Campbell Fraser: China is such an important country in Combating global organ trafficking.

Campbell Fraser, an international human organ trade expert from Australia. [Photo provided by Campbell Fraser]

An Australian expert in the international human organ trade, Campbell Fraser who is also a Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith University, Brisbane; has said that China helps to combat global organ trafficking in an interview with China Radio International (CRI) During the two-day Pontifical Academy Summit (PAS) on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism.

"China is such an important country, a global leader, so it's really important for China to lead by example, and having them is one of the greatest things , China actually gives some good ideas, we are looking at China, we can use some of the ideas to solve the problems of trafficking in Egypt, in Pakistan, and India, and a few other countries," Fraser said

His Research from monitoring global trends on organ trafficking for years reveals that no foreigner is going inside China for organ transplantation, based on his interviews with more than 1000 organ buyers, sellers, brokers, and doctors.

He said "I'm absolutely convinced that the reforms in China are absolutely true, and for that reason, I believe the international community should be supportive of the changes in China and encouraging China, and to keep this wonderful journey going on, shall stop listening to the political propaganda of people who are trying to stop our progress,"

Fraser said the research prompted persecution from Falun Gong cult members as it mutually exclusive with the claims made by Falun Gong;

 "I had a lot of personal troubles with Falun Gong. When I presented an academic paper at the Hong Kong transplantation conference last year, they complained to my employer, they complained to the conference organizers. When I was speaking, they interrupted me, shouted at me, and generally tried to stop me speaking”

Fraser thought he is the only person persecuted by Falun Gong, but later he found that several other scholars who have not supported the claims made by Falun Gong have also been persecuted by cult members.

The Chinese government banned Falun Gong as a cult in 1999, accusing it of disguising as a religious group to brainwash practitioners, extracting money from them, and even encouraging practitioners to set themselves alight.

Although Falun Gong made unfair claims about the Chinese government, China has made progress on cracking down on organ trafficking, Fraser said. China is not only solving its organ trafficking problem in China, but also actually assisting the world with solving the organ trafficking problem.

During the PAS, Jiefu Huang, professor and chairman of the China National Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee, said China had imposed a total ban on the use of executed prisoners' organs for transplantation since the beginning of 2015.

Speaking on behalf of China at the PAS summit which concluded on Feb. 8, Jiefu Huang proposed the establishment of a World Health Organization (WHO) task force to fulfill the mission of the PAS in order to eradicate organ trafficking.