Falun Gong was first taught at the Chinese consulate in New York in 1995 as part of the Party's " cultural propaganda to the West ," alongside Chinese silk craft and cooking.

Falun Gong's growth outside China largely corresponded to the migration of students from Mainland China to the West in the early-to mid-1990s, and in North America and Europe, the practice was taught mainly on university campuses.

To counter the support of Falun Gong in the West, the Chinese government has launched their own propaganda campaign, which included visits to newspaper officers by diplomats to " extol the virtues of Communist China and the evils of Falun Gong ", linking support for Falun Gong with " jeopardizing trade relations ," and sending letters to local politicians telling them to withdraw support for the practice.

The Chinese government's view that Falun Gong is a destructive cult, widely used as part of state propaganda against the practice, was later picked up by some elements of the anti-cult movement in the West.

Richard Gunde notes that unlike apocalyptic groups in the West, Falun Gong does not fixate on death or the end of the world, and instead " has a simple, innocuous ethical message ".

Three small man-made islands, " Xiao Ying Zhou " ( 小瀛洲 ), " Hu Xin Ting " ( 湖心亭 ), and " Ruan Gong Dun " ( 阮公墩 ) lie in the center of Outer West Lake.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

what is new and compelling is that the West is now but one of several powerful civilizations, or `` systems '', and that one or more of the others may pose a mortal danger to the West.

Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the West German misgivings about `` salami '' tactics, it is to be hoped that the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy's representative will mark a stiffening of response not only to future indignities and aggressions but also to some that have passed.

That picture of the American prairie is as indelibly fixed in the memory of those who have studied the conquest of the American continent as any later cinema image of the West made in live-oak canyons near Hollywood.

The wizard who fashioned West Germany's astonishing industrial rebirth is the soul of free enterprise.

He is dedicated to building the nation's strength and, as are all West Germans, to a free Berlin and to reunion with captive East Germany.

The question left by the election is whether West Germany veers slightly toward more firmness or more flexibility.

The West Berlin crisis is being played up artificially because it is needed by the United States to justify its arms drive ''.

The `` West Berlin '' crisis is really an East Berlin crisis.

They are less vocal now, when it is the West Berliners who are migrating.

West Berlin morale is low and, in age distribution, the situation is unfavorable.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

So frequently have pictures of the bridge appeared in books and in national publications that it vies with the old John Brown Fort at Harpers Ferry as the two nationally best known structures in West Virginia.

As a result, a bounty system similar to that in the Old West is established to deal with fugitives, terrorists, and other criminals ; the bounty hunters involved are frequently termed " cowboys ".

She continued to make minor and frequently nostalgic period musicals such as Starlift, The West Point Story, On Moonlight Bay, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, and Tea For Two for Warner Brothers.

However, throughout Germanic tradition, given names which contain elf as an element are frequently attested, suggesting that the malevolent or evil image of elves in West Germanic tradition was a secondary development, reinforced by Christianization.

He used his position on the board of directors of the Writers Guild of America, West on a number of occasions to mediate disputes between unions and the Hollywood studios, and although he was frequently accused by some on the right of championing the unions, he was valued by the studios as an effective mediator.

They also tended to identify more closely with a culture of protest and civil disobedience, frequently clashing with police at demonstrations against nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, and the construction of a new runway ( Startbahn West ) at Frankfurt airport.

However, this usage was not always consistent, as, for example, West Berliners frequently applied the term Westdeutschland to denote the Federal Republic.

Persia's position at the crossroads of the East and the West frequently placed it in the midst of developments in both ancient Greek and Indian medicine.

Historians frequently describe the event as the start of the East – West Schism.

Al Jazeera is frequently criticized both in the West and in the Arab world.

West Indian manatees enjoy warmer waters and are known to congregate in shallow waters, and frequently migrate through brackish water estuaries to freshwater springs.

The title mullah, commonly translated " cleric " in the West and thought to be analogous to " priest ", is a title of address for any educated or respected figure, not even necessarily ( though frequently ) religious.

This is unrealistic in real life and is not frequently seen in film or on television outside US daytime serials, but it is an accepted soap opera convention sometime referred to as a Two Shot West.

The title mullah ( a Persian corruption of the Arabic maula, " master "), commonly translated " cleric " in the West and thought to be analogous to " priest " or " rabbi ", is a title of address for any educated or respected figure, not even necessarily ( though frequently ) religious.

For political and diplomatic reasons, West German politicians carefully avoided the term " reunification " during the run-up to what Germans frequently refer to as die Wende.

Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, who was frequently accused, during his tenure in the Senate, of repeatedly inserting pork-barrel spending that favored his state into budget appropriations, called it " an offensive slap at Congress ," asserting that the legislation would enable the President to intimidate individual members of any Congress by targeting the projects of his political opponents.

This description can be used to describe any number of Westerns, but also other films such as Die Hard, Top Gun, and Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai which are frequently cited examples of films that do not take place in the American West but have many themes and characteristics common to Westerns.

Bærum, particularly its eastern neighbourhoods bordering West End Oslo, is one of Norway's priciest and most fashionable residential areas, leading Bærum residents to be frequently stereotyped as snobs in Norwegian popular culture.

As his parents were frequently touring on the road, he spent his early years being raised by his maternal grandparents in a middle-class neighborhood in West Orange, New Jersey.

As brigadier of the West Belfast UDA Adair was entitled to one of the six seats on the organisation's Inner Council and in this role Adair, who wanted to continue on the path of violence, clashed frequently with East Antrim brigadier Joe English, who advocated seeking a peace settlement.

Examples are the Royal National Theatre in London, that frequently organizes short directing courses, or the Orange Tree Theatre and the Donmar Warehouse on London's West End, which both employ resident assistant directors on a one-year basis for training purposes.

* As applied to West Frisian, it refers to one of two verb forms frequently referred to as infinitives, this one ending in-n. It shows up in nominalizations and is selected by perception verbs.

* National Audio Theatre Festival, an annual conference and group of performances frequently held in West Plains, and including local participants.

A trip to West Point was not routine as the path was frequently impassable.