Brute Tyranny in China

Why doesn't anyone seem to notice the brute tyranny still being employed in China on a daily basis?

Is it because China's economy is so big? Is it because China already has nuclear weapons pointed at us? Is it because U.S. businesses, including media corporations, have too much invested in China? Is it because China is paying off U.S. politicians? Is it because what's happening is just so scary most people prefer to pretend it's not happening?

This weekend, Beijing issued its strongest ultimatum yet to Hong Kong that it would not tolerate threats to national security or sovereignty, asserting its Basic Law powers to impose a state of emergency on the city when necessary. There was no point, Chinese officials said, in the city trying to shape its own destiny because Beijing had decision-making power over Hong Kong "from the beginning till end."

So much for the autonomy China had promised for Hong Kong when the British relinquished authority over the former colony. So much for the freedom Hong Kong was to be permitted. So much for the type of one-China system advocated by those who demand reunification of the mainland with Taiwan.

Last weekend, there was another horror announced by Beijing's mayor – that China was preparing to evict – or forcibly relocate – more than 1 million residents in an effort to make the city more attractive for 2008 Olympics tourists. The homes of more than 350,000 families would be destroyed.

"To have a new Beijing and Olympics, it is impossible not to destroy houses," explained Mayor Wang Qishan. Already, some 300,000 people have been displaced.

Then there is the ongoing issue of what I have dubbed "gendercide." The gap between the population of males and females in China continues to widen – largely because of the country's one-child policy. This human-rights abuse has resulted in what the United Nations euphemistically calls the "disappearance" of millions of girls – most of whom are assumed to have been killed at birth or shortly afterward, while others were the victims of sex-selection abortion procedures. Many other young girls are put up for foreign adoption. Two-thirds of Chinese children put up for adoption are female.

As first reported in WorldNetDaily, in September 1997, the World Health Organization released a report at WHO's Regional Committee for the Western Pacific that said more than 50 million women were estimated to be "missing" in China because of the institutionalized killing and neglect of girls due to Beijing's population-control program that limits parents to one child.

Many of the girls were killed while still in the womb – the victims of ultrasound technology that revealed the baby's sex. Others, WHO said, were starved to death after birth, were the victims of violence or were not treated when they became ill.

The tragedy continues today – not only causing grave economic concern in China, but fueling a major criminal industry in child kidnappings. Geo-political strategists have also asserted that the heavily male population of China will one day make it more war-like, thus threatening its neighbors, the West and the rest of the world.

Just last week, China announced plans to increase military spending by 11.6 percent this year. Why would such a radical increase in military spending be necessary for a country facing no known adversaries in the world?

Here's the way officials explained the announcement: The move, they said, is in tune with changes in the international security situation, new trends in military modernization and the need to support the country's peaceful development.

How can we continue to allow China to get away with the worst human-rights abuses in the world?

Yeah, China is frustrating.

Also the almost weekly reports on Chinese crackdowns on Free Speech on the Internet by blocking websites or jailing Chinese citizens for slight Government-critical postings.

Boycott of buying "Made in China"-products, which flood our markets? Not practical, as they are usually the cheapest around?

3 posted on 03/15/2004 6:18:26 AM PST by TXBSAFH (KILL-9 needs no justification.)

Vladimir Lenin - "Comrades, don't panic, when things get very tough for us, we will give the bourgeoisie a rope, and the bourgeoisie will hang itself. "
Vladimir Ilyich - But where are we going to get enough rope to hang the whole bourgeoisie?"
Vladimir Lenin - "They will sell it to us themselves."

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