Tang Baiqiao

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Tang Baiqiao

Tang Baiqiao (Chinese: 唐柏桥, born August 11, 1967 in Hunan Province , China ), his name is sometimes called Tang Boqiao, is a Chinese political dissident , longtime activist and former student leader during the 1989 democracy movement . After the incident on the square of the Tiananmen known as the Tian'anmen Massacre , Tang escaped Chinese Communist Party agents but was arrested in Jiangmen City , charged with counterrevolutionary and sentenced to prison. After his release, he fled to Hong Kong and was granted asylum in the United States as a political refugee in 1992 .

Tang lives in New York City and is chairman of the China Peace and Democracy Federation. He co-authored with Robin Munro of the University of London the report Anthems of Defeat: Crackdown in the Province of Hunan 1989-1992 , which was published by Human Rights Watch . Tang graduated from Columbia University in New York in 2003 with a Masters Degree in International Affairs . He has written numerous articles in publications such as Columbia University's Journal of the School of International and Public Affairs, Secret China, Liberty Times, Open Magazine, and Epoch Times. Tang has also been a special commentator for Radio Free Asia , New Tang Dynasty Television, and other programs. He is frequently interviewed by national and international media including ABC, NBC , the BBC , the New York Times , the Washington Post , the Wall Street Journal , Newsweek, and others.

Arrival in USA

Tang Baiqiao came to the United States in April 1992. In June 1992, at a press conference in Washington, DC, he announced the existence of an underground group called the All-China People's Autonomous Federation . Tang said the federation was operating in the People's Republic of China at the time and was composed mostly of former students who participated in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Tang called himself the group's "international spokesperson". He refused to reveal the names of members of the group for fear of reprisals from the Chinese Communist Party. The existence of the federation was established by Dr. Robin Munro confirms who is said to have described the group as "extensive and well organized".

Staff at Asia-Watch, a division of Human Rights Watch, said Tang would do the bulk of research for a publication entitled Anthems of Defeat: Crackdown in Hunan Province 1989-1992 . The book details some of the harshest punishments and human rights atrocities inflicted by the Chinese Communist Party following the Tiananmen Square protests. These included vows from three Chinese dissidents who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for throwing paint on a picture of Mao Zedong in connection with student protests during the 1989 democracy movement.

Continuation of activism

Tang Baiqiao has remained active in the pro-democracy movement since he fled China. He called for a reassessment of China's human rights policy (including the number of actual victims in the Tian'anmen massacre) and an investigation into the persecution of Falun Gong around the world. Tang also called for support for the Dalai Lama's efforts to negotiate a change for Tibet and an end to the Chinese Communist Party. As recently as 2007, Tang claimed that many Chinese students and scholars' associations were actually funded by the Chinese Communist Party and acted as spies.

In an interview in August 2009, Tang told The Epoch Times , "I oppose the Communist Party's violence not only for myself, but for all dissidents, Falun Gong practitioners ... all the people in this country who want to be free, everyone has freedom of speech and should be able to express his or her views. "

Tang is a frequent special commentator on New Tang Dynasty Television . He is the spokesperson and official for the China Interim Government. His articles have appeared in the Journal of International Affairs and Beijing Spring , among others .

Looking back at Tiananmen Square

In 1999, in an interview with Human Rights Watch, Tang said that, "The democracy movement and the fight on June 4, 1989, interrupted any meaningful movement toward political change." He mentioned that public discussions were related to political Reforms had taken place before the protests in Tiananmen Square. Tang stated that the reform efforts of Zhao Ziyang , Bao Tong and Chen Yizi would have been successful had the crackdown never occurred. In essence, the Tiananmen Square protests allowed Communist Party leaders like Jiang Zemin to consolidate their power over the party, the government and the military.

In the same interview, Tang stated that corruption , not political reform, was the main concern of the student protesters. He indicated that the students wanted to see Hu Yaobang be rehabilitated and that social benefits for intellectuals should be increased. Tang said that questions of democracy and human rights only emerged in the final stages of the Tiananmen Square protests, and then only indirectly. However, he noted that due to the 1989 movement, the Chinese government allowed greater economic, social and cultural freedoms.

Assaulted 2009 in Queens

In July 2009, Tang Baiqiao was apparently unprovoked and attacked by several men in a karaoke bar in Flushing , the Chinatown of Queens in New York, USA. Tang sustained injuries to his face and hand. He claimed that the attack was orchestrated and carried out by Chinese Communist Party agents, most likely in retaliation for some statements he made in defense of Falun Gong practitioners and his support for the Tuidang Movement , which is encouraging the Chinese Quit Communist Party. Tang admitted that he was frustrated that the US law enforcement agency was not convinced that the attacks came from communist sources. Tang's claim has never been independently verified.

Tang's version of events was supported by several New York leaders of the Chinese democracy movement. He gave a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC in July 2009. He condemned the attacks and called them an event similar to the one in 2008 when a mob of up to 600 Falun Gong practitioners struck down in a downtown neighborhood community volunteered, physically assaulted and verbally abused.

Publications

  • with Robin Munro: Anthems of Defeat: Crackdown in Hunan Province 1989-1992 . Human Rights Watch, New York 1992, ISBN 1-56432-074-X .
  • with Damon DiMarco: My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary . Prometheus Books, Amherst 2011, ISBN 978-1-61614-445-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tang Baiqiao: Today is my birthday ( zh ) In: Tang Baiqiao's Twitter . August 11, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
  2. ^ Tiananmen Discussion Still Banned 21 Years After Crackdown , New Tang Dynasty TV, accessed August 10, 2017
  3. ↑ Dr. Robin Munro, School of Oriental and African Studies ( Memento July 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), University of London, June 2010, accessed August 10, 2017
  4. ^ Yale Press , accessed August 10, 2017
  5. ↑ Baiqiao Tang with Damon DiMarco, My Two Chinas The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary , Prometheus New Releases - March 2011, accessed August 13, 2017
  6. ^ Seth Faison, Chinese Dissident, in West, Tells Of Underground Rights Network , The New York Times, June 3, 1992, accessed August 10, 2017
  7. ↑ Nicholas D. Kristof, China Is Accused of Torturing 3 Who Defaced Mao Portrait , The New York Times, June 1, 1992, accessed August 10, 2017
  8. ↑ Unpublished Photos of Tiananmen Square Crackdown Displayed ( Memento from December 28, 2004 in the Internet Archive ), PolitInfo.com, May 20, 2004 article, accessed on August 10, 2017
  9. ↑ Images from SFT Decade 10-Year Reunion & Celebration Weekend ( Memento from December 22, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), Students for a Free Tibet, 2005, accessed on August 10, 2017
  10. ↑ Juliet Werner, Falun Gong: Opinions Clash Over Chinese Politics In Flushing ( September 7, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive ), Queens Tribune Online, July 24, 2008, accessed August 10, 2017
  11. ↑ Xin Fei, Chinese Regime Directs Student Associations to Buy Off American 'China Experts' ( October 8, 2012 memento on the Internet Archive ), The Epoch Times, July 1, 2007, accessed August 10, 2017
  12. ↑ Gary Feurer Mountain, Man Assaulted in America Fears Chinese Communist Party ( Memento of 21 October 2012 at the Internet Archive ), The Epoch Times, August 1st 2009, accessed on August 10, 2017
  13. ↑ Tang Baiqiao holds press conference , China Support Network, July 21, 2009, accessed August 10, 2017
  14. ↑ Tang Boqiao, Robin Munro, Anthems of Defeat: Crackdown in Hunan Province 1989-1992 , Human Rights Watch, New York, 1992, ISBN 978-1-56432-074-2 , accessed August 10, 2017
  15. ↑ Brief of No.149, Special Report 53 , Beijing Spring, October 2005, accessed August 10, 2017
  16. ↑ Tang Boqiao, Hunan Student Leader , Human Rights Watch, China: 10 Years After Tiananmen, 1999, accessed August 10, 2017
  17. ^ Up Front with Wang Yu ( Memento from October 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), China Rights Forum, 2004, accessed on August 10, 2017
  18. ↑ Leading Chinese Dissident Raises Profile, Campaigns Against CCP Violence In United States , China Support Net, August 2, 2009, accessed August 10, 2017
  19. ↑ Tang Baiqiao Raises Profile, Campaigns Against CCP Violence In United States , China Support Network, August 2, 2009, accessed August 10, 2017
  20. ↑ Florian Godovits, Ram Srinivasan, Genevieve Long, What happened in Flushing , Epoch Times USA and Germany, May 28, 2008, accessed August 10, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Tang, Baiqiao
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tang, Boqiao
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese dissident
DATE OF BIRTH August 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Hunan