【新唐人2011年4月9日讯】中国艺术家艾未未失踪几天之后，中共官方终于开始对外界连绵不绝的抗议进行回应。中共外交部声称，国际社会无权就艾未未事件进行指责，并重申艾未未涉及经济犯罪。西方媒体认为，角斗双方的实力悬殊，等于是老虎对付婴儿，他们实在难以理解，中共为什么怕艾未未呢？
英国《泰晤士报》4月7号刊登专栏作家大卫•阿罗诺维奇（David Aaronovitch)的文章。文章质问中共：为什么要抓艾未未？他有什么好让你担心的？
文章开篇提出了一个问题：老虎和婴儿之间的打斗谁会赢？
文章列举了角斗双方的实力：一方是号称有300万军队、7300万共产党员的中共；另一方不过是一个留着胡须、上推特网的艺术家。
文章最后说，从墨索里尼到卡扎菲，再从穆巴拉克到昂纳克，这些独裁者们身上，都发现一个共同点，就是他们有数不清的理由不放弃权力，而艾未未们却总有自己让他们放弃权力的方式。
大陆外交部发言人洪磊7号下午向外界表示，国际社会无权干预艾未未的个案。洪磊再次声明，艾未未涉嫌经济犯罪，公安机关正在对他进行调查。
而在此之前，艾未未的母亲高瑛，曾发出寻人启事寻找艾未未。当她得知儿子被指控涉嫌经济犯罪时，表示无法理解。
高瑛：“涉嫌什么经济，他又不做生意，他就是艺术品被人买了，拿这钱去做艺术品。就算是他经济上有问题，也不需要采取这种形式手段吧！中国经济上犯罪的那些大案、要案，看了报纸，都是多少亿多少亿，那些都是国家的、纳税人的钱。我儿子是一个艺术家，他能有多少钱啊？况且他的钱好多都花在（别）人身上了。”
高瑛认为，这只是当局强加的“莫须有”罪名，在欺骗公众。高瑛还表示，当局去年就曾调查过艾未未的账目，并没有发现问题。
艾未未的姐姐高阁则明确指出，当局有关经济犯罪的指控十分“荒谬”，她认为当局早就设计好了“如何对付艾未未”。
艾未未的妻子路青7号也致函北京警方，询问丈夫的下落，但没有结果。她表示，将再致函法院、检察院和司法局。
大陆官媒《新华社》在7号凌晨，曾发表简短英语新闻，声称艾未未“因涉嫌经济犯罪，正依法接受调查”。但报导很快就被删除。
网友评论说：有种别删呀，难道罪名到现在都还没想好？到底怕啥呀？
《法国国际广播电台》报导，欧洲议会7号就艾未未被无理拘禁一事召开紧急会议，会议通过决议“呼吁中共当局立即释放艾未未”。针对中共当局指称艾未未涉嫌经济犯罪，欧洲议员们指出，这是中共独裁政权用“经济犯罪”的字眼来进行的政治镇压。
而美国、法国、德国和英国等国，也都发出呼吁，要求中共立即释放艾未未。
新唐人记者李谦、周平综合报导。
Tiger to Baby: Why Communists Fear Mr. Ai Weiwei
Chinese officials finally responded to the international
pressure, after Chinese artist Ai Weiwei have gone
missing for a few days. The Chinese foreign
ministry claimed that the international society has no
right to criticize the incident of Ai Weiwei, and
reiterated Ai Weiwei’s involvement in economic crimes.
Western media believe that the differentiating strength
of both parties, equates to a tiger dealing with a baby,
they can hardly understand why the CCP
fears Ai Weiwei?
on April 7 British “Times" published an article by
columnist David Aaronovitch, in which he questioned
why did the CCP arrested Ai Weiwei and what makes
them so afraid.
David asked at the beginning, who will win the battle
between a tiger and a baby?
David also listed qualities of both sides, one side is
CCP which have 3 million soldiers, 73 million party
members, and the other is just a bearded artist
who likes to Twitter.
The article finally said, from Mussolini to Gaddafi,
from Mubarak to Honecker, these dictators all have
one thing in common, that is they have countless
reasons not to give up power, but those ‘Ai Weiwei’
have their own ways to let them give up power.
Hong Lei Mainland China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman
said on the 7th, the international society has no right
to interfere with the case of Ai Weiwei.
Hong Lei claimed again Ai Weiwei was suspected of
economic crimes, and public security departments
are investigating him.
Prior to this, Ai Weiwei’s mother GaoYing has issued
a missing person’s notice for Ai Weiwei. When she
learned that her son was accused of economic crimes
she could not understand it.
Gao Ying said why was he suspected of economic
crimes? He did not do any business. He just sells his
artwork and uses the money to make more artwork.
Even if he had economic issues, is it necessary to use
these kinds of methods on him. If you read the
newspaper, those important cases of Chinese economic
Crimes, are in the number of several billion, those are
the country and taxpayers money. My son is just
an artist, how much money can he own? Moreover,
he spent his money mostly on others.
GAO Ying believes that this is merely the imposition
of “unwarranted" charges to deceive the public.
Gao Ying also said that the government had
already investigated his accounts last year, and found
no problems.
Ai Weiwei’s sister Gao Ge clearly pointed out that
the allegations of economic crimes is ridiculous, she
believes that the government had long ago
intrigued on “how to deal with Ai Weiwei. “
On 7th Ai Weiwei’s wife Lu Qing also sent a letter to
the Beijing police, asking the whereabouts of her
husband, but there is no result. She said she would
also write to the court, the prosecutor’s office and
the Bureau of Justice.
In the early morning of 7th, mainland official media
Xinhua News Agency made a brief English news,
said Ai Weiwei “is being investigated according to
law for the alleged economic crimes ." But the report
was soon deleted.
A netizan commented, don’t delete the reports
if you have the guts. Is it because they still haven’t
come up an accusation? What exactly is (CCP) afraid of?
“Radio France Internationale" reported, on the 7th,
the European Parliament held an emergency meeting
regarding the detention of Ai Weiwei. The meeting
adopted a resolution “calling on Chinese authorities
to immediately release Ai Weiwei. " As for Chinese
authorities arrested Ai Weiwei with alleged economic
crimes, the European congressmen said it was a
political suppression by Communist dictatorship in
the name of “economic crime".
The United States, France, Germany, UK and other
countries also issued a call for the Chinese
government to release Ai Weiwei immediately.
NTD reporters Li Qian and Zhou Ping
