TORONTO - New Tang Dynasty Television Toronto Branch received a suspicious
letter containing white powder on April 11.

At about 9:30 a.m., Mr. Tompkin, NTDTV director, received an anonymous
letter. Upon opening it, a white powder inside the envelope blew onto his
face. The owner of the property saw the incident and reported it to police
right away. Eight police vans, ambulances and "HAZMAT" fire vehicles
responded. Armed security guards with gas masks accompanied police, who
isolated the building.

Mr. Tompkin was taken into a police van and kept under observation for
two-and-a-half hours. A police spokesman from the No. 12 Division of Toronto
Police Service said that police were proceeding with a criminal
investigation.

According to NTDTV Toronto President Wang Shaojiu, since broadcasting began,
the Chinese Communist Party has used numerous means to attack the station.
For example, he said, the CCP attempted to interfere with the NTDTV Chinese
New Year Global Gala, cancelled the visas of reporters who were to accompany
Canada's prime minister on a visit to China and has recently attempted to
prevent satellite broadcasts over China.

Mr. Wang, who called the incident a terrorist act, said that he believes it
to be a systematic attack on NTDTV by the same group of people. "We will
never be threatened. We'll continue to do what we should do; to spread the
truth to the Chinese people."

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Powder burns TV station worker

By KIM BRADLEY, TORONTO SUN
April 13, 2005

AN EMPLOYEE at the Chinese TV station New Tang Dynasty suffered burns to his
hands after opening an envelope at the station that had white powder inside.
It's the fourth attack on the station since two of its reporters had their
visas revoked by Chinese authorities while following Prime Minister Paul
Martin to China in January.

Danielle Zhu, one of the reporters denied entry into China, believes
supporters of the Chinese government are trying to intimidate the station
out of business because of critical coverage of the Communist regime. Over
the past three weeks, locks at the station have been vandalized, she said.

The man who opened the envelope had a reaction to the powder when he tried
to wash it off and it also irritated his eyes and throat, she said.

Police are investigating what the powder is and its origin.

In February, NTDTV was asked to tear down its booth at the Lunar New Year
2005 festival at Exhibition Place.

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The NTDTV Incident and Western Pacifism

New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) station's contract with the European
satellite company Eutelsat will end on April 15. NTDTV's viewers in China
and abroad who depend on satellite dishes, will all feel disappointed and
indignant. Despite its CEO's promise to champion free flow of information,
Eutelsat finally succumbed to the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) pressure
and economic incentives. Eutelsat sacrificed the freedom of information and
made a concession to the Chinese totalitarian authority. This is a sad
reality.

During the United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to
China earlier this year, the CCP released the long incarcerated Re Biya, a
human rights activist in Xinjiang province. In return, the U.S. promised not
to mention China's notorious human rights record during the United Nations'
meeting in Geneva. Several European nations, Germany and France especially,
have pursued lifting the arms embargo on China due to economic interests. We
must be reminded of the Munich Treaty in which England and France pledged to
pacifist terms with the powerful Nazi Germany. The English and French
ignored Czechoslovakia's protest for their own interest. Hitler promised to
"move the troubled water to the east" and started taking over Europe.

Although the European and American appeasements to Chinese Communist Party
will not stir a world war, the consequences will be just as dire. The CCP
has introduced the Anti-Secession law to threaten Taiwan. The CCP controls
all Chinese media, tramples on the freedom of speech and persecutes
dissidents. The CCP uses money and other economic incentives to control
almost all Chinese language media overseas. If the international community
upholds its appeasement, NTDTV will become a new victim of Communist
suppression.

The most fearful thing for the CCP is not how strong the military power
America has; it is actually the freedom of the media, the spreading of the
truth into China that it fears. NTDTV had broadcasted through satellite TV
to China in the past. Whoever installed satellite receivers and watched
NTDTV programs all understood the Chinese political current situations and
much other information from outside. This has made CCP authorities
tremendously frightened. This is especially so for broadcasts carrying the
voice of Falun Gong, which is something the authorities cannot stand. In
Guandong province, the TV programs from Hong Kong are completely controlled
and kept close watched; any program could be terminated at any time. The
truth is forbidden for people to know. Even the programs from pro-communist-
the Hong Kong Phoenix TV station- is monitored to prevent different voices
from appearing. China is such a country full of lies and deceptions. Even
so, it seems not enough. The CCP are even learning from North Korea to
further execute its violence and terrorist regime.

If it were not for the wave of democracy that has risen in China lately,
fascism would have dominated. Facing the wave of the "color revolution" in
eastern Europe, and middle Asia getting rid of the control of communism, the
CCP is so much more terrified about the spread of democracy. Nevertheless,
Europe and America have not taken the initiative to influence China to
reform its political system. Instead, Europe and America have made a series
of concessions. This was just like in the past, like the pacifism used to
treat Hitler. Because of this pacifism, Sudeten were ceded to German as a
result. Today, because of pacifism, the strength of freedom might be
suppressed even more.

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