Albert Roman on Falun Gong

March 24, 2025

I read the recent article by Albert Roman with a sense of deja vu, as, back in 2021, when P&I published a piece I submitted providing the “other side” of the widely promulgated “West Good-China Bad” narrative I was described, in a counter article, as an entitled expatriate totally out of touch with the real people of Hong Kong, words not disimilar to those used by Roman to describe Jerry Grey’s status as a long-term resident of PRC.

And just as Painter who had enjoyed a short period in HK and so considered himself to be an expert on our society, so too Roman, whose bio claims he “spent time in Jiangsu Province” some 25 years ago, sees himself to be entitled to publicly comment from afar on matters in China.

I have news for Roman: when you put pen to paper, take care you are not inadvertently channelling the outputs of ASPI, The NED, Radio Free Asia or any of the other Washington-funded anti-China mouthpieces that so desperately try to disparage the government of China and its people and who are slowly but inexorably being shown up to have been peddling propaganda.