring, as well as press conferences , panel discussions , and other events.

Chen Pokong was invited by the Oxford Union to participate in a debate on June 1, 2017 . The theme of the debate was "This House Welcomes China's Impact Overseas". Chen, a spokesman for the opposition, stressed that China exerts influence beyond its borders, but he does not believe that China is interested in serving the world, but is interested in China's own interests, especially those of the Red Elite. As the world's second largest economy and the youngest superpower , China's overseas influence is growing day by day. The methods, processes and results show, however, that China in general is not constructive but rather destructive and that China does not contribute to world peace , but rather represents dangers and risks for the world, said Chen.

Imprisonment

Chen Pokong was sentenced to prison and forced labor twice :

  • In August 1989 he was arrested for his involvement in democratic activities and in February 1990 charged with “ doing counter-revolutionary propaganda and incitement”. On March 1, 1991, he was sentenced to three years in prison by the Guangzhou City Intermediate People's Court.
  • In October 1993, Chen was sentenced to three years of labor re-education on charges of "illegally crossing the state line" . The judgment is said to have been carried out without a trial, as is supposed to be the norm in China for such a judgment.

Chen resumed political activity after his release in July 1992 and was wanted by the government in 1993. He fled to Hong Kong and applied for political asylum, which was denied. After he was repatriated, he was sent to a forced labor camp.

In a letter to the international community in 1994 , Chen alleged that prisoners at the No. 1 Reformed Labor Camp in Guangzhou were often beaten and were "subjected to conditions equivalent to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment." Chen had the letter smuggled out of the camp in the second half of 1994. Chen said that production quotas forced inmates to work 14 hours a day, seven days a week and only had three days off a year. During the day they would have had to transport stones from a quarry to a boat and load them. At night, the prisoners were forced to make artificial flowers for export , Chen said. The food supplied by the camp authorities was often insufficient and, according to Amnesty International, consisted of "coarse rice and rotten vegetables".

Chen's letter reportedly mentioned that inmates who worked a little slower were brutally beaten and mistreated by supervisors and team leaders (even inmates). Detainees are reported to have been beaten many times until they were blood-stained, collapsed, or passed out. Chen mentioned that shortly before arriving at the camp, an inmate was beaten to death. Many inmates, like himself, had hands and feet crushed by the large stones and stained with blood and pus, but they had to keep working. Chen noticed that many inmates were crippled as a result. In his letter, he said that Guangdong No. 1 Education Center, Quarry 1, Plant 9 in Chini Township , Hua County, Guangdong was the "cruelest" and was sent there for the Guangdong authorities to own "Bitter hatred for him," said Chen.

Speaking to Congress on the subject of Chinese forced labor , Nancy Pelosi described Chen's letter as "an irresistible cry for help that portrayed the terrible history of abuse and slave labor " in Chinese prison camps. Chen was reportedly the first person alleged to have provided the United Nations with evidence that the Chinese government and its authorities are using forced labor to manufacture products for sale overseas.

Publications

The books, monographs, and studies that Chen authored, or contributed to, include:

  • 2016: If the US and China Go to War: The Battle of the Senkakus.
  • 2016: If the US and China Go to War: This is How a Bloody US-China War Could Start.
  • 2016: To know China, Common Sense Doesn't Work.
  • 2016: 100 Basic Facts about China.
  • 2016: Book Review on The Unwelcome Chinese.
  • 2015: All over the World Do Not Know Chinese.
  • 2015: The Unwelcome Chinese.
  • 2014: Power Struggle behind Red Wall.
  • 2014: Japan, US and China, Coming War in Asia.
  • 2014: Selective anticorruption in China.
  • 2014: Selective anticorruption in China.
  • 2013: Inside Story of Red Paper Tiger.
  • 2013: If US and China Go to War.
  • 2013: China's expansion, risky trajectory.
  • 2013: Strong chain to contain dictatorship.
  • 2013: If US, Japan, and China Go to War
  • 2012: Activist pessimistic on reform in China.
  • 2012: Chinese dissident urges Taiwan to push democracy Tiger.
  • 2010: Zhongnanhai's Thick Black Theory, (aka Machiavelli in Beijing).
  • 2010: Dissidents warn 'Beijing Model' could harm Taiwan.
  • 2009: A Non-governmental White Paper on the June Fourth Massacre, (co-author).
  • 2007: One hundred points of common sense about China.
  • 2003: Toward the Republic: A Not-So Distant Mirror.
  • Chen Pokong info.
  • China's economy: prosperity under a shadow.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f 17 prominent Chinese dissidents living in exile in the US - demand the right to return to China , Human Rights in China, October 12, 1997, accessed September 20, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Chen Pokong and other prisoners at Guangzhou No. 1 Reeducation-Through-Labor Center , Amnesty International, December 7, 1994, accessed September 18, 2017
  3. ↑ a b Chen Pokong's appearances in Voice of America , accessed September 20, 2017
  4. ↑ Chen Pokong, Zhongnan hai hou hei xue, (Zhongnanhai thick black school / first edition ), Toronto Public Library, 2009, accessed September 20, 2017
  5. ↑ a b Letter of No. 198 ( July 27, 2011 memento on the Internet Archive ), Beijing Spring, November 2009, accessed September 20, 2017
  6. ↑ a b Activist Chen Pokong speaks during a news conference , Getty Images, June 4, 2009, accessed September 20, 2017
  7. ↑ a b Chen Pokong, Implications of the Gongmeng Report on Tibet ( Memento from June 30, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), International Tibet Network, June 25, 2009, accessed on September 20, 2017
  8. ↑ Bringing Down The Great Firewall Of China - Chen Pokong , PEN America, October 26, 2012, accessed September 20, 2017
  9. ↑ a b Tzou Jing-wen, INTERVIEW: Chinese dissident urges caution on cross-strait ties , Taipei Times, October 23, 2008, accessed September 20, 2017
  10. ↑ Louisa Lim, China Leader's Absence Could Spell Political Trouble , National Public Radio, September 14, 2012, accessed September 20, 2017
  11. ↑ Matthew Robertson, In Shift, Snowden Now Said to Reveal US Monitoring of China , The Epoch Times, June 23, 2013, accessed September 20, 2017
  12. ↑ This House Welcomes China's Impact Overseas , The Oxford Union, June 1, 2017, accessed September 20, 2017
  13. ↑ We Should NOT Welcome China's Impact Overseas | Chen Pokong | Part 6 of 8 , Oxford Union, August 7, 2017, accessed September 20, 2017
  14. ↑ a b 26 Prominent Overseas Chinese Rights Activists Signed Open Letter for Worsening China Human Rights Record before Olympics , China Aid, March 8, 2008, accessed September 20, 2017
  15. ↑ a b Chinese Forced Labor, Full text of Chen Pokong's letter, submitted by Nancy Pelosi , Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 143, October 5, 1994, accessed September 20, 2017
  16. ↑ Chen Pokong, If the US and China Go to War , The National Interest, May 27, 2016, accessed September 20, 2017
  17. ↑ Chen Pokong, This is How a Bloody US-China War Could Start , The National Interest, May 28, 2016, accessed September 20, 2017
  18. ↑ Chen Pokong, Japan Business Sha , Business Sha, 2016, ISBN 978-4-8284-1931-2 , accessed September 20, 2017
  19. ↑ Chen Pokong, 博大 出版社, 博客 來, (One Hundred Points of Common Sense on China), Broad Publishing House, 2016, ISBN 978-986-92642-1-1 , accessed September 20, 2017
  20. ^ Tienchi Martin-Liao, The Unwelcome Chinese , Sampsonia Way, October 28, 2016, accessed September 20, 2017
  21. ↑ Chen Pokong, 全世界 都不 了解 中國 人. 博客 來. (The Whole World Does not Understand the Chinese People), Avant-Garde Publisher, 2015, ISBN 978-957-801-781-8 , accessed September 20, 2017
  22. ↑ Chen Pokong, 不受歡迎 的 中國 人 (The Unwelcome Chinese) , Greenfield bookstore, Hong Kong, 2015, ISBN 978-962-7934-43-7 , accessed September 20, 2017
  23. ↑ Chen Kakeru, 赤 い 中国 の 黒 い 権 力 者 た ち ｜ 幻 冬 舎 ル ネ ッ サ ン ス  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) (Red Chinese black powers | Gentosha Renaissance), 2014, ISBN 978-4-7790-6107-3 , accessed on 20 September 2017@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.amazon.co.jp
  24. ↑ 文 春 新書 『日 米 中 ア ジ ア 開 戦』 陳 破空 山田 智 美 訳 | 新書 - 文藝 春秋 BOOKS, Wenchun new book, (Japanese Rice in the Asia open war) (in Japanese), 2014, ISBN 978-4-16-660976-5 , accessed September 20, 2017
  25. ↑ Chen Pokong biography and commentary , Radio Free Asia, accessed September 20, 2017
  26. ↑ Chen Pokong, Selective anticorruption in China , Taipei Times, January 28, 2014, accessed September 20, 2017
  27. ↑ Chen Pokong, Selective anticorruption in China , Taipei Times, January 28, 2014, accessed September 20, 2017
  28. ↑ 赤 い 中国 消滅 | 書籍 詳細 | 扶桑 社 , (Red China Elimination), Fusosha Publishing Inc., accessed September 20, 2017
  29. ↑ 香港 二樓 書店> 假如 中美 開戰 ： 二十 一 世紀 的 戰爭 , (If China and the US go to war, 21st Century War), 2-floor book store, Hong Kong Books, 2013, ISBN 978-986- 5794-04-0 , accessed September 20, 2017
  30. ↑ Chen Pokong, China's expansion, risky trajectory , Taipei Times, December 23, 2013, accessed September 20, 2017
  31. ↑ Chen Pokong, Strong chain to contain dictatorship , Taipei Times, November 9, 2013, accessed September 20, 2017
  32. ↑ Loa Iok-sin, Activist pessimistic on reform in China , Taipei Times, November 25, 2012, accessed September 20, 2017
  33. ↑ Chris Wang, Chinese dissident urges Taiwan to push democracy , Taipei Times, November 23, 2012, accessed September 20, 2017
  34. ↑ 中南海 厚黑 學 - 香港 書城 網上 書店 Hong Kong Book City (Zhongnanhai's Thick Black Theory), Hong Kong Book City, 2009, ISBN 978-962-7934-28-8 , accessed September 20, 2017
  35. ↑ Rich Chang, Su Yung-Yao, Dissidents warn 'Beijing Model' could harm Taiwan , Taipei Times, January 31, 2010, accessed September 20, 2017
  36. ↑ Li Jinjin, A Non-governmental White Paper on the June Fourth Massacre , Feiyang Book House, 2009, ISBN 978-0-615-29223-6 , accessed on September 20, 2017
  37. ↑ «关于 中国 的 一百 个 常识» - 禁书 网 ( Memento from December 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), (One Hundred Points of Common Sense on China), www.bannedbook.org, June 20, 2011, accessed on June 20, 2011 September 2017
  38. ↑ Chen Pokong, Toward the Republic: A Not-So Distant Mirror (PDF) , World Journal Weekly, Human Rights Forum, October 12, 2003. Retrieved on September 20, 2017
  39. ↑ Chen Pokong, Chen Pokong | Radio Free Asia, ZoomInfo , accessed September 20, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Chen, Pokong
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chen, Jinsong (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese author and civil rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Santai , Sichuan , People's Republic of China