Ex-spy under arrest for helping Beijing monitor Falun Gong

[dArKeR]

Suspected Chinese spy Liao Hsien-ping (???), a former Taiwanese spy stationed in the Philippines, was arrested by special agents from the Bureau of Investigation late Tuesday night and detained after a Taoyuan court approved a request by prosecutors.

A bureau press release said that Liao, 60, had served as a special agent for the Military Intelligence Agency since graduation.

He was stationed in Manila until he was forced to retire because of involvement in fraud. He was convicted over the matter in 1995. After serving two years in a Philippine jail, Chinese security agents bailed him out and hired him as an agent. He went to Fujian Province for training, then moved back to Taiwan in 2000.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2004/09/16/2003203087

[smirkymonkey]

1. Why is the Chinese Government so against Falun Gong?

I have seen them here in New York peacefully meditating, doing tai chi and demonstrating quietly. They passed out some literature, which I took, but still could not understand why such violent opposition to them.

Is there some part of the puzzle I am missing or is the Chinese government really bat-ass crazy paranoid?