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Why did So Many Chinese Military Intelligence Men Defect Recently?
Recently, defections made by Chinese military intelligence personnel have made a lot of news. This, has become an interesting sharp contrast with a series of news on the arrests of American Chinese scholars. Some take it as a sign of crisis in Beijing.
Like many other intelligence systems in China, the military intelligence system had never been publicized before, until news like defections caught the public eye, such as Yu Qiang Sheng case in the eighties. The recent cases of defections made by the military intelligence men should be, for one thing, the repercussions of Yuan Hua case. And not long ago, the director of intelligence department in the PLA bureau of chief of staff, Ji Sheng De, was arrested. This might be the direct cause of these defections. All these, some think, showed that Beijing failed to control the military intelligence system, setting China at a very passive status in the intelligence battle against Taiwan and U.S.A.
Chinese government arresting either Chinese or overseas Chinese, even though it does this according to Chinese laws, may still be viewed as a lack of respect to human rights. It is because the related bureau in China---we have to put it this way, because no one knows for sure which bureau---often arrested certain Chinese, in a totally murky situation, without informing the families, and often no lawyers being allowed to be involved, until, these very arrests, usually they are arrests of overseas Chinese, caused the attention of the international world. At this time, the Foreign Ministry would usually announce that “the arrested has confessed to be guilty”, yet, once released, the person who was arrested would completely retract his testimony.
As for Gao Zhan case, U.S.A. Congress and the White House will not give up until Gao is released. And Gao will definitely be set free eventually. As for the effect of such incidents on the overseas Chinese scholars, sorry, that’s not what Chinese government is concerned about.
Released in “Da Ji Yuan”, April 6, 2001