THE D UI HUA D I A L O G U E FOUNDATION ᎒ಈߖঈ Issue 25 • Fall 2006 Domestic Politics in , US IN THIS ISSUE: Pose Challenges for Rights Dialogue

Domestic Politics in China, US Pose rom August 21 through August than ever that foreign and domestic enemies Challenges for Rights F 23, 2006, several hundred offi cials, are plotting a color revolution. Hu has Dialogue including all China’s ambassadors and central decided to take strong measures to defeat 1–3 ministry leaders as well as representatives it, measures that were fi nalized during the Hard Time at from the provinces, met in to analyze annual leadership retreat at Beidahe and Englewood: Dui China’s position in the world and to listen at least partially spelled out at the central Hua Visits A Federal to “important speeches” by Party Chairman foreign affairs meeting, both of which took Prison and Premier . The place in August. The campaign to thwart 4-5 offi cial Xinhua News Agency reported that the color revolution will continue at least New Research all nine members of the standing committee through the 17th Party Congress slated to & Prisoner of the Politburo attended the meeting. take place in September 2007. Information As with all such meetings, offi cial In recent months, central and local 6–7 accounts gave few indications of what was authorities have jailed, harassed and News About actually said. Aside from a bland summary beaten human rights defenders (e.g., Dui Hua of Hu’s speech released by Xinhua and a Chen Guangcheng, Gao Zhisheng, and 8 couple of short news items stressing the Guo Feixiong), representatives of foreign economic policies that would fl ow from NGOs (e.g., former Asia Foundation the meeting, there was little coverage in researcher David Bu) and journalists (e.g., China’s domestic media. But because of the Zhao Yan and Ching Cheong); ordered large attendance, it did not take long before stricter surveillance over the operations foreign diplomats and overseas intelligence of foreign NGOs; and promulgated analysts were hearing about the topic of measures to restrict domestic and foreign Dialogue is written by Hu’s speech: the need to heighten vigilance media coverage of mass incidents. With the staff of The Dui Hua and resolutely struggle against a “color the exception of some forward movement Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to revolution” conceived by the United States in China’s relationship with the Vatican advancing the protection with support from key allies and carried out (a successful visit of papal envoys and of universally recognized by domestic and foreign enemies whose the freeing of Bishops An Shuxin and Jia human rights in China and the United States. smokeless weapons are NGOs, the Internet, Zhiguo), tensions with other religious and journalists, underground religious leaders, ethnic minorities have increased sharply, © 2006 and “human rights defenders”—a group with harsh repression of family members The Dui Hua Foundation singled out for special attention. of Rebiya Kadeer in and the 450 Sutter Street Suite 900 Despite attempts by President Bush to commencement of a campaign of vitriolic San Francisco, CA 94108 persuade Hu that the United States is not denunciation against the Dalai Lama which

Email: [email protected] trying to foment regime change in China, is reminiscent of the language used in the Web: www.duihua.org the Chinese leader appears more convinced . Legal Reforms on Hold olution on sanctions against North harsh policies adopted to thwart the China’s Supreme People’s Court Korea in the United Nations Security color revolution, could well assume is still months away from taking back Council—it is nevertheless increas- chairmanship of the party’s “po- and exercising the power of review ingly clear that, in the area of human litico-legal committee,” in charge in death-penalty cases. A bill (whol- rights at least, China sees the United of suppressing dissent and reducing ly inadequate from a human rights States as a strategic competitor. Even public protest. perspective) to reform the reeduca- China’s pending ratifi cation of the In launching his campaign tion-through-labor system has been International Covenant on Civil and against the color revolution and its presented to the National People’s Political Rights (which, according to foreign bases of support, Hu is no Congress (NPC), but progress ap- senior Chinese offi cials, will be rati- doubt emboldened by the sharp drop pears to have ground to a halt. Mo- fi e d as soon as the March session of in America’s image and credibility mentum toward perhaps the most the NPC) appears to be motivated in abroad and developments on Taiwan, important legal reform—amendment part by a strong desire to be able to both of which raise the prospect of of the Criminal Procedure Law—has say that China has signed and ratifi ed future reunifi cation largely on Bei- also slowed. both human rights covenants, where- jing’s terms. President Bush has been Meanwhile, Chinese offi cials as the United States has not yet ratifi ed alienated by Chen Shui-bian’s behav- have adopted a harder line in their the International Covenant on Eco- ior, rendering the United States less dealings with foreigners on human nomic, Social, and Cultural Rights. a fan of Taiwan independence than rights. Foreign ministry and justice at any point since the nationalists ministry offi cials have rejected diplo- Jockeying for Party Congress Underway fl e d the mainland in 1949. China has matic requests for prisoner informa- One year from now, the Chi- improved ties with American foes in tion, and Dui Hua has been told that nese Communist Party will have just Venezuela and Iran, and its embrace the Ministry of Justice will no longer completed one of its fi ve-yearly con- of rogue states like the Sudan, Myan- accept its prisoner lists. Chinese hu- gresses, the most important event in mar, and Zimbabwe has never been man rights diplomats are far more China’s political calendar. Hu Jintao closer. Rights groups and govern- assertive, ticking off human rights is determined to install allies and de- ments cite Chinese fi libustering as a problems in the West and dismissing stroy rivals, as revealed in the ruthless principal reason behind the failure of charges of abuses in China. Several pursuit of cadres in leadership posi- the UN’s new human rights council western countries have been scolded tions in Shanghai, power base of for- to address human rights violations by Beijing for being members of the mer leader Jiang Zemin. Jockeying is and humanitarian crises aggressively. “Berne Process,” a loose grouping well underway for the 200-plus mem- of countries that meets annually to bers of the central committee, the 25 China’s Foes Set to Seize Power exchange information and views on to 30 members of the Politburo, and As this issue of Dialogue goes to China’s human rights. So dissatisfi ed the ten or so members of the stand- press, most polls predict control of are several of the dialogue countries ing committee of the Politburo, and the House of Representatives will that a few have considered postpon- no one can afford to be seen as weak shift to the Democratic Party when ing or even canceling planned dia- on domestic security issues and yield- Americans vote in mid-term elec- logue sessions. ing to foreign interests—least of all tions on November 7. Though less To defeat the color revolution, American interests. likely, control of the Senate could Hu Jintao seems prepared to risk Among those tipped to join the also go to the Democrats, who are damage to relations with the United standing committee is Zhou Yong- benefi ting from growing voter dis- States and other western countries. kang, who heads the Minstry of Pub- enchantment over the Iraq war and Although there have been some ar- lic Security and is currently a Polit- widespread anger over allegations of eas of US-China cooperation—most buro member. Zhou, who is widely corruption and sexual scandals in the notably with respect to issuing a res- seen as the architect of many of the Republican-dominated House. The

22 Dialogue prospect of Democratic control of International Relations Committee, at least one house of Congress, with Rep. Tom Lantos (D-California), like its potential for gridlock resulting Pelosi a San Francisco-area politician from dueling executive and legislative highly critical of China on human branches, would greatly affect the ex- rights grounds and a big supporter ecution of US foreign policy. of Tibet, and Rep. David Obey (D- The consequences for US-China Wisconsin), the likely chairman of relations could be especially severe the House Appropriations Commit- if, as widely expected, Rep. Nancy tee. The new chairman of the Ways Pelosi (D-California) is elected by the and Means Committee would be Rep. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California) triumphant Democrats as Speaker of Charlie Rangel (D-New York), who the House. Pelosi built her political progress on economic rights but reluctantly voted in favor of granting career opposing China’s trade status cites “backsliding” by China in civil China permanent MFN status and because of its human rights record, and political rights.) In line to assume who has since become increasingly and there is no sign that she has chairmanship is Rep. Sandy Levin wary of free trade agreements. changed her basic temperament (D-Michigan), who helped create the Even if the Democrats manage towards the country. The fi rst signal CECC and who voted for permanent to take control of the Senate as well of how Pelosi would deal with China MFN, for which he paid a high price as the House, Democrats’ ability to were she to become Speaker could among labor voters in his district. actually pass legislation inimical to come with her appointment of the Rep. Levin is a close friend of Pelosi good relations with China will be new chairman of the Congressional- and is likely to support her approach constrained by President Bush’s veto Executive Commission on China to China. power. Just as his father did in the ear- (CECC). If the Democrats wrest Another early sign of Pelosi’s ly 1990s, George W. Bush is expected control of Congress and Pelosi were intentions towards China will be to veto bills that would damage rela- elected Speaker, she would decide the fate of the State Department’s tions by imposing punitive tariffs or whether to keep the commission China Rule of Law program, which increasing support for Taiwan, but (which she opposed creating in the dispenses aid to US NGOs and aca- the political price for doing so in the fi r st place) and, if she chose not to demic institutions working on hu- run-up to the 2008 presidential elec- abolish it, she would decide whom to man rights and rule of law programs tion could be high. The Democrats’ appoint as the next chairman. in China. In the past, Pelosi has been strategy, realized through hearings Chairmanship of the CECC, scornful of such programs, voicing and passage of bills focused on Chi- which was set up as part of the ef- doubt that engaging China on human na’s human rights record, will be to fort to secure passage of permanent rights is worth the effort. With the tie Bush to Beijing, just as Democrats Most Favored Nation (MFN) for Democrats making cuts to programs did in the early 1990s. Public opinion China, alternates between the Senate initiated by the Bush administration towards China has improved since and the House every two years. The a priority, many fear that the Rule of 2001, and Ms. Pelosi can be expected present chairman is Sen. Chuck Ha- Law program will be an early casualty. to work hard to reverse this trend. gel (R-Nebraska), who has worked Nearly all members of Congress Recent developments in China seem hard to promote dialogue with China tipped to assume leadership positions likely to give her plenty of ammuni- on human rights and has overseen if the Democrats regain control of tion for doing so. In such an atmo- production of the commission’s ob- the House were strongly opposed sphere, prospects for a resumption jective and balanced annual reports to granting MFN trading status to of the offi cial human rights dialogue on human rights in China. (The most China when the issue was hotly de- between the US and China, suspend- recent report, released September 20 bated in the 1990s. They include the ed since December 2002, will likely in Washington, credits Beijing with likely chairman of the new House fade, and confrontation increase. ■

Fall 2006 3 Hard Time at Englewood: Dui Hua Visits A Federal Prison

On October 11, Dui Hua Executive Director John Kamm visited the Federal Correctional Institution at Englewood, Colorado with Prof. Steve Reiquam of the University of Denver, a friend and supporter of Dui Hua. This is Kamm’s report: he Federal Correctional Institution at Englewood, and no visitors or phone calls are permitted. A typical T Colorado, located a brief drive from downtown convict might end up in the segregation wing for assault- Denver, is one of the oldest federal prisons in the United ing a guard or having been caught trying to smuggle a States. When it was opened in 1938 during the admin- weapon or contraband into the prison. Inmates from the istration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, there were Florence facility are sometimes held in FCI Englewood’s only 13 prisons operated by the Justice Department’s Bu- segregation cells if they are in the Denver area for a court reau of Prisons. Today there are 105, and plans are well appearance. underway to open another eight to 10 prisons in order to The average sentence being served by an inmate at accommodate America’s burgeoning prison population. Englewood is seven years. Under current regulations, FCI Englewood is one of two federal prisons in Col- prisoners in the federal system are granted an automat- orado, the other being the well-known “Super-Max” fa- ic reduction of 54 days per year served, meaning that cility at Florence, which houses some of America’s most prisoners serving the average sentence will be released dangerous prisoners. FCI Englewood is a medium-secu- roughly a year early. If a prisoner violates prison regu- rity prison with an inmate population of roughly 1,000 lations, is insubordinate, engages in fi ghts, or refuses to males, who are overseen by a staff of about 285 cor- work, an administrative procedure is launched that could rectional offi cers. (All inmates are males, but quite a few result in taking away some or all of the 54 days. As Di- correctional offi cers are females.) The prison is about 10 alogue has reported previously, parole in federal prisons percent under its authorized level of staffi ng, because it is has been abolished, though there remain some inmates not easy to fi nd good correctional offi cers in a booming at Englewood and elsewhere who were sentenced under economy such as Denver’s. “old law” provisions and can still qualify for parole and More than 800 inmates are housed in the main prison. be released early. Another 100 or so are located at a low-security camp out- FCI Englewood is also a small, highly profi table en- side the perimeter of the main prison. Individuals con- terprise generating millions of dollars of revenue every victed of drug smuggling make up the largest percentage year. In effect, inmates are employed by the Federal Pris- of inmates, accounting for 37 percent of convicts. Other ons Industries (UNICOR) program, a corporation wholly sizable populations are those convicted of interstate kid- owned by the US government which generates more than napping or other violent felonies such as arson and as- $500 million in sales each year. Inmates work at making sault, as well as illegal immigration. A large number of garments and furniture, as well as performing higher-end inmates are Mexican citizens convicted of drug and hu- tasks such as computer programming and computer-as- man traffi cking. Prison offi cials declined to say if prison- sisted design (CAD). As one offi cer put it: “Everyone ers convicted of Patriot Act offenses are housed at FCI works at Englewood, and if they refuse they go to seg- Englewood. regation. Ninety days of solitary usually changes their A separate “segregation” or “solitary confi nement” minds.” All output of goods and services is purchased wing is used to house maximum-security prisoners. At any by agencies of the federal government and used by gov- one time about 50 inmates are held in this wing, where ernment employees (e.g., uniforms for prison guards) or the restrictions are similar to those in the maximum-se- in government facilities (e.g., furniture for federal offi ce curity facility at Florence. Prisoners are kept in their cells buildings). CAD workers helped design the armored plat- for 23 hours and allowed out for exercise once a day, in ing used by the US military in Iraq. shackles and leg irons. No amenities such as television or The lowest wage paid to inmates is the 11 cents per movies are allowed, reading material is carefully screened, hour paid for the lowest skilled jobs. The highest-paid

44 Dialogue jobs are those in computer programming and design, and out, and offi cers are constantly on guard against inmate inmates compete to get these both for the pay ($1.27 an assault. Guards inside the prison are all unarmed, though hour) and for the employment opportunities “on the out- those on perimeter patrol are equipped with automatic side.” In fact, inmates who “graduate” from the higher- weapons and instructed to “shoot to kill” if necessary to end jobs have far lower recidivism rates than the general prevent escapes. population at Englewood. One guard remarked that two- Apparently convinced that inmates were having too thirds of inmates at Englewood will return to prison after good a time in federal prisons, Congress has placed re- they are released, but only 16 percent of those who work strictions on appropriations to the Bureau of Prisons in the CAD section fail to “stay clean” on the outside and intended to make hard time even harder. Legislation spe- fi n d their way back to prison. cifi cally prohibits the use of federal funds to purchase On average, an inmate earns $25 per month work- bodybuilding and weightlifting equipment, something ing fi ve-day weeks, eight hours a day including lunch and that has been especially unpopular among prisoners. FCI breaks. (Work begins at 7 a.m. and ends at 3 p.m.) Earn- Englewood still has weights in the gym, but they are grad- ings may be spent at the commissary, which stocks basic ually disappearing through attrition—if a weight is lost, necessities, snacks and, most important, phone cards. In- it cannot be replaced. Englewood also has a track and mates are allowed unlimited phone calls during certain basketball court and is one of the few federal prisons hours, provided each call is no more than 15 minutes in boasting tennis courts, which were originally laid down length. Inmates are allowed family visits totaling 40 hours when the prison was being built. a month. There are no conjugal visits permitted at FCI Worship plays a big part in prison life at Englewood, Englewood. Smoking is strictly prohibited. Food in the and 19 different religious groups are represented at the cafeteria is plentiful, if “unexciting,” and seconds are not prison, which also has two prison chaplains. No mental allowed. Inmates go through a pat-down upon leaving health facilities are available, though there is a psychiatrist the cafeteria to ensure that knives and other utensils are on the staff and guards are trained to spot abnormal be- not taken back to the cells. havior that might warn of a potential inmate suicide. FCI Although FCI Englewood is clean and well-main- Englewood’s suicide rate is on a par with the average for tained, it is still a grim place. Most inmates live in an area the federal prison system as a whole. that resembles a high school locker room housing up- The warden, Audie Sherrod, often receives letters wards of 50 inmates. A principal reward for good be- from outsiders asking about individual prisoners. Some- havior is to earn a place in one of the areas which have times the letters come from family or friends, and some- two- or even one-man cells equipped with doors. Inmates times they come from members of Congress or prisoner group together by ethnic groups. (The prison has one advocacy groups. When a letter is received, the warden of the system’s largest populations of Native American asks the prisoner’s permission to provide the requested inmates.) Gangs are common, though reportedly less information. If the prisoner agrees, the letter is answered prominent than in other prisons. Fights frequently break in as great a detail as possible. FCI Englewood occasionally receives foreign visits, and the warden and his staff showed great interest in learning more about China’s prison system. They asked Kamm whether wardens in China answer letters received from human rights groups, how many prisoners were housed in an average cell, what the rules for sentence re- duction were, and why the recidivism rate for Chinese prisoners is so low. Based on his nine visits to Chinese prisons, Kamm did his best to reply. He left the prison convinced that both countries have a lot to learn from each other in the areas of prisoner rights and penal reform. ■ Front of the Federal Correctional Institution at Englewood

Fall 2006 5 NEW RESEARCH & PRISONER INFORMATION

Official Responses Reveal Many Sentence Adjustments

n recent months, Dui Hua has obtained offi cial no- Hu Shigen ो໠ࢎ I tifi cation of several sentence reductions and paroles for long-serving political and religious prisoners. We have A long-serving political activist convicted of coun- also received an update on a previously reported sentence terrevolution who has been the subject of numerous extension for a long-serving Tibetan prisoner. requests for information over the years, Hu Shigen was Some of these sentence reductions were not previ- sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment by the Beijing Inter- ously reported by the Chinese government, even though mediate People’s Court in December 1994. Hu was one it had the opportunity to do so in response to requests for of a group of nine activists who organized an opposition information. Others refl ect reductions given to prisoners political party and an independent labor union and who who already served signifi cant portions of exceptionally also tried to commemorate the crackdown on the 1989 long prison sentences. pro-democracy protests. Other members of the same Because word of these sentence adjustments has not group received multiple sentence reductions and have previously been reported (or, in the case of the sentence all been released. Dui Hua recently learned that Hu had extension, has been reported incorrectly) and because been granted a seven-month reduction on December 16, these are all high-profi le cases of concern to the interna- 2005, shortly after he was interviewed by the UN Special tional community, we take the opportunity to report on Rapporteur on Torture. Hu is now due for release from each case below. Beijing No. 2 Prison on October 26, 2011.

Gao Qinrong ࡴ෱๎ Jigme Gyatso ੥౟ৠ܈

At the time of his detention in December 1998, Gao In the Spring 2006 issue of Dialogue, we noted that Qinrong was a Shanxi-based investigative reporter for the the long-serving Tibetan political prisoner Jigme Gyatso, Xinhua News Agency who had exposed massive corrup- sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment for counterrevolu- tion in a local public works project. Gao’s story about tion in 1996, had told the UN Special Rapporteur on Tor- malfeasance in an irrigation project in Yuncheng County, ture that he had received a two-year sentence extension Shanxi, attracted the attention of central party inspectors, in May 2004 after shouting pro-independence slogans. but rather than leading to punishment for the local of- Dui Hua has since seen several Chinese government re- fi c ials responsible, Gao found himself under arrest and sponses that refer to a three-year sentence extension for charged with graft, fraud, and “introducing into prosti- “inciting splittism” and a new release date of March 30, tution”—charges that ultimately brought him a 12-year 2014. The reason for the discrepancy in the reporting is sentence. unclear, but there are strong indications that the reports Although several responses to requests for informa- of the three-year extension are in fact accurate. tion about Gao’s case have been provided in past years, only recently has it been reported that Gao received a 21- Liu Xianbinġ௘ე׶ month sentence reduction in 2002 and a two-year reduc- tion in 2004—both for “showing genuine repentance.” Veteran political activist Liu Xianbin was sentenced Following these sentence adjustments, Gao is now ex- to 13 years’ imprisonment in August 1999 by the Sui- pected to be released from Shanxi’s Jinzhong Prison on ning Intermediate People’s Court in Sichuan Province March 3, 2007. for subversion, stemming from his activities as a member

66 Dialogue of the banned opposition China Democracy Party. Liu Yong’e ᆱሿ߉ had previously served a 2½-year sentence for “counter- revolutionary propaganda and incitement” from 1991 to Yang Yong’e was arrested in September 2002 for lead- 1993 for founding an unauthorized political journal while ing a protest against her local government’s land-acquisi- a student at Renmin University in Beijing. tion and relocation policies in connection with a devel- According to a recent government response, Liu opment project in suburban Beijing’s Tongzhou District. Xianbin was granted a one-year sentence reduction on The local court sentenced her to fi ve years in prison for May 21, 2004. He is due to be released from Sichuan’s “gathering a crowd to disturb social order,” and her ap- Chuandong Prison on July 6, 2011. peal was rejected by the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate Peo- ple’s Court. In a recent response to a request for informa- Ngawang Phulchung Շ၅൶ฅ tion about Yang’s case, the Chinese government revealed that Yang had been released on medical parole in Janu- Charged with leading fellow monks in pro-indepen- ary 2005. There was no report of her medical condition. dence activities at Tibet’s Drepung Monastery in 1988 and 1989, Ngawang Phulchung received the heaviest sentence Yao Jie ᇇੋ of 19 years’ imprisonment following the counterrevolu- tion trial of 11 monks by the Lhasa Intermediate People’s One of the leading organizers of the Falun Dafa Court in November 1989. Although others imprisoned Research Association in Beijing, Yao Jie was accused during the same trial were released from prison early af- of being behind the rally of thousands of Falun Gong ter receiving sentence reductions, Ngawang served over practitioners outside the central government compound 16 years of his 19-year sentence before receiving a six- in Beijing in April 1999. Charged with “using a cult to month sentence reduction on September 22, 2005. He is undermine implementation of the law,” “organizing or now due to be released from Tibet’s Qushui [Chushur] using a cult resulting in death,” and “illegal acquisition Prison on October 18, 2007. of state secrets,” she was sentenced by the Beijing Inter- mediate People’s Court to seven years’ imprisonment on .December 26, 1999 and sent to Beijing Women’s Prison ٻShao Liangchen ຮட According to the Chinese press, Yao was granted med- Shao Liangchen, a leading member of a worker group ical parole on August 22, 2000 but was returned to prison in Shandong during the 1989 pro-democracy demonstra- on February 2, 2001. A recent government response to tions, has been the subject of numerous requests for in- a request for information about Yao’s case revealed that formation for more than a decade. Charged with the crime she was paroled on February 27, 2006, less than eight of “destroying transport equipment or infrastructure” for months before her sentence was due to expire. his role in the protests, Shao received a suspended death sentence in September 1989 from the Ji’nan Intermediate Yue Tianxiang ኝ࿙ჰ People’s Court. His sentence was commuted to life impris- onment in 1991, which in turn was commuted to a 17-year A member of the banned China Democracy Party from fi x ed-term sentence in 1994. Shao received three sentence Gansu, Yue Tianxiang was a laid-off bus driver who helped reductions totalling 4½ years in 1998, 2000, and 2002. set up a labor-rights monitoring journal, China Labor Watch. Dui Hua recently learned from an offi cial govern- Detained in January 1999, Yue was charged with subversion ment response that Shao Liangchen was granted medical and sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment by the Tianshui parole and released from Shandong’s Weihu Prison on Intermediate People’s Court on July 25 of the same year. September 8, 2004. There was no word about the nature Dui Hua recently obtained an offi cial response indi- of Shao’s medical condition. His sentence, which con- cating that Yue had been granted a one-year sentence re- tinues to be in force during the parole period, is due to duction on March 23, 2005. He is now due to be released expire on November 4, 2006. from Lanzhou Prison on January 8, 2008. ■

Fall 2006 7 N EWS ABOUT DUI HUA

Dui Hua Board and Staff Visit Dui Hua Welcomes Tom Gorman Shanghai, Hong Kong The Dui Hua Foundation is pleased to announce In August 2006, a delegation of board and staff that Mr. Tom Gorman has been elected to the Board members led by Executive Director John Kamm trav- of Directors effective October 13, 2006. eled to Shanghai and Hong Kong for meetings and Mr. Gorman is chairman of the Hong Kong- briefi ngs with diplomats, businesspeople, and other based media company CCI Asia-Pacifi c Ltd. and edi- individuals interested in Dui Hua’s work and the hu- tor-in-chief of CCI’s fl a gship publication, FORTUNE man rights situation in China. China, a Chinese-language magazine for senior execu- While in Shanghai, the delegation met with US tives in China with a circulation of more than 161,000 Consul General Ken Jarrett and other consular offi - copies as well as an online version. cials and with representatives of the local American A fl uent Chinese speaker who has been a resident Chamber of Commerce chapter led by Brenda Foster. of Hong Kong and a frequent visitor to China for On both occasions, Kamm and the rest of the delega- more than 30 years, Gorman has written and spoken tion briefed their counterparts on the results of Dui extensively on doing business in China and the Asia- Hua’s most recent meetings with Chinese offi cials and Pacifi c region. He has served as a consultant on busi- the various prospects for cooperation to improve hu- ness strategy in China to various Fortune 500 compa- man rights in China. nies. He has also been invited by Chinese government In Hong Kong, the delegation met with US Con- organizations on many occasions to lecture on maga- sul General James Cunningham and with prominent zine publishing and management to groups of Chi- businessman and long-time Dui Hua supporter Sir nese publishers. Gordon Wu. On September 1, directors and staff A former chairman of the American Chamber of hosted friends of the foundation to a lively reception Commerce in Hong Kong, Gorman currently serves as at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Hong Kong. chairman of the Asia-Pacifi c Advisory Board of BPA While in Hong Kong, Dui Hua also held its fi rst-ever International, the leading non-profi t media circulation annual board of directors’ meeting outside of the audit fi rm. In June 2006, he was appointed as Consult- United States. ing Expert on Key Governmental Executive Decisions by the Chengdu Municipal Government. He is also a member of the National Committee on US-China Re- Dui Hua is a member of the lations, the American Business Media Association, and the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Hong Kong. He 2006 Combined Federal Campaign! is well known for his service to Hong Kong’s interna- tional community, having served as chairman of the If you a r e a federal employee, Hong Kong International School for several years. please remember us when “Dui Hua is extraordinarily fortunate to have a choosing the organizations business leader and ‘China hand’ of Tom Gorman’s you wish to support. If you caliber join our board,” said John Kamm at Dui Hua’s have friends in the federal workplace, please tell headquarters in San Francisco. “Tom will be an invalu- them about our work and urge them to consider able asset to the organization as we seek to expand our us for a contribution this year! presence and relationships in the Special Administra- tive Region.”

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