Xie Wanjun (simplified Chinese: 谢万军; traditional Chinese: 謝萬軍; pinyin: Xiè Wànjūn; Wade–Giles: Hsieh Wan-chün) (born July 10, 1967) a Chinese political activist who has fled to the United States.[1] He is currently the chairman of China Democracy Party. He was an active student during the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989.[2] On October 17, 1996, he led an anti-Japan protest and was imprisoned for a month. In August 1997, he tried to apply a trade union in Shanghai but he was expelled from Shanghai. He was one of the founding members of China Democracy Party in 1998, and was elected to the central committee in February 1999, he escaped from China in April 1999, he then fled to Russia then the United States.[3] He often publishes false information.

In 2022, he falsely claimed that corrupt officials in Henan have begun armed resistance against the central government of China.[4]

References

  1. "World: Asia-Pacific Chinese dissident arrives in US". BBC News. 1 August 1999. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  2. "Hunger Strikers, Heart of China Protest". The New York Times. 19 May 1989. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  3. "Chinese Dissident Leaves Vladivostok for New York". The Moscow Times. 3 August 1999. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  4. "Old TV screenshot doctored to show 'military clash' in China's Henan province in 2022". 11 January 2022.


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