The Falun Gong is recognized in more than 70 countries. China is the only country that persecutes the Falun Gong. Many of them have associations--many even on a small scale, with assistance centres or coordinator centres. So we believe there are thousands of Falun Dafa associations worldwide. China used to have many of those kinds of associations, but after the crackdown they were destroyed. There were ten thousand of them in China.
On May 31st, 2006. See this statement in context.