Talk:China–Tonga relations

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This is interesting, but I'm not sure it's notable. It's an Epoch Times article from today, entitled "Chinese Regime Pressures Tongan Officials to Curb Freedom". It's about alleged Chinese embassy pressure on the Tongan authorities to prevent a Falun Gong meeting in Tonga. The article says "A letter sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on May 18 clearly threatens the health of China-Tonga relations if the practitioners were allowed to continue their activities unrestrained", and quotes from the alleged letter: "In order to keep the good momentum of our cordial bilateral relations... we kindly request the Tongan government to take immediate and appropriate actions to prevent the gathering happening and avoid possible harm to our longstanding friendly cooperation." It also quotes from an alleged memo "sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the heads of department, commander of the Tonga Defense Services, and the statutory boards": "I would appreciate if you would alert your staff to the Falun Gong activities and avoid compromising Tonga's good relations with China". It's interesting, but the Epoch Times is a Falun Gong newspaper, and no other media seem to be covering it. So I'm leaving it out of the article for now. Aridd (talk) 16:39, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The incident has now been covered by Radio Australia, a more unbiased source. Aridd (talk) 15:36, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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