Attorney Gao Zhisheng issues letter requesting his wife not meet Deputy Secretary of State, criticizes Western politicians

Boxun’s reporter has learned that renowned rights defense attorney Gao Zhisheng, released from prison more than a year ago but still under illegal house arrest in the far western region of Xinjiang, after learning that his wife Geng He was invited to travel to Washington D.C. on Tuesday September 22, 2015 to meet with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, urgently contacted her and told her not to meet with him. He also strongly criticized American and Western politicians for their selfish greed in colluding with the malicious Chinese Communist regime.

Gao Zhisheng’s wife Geng He said on Twitter: “After learning that I would travel to Washington D.C. to meet with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Gao Zhisheng urgently sent me a letter requesting I not go. The content of the letter was so inspiring I’ve decided to make it public.” Geng He added: “After receiving this letter, I canceled my trip.”

Attorney Gao Zhisheng’s letter:

Dear Wife: When I first heard that you were going to meet the Deputy Secretary of State in private on the 23rd, I thought it was very inappropriate. Forgive my direct speech: I strongly oppose this.

Firstly, even if it was an open meeting with the president, it’s not what we need right now—how much less a private meeting with his subordinate. Why go about it so secretly? What is there to be afraid of? Who’s the one afraid? Who doesn’t want to be seen in the light of day holding the meeting?

Secondly, while I don’t harbor any blame for any similar past meetings, at this point, it won’t help. In the future there shouldn’t be similar situations, especially at a time like now, when the Party head is rubbing shoulders and celebrating with American politicians.

Thirdly, Western politicians as a whole have a long history of getting along with evil regimes for their own selfish and greedy ends. During the final 60 years of the Qing Dynasty, Western powers knew how bad and dark the dynastic rule was, but they cooperated with that regime in order to gain special privileges; in 1941 America provided steel, fuel, and other materiel for the Japanese imperialist invaders conducting massacres in China. Since the Clinton era, the American political class has disregarded the basic calls of humanity and muddied itself by getting so close to the sinister Communist Party. When these politicians raise their glasses together, justice, human dignity, and conscience, are all given a price tag. The Party officials who commit crimes against humanity still go about with their heads high, having long forgotten their indelible bloody crimes. The Western politicians who have become their accomplices have forsaken the conscience and sense of honor that humans should have.

The wicked regime that has persecuted the Chinese people for 66 years shall collapse in 2017, a great people will eventually stand up. The era of Western politicians making deals with the despicable dregs of China, for their own profit, will be a thing of the past… Before that happens, you shouldn’t have more contact with those people. China’s change will be realized without them. When that happens, these shortsighted, greedy people will find that more than their reputation is damaged. Your effort to help me, especially your tireless effort in trying to get help from them, is too much for me to bear. But be sure to stay close to ordinary Americans. I love the American people, just as I have always loved American values. It was American people and values that gave you, my wife, and our two children, a new life and new hope.

During this temporary hardship, loving our children and relying on one another, and you taking care of yourself is more important than anything else to me. Please believe that I am acting in the face of this inhuman circumstance on the basis of love and responsibility. In about two years, when the Communist Party is no more, we’ll all as a family reunite in Beijing. I’ve never let you down before.

I love you, and thank you for your unfailing strength to shoulder all the responsibilities!

Gao Zhisheng, September 22, 2015

Gao Zhisheng (高智晟) is a prominent Chinese human rights lawyer. Once praised by the Ministry of Justice in 2001, Gao began taking on sensitive political cases, including those involving corrupt officials, rights activists, and in particular persecuted practitioners of Falun Gong. In 2005 he himself became a target of persecution by Communist Party security forces for his legal work, and over the following decade was detained without due process numerous times and subject to extensive torture. He was released from a three-year prison sentence last August, and is currently under a form of illegal house arrest in Shaanxi Province.

(Copy editor’s note: Mr. Gao’s contention that “America provided steel, fuel, and other materiel for the Japanese imperialist invaders conducting massacres in China” is not entirely accurate. As Japanese aggression against China continued, the United States in 1940 began restricting supplies to Japan while bolstering them to China. In 1941 (before Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor), the U.S. embargoed exports to Japan and froze Japanese assets in U.S. banks, while continuing to supply China.
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/pearl-harbor)