 to this event. This event is part of the 150 years of John Lee's Leap's celebration, which is not only highlighting Purdue's remarkable history, but also focusing on what John Leap's Purdue can take to address the world's problems. One of the big problems is the complicated impact of technology on human rights. This is the focus of this evening's talk. My name is Feng Gangyang. I'm a professor of sociology at Purdue University. This event is sponsored by the College of Engineering and the College of Liberal Arts. Thanks to the engineer Dean, Moon Jiang, and also Liberal Arts Dean, David Ringgold, for giving me this honor to introduce our speaker. Please allow me to offer some context for today's talk. In the last four decades, China's economy has grown in leaps and bounds. China has become the world's second largest economy since 2010. Hundreds of millions of people have been lifted out of extreme poverty. It has made it possible for millions of young people to go to college, including studying abroad. In 2017, more than 350,000 Chinese students enrolled in American universities, including 3,300 enrolled at Purdue last year. However, the families of these Chinese students are very lucky ones. Only 1% of people in China have a household income more than $80,000. And this number enabled the family to send the son or the daughter to an American university, 1%. It is the best times for this 1% of people who have made it. But it is one of the worst times for hundreds of millions of people who are struggling in the ocean of the so-called socialist market economy. The socialist is so-called because the economy is very much capitalist. In fact, it is chronic capitalism. Anyone who holds power can get rich easily. Corruption of Communist Party state officials has become rampant. Air pollution, water pollution, and the soil pollution have become severe. The health care system is broken. The education system is broken. The welfare system is broken. The poor and marginalized people abound. Their basic human rights and civil rights have been neglected and have been violated by the rich and the powerful. Mr. Cheng Guangcheng was born and raised in a poor and remote village in Shandong province. I'm from Hebei province, also from a village, the neighboring province. He became blind since infancy and was not able to go to school until his late teens, when his family learned about the opening of a school for the blind. But he went all the way to college. Once entered school, he learned fast, even taught himself the law and became a lawyer, advocating for the poor and the disabled. His effective advocacy won him numerous awards, including Time Magazine 100 Most Influential List in 2006. However, his activism upset the party state officials, eventually led to prison for more than four years. After he was released from prison in 2010, his house in his village became a prison. Every day, there were several dozens of thugs hired by the party state, preventing him from going out and preventing visitors from going in. Even the powerful Batman, Christine Bale, and the adventurers to see a news crew, could not even get close to his house. The guards even set up a device near his house to jam his cell phone signals, so that he would not be able to tell the outside world about his inhumane conditions. On April 20, 2012, Chen Guangcheng made a dramatic escape from 20 months of brutal house arrest, catching the attention of international media. The American embassy in Beijing secured his temporary safety before high-level diplomatic negotiations enabled his exodus to the US. You may read the details of these absolutely amazing stories in Mr. Chen's memoir, The Barefoot Lawyer, A Blind Man's Fight for Justice and Freedom in China. And after his talk, you will get a chance to find a copy of his memoirs, but only a limited number of copies here, so first come, first served. Chen Guangcheng has established a not-for-profit foundation for human rights in China and serves as a visiting fellow at the Catholic University of America. The title of his talk today is Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights. Could the Barefoot Lawyer have escaped in 2019? And Danika Mills is his assistant and translator. And let's welcome Mr. Chen Guangcheng. Thank you, everyone. Hello, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much for the warm introduction of Professor Yang. It's a great honor to have a chance to be here at the University of Portugal to share with you the most important moment of the 150th anniversary of the Catholic Church. Do you understand how the CCP uses the kidnapping of the country to support the government to destroy the international civil rights and destroy the world? Even if I use high technology to do evil, I still hope for the future. Greetings, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you to Professor Yang for the generous introduction. It's an honor to be here as part of Purdue University's 150-year celebration. I'm excited for the opportunity to share my experiences and insights as an activist and to discuss the opaque structures in China that enable authoritarian control. Through my talk, I think you will understand how the Chinese Communist Party has kidnapped the nation and strong armed the government, enslaving the Chinese people and upsetting international procedures. In an age of high-tech surveillance and tyranny, however, I'm still full of hope for the future. I was born in a poor and poor countryside in Shandong. I was only half a year old and lost my ability to go to school. Until I was 18, I had the opportunity to go to school. Because I had experienced a lot of discrimination and prejudice. I was very sensitive to the unfairness that was happening around me. So I used the law and forced the authorities to abide by their own laws. I was born in a poor remote village in Shandong province. Before I was six months old, I had a fever and lost my sight. Because I could not see, I was not allowed to attend school as a child. Finally, at age 18, I had the opportunity to attend a school for the blind and eventually graduated from college. Because I myself had been the victim of discrimination, I was particularly sensitive to injustice around me. I began to fight back using the law to force the authorities to respect the laws that they themselves had established. I was the one who sent the officials to court to help the disabled, the farmers, to pay back the taxes that were confiscated by the illegal authorities. In 2003, I started a local company in Beijing asking them to follow the law and allow the people to be free to do domestic public transportation. Until now, the people and the compensation are still enjoying this benefit. I brought officials to court, helping disabled people reclaim taxes and fees that had been illegally levied against them. In 2003, I brought a successful lawsuit against the Beijing Metro Corporation for illegally charging blind riders. And to this day, blind people and an accompanying traveler can ride public transportation for free in Beijing. I was able to get a good result. Of course, I also offended the government and many interest-related officials. In 2005, because of the violence in the remote areas in Shandong, I was very miserable. I found out that in half a year, nearly 30,000 people were killed by force. When the children were born, they were still alive and killed. More than 60,000 relatives and neighbors were arrested, imprisoned, and imprisoned by illegal authorities. Because the CCP banned the media from reporting the criminal rights of the planned life, we sent the investigation report online to the Chinese media. There were many successes in these cases, but as a result, the government and interested parties became disgruntled. In 2005, the authorities began a violent reproductive planning campaign to enforce the one-child policy in Shandong province where I lived. Upon hearing about the horrors of what was going on, some friends and I began an investigation. We discovered that in six months, over 130,000 people had had forced abortions or were forcibly sterilized. Another 600,000 people were caught up in this dragnet and implicated because of family relations and were detained, held in custody for weeks or months, and often tortured. We often heard as well that babies were born at eight or nine months of pregnancy and were killed by nurses and doctors. Because the CCP forbade media coverage of the abuses in the one-child policy, we released the findings from our investigation online and also, I did an interview with the Washington Post that made a report about our investigations. The party was incensed. I was kidnapped in Beijing and forced back to Shandong, where I was held under unlawful house arrest for seven months. The party was incensed. I was kidnapped in Beijing and forced back to Shandong, where I was held under unlawful house arrest for seven months. The CCP cut off the phone line, installed cellphone jammers, ransacked our house and beat us. I was disappeared in a secret detention facility for three months. When questioned by my family and lawyers, the CCP replied that they had no idea where I was. I was disappeared in a secret detention facility for three months. When questioned by my family and lawyers, the CCP replied that they had no idea where I was. Later, I was falsely accused of destroying public property and disturbing traffic, and was sentenced to four years in prison. I was beaten by inmates on the order of prison wardens, and my lawyers were beaten multiple times when they tried to see me. During my imprisonment, my wife and children were also under house arrest at home, and were only allowed to see me a handful of times each time under escorted guard. When my four-year sentence was up, I was escorted home where I found that I was far from free. My home and village had been surrounded by dozens of thugs and hooligans with sometimes hundreds throughout our village. We were not allowed out and nobody was allowed in to see us. The CCP cut off our phone lines again and we had to go to the security office to search for our relatives. We were not allowed out and nobody was allowed in. We were not allowed out and nobody was allowed in. We were not allowed to go out and nobody was allowed in. The CCP again cut off our phone lines and installed cellphone jammers along with seven high-definition video cameras and spotlights around our home. The guards ringed our village on duty 24 hours a day. They cut off our contact with the outside and beat up anyone who tried to come see us. After that, I took legal action to tell the outside world on the way. The CCP was furious. On February 18, 2011, the CCP ordered the Justice Committee to take 70 or 80 bandits and open the gate and break into our home and beat me to death in the yard. After months of this, my wife Weijing and I managed to surreptitiously record a video documenting our treatment, which we found a way to get out online. The Communist Party was enraged. On February 18, 2011, 70 or 80 CCP thugs stormed into our home. A dozen of them threw my wife Weijing to the ground in the yard. They covered her with a quilt and standing on the edges to muffle her cries. They beat her viciously and kicked her, breaking ribs and fracturing the bone of her eye socket. The rest of the dozens of CCP thugs took the detector device and searched everywhere for the things they wanted. They took away the receiver, the phone, the camera and so on. They thought they needed to take away the things. A few hours later, we left. We were locked up in the house. We were not allowed to take our clothes off. My wife's left side, number nine, and 11x, were rolling her ribs and residue bones. Her left side of her eye socket was bent. She looked the same, and had not seen anything for long. So, like this, she hit and grabbed. She had thrice in a month. Another bunch of thugs grabbed me, stuffing a dirty rag in my mouth and beat me and tortured me. The other thugs scoured our home with metal detectors, searching for any equipment we had like cell phones, radios, and video cameras. After many hours, they left us locked in our home, refusing us badly needed medical attention. My wife had two of her ribs broken, and her eye socket was badly damaged and she could not see for many days. This outrage was repeated multiple times that month. After the video was released, the netizens in Beijing formed Chen Guangcheng's attention group. With the increase in attention and money to visit netizens, the CCP used hundreds of people to rob their property, beat them up. The Central Committee of the People's Republic of China has been chasing after netizens who used to visit the East China Sea. Despite these vicious attacks, the video had already caught the attention of netizens in China. Many people set up groups, free Chen Guangcheng groups, with which they travel to our village. Other organizations abroad also saw the video and many people tried to make the journey to my village as a kind of protest. These people were routinely beaten up and their families were threatened. Even the actor, Christian Bale, known for playing Batman, tried to come and see me. We'll have a video. Once again, we've been stopped. We've been stopped right here. And as you can see, they're pushing Christian here. We're trying to leave peacefully. We're trying to leave peacefully. The guards can chase in their car. They're still coming at a time. Christian Bale says this is not what he hoped for. He made an eight-hour car journey from Beijing to try to leave a person, a hero, blind, self-taught lawyer, Chen Guangcheng. You know, I'm not being brave to do this. The local people who are standing up to the authorities and insist on going to visit Chen and his family and getting beaten up for it and my understanding of being on the support of what they're doing. Bale has been in China for the first year of a film he's made here about the Japanese invasion of Beijing in the 1930s. Bale could have rolled up a red carpet left but the actor whose movie is about suffering and injustice could not leave China without highlighting this real-life struggle. Chen Guangcheng has campaigned against alleged forced abortions and the treatment of villages in China. In 2006, he was sentenced to more than four years in prison for disrupting traffic and damaging property. He denies those allegations. Chen has not been allowed to leave his home since his release last year. Local Chinese authorities in Shandong Province have his house and local village been locked down. No one allowed him to see Chen. Authorities here declined to comment on the case. The United States' champion Chen's cause, Secretary of State Henry Clinton, has raised his case during past visits to the region. Christian Bale now wants to add whatever weight he can. It doesn't come naturally to him but this was such a situation, I said. Can't look the other way. Bale's followed CNN's coverage of Chen's case that approached us to try to meet the blind activist. His hopes were high until this. Well, I really wanted to leave with Shandong and Chen so thank you for telling what inspiration he is. The Chinese security continued to chase us for more than half an hour. We got away. Chen remains locked in his house. Stand right there and see your name. Shandong Chen. The Chinese security continued to chase us. Despite this situation, we continued to find ways to get information out. As a result, on July 28, 2011, the CCP moved into our house where they abused us 24 hours a day, face to face, mocking us as we ate and sitting on benches by our bedside as we tried to sleep. This is the Chinese Communist Party. During the fall of the three-legged skeleton, we escaped from the CCP's hideout. We went to Beijing with our family and friends to help them out. Under the American embassy's assistance, the CCP was forced to chase us and enter the embassy. Under the American government's help, we came to the United States. We tried many times to escape, all unsuccessfully. Then, finally, after about 20 months, I found an opening, a few seconds of opportunity, when a guard was blocking another's view, and I began my escape. Over the next 20 hours, I scaled eight walls and crossed nine rings of guards. I broke three bones in my foot, crawling on my hands and knees out of my village. I finally made it to the American Embassy in Beijing and later to the United States, beyond the reach of the Communist Party. I've written about my escape and my life in China and my memoir, The Barefoot Lawyer. My experience is a shadow of the Chinese human rights defenders. Currently, over a million U.S. people in Xinjiang are believed to have been imprisoned. There are many human rights defenders and human rights lawyers because of their violation of social justice, helping victims to be rights-abiding, and helping those who are believed to have been tortured and tortured to death. My experience is a miniature version of the bigger picture of human rights defenders today in China. Now, over a million people in Xinjiang are detained in concentration camps because of their religion. Numerous activists and lawyers have been detained en masse for their social justice work, including their work defending the rights of religious believers. They were punished severely by the prisoners. They were forced to commit suicide on the roads of the Yangtze River and Xinhua internet or even the ruins of prostitution. In addition to being put in secret jails, tormented and tortured, the CCP uses threats of harm to their families to force activists and lawyers to make self-confessions on the state-controlled media. These people are also forced to take unknown drugs. China's political system is the party system. The party system is basically the same as the government of a normal country. There is no rule of law under authoritarianism. The root of these social inequities is China's political system, which is a party state system, differing vastly from what I would call normal countries. In China, the government as such is subordinate to the Chinese Communist Party, which controls all levels of society, from the villages to the center. The Chinese Communist Party and its committee affiliates operate above the people, the nation, national security, above government and the law. The Communist Party and its various party organizations in China are not allowed to report and sue. In other words, the Communist Party has committed too much crime and is unable to control it. No CCP affiliate can be sued. If the Communist Party commits a crime, no matter the severity, the law of the nation cannot hold it responsible. The Chinese government is only a tool for the Communist Party to control the people, to maintain the power of the party. From the center to the center, the government of any level is only a subordinate to the party committee. The real power is in the party committee. The party committee is the first hand in the real power. The representative of the government from the national president to the village head is the second hand. Everything must be heard. The government is simply a front for the party, essentially a puppet, a tool through which the party protects its hold on power. Party committees and party secretaries are the real bosses at each level of their authority. So-called legislature representatives from the nation's premier to village mayors, all are second in command to party secretaries. The CCP has set up a set of party organization systems for the government. As the CCP has controlled the state office through the Central Office of the CCP, through the Central Office of the Central Propaganda and the Ministry of Public Policy, the Ministry of Public Policy, the Ministry of Public Policy, all of the new media, including the Internet, the party's secretaries, have been banned from criticizing the public opinion, they can only be sent to the public. The CCP has created a system of party organizations that direct the actions of the government. The General Office of the Central Committee controls the General Office of the Government State Council. The Central Propaganda Bureau and its lower level affiliates control all domestic media, including the Internet, allowing only praise of the party and its policies. The Central Organization Bureau and its affiliates decide all of the appointments and dismissals of government officials at every level. The United Front Ministry, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Central Military Committee control the population's thinking, foreign affairs, and the country's military respectively. The Political and Judiciary Committee controls the public security branches, the prosecutorate, and the judiciary bureaus. When it comes to important cases, the related investigations, defense, and sentencing of these cases all must follow the dictates of the Political and Judicial Committee. In order to facilitate the destruction of the people's thinking, the CCP has used and protected the black-and-white kidnapping of the people and determined to monitor the names of the residents, and wrote in the law. This includes the illegal funding of the law that the lawyer and his family do not notify for half a year. The party can arbitrarily create laws, change laws, carry out laws, and interpret laws. For instance, the CCP has written its common technique of kidnapping political opponents into the legal code, calling it, quote, official residential surveillance. The practice also includes language, which authorizes the use of the language as an example of the use of the language. Which authorizes the party to detain individuals for up to six months without having to notify family with unlimited possibility for extension. Under the protection of these evil laws, opponents are regularly sent away on, quote, travel at sensitive times, like the anniversary of Tiananmen, or detained or disappeared and tortured, or forced home from petitioning the government for unresolved official abuse and beaten or held in secret jails. And at any time, any given location can be transformed into a secret detention facility to torture and oppress the people. The law of the People's Republic of China states that any government organ or department can be turned into a spy organization in service of the party, while the Law on National Intelligence article says that the government organ or department can be turned into a spy organization in service of the party, while the Law on National Intelligence article 7 states that any organization or citizen must legally support, assist, and coordinate with national intelligence efforts. Any person can hence be forced into spying for the party to protect the control of the regime. You can see the extent to which the Communist Party has kidnapped the nation and coerced the government. The degree to which people have been thus enslaved is unprecedented. The cruelty of the methods employed make people tear their hair out with anger. There is simply nowhere to turn to address these grievances. Not only this, the CCP, through the great propaganda of the democratic countries, has broken up our free life. The CCP has also bought up a small dictatorship in the United Nations and has also bought up a small dictatorship in the United Nations. The CCP has also bought up a small dictatorship in the United Nations. What's more, the CCP has initiated a program of outward-facing influence, through which it has infiltrated things like academia, media, businesses, and politics of democratic nations to degrade our free way of life. The CCP has also bought off smaller dictatorships, creating alliances in the UN to challenge universal values and destroy the civilized international order. Hearing my story and seeing how the CCP has armed itself to the teeth, people might feel despair and wonder whether I would still be able to escape today. Is there hope for democracy in China? I give a positive yes. The CCP has built up the Tiananmen City. It is said that it has reached 200 million people and is still increasing. Over the years, the CCP has constantly developed the modern artificial intelligence technology developed by democratic countries to monitor the people, attack human rights defenders, and kill democratic movements to prevent China from achieving democracy. Since I left China, the CCP has built what is called the Sky Eye System. This melds over 200 million surveillance cameras throughout the country, together with artificial intelligence systems from western countries, such as facial recognition and movement recognition, for the purpose of tracking and controlling the Chinese people and controlling democratic movements in China. It is said that a long time ago, the Institute for Autonomous Research in China developed a multi-special system that can make up for the lack of human face recognition system. It can make up for the lack of human face recognition system. It can make up for the lack of human face recognition system. According to reports, the Chinese Scientific Institute's Center on Automation rolled out a movement recognition system that it's calling Water Drop Intelligent Eye. Apparently, it has an archive of movements as well as movement recognition data and search capabilities. It can share massive amounts of this data to supplement the potential of the Chinese scientific institute It can share massive amounts of this data to supplement the problems of clarity in the facial recognition system. Without the participation of western high-tech companies, the CCP would not be able to do this. How did the U.S. high-tech company help the CCP to build the international surveillance system? According to the Internet, Google, IBM, and this is called... Linux. Yeah, Linux. Cooperation. It established a public power fund that helps China's Hengyang company develop surveillance systems. Hengyang is selling to the CCP's national security system to the public to conduct large-scale surveillance. According to Hengyang company, their system can simultaneously monitor the Internet users on the top. The report also said that IBM is very secretive through cloud platforms and super buildings cooperating with Hengyang. American companies are helping the CCP build a nationwide surveillance system. According to the Lanjiannet report, Google, IBM, and Linux have collaborated to establish an open-strength foundation to assist the Shenzhen-based Hengyang company in creating surveillance processing machines which can simultaneously monitor hundreds of millions of accounts. Hengyang has then sold this to the CCP's national security system to track the Chinese people. The Lanjiannet also reports that IBM has collaborated with CCP-affiliated Hengyang and Chaoji Jujian companies via the cloud. In the end, the CCP has become a leader of the dictatorship. This is a huge challenge for the people to fight against the regime and to fight for freedom and human rights. This is the cost of controlling the people. In this way, the technology has led the development of human rights into a criminal organization. Such a short-term, and illegal trade-off method may be beneficial in the short term but will eventually cause a fire to burn itself. Technology should be for the benefit of humanity, but some multinational tech companies are partnering with this violent regime, motivated by short-term or other interests or some possibly not aware of what they were doing and they are becoming the accomplices of the dictatorship. These methods, although sometimes resulting in short-term gains, result in the long-term in self-inflicted harm. Any resource, if it is in the hands of a bad person, will result in bad things. Artificial intelligence, if it falls in the hands of dictatorships, will become that much more dangerous. Like the University of Pudu, Google, Apple, and other high-tech areas in the world, it is an extremely important institution. It cannot be done without the help of the CCP's dictatorship. It must be done with the help of the government, the government, the government, the government, the government, the government, and the government. If it is to prevent the fear of being obtained by the nuclear weapons, it is to prevent dictatorship from being used in modern technology. It is to monitor the people of this country or to sell it to other dictatorship and to maintain the special system of eating people. It is to prevent the use of artificial intelligence to criminalize human rights, to prevent high technology from falling into the hands of anti-terrorism, and to stop human development. Institutions like Purdue University and companies like Google and Apple are extremely important in the world of high technology. But they should not allow themselves to unwittingly become the accomplices of the CCP dictatorship and need to guard against the dictatorship acquiring high tech as fiercely as nuclear weapons technology is guarded from the hands of terrorists. Otherwise, the CCP will use this to monitor and control the people or will transfer this technology to other dictatorial regimes to protect other cannibalistic regimes. I strongly call on leaders of democratic nations to establish laws to prevent technology from falling into the hands of these regimes where it will be used to revert the progress of humanity. When I was under house arrest, the CCP had begun transforming the home I had used as a newlywed into a private jail for me and my family with bars extending from the roof into the concrete floor. Later, once I had escaped, they began planning an electrified netting that would have covered our entire yard expecting that I would have been recaptured after I fled to Beijing. Today, the party is creating a virtual electrified network to cover the entire nation. Can anyone escape the claws of this regime? The most important factor is the people. As long as you are confident, determined, and have the right to rule, you can hope for freedom. If you surpass the CCP in wisdom, you will be able to find the path to victory. To pursue freedom is the nature of people. I think the more pressure, the stronger the resistance. I believe it is possible to succeed in this. Of course, it is extremely difficult. The vast surveillance network is indeed a blow to the democracy movement and is a huge weight on the people's psychological well-being. However, I believe that what determines outcomes is people. As long as you have confidence and determination and know that justice is on your side and you thirst for freedom, you will find the path to overcome your enemies. The quest for freedom is innate within all of us. The constitution of the democratic constitution is a democratic society. The constitution of the democratic constitution is a democratic society. It is the most effective way to limit the power of the government and protect the social justice. It is the most effective way to protect the freedom of the government. China's transformation is now taking place by the thousands of regular people taking unusual action. People realize that ending authoritarian systems will cut off the root of the never-ending cycles of hardship that have befallen the Chinese people. Building a constitutional democratic system with balances of power moving towards rule of law and a justice society using structures to ensure freedoms and human rights will protect social justice, individual freedoms and respect in the best way possible. Sons and daughters of China are fighting every minute for freedom and ask that the American people stand with us. To give our grandchildren and future generations a chance to live free of harms from communist dictatorship please take hands together and bravely strive forth to throw the communist authoritarians in the waist-deep of history. Nothing is impossible. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Can I go now? Just talk about it. I'm happy that you're here. The question is let me raise my some of the facts here. Since that your main thing is that the China state is fundamentally a tyranny that is evil that oppresses humanity and the Chinese people as a whole but if the party and the government oppresses its people how does it make sense that as so this is the data from 2016 from work banks and also from CNA website that in China currently there are there are only there are only 3.1% of people who are living under the national poverty line while compared to some other countries like Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Mexico, Switzerland United Kingdoms and the United States are all above 10% while India has 20% of population who are currently living under the national poverty line which is interesting because India and China both started as an independent country near the late 1940s and India is a pretty much a typical UK style parliamentary political system and now if China as an authoritarian regime who oppresses everything how does it make sense that India currently today is sort of lagging behind and your question how do you justify these facts I I I I don't I don't agree with your data I think that it's likely false no matter where you're saying that it's coming from every day I'm talking to people in China I know that there's no way that those numbers reflect the reality in China I think it's even in looking at the numbers that China puts out I think the reality is more like 8 to 10 times 8 to 10 times the reality is more like 8 to 10 times greater than what the CCP is saying in another instance of that kind of fabrication of numbers the Communist Party is typically saying that 90% of disabled people in China are employed and I know for a fact that's absolutely bogus and one thing I can say that that is true about data like this is that over 50% of the Chinese population is now not in China but in China it's not in China it's not in China it's not in China it's not in China it's not in China it's not in China it is now not rural it's not in China it's not in China more than 50% of the population is a rural population and this is because of the amount of land the amount of land it's not in China it's not in China it's not in China rural people have are allotted 600 square meters of land and if each person were allotted that amount of land what would they be planting our next question oh hand over hi thank you just as we all know that Chinese government and the CCP are both fighting on education on the youngsters even from the kindergarten at the youngsters educated to not conflict with the CCP and so you know we are lucky Chinese still have the opportunity to study abroad in Purdue but most of the Chinese have no such chances to study abroad we are living in China if they express their objective of their objection they would be prostrate so I think it's not optimistic so I wonder if how many how how people living in China to behave they are innumerous they can't express their objection so I think the democracy in China can outspeak about thank you I ask you it's too long before you did you expect that oh how about you have to wait for me to translate first because otherwise nobody knows what you're saying I want to ask you a question which is in 1990 would you have expected that the Soviet Union would have disintegrated I can give you two examples the first example is about the U.S. Embassy after the announcement the U.S. Embassy in Weibo there were 726 messages the CCP quickly deleted it only left 13 what information that the party is sending out about the situation in China and I can give you the things that people are seeing about information in China is not true I can give you an example one comes from the website of the American Embassy in Beijing when the American Embassy announced some terms of the trade war with China on the website they were very quickly appeared 726 comments and very quickly deleted 713 and almost immediately 713 of those were deleted and so there were only over a dozen that were remaining and whatever the content of those remaining on the website I think everybody can probably guess that the Chinese name is not simply seen on the surface and these kinds of examples online are very prevalent in China and so I think it shows that you have to look deeper to find the reality of what's going on in China so in 2008 I remember he showed us this evidence this evidence can be seen online and I can't I don't have this next question the last one yes I think this thing in Hong Kong for more than three months the strong will of the people of Hong Kong has been shown it can't be tolerated especially since 2003 on the 23rd of the National Security Law 500,000 people were on the streets to protest without any restrictions and after that the CCP controlled and controlled Hong Kong's warm waters the last step is to tie all these criminals all the way to the mainland to go to jail showing the world what Hong Kong people think about living under an authoritarian regime in 2003 5,000,000 people came out on the streets to protest the articles that were trying to change the laws in Hong Kong and Hong Kong people are now sick and tired of living under situations like the frog put in the water that slowly boils it to death actually in mainland China a lot of people are clear about what happened to Hong Kong it's just not on the internet and in mainland China people are very aware of what's going on in Hong Kong but they are just not willing to talk about it openly online and the communist party is also worried exactly about what's happening in Hong Kong so much as how the protests are going to influence mainland China and from what we're seeing it's not that the communist party doesn't want to suppress the protests but it doesn't dare to do that so the communist party cannot go against the tide of history democracy will come and the authoritarian regime will eventually have to fall okay next question next question next question next question next question next question there are two ways one is to strengthen the ability of people to get online and get information and the other one is to weaken the ability of the strength of the party in oppressing people and regarding the second point I've just in my lecture talked about establishing laws to prevent technology from being transferred to authoritarian countries and another way is to develop technologies that will allow Chinese people to get over the firewall and to get information much more easily if you look the whole world over I don't think you'll find one person that doesn't want to have more information and have more freedom anybody would want that except for maybe sick people okay next thank you next question so I want to ask you a question as you said 1% of the wealth in the United States for college studies and it seems like their ideologies most of them difference than yours or even a lot of us here. It seems like we're living in a parallel universe. What do you mean by that? Ideology. Oh, ideology. Sorry. Ideology is very different than yours. There are a lot of people here in the United States. What would be some of the things that you would recommend to me or us to better communicate with those who have very good ideologies? I don't think actually that at the kind of basic level that as human beings we have really that much of a difference in our ideas. The philosopher from ancient China, Zhuang Zi, said that a frog living in a well in a village is not going to understand the ocean, what the ocean is. But if you just take the frog and throw it in the ocean, it's going to get it. So unless it's somebody who's pretending to be asleep, most people are going to come around. But if it's somebody who is coming from this very privileged place, then they're not really going to understand the ocean, they're going to understand it. So I think that in the United States, if you just take the frog and throw it in the ocean, it's going to come around. But if it's somebody who is coming from this very privileged place, then you're not really talking about the same thing. And this kind of a person from a privileged background is going to be wanting to protect his or her own interests. So it's not from a place of wanting to fight for justice. Hi. Okay. And that is, what can, is there anything else that U.S. people can do to support Chinese people for freedom? If we don't have technical skills or we don't have, you know, special abilities to affect the sale of technology, what should you do? Okay. Good question. Yeah. I have an example. When I first came to America, I quickly got in touch with Congress to try to urge them to expand the Magnexy Act to cover the entire world. There's one of the realities in the world is that a lot of CCP members and the CCP in general is always cursing America and saying terrible things about America. But then the same people will be lining up to move to America. So they're singing the song of socialism is great, but then they're running towards capitalism, the arms of capitalism. And they're taking their ill-gotten wealth and sending it to America. And the Global Magnexy Act says that if there are corrupt officials who are violating human rights, then the U.S. can use its law to prohibit those people from coming to America and from sending their capital here. If these people continue to do evil things, this is a very good method. So that sounds taking legal actions in a democracy. Over there? Yes. Thank you so much for coming in. I was wondering if you could speak to the persecution of the Uyghurs, the Muslim minority in China, and what technology specifically has enabled that persecution of such a large scale? The situation in Xinjiang is extremely serious right now, the Uyghurs, especially in relation to the surveillance system. Now people who are going into Xinjiang will be checked and the Uyghurs will be sent to the Uyghurs. And the Uyghurs will be sent to the Uyghurs. And the Uyghurs will be sent to the Uyghurs. And the Uyghurs will be sent to Xinjiang will be checked and their phones will be taken and software will be put on their phones. I think one way to approach it is to look at it from a legal perspective. There's nowhere in the legal code that says that any of this should be allowed to happen. So what the Chinese Communist Party is doing right now is completely illegal. And in the legal code, there's a law against breaking the law. And it's a crime. So we need to hold them accountable under this law. It's very clear in the Constitution clearly stated that the Chinese people have the right to religious freedom. But in reality, we see that no matter whether the Catholic Church was forced to demolish or something that happened in Xinjiang and Tibet, we can clearly see that this law is obviously being built by the Communist Party. But in reality, what we're seeing is that in practice all of that can be thrown out, whether it's Christians who were persecuted and their churches are torn down or it's what's happening in Tibet or in Xinjiang, the Communist Party can just rip up its own laws. So I don't think we should be in a place where we're thinking about, well, if you have a headache, let's just look at your head. If your foot hurts, we'll just look at your foot to think of it from a sort of a complete holistic point of view. We can't think of it as, you know, if Muslims are being persecuted, we have to talk about that. If churches are being torn down, we talk about Christians or Tibetans, we need to look at it from a larger perspective. In 1998, China signed on to the international agreement on civil rights and political rights, an international agreement on civil and political rights. But to this day, it has not put that into practice. I think we should consider that if the Chinese Communist Party does not follow the international agreement that it has signed on to, that it should leave the UN. And I think we need to resolve this issue from a fundamental level where people's rights are being abused and people are being oppressed. They hope it. In the back. Hello. You said that the Chinese Communist Party is willing to do anything to maintain their absolute power even by stealing freedom from Chinese people. But I'm wondering why there are a number of Chinese people still supporting the Chinese government or even some people studying here, living here, even some Purdue students supporting the Chinese government or some of them being a Chinese Communist Party member. And that's still very important. I'm not Chinese, but I'm wondering why. I've already talked a little bit about that. One of the reasons is that a lot of these people that you're talking about come from privileged classes. They come from the Communist Party membership. The other thing is because there are still Americans who hope to see communism becoming a reality. I think the most important thing is to think about what the Chinese, what do Chinese people want. Sometimes individuals, the actions, you can kind of overlook what individual people are doing. I think some of you may have heard the story about there's a big, 50 center, somebody who's paid to run for government, you know, I think you haven't heard of the history of the United States, I think you've heard the story about there's a big, 50 center, somebody who's paid to run for government, you know, may have heard the story about there's a big 50 center, somebody who's paid to write comments on behalf of the Communist Party. And he was known for saying all kinds of bad things about America. And then suddenly one day, he moved to America. And people online asked him why he'd done this. And he said, well, cursing America was my job. Living in America is about my life. So sometimes you don't need to pay too much attention to what some of these people are saying. Unless that person is moving to North Korea, then you can really believe them. OK, next question. You've been living in Korea for many years. You probably know that, accordingly, Communist Party or even member of it, or even better, I mean, junior teams could possibly bring a lot of extra revenue, a lot of more opportunities in your society. And if that keeps on the trend, it seems easier for most people to join the Communist Party or to support it instead of standing behind the lane. How difficult would you think that? Or is there a possible way that in person or that you can get out of the system, but still gain success and influence? Yeah, I think a lot of people are now joining the party for the benefit of the party, and not really agree with the concept of the party. Yeah, I think a lot of people who are still joining the Communist Party are doing it because of the benefits, not because they actually believe in the party. They're seeing that the best way for them is to have a family in China as officials, and then to take over the blood of Chinese people. They live in the United States, enjoying American freedom, driving a car. Maybe that's the best choice. They're seeing that the best possible route is to become a party and develop off of the benefit from the blood and the sweat of the Chinese people, and then live in America off of that money and drive a nice car. That's what people are thinking is the best route. And in China, most of the resources are monopolized by the Communist Party. So in order to have any part in that, the only way forward is to join the party. Most people know that outside of China and other countries, what the party does has to be paid for by the party itself. It's not paid from the national coffers. But in China, the party uses money that it belongs to the nations, from the nation's coffers. So when you become part of the Chinese Communist Party, your opportunities grow. OK, thank you. Next, I'll pass it over there. I just want to say that the consensus data that's out there with a lot of countries has a lot of resources. So I wonder what are some sources we're using to find out more about our options. Are we going to come back? There are actually a lot of resources to look at. There is an academic not long ago recently named Xiang Songsu who was researching GDP information. And there was a video that went up online about it. And he said that the GDP was only going up by about 1.69%. And it is possible to find information on this. However, the video was very quickly taken down. OK, the last question. OK. Unfortunately, we're on tour, but it's going to respond to the first question asked about India and China. Will surpass China in population that is right from India. Yeah, can you state the question? Yes, I ask the question. I have two things to say. I have one comment to make and one question to ask. One comment is that we accept, as Indians, that there might be a great income disparity between poor and rich, but at least we can send our prime minister home if the government doesn't work, let the minorities function in the country peacefully. And many other things that come under the freedoms given by the Constitution of India. My question is about there always is going about what is happening inside China because we also share many conflicts, border conflicts. So what are some of the news sources that we can use to understand about the situation, especially in the regions of Tibet and Chinese Indian borders? I think there are actually many different sources of information. First of all, many foreigners go to China, usually go to the big cities, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Shenzhen, and go around. Basically, they really go to China to understand the situation of the Chinese people. There are not many foreigners. There are many paths to find out more information. There are a lot of people, foreigners who go to China, most of them tend to go to big cities like Shanghai or Beijing, and they go around a little bit, and then they leave. I think if you really want to understand what's happening in China, you have to go to rural areas and look at what's happening there. And there were NGOs in China who were working before the year 2000 who did some really great reports. And of course, because of that data that was coming out, the Chinese Communist Party decided they didn't, and the influence that was having on society, they wanted to put an end to the work that NGOs were doing, and they made a law to limit the work that NGOs can do. And it put a major damper on the ability of NGOs to operate in China. He took it to the US, the Japanese government, and when they got the data, they quickly sent it to the Japanese government, and they all had the data. But when he started in China as a researcher, he personally met a great group of people. And there was a professor at Tsinghua University who was looking into some of these issues and doing some comparisons, and he wanted to get some information from Japan and made some calls. very quickly got the information that he needed, but then we tried to get the same information from the Chinese side, there are walls that are immediately put up. So if the numbers are correct, then why would they be worried about somebody doing an investigation, doing research? So now, in China, there is a saying, so the people online have a saying about the Chinese Communist Party, which is, with regard to what they're saying, don't believe anything, even the punctuation. OK. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for our speaker. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Thank you. And also, thank you to our translator, Miss Miu. And thank you all for your participation. Thank you. Thank you. Good night.