Chapter 26 Crying and ridiculous Chinese spy scene

After the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, the United States has been constantly creating troubles, that is, the China threat theory.China is becoming stronger and stronger, and those anti-China forces are burning with anger, so as soon as a funny show is played, it pops up in the media and Congress. This year, for Li Wanruo and other ethnic Chinese, what they felt the most painful and angry was the even more astonishing bad news: On March 8, Li Wanruo cared about current affairs and politics as usual, when she turned on the TV for the first time She saw a Chinese face constantly flashing on the most important news program in the United States... She was taken aback because she had never seen such an oriental face before.When listening to the program host’s report again, Li Wanruo seemed to have received a heavy blow on the head: Li Wenhe, a Chinese-American scientist working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, the center of the US atomic bomb test, was suspected of sending to a foreign country. Dismissed from public office for leaking US atomic bomb secrets.It is said that Li Wenhe was monitored by the FBI as early as 1996. It is suspected that he is another Chinese spy who stole information on the advanced W-88 miniature nuclear warhead of the United States to China and seriously endangered the national security of the United States.

God, what the hell are they trying to do with the Chinese?Li Wanruo's first reaction was to realize that this was another China threat deliberately created by the more serious extreme right forces.Although she didn't know the truth of the incident at the time, based on the sensitivity and vigilance of a politician, she believed that this must be another wave of anti-China waves in the United States.Sure enough, in an instant, almost all the media in the United States commented and reported on the most important programs and pages on how China stole military and technological secrets for them through overseas students and Chinese in the United States. It is implying a topic: all Chinese in and to the United States are not to be trusted, they may be spies, and the United States is suffering the most severe security test.

In the words of Li Wanruo: In the past, there were very few reports on China and the Chinese in the United States, but with the appearance of the Li Wenhe incident, almost every day you can see the faces of Orientals and mentions of Chinese issues in the media. Of course, the faces of Orientals It is the face of a spy that scares Americans, and China is the most dangerous enemy of the United States... After some careful planning, the top ten juries in New Mexico announced that Li Wenhe was charged with 59 counts and arrested . Under U.S. law, all accused persons have the right to be released on bail as long as they have not yet been tried.However, what is surprising about Li Wenhe's case is that less than a day after it was announced that he would be released on bail after paying $1 million, the federal court suddenly made a decision not to grant bail.All these developments have brought unprecedented seriousness to the American public.

During that period of time, the whole of the United States, from east to west, from south to north, was confused, and all people of yellow race were regarded as terrorists to avoid.Even those of us good American citizens who have become mainstream American society seem to feel like some terrible foreign spies.Li Wanruo painfully showed me a poll published by CNN and Time magazine that was reprinted by World Journal at that time.The results of the American public opinion poll published in this report showed that 81% of American citizens believed the report in the Coster Report that China had stolen US nuclear weapons information, and nearly half of the people believed that China posed a serious threat to the United States, a proportion higher than that of Iraq. The 12 percentage points that constitute a threat to the United States are higher than the 1 percentage point that Russia poses a threat to the United States. In short, China is the most threatening enemy of the United States.

The United States, which has always advertised its emphasis on human rights, is also unusual this time. When Li Wenhe was imprisoned, he was not even allowed to visit his relatives and friends.And when the daughter finally met her father in prison, Li Wenhe also wore the heavy shackles used in the Middle Ages on her hands and feet. So, who is Li Wenhe?Is he really a Chinese spy and a scheming villain like those people in the US Congress and the media have played up? No also.In fact, Li Wenhe just concocted the China threat theory based on a part of the extreme right forces in the US Congress controlled by the Republican Party, and used it to attack China and attack a hypothetical enemy that excludes the majority of Chinese in the United States.According to the charges provided by the U.S. authorities later, Li Wenhe improperly downloaded some materials that Li Wenhe believed anyone could obtain and put them on his computer.

What kind of person is he?He is a very simple and honest person.When the FBI had questioned him many times, I asked him if he wanted a lawyer. He said it would cost a lot of money to hire a lawyer. He was such an honest man; When he was handcuffed and fettered and he was not allowed to move freely every day, he also told me that they were educated, that they had gone to university, knew other languages, read Hugo's books, and listened to Mozart's music. He was such a kind man. People... Li Wenhe's daughter told people with tears of grief and indignation that her father was actually such a person.

Li Wenhe is indeed such a peaceful Chinese.From his daughter's narration, Li Wanruo naturally realized that Li Wenhe belonged to the type of scientific researchers who were as diligent and dedicated to serving the United States as her husband Chen Baohe, or nerds, and such people hardly It is very likely to become a spy who betrays personal personality and national interests.In Li Wenhe's report, which was bombarded all over the United States, some honest and kind-hearted people in the American scientific community also stood up to speak out. Robert Fruman, a retired CIA officer in charge of counterintelligence at the Los Alamos National Laboratory where Levin worked and is still a consultant, was the first to point out that he Do not believe that China can get top secret information about US nuclear warheads from Los Alamos or other laboratories belonging to the Department of Energy.The stolen material may have come from documents distributed to hundreds of departments of the U.S. government, as well as private military-industrial contractors.And charging a scientist based on such facts can only be the reason why Lee's race was identified as the government's prime suspect. Fruman, 62, pointed out that ordinary white scientific and technical personnel in that laboratory had done the materials downloaded by Wenhe Li; He has been to China for the first time, and Jing met an official of a physics research institution there. This is the most important and direct fact that he is considered a great spy.When meeting with Chinese officials this time, there were as many as 13 white scientists in the same laboratory as Li Wenhe. Only Chinese-born Li Wenhe was investigated and accused of being a Chinese spy.

My work is respected, and I won't go down in history as the man who brought this case down, because I didn't.The case turned out to be a fiasco, to be expected, since it lacked any facts.Fruman finally told (The Washington Post). In those days, Li Wanruo said that she experienced countless days and nights in her life that made her more anxious than when she ran for Congress.She knew that Li Wenhe's lawsuit was another extremely difficult battle for the fate of the Chinese in the United States. If there was no fight, the entire army might be wiped out, and if there was a fight, it might not necessarily win.But her many years of experience in politics told her that it is the only way for Chinese people to protect their rights in the United States by bravely standing up for Li Wenhe, a compatriot who has suffered injustice.

Deng Zhaoxiang, Chairman of the Committee of 100, and Vice President Xie Zhenggang, composed of the 100 most outstanding Chinese leaders in the United States, and other Chinese people, including Li Wanruo, unanimously decided to stand up and uphold justice. Afterwards, the leaders of the Du group including the Asia Pacific Legal Service Center in Los Angeles held urgent consultations to discuss countermeasures. Soon, under the auspices of a group of well-known biren leaders such as Li Wanzhu, the 16 largest Chinese American organizations sat together for the first time in history, held a phone call to support Li Wenhe, and asked the government to repay the Chinese. Fair emergency meeting.The 26 Chinese leaders who participated agreed that the Li Wenhe case itself is a kind of hostility and injustice to China and all Chinese in the United States. Everyone can no longer be silent, and they can no longer just make some noises. Shout out, especially to Congress and the White House.The conference call lasted 150 minutes and a joint statement was unanimously adopted.

All of a sudden, the voices of Chinese-Americans, who have never been famous for their gentleness, quickly appeared on the major media, such as the "New York Times" published a full-page joint announcement of the Chinese community's collective support for Li Wenhe .You know, just a page like the "New York Times" costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, and all of this money is donated by the Chinese people voluntarily. Li Wanruo told me about a professor of Chinese descent who spent more than a year in solidarity with Li Wenhe, and went to various parts of the United States to appeal for reports. In the end, his pants were not taken out.Such selfless feelings and touching examples abound throughout the Li Wenhe incident.Li Wenhe's daughter was not interested in Chinese participation in politics in the past, but she was extremely moved when she saw that her compatriots worked so hard for her father.Later, she also bravely stood up and gave speeches across the country, accusing the authorities of the unfair and inhuman detention and slander of her father.

Everywhere I go, I am surprised to see so many Chinese compatriots supporting me and supporting me. I have never seen such a scene!The frail new generation of Chinese daughters also awakened in the brutal struggle.Later, this girl named Li Chunyi also became the person who led the charge in the whole incident. While mobilizing joint operations by Chinese organizations, Li Wanruo also used her channel in the White House to link up with other political leaders, including the famous black leader Jackson and the former Secretary of Defense Perry, who directly exerted pressure on the White House and the government.Following the strong offensive of the Chinese community, the Clinton administration later had to say that there was not enough evidence to investigate the Li Wenhe spy case. However, the Wenhe Li case, which has already entered the judicial process, is not so simple to solve, especially since the new round of presidential election is approaching, both the Republican and Democratic parties want to show their will to be responsible for the country, so after a while of calm, Wenhe Li The peace case became tense again. Both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party wanted to win the votes of the voters through their tough attitude on this matter. This made the Li Wenhe case, which entered the judicial process, escalate again. Li Wanruo and the others clearly saw this speculation in the political arena Behavior, and timely called on Chinese and Asian Americans to insist on not bowing their heads in the general election, that is, don’t you, the Republican Party, want to win votes from Chinese and Asian Americans?Then you have to tell me clearly in Li Wenhe's case, is he guilty or innocent?Don't you, the Democratic Party, want to extract campaign funding from Chinese and Asian Americans?Well then, the Clinton administration you are in power should make good use of your government's legal and intelligence agencies to find out the truth about the Li Wenhe incident!Otherwise, don’t talk about your general election issues! Can you be flexible? When we win the general election, we must re-examine Li Wenhe's case seriously, and strive to restore his reputation and the reputation of you Chinese. cannot.This time there is no room for it.Our terms must be met. In the face of painful lessons, Chinese leaders, no matter which political party they belong to, have tacitly formed a united front, and no longer easily believe the double-faced preaching from party politicians. In March, after Li Wanruo and others initiated a letter directly to President Clinton, urging the government to try Li Wenhe's case fairly and not to use this case to attack Chinese Americans, especially Chinese scientists who have made important contributions to American science and technology, in June Later, Li Wanruo, Xie Zhenggang and other important members of the Committee of 100 took the opportunity of meeting Clinton to ask the President to face up to their demands.At that time, Clinton was questioned: I really don't know the situation of Chinese scientists in the United States, but it is very meaningful for you to provide me with materials and data in this regard. Based on this, Xie Zhengga and others contacted fellow Chinese scientists in various places and immediately compiled a report reflecting the status and contributions of Chinese scientists in the American scientific and technological circles.The report pointed out that Chinese Americans participated in the research and development of the US strategic and tactical defense system very early, and often played a key role in design, manufacture and deployment.In scientific research institutions related to national defense, Chinese-American scientific and technological personnel account for 10%-15%.Chinese scientists such as Lin Shaoji of AVCO Laboratory, Zheng Xianji of Southern California, Andrew Chi of NASA, Wu Yaozu of Caltech, Wang Huajiao, President of Missile Systems Department of Hughes Aircraft Company, and He Zhiming of UCLA, all work for US defense science and technology. They have made outstanding contributions, and the US government and the American people can fully believe from them that the loyalty of the majority of Chinese scientists is unquestionable. This report played an important role in changing the attitude of the White House Clinton administration towards Li Wen and Yizhai.The chief of staff of the White House specially summoned Li Wanruo and other representatives of Chinese-American leaders of the Committee of 100 to solicit opinions. In July, we took the lead in organizing a special program on ABC Nightline in the United States about racial discrimination against Chinese people, which played a positive role in positively understanding Chinese people in the American public.At the same time, Li Wanruo and the others took advantage of the annual meeting of the Committee of 100 in Los Angeles to meet with the Minister of Energy for a face-to-face dialogue, urging officials not to let the McCarthy-style madness repeat itself today. unity is strength.As the general election is getting closer and closer, it was originally a conspiracy against China and the majority of Chinese in the United States deliberately provoked by the extreme right forces. Under the influence of the joint efforts of the majority of Chinese and righteous people from all walks of life and the Chinese government's stern position , gradually began to collapse.First, Congress demanded the dismissal of Trulock, who was in charge of intelligence at the Department of Energy who initiated the Li Wenhe espionage case, and then the federal court had to go back and ask Li Wenhe for peace-on condition that Li agreed to admit that he had improperly downloaded information, the court released him. On September 10, 1999, the relevant American authorities suddenly announced: In view of Li Wenhe's admission that he had improperly downloaded confidential materials, the federal court agreed to charge him with a misdemeanor, cancel all the previous 58 charges and sentence him to 9 He was imprisoned for one month and was released when his sentence expired recently. When the news broke, the nation booed.The American public is arguing about what the government and the courts are doing. Yesterday it was said to be an unprecedented Chinese espionage case, but it turned out to be a wrong case that did not exist. Do the country’s intelligence agencies still want it?Should the United States lose face? On the day when the release of Li Wenhe was announced, President Clinton and the federal judge in charge of the case, Parker, apologized to Wenhe Li and his family members in public, saying that the US government has embarrassed our entire country in this incident.He said: "I believe you have been treated terribly unfairly.The humiliating detention you suffered in the detention facility before trial, that was totally unnecessary punishment.I was guided by law enforcement to order your detention last December, for which I am deeply sorry.It is with great sadness that I tell you, Dr. Lee, that I felt, last December, that I was misled by the judiciary, by the FBI, and by the federal prosecutors in the region of Mexico.In addition, the New York Times later published an article apologizing. There are more than one or two embarrassing things that Americans have done to China and the Chinese people. In fact, they should reflect on it long ago. Three days later, Li Wenhe, the head of the Chinese-American department who had been innocently imprisoned for nine months, walked out of the dark prison cell. What greeted him was a carnival by Li Wanruo and other Chinese people all over the United States... Many Chinese-American scientists shed tears, and some even He hugged Li Wenhe and wept bitterly.Over the years, Chinese people, especially Chinese scientists engaged in scientific research, have been treated unequally by the relevant US authorities. They are often subject to inexplicable inquiries and censorship. They are top-notch scientists but cannot access the most core confidential technology; they are contributions The biggest one is not promoted fairly; the one who works the hardest gets paid less than others... Li Wenhe's innocence is finally cleared, and it is also their innocence for these Chinese scientific elites.In scientific research institutions across the United States, two-thirds of the technical backbones are Chinese, but the relevant US authorities treat people like Li Wenhe with fascist methods, which is unreasonable. In the more than 20 days I talked with Li Wanruo, this female politician who has experienced vicissitudes of life would be very excited when she mentioned the Li Wenhe incident. She told me: She and some of her insightful people in the United States have been working together for many years. In the past, not many people could listen to the slogans of Chinese people participating in politics. However, after Li Wenhe's incident, everyone began to understand and support their views.Although we Chinese Americans were not able to realize the importance of participating in politics as early as the Jewish people, although the awakening is a bit late now, it is good to wake up after all.Even people like Li Wenhe, who used to be mediocre and never cared about politics, now understand the need to participate in voting and politics. As I write this, it is the 21st century AD.One late night, Li Wanruo, who was far away across the ocean, told me by phone that she had recently met Li Wenhe, a scientist who had come out of the dark years. The first thing she said after meeting Li Wanruo was: Lily, the Chinese people you mentioned before want to participate in politics. It seems completely right, from now on I will also be involved in the fight for the rights of Chinese Americans... As a Chinese-American politician who has been around for decades, Li Guiruo felt more gratified than seeing this, so it was reasonable for her to call me that day.