WASHINGTON — A top Chinese official emailed a late-night diatribe to an aide to Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) last week, slamming Smith’s “absurd” House-passed bill against state-sponso…
The email arrived at 9:49 p.m. March 28 from a Gmail account registered to Zhou Zheng, the Chinese embassy in Washington’s chief of section for congressional affairs, and was written in a post-happy hour tone.
In his initial message, Zhou also called on Congress to halt its “anti-China” legislation to condemn, investigate and punish organ harvesting — without mentioning that many independent experts accuse Beijing of effectively murdering unwilling patients by depriving them of their hearts, livers, kidneys and other organs.“China firmly rejects this absurd bill,” the undiplomatic note informed Smith’s chief of staff, Mary McDermott Noonan — though the message addressed her as “Ms.
“Falun Gong is a completely anti-human, anti-science, and antisocial cult organization. I wonder why Congressman Smith believes in any words from such an insane cult. The so-called ‘forced organ harvesting’ in China is a farce orchestrated and a scam hyped up by ‘Falun Gong’.The message added, “China fully protects the rights and interests of all ethnic minorities, including the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, and the living standards and human rights protection of all ethnic groups continue to improve.
“If [Chinese President] Xi Jinping tomorrow needs a new liver, where’s he getting it? Some 28-year-old Uyghur or Falun Gong practitioner or some other victim,” Smith said. “In these cases, the removal of the heart during organ procurement must have been the proximate cause of the donor’s death,”
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