Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A48-W13
魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A48-W13
Release Date: January 15, 2004
发布日：2004年1月15日
Topic: We Shall Overcome (Wei Jingsheng's review of 2003 on Radio Free Asia)
标题：魏京生先生在自由亚洲电台就2003年中国人权情况的总结
Original Language Version: English (Chinese version at the end)
此号以中文为准（英文在前，中文在后）
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On this Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. birthday, a national holiday in the United States, we celebrate the freedom movement not just in the USA, but all over the world. Here, I want to share this hundred-year-old African American song with everyone. With the progress of the American civil rights movement, this song became familiar to everyone. I like it because it is a song that every freedom loving people would love to sing.
"We Shall Overcome"
We shall overcome, we shall overcome, we shall overcome someday!
Oh, deep in my heart I do believe we shall overcome someday!
We'll walk hand in hand, we'll walk hand in hand, we'll walk hand in hand someday!
Oh deep in my heart I do believe we'll walk hand in hand someday!
We shall all be free, we shall all be free, we shall all be free someday!
Oh, deep in my heart I do believe we shall all be free some day!
We shall live in peace, we shall live in peace, we shall live in peace someday!
Oh, deep in my heart I do believe we shall live in peace someday!
-- Ciping Huang
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Wei Jingsheng: review of 2003 (Radio Free Asia)
The new year of 2004 has come and we are used to making a little summary of the past year at this time. However, inside China, our countrymen do not get to know a lot of things due to the government's blockage of news media, or the misguided focus by the State controlled media. So I am going to make a summary of some face-losing and face-saving events of the past year.
The first event was face losing. When Hu JinTao was visiting the USA, he refused to accept a letter from US Congressional members, although he was already told it was a letter with the signatures of many Congressional members who asked that he read it. Under a typical protocol, or with an open-minded politician, he should have taken it and read it. Even though he might be afraid that he could not deal with it, he should at least have taken it then and dealt with it later. At least he should not have behaved as if given a hot potato, and retracted his hand immediately - this action left a really, really embarrassing view.
The second event was similarly facing losing. Wen Jiabao is the other half referred to in the many claimed "new politics of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao". When Wen was visiting the USA last December, the news media within China had all the fabulous propaganda. However, while Wen was visiting Boston, the Chinese embassy behaved very rudely, by preventing the reporters that the Chinese government dislikes from attending Wen's lectures and press conference there. These reporters all had legal media licenses and worked for media agencies that were invited. The Americans arranged these public forums. However, the Chinese embassy personnel were so determined that they even formed a human chain to prevent access by these reporters. To the least it violated diplomatic protocol. It ended up that the Americans had to use their police to force them to accept the US laws. In the US, there are laws for a free press, regardless of your political stand. Obviously, China is totally different than many other countries in the world.
The third event may be counted as face saving, at least from the point of view of the Chinese Communist government. The Chinese government has continued Jiang Zemin's "bribery plus threat" type of policy in the past year. In particular, it timely took advantage of the international circumstances (e.g. global terrorism), which made the Bush administration retreat from an originally hard-line policy toward China. By now, there is not as much pressure on the Chinese government to improve its human rights record, so it can be very relaxed. This change could be counted as a "diplomatic success".
I am telling you these events as a few minor things that reflect the year of 2003.
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中文版
Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A48-W13
魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A48-W13
Release Date: January 15, 2004
发布日：2004年1月15日
Topic: We Shall Overcome (Wei Jingsheng's review of 2003 on Radio Free Asia)
标题：魏京生先生在自由亚洲电台就2003年中国人权情况的总结
此号以英文为准（英文在前，中文在后）
若有阅读中文的困难，请直接访问我们的网站：www.weijingsheng.org
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今天是美国民权运动领袖马丁·路德·金的生日，也是一个美国全国性的节日。在此，我向大家介绍一首上百年的美国黑人歌曲。随着美国民权运动的进步，这首歌曲被迅速的传播，已不分种族地在美国家喻户晓了。毫无疑义，它也鼓励着全世界争取自由的人们。
我们终将胜利
我们终将胜利，我们终将胜利，总有一天，我们将胜利。
是的，在我心灵的深处，我坚信，总有一天，我们终将胜利。
我们手牵手地前进，我们手牵手地前进，总有一天，我们手牵手前进。
是的，在我心灵的深处，我坚信，总有一天，我们手牵手地前进。
我们终将自由，我们终将自由，总有一天，我们将自由。
是的，在我心灵的深处，我坚信，总有一天，我们终将自由。
我们将和平地生活，我们将和平地生活，总有一天，我们和平地生活。
是的，在我心灵的深处，我坚信，总有一天，我们将和平地生活。
-- 黄慈萍
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魏京生先生在自由亚洲电台就2003年中国人权情况的总结
新的一年来到了，我们习惯对过去的一年作一个小小的总结。因为国内对新闻媒体的封锁，有很多事老百姓不知道，或者关注的焦点被人引导，我想跟大家讲讲我总结出来的去年一年中几件丢脸和长脸的事。
第一件丢脸的事：胡锦涛访美的时候，在美国国会拒绝接收国会议员递给他的信件，虽然被告知这是很多国会议员签名的一封信，希望他能看一看。在正常的情况下，或者是大度一点的政治家，就会接过来看一看再说；即使害怕、处理不了，先接受回去再说，至少不要当场就象碰了一个烫手的山芋似的，把手一缩 ---非常非常丢脸的一个镜头。
第二件丢脸的事跟第一件相似。现在人们都说胡温新政，温家宝算是新政的另一半。温家宝在访美的时候，国内报纸宣传非常成功，在温家宝访问波士顿港口时，有讲演、记者会等等，可是中国大使馆安排活动的人却非常蛮横地阻止中国政府不喜欢的媒体记者参加讲演和记者会。这些记者都持有合法的记者证，属于被邀请的媒体，而且是美国人安排的，但是中国使馆人员非常坚决，多有违犯外交礼仪之处，甚至组成人墙，挡著不让进。美国不得不动用警察，强迫他们接受美国的法律。美国有言论自由的法律，所有的记者都可以采访，不管你持什么政治立场。很明显，中国与世界上很多国家的做法是完全不一样的。
但是第三件事可以说是长脸的事，或者说至少给共产党政权长脸。去年一年之内，延续江泽民时代的那种收买加威胁的政策，而且很好地利用了国际形势，迫使布什政府对中国政府的强硬政策逐步后退，现在基本上对中国政府没有什么压力了，所以中国政府很放松。这可以算是外交上的一个成功吧。
我总结的一年，大事不说，就说这几件小事，也可以看出一年中有什么变化。
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