National Post - vendredi, 9 novembre 2007As a professor of Chinese history at the Universite de Montreal, for the past seven years my main research project has been the Falun Gong, the persecuted Chinese spiritual movement. As one of the few credible academic authorities working on the Falun Gong, I have presented my research many times over the years. On two occasions, after speaking at Princeton and at Amsterdam, I received a series of strange e-mails from people I didn't know, with strange attachments. All of the messages had been routed either through the Chinese embassy in Ottawa or Paris. I suspected someone was trying to crash my computer, and I contacted the Foreign Affairs' China desk in Ottawa, who sent a CSIS agent to see me. He told me that his office spent considerable time slapping the Chinese embassy on the wrists, reminding them of the limitations of their freedom of activity on Canadian soil. My "poisoned e-mails" were added to the list.
The saga of Peter Rowe's documentary on the Falun Gong Beyond the Red Wall -- for which I was interviewed -- suggests that the Chinese have yet to learn their lesson. After Mr. Rowe received a call from the CBC telling him that they were pulling the documentary and demanding certain edits, I wrote to the CBC. Senior producer Andrew Johnson told me that it was the crisis in Pakistan which led CBC to pull the film, but that: "In the meantime, we are reviewing the current cut of the documentary, not at the behest of the Chinese government as some seem to be suggesting, but to ensure we are able to present a high-quality documentary with the high standards of quality and accuracy that our audiences expect."
[NB : Le documentaire a été reprogrammé.]
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le meilleur sinologue au Canada.
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