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THE JOURNALISTS BEING ALLOWED TO INTERVIEW ANYBODY AND THAT THEY SHOULD IMMEDIATELY RETURN TO JINAN. ONCE BACK IN JINAN, THE SHANDONG FAB ALSO REFUSED TO ALLOW THEM TO CONTINUE THEIR PLANNED TRIP BUT DID ORGANISE A CAR TO TAKE THEM BACK TO PEKING. (IRONICALLY MILES HAD ASKED TO DRIVE DOWN TO JINAN BUT HAD BEEN TOLD THAT THIS WAS IMPOSSIBLE AS THE ROAD WENT THROUGH CLOSED AREAS. THE FAB RAISED NO SUCH OBJECTION FOR THE RETURN VISIT.) MILES AND SAMPSON ARE SOMEWHAT ANGRY NOT ONLY AT BEING SOME POUNDS 700 OUT OF POCKET BUT ALSO AT THE COMPLETE WASTE OF THEIR TIME. MILES HAS BEEN HERE 6 YEARS AND HAS NEVER PREVIOUSLY BEEN REQUIRED TO PRODUCE HIS JOURNALIST ID CARD.
5. ON 8 MAY MILES WAS SUMMONED TO THE MFA. HE WAS SEEN BY A
FENG WEI, A JUNIOR MEMBER OF THE INFORMATION DEPARTMENT, WHO DELIVERED A ''SERIOUS WARNING TO MILES ABOUT HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE PARRY INCIDENT. FENG SAID THAT SOME EUROPEANS HAD ENGAGED IN
ACTIONS INCOMPATIBLE WITH THEIR STATUS. THEY HAD DELIBERATELY
MADE TROUBLE. HE ACCUSED MILES OF TAKING PART AND SAID MILES SHOULD NOT HAVE COVERED THEIR ILLEGAL ACTIONS. FENG QUOTED ARTICLE 14 OF THE 1990 REGULATIONS WHICH SAYS THAT ''FOREIGN JOURNALISTS AND PERMANENT OFFICES OF FOREIGN NEWS AGENCIES SHALL
NOT ENGAGE IN ACTIVITIES WHICH ARE INCOMPATIBLE WITH THEIR STATUS OR TASKS, OR WHICH ENDANGER CHINA'S NATIONAL SECURITY, UNITY OR COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC INTERESTS.'' FENG SAID THAT IF MILES REPEATEDLY DISREGARDED CHINESE REGULATIONS AND THESE WARNINGS HE SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE CONSEQUENCES.
EVEN THE POLICE HAD NOT ACCUSED MILES OF TAKING PART IN
PARRY'S ACTIVITIES. MILES PROTESTED THAT THERE WAS NO REASON WHY HE SHOULD NOT HAVE REPORTED ON THE ACTIVITIES OF A BRITISH CITIZEN. HE HAD COOPERATED FULLY WITH THE POLICE AND HAD DONE NOTHING INCOMPATIBLE WITH HIS STATUS. AS FOR REPORTING ACTS DEEMED TO BE ILLEGAL, HE HAD NOTED CHINESE REPORTS ON THE RIOTS IN LOS ANGELES. WAS FENG SUGGESTING THAT CHINESE JOURNALISTS HAD BEEN AT FAULT IN LOS ANGELES? FENG SAID HE WAS SURE THE CHINESE JOURNALISTS IN LOS ANGELES HAD RECEIVED PRIOR PERMISSION TO WORK.
7. MILES THEN RAISED HIS TREATMENT IN SHANDONG AND SAID THAT HE HAD BEEN UNABLE TO FIND ANY REGULATIONS THAT A JOURNALIST HAD TO CARRY HIS PRESS CARD. CHE HAD HAD HIS RESIDENCE PERMIT WHICH DESCRIBES HIM AS A JOURNALIST.) FENG WAS UNABLE TO QUOTE ANY SUCH REGULATION BUT SAID THAT MILES HAD BEEN A LONG TIME IN CHINA AND
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