China is trying to stop Sweden from staging a dance show with ties to the Falun Gong movement, claiming it could damage relations between the two countries, officials said Tuesday.
The city of Linkoping, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) southwest of Stockholm, received a call from the Chinese Embassy last week saying the "Shen Yun Chinese Spectacular," to open on March 27, was "anti-Chinese."
Linkoping Culture Committee chairman Johan Lundgren said the show would go ahead as planned.
"It would be an unacceptable compromise of democracy and freedom of expression to cancel the show," said Lundgren, who took the call. …
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