Posted on 07/18/2002 12:33:29 PM PDT by I_Publius
Chinese brides of Taiwanese men who went to China to visit their families were ordered by Beijing to have abortions or to undergo surgery to have their fallopian tubes tied. They were also fined and threatened with punishment under China's one-child policy if they had more children, a Taiwan official said yesterday.
The Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF, ®ü°ò·|) yesterday distributed a news release to reporters saying that, since the beginning of last year, the foundation has received six complaints regarding such cases.
Patricia Lin (ªL²Q¶{), director of the SEF's Department of Legal Services, said yesterday the victims told the foundation that, if Chinese birth-control personnel found that a Chinese bride of a Taiwanese man already had one child, they would force her to undergo a pregnancy test and tell her to have an abortion if she is found to be pregnant.
According to Lin, Chinese birth-control personnel also told Chinese brides who already had given birth to two children to undergo surgery to have their fallopian tubes tied. The women were also fined and their children's identification cards were confiscated as punishment for violating China's family planning regulations.
In addition, even if such a bride was pregnant with her first child, the Chinese birth-control personnel would tell her to have an abortion because "they did not get permission from the government to give birth," which is required in China.
"The victims only described what the Chinese officials told them to do, but we don't know for a fact if anyone was truly forced to have an abortion because they keep it private," Lin said.
Lin said that China's birth-control personnel might not fully understand Taiwanese law, and viewed the Taiwan-based brides' babies as an added burden on an overpopulated China.
"Under current Taiwanese regulations, children from cross-strait marriages can be registered as permanent residents of Taiwan, so they won't be a burden to China," Lin said.
She added that China's actions have seriously abused the rights of those who are bound together in cross-strait marriages.
The SEF reminded these couples to prepare for similar treatment if they intend to visit China.
The foundation also sent a letter last week to its Chinese counterpart, the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS, ®ü¨ó·|), to ask it to protect the rights of Chinese brides.
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How many of you will buy Chinese products, just because they are a few dollars less?
Once again, we need to get rid of the MFN trade status for China until they change their positions on human rights.
Damn Communists!!!
Our society is too greedy!
China is not anywhere as densely populated as either Japan, Indonesia, Phillipines, India or Bangladesh. China is only a little bit more dense than England, Italy, Germany, neatherlands, belgium with people.
Western China is pretty empty of people. I wouldn't be surprised if New Jersey is as densely populated as China. Manhattan is certainly more densely populated than China.
So, according to your own 'reality' statements, in New Jersey all couples except those who pay a large fee should be limited to 1 child. The government in New Jersey should check married women every month to see if their pregnant, then they should force the woman to have an abortion. You're saying that in the dense parts of US and in these other countries that are as dense or more dense than China that they have to do what the Chinese have done. That is sick.
Bigoted people among us have 1 standard for China and another standard for others. If your parents were subjected to the same standards that you advocate in China would you even exist?
Do us a favor, try to be a human being and consider these things.
1) They export to us 8 times what we export to them. We can't continue that over time. The US government intervenes into the financial markets to artificially prop up the US dollar, therefore, the free market system can't work to adjust currency values so that the imbalance can be addressed. Without tariffs we will lose our ability to produce, all factories will go to china.
2) China has a terrible human rights record. The current government has killed over 50 million of its' own citizens. The current government invaded Tibet and killed 25% of the Tibetan population. The current government imposed the 1 child policy which has caused parents to kill 55 million female babies. The current government executes 10,000 people a year simply to take their body parts and sell them. The current government as it exists today is very fascist, people are thrown in jail for having bibles or for meditating even.
3) China is a military rival of the US. We enable them at our peril. They've vowed to take Taiwan, that means war with the US according to the policy we've had for 50 years and still have. In 1996 Chinese government officials threatened war against the US both in public speeches and in private meetings with US officials. The Chinese government was aiding the Taliban before 911, the Chinese government facilitates the spread of nuclear weapons know-how and other wmd's to both Pakistan and North Korea, 2 very dangerous nations.
We had very good humanitarian reasons 20 years ago to open up to China because China was experiencing starvation. We've done that, we've even over-done that. We need to put tariffs on their products. American corps need to learn to produce in America. The US government is under no obligation to help corporations that act in a manner that is against the american interest and against the values that we hold.
But don't you dare let farmers sell their crops to Cuba.
Remember, they are the bad guys here..
I think you exaggerate. Besides, if they get all the factories, who would buy their products, we'd all be unemployed.
This the result of greediness; for votes and for money. Both the liberals and conservatives seem to be forgetting that there is a huge group of people in this nation, namely the majority, who don't benefit from importing poor people or sending jobs overseas. Evidently the politicians aren't hearing us.
That's right. The Chinese peasants are very feudalistic and they won't stop having children until they get a boy, then they treat their daughters like garbage and even sell the girls to brothels. It's very common to see households in the Chinese countryside with 3 to 6 children and all of them are girls except for the youngest. Those peasants are extremely poor and they are not afraid of any financial penalty because they have nothing.
You may not like the one-child policy, but it's the Chinese law and all Chinese citizens have to abide by it. I believe the brides have not received residence ID from the Taiwanese authorities, which means they are still Mainlander residents. That's why they are not allowed to have more than one child. The law is only applied to the Mainlander residents.
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