48-year-old Kong Yuping is a normal factory worker in Anshan, China. According to the news on December 20, he was arrested at home by 5 policemen on December 13. Kong only posted 5 articles and 9 poems on foreign web sites before got arrested in the last 6 months. These few critics are about ¡°TianAnMen Square¡± event, official embezzlement, etc.

Kong is not the only person got arrested because the online critcs, more than 10 people had been arrested on the use of internet to spread politics dissent. 23-year-old Liu Di posted many critics about current conditions in China online, arrested in November, 2002.

China has recently continuously arrested some Internet users, causes the people to worry about Chinese government might point to the normal person and accuses them to be engaged in the subversive activities.

I thought the freedom of speech should be the problem. Kong expresses the personal opinion, this certainly does not subvert the government, why has the opinion to the government not to be allowed? Kong just expressed his views online, but on foreign web sites. In general, subverting the government should have the motion, the plan and the organization and so on, why expressing the opinion is able to be called any subversion?

As more & more of the population owns their own property, and amasses even more wealth, perhaps the current government in China will have to go away.

Or, perhaps, the "capitalist experiment" will eventually be terminated... as it was before many years ago...


The saddest thing about Kate's posts, I think, is that she (and others) are taking enormous risks for very little potential reward. That is to say, these tragic communications are pretty much falling on deaf ears.

Clearly Taiwan was not encouraged by the Bush administration to publicly vocalize their desire for freedom from the mainland Chinese government... Indeed, Dubbya did quite the opposite. He warned the Taiwanese to be quiet...

What a world we live in... But, hey, Happy New Year, anyway! Let me assure one and all as glibly as I can that I'm SURE things are gonna get better!

(Just close yer eyes, click yer heels, and wish...)

Kate, thank you for your message! But PLEASE be careful, okay?


I very much hope things will get better for you and all Chinese people...

Tsai chien!

:)

Thank you so much for your kind wishes!

really hope these brave people will be released as early as possible!!