Carol,
I am aware of those issues. I first travelled to Lhas in 1984 in a Chines Army plane and experienced the tensions there.
I believe in positive dialogue and my presentation will be about the changing relationship between manufacturing and designers in China and the US as the US moves into a post industrial society. WMF pedictions indicate that China will overtake the US and Europe in it's share of the world economy within the next couple of years. This may have serious social consequences in places like Detroit where I am located.
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>>> Carole Caulier <[log in to unmask]> 04/02/04 05:42 AM >>>
At the same time there are terrible pictures of woman, children, elderly people being tortured everyday in prisons and labour camps. There is a special persecution throughout the whole society of around 70 million people today, who practice an ancient chinese practice, which I have myself practiced for 5 years, it is a beauty of peacefulness called Falun Dafa. And all these people are facing physical and before all moral torture through means we cannot imagine today still exist.
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