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| Podcasts with CSN's Director Emeritus John Kusumi. Latest CSN activities, issue explanations, analysis and advocacy. |
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Mar 23: - NEW ROCK SONG - world debut!
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15 minute podcast debuts a new rock band - Light Club - performing Freedom First (Olympics Second) - the new theme song for our Coalition! Discussion of Tibet's new crackdown, and invitation to our upcoming rally!
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Apr 12: On the road, fighting the Olympics
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19 minute podcast reviews what is happening with the Freedom First Olympics Second Coalition. Includes 1 minute radio news report and pre-recorded audio from Boston's rally, and Light Club's Freedom First (Olympics 2nd) rock song. Come up to speed about this anti-Olympics activism!
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U.S. Persecution for Falun Gong?
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Is Communist-led persecution the latest import that has come to America from Communist China? Flushing, NY has become the flash point for confrontations between CCP-led mobs with tactics from the era of the Cultural Revolution -- as they have engaged in
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IOC: Move the Olympics to Athens
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IOC: Move the Olympics to Athens Speech commemorating the Tiananmen Square ("June 4") massacre's 19th anniversary, as delivered on June 1 2008, calls for IOC action By John Kusumi (video version on YouTube at
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Remembering Tiananmen Square 2008
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Remembering Tiananmen Square In 2008 Events to be held around the world this week May 30, 2008 (CSN) -- It is that time of year for the annual commemorations and memorial observances to remember the freedom fighters of Tiananmen Square,
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Condoleeza Rice On Hot Seat Again
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Condoleeza Rice On Hot Seat Again An open letter to the U.S. Secretary of State from the China Support Network; calls for diplomatic demarche to Communist China By John Kusumi Dear Secretary Rice, Perhaps you look upon relations with
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Disaster for China adds to woes for the Beijing Olympic Games Wei Jingsheng and IFCSS call for cancellation or curtailment of the Olympics May 15, 2008 (CSN) -- This has clearly been a very troubled year for China. Immediately before
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Chinese dissident begins 500 mile walk
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Chinese dissident Dr. Yang Jianli is walking from Boston to Washington DC, May 4 - June 4, 2008. This is his speech at the kick off rally at Boston City Hall Plaza, May 4 2008: Good afternoon. Thank you for coming to send me off on my walk to
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Activists paint Pillar orange; Yang begins walk
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Activists paint Pillar orange; Yang Jianli begins 500 mile walk Two stories in the latest CSN update May 4, 2008 (CSN) -- Danish sculptor Jens Galschiot is an artist with a lengthy relationship to the Chinese democracy movement. He is
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White Flowers for June 4
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White Flowers for June 4 A call for public action in China By John Kusumi Speech as delivered at rally on the Green of New Haven, CT – 4/26/2008 Hello! Well New Haven, I’m glad to be with you here. I’m glad that we’re putting some
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China is the new Soviet Union
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China is the new Soviet Union Speech from joint rally for Human Rights Torch Relay; Boston Massachusetts, March 30 2008 As prepared By John Kusumi Thank you Boston; you are wonderful. And thank you to the organizers; today’s event needed
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Announcements
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CSN announces six rallies, reacts to new outrage by Chinese government, upgrades web site, releases new rock song March 27, 2008 (CSN) -- The China Support Network (CSN) and partners in the Freedom First, Olympics Second Coalition (FFOSC) are
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IFCSS issues statement on Tibet
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Statement by the Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars (IFCSS) on the Tibet Issue March 17, 2008 Since mid March, there has been a peaceful petition and demonstration by the monks and people of Tibet, which evolved into a bloody
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Three stories today
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CSN Condemns Rising Tibetan Death Toll; HRW Raises Fears of Detainee Torture; JPK Calls Again for Condoleeza Rice to Resign 1. CSN Condemns Rising Tibetan Death Toll and Lies of China's Regime Protests have wracked the Himalayan region of
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China Interim Government responds to Tibet crisis
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The following is a public statement issued March 14, 2008, by the China Interim Government (CIG). CIG was created late in 2007 and opened this year by Chinese dissidents. Its senior leadership includes Wu Fan, Jia Jia, Yuan Hongbing, and Tang Baiqiao.
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Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition Expresses Its Support to the Tibetans' Freedom Fight
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March 14, 2008 We have closely watched the events evolving in the last a few days related to the Tibetans' freedom fight all over the world, especially in Lhasa, Capital of Tibet. Exactly 49 years after the brutal military crackdown and massacre of the
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Wei Jingsheng decries US' PNTR trade treatment for Communist China
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February, 2008 I am grateful to the two candidates of the Democratic Party of the USA. Finally, you have included the important issues of millions of American workers' jobs in your campaign agenda. Seven years ago, during the hot debate over
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Statement from Wang Dan
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Wang Dan discusses China at DC's National Press Club Transcript of his prepared remarks follows. November 29, 2007 in Washington, D.C.: Carrie Conko: Good morning, and welcome to the Morning Newsmakers at the National Press Club. My name
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Tibet heats up; Beijing loses its cool
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Tibet heats up, and Beijing loses its cool Tibet may have a Burma-style uprising with Buddhist monks; part of the fallout from the Dalai Lama's award received in the U.S. October 21, 2007 (CSN) -- Ming Pao, a Chinese-language newspaper in
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Splendid day for anti-communism
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Opinion: Today is a "splendid day" to confront Chinese Communism by John Kusumi It is a splendid day on which to confront the regime of the Chinese Communist Party. Today, the Dalai Lama is being honored at the U.S. Congress with a
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Washington DC Event on Monday
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News Conference Follows Washington's "Olympic Freedom Run" The Freedom First, Olympics Second Coalition invites press to the National Press Club Time: 9:00 am - 11:00 am, Monday, October 1, 2007 Location: Morrow Room, National Press Club
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Yang Jianli is stronger than ever, upon freedom
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Yang Jianli says he's "stronger than I have ever been"; China's prison only "strengthened my resolve" Freed from captivity and reunited with his family in the U.S., Chinese dissident Yang Jianli held a Capitol Hill press
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The sound of justice reaches China from afar
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Timothy Cooper reminds China of the sound of justice Marking July 20's eighth anniversary of Falun Gong persecution, from Washington DC's Mall, Timothy Cooper delivered this speech with live broadcasting into China By Timothy
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Are Vietnam Dissidents Having a Tiananmen-style situation?
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July 18, 2007 (CSN) -- Note. CSN is passing along the following report that originates from a Vietnamese-American group. While we believe the group (vietnamvote.net, an ethnic Vietnamese bloc of American voters) to be credible, we have not independently
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Goddess of Democracy provides focus
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Goddess of Democracy Becomes Focal Point for 'Second June 4 Movement' Recent rallies deliver ideas for China and criticism for US President, IOC President, US media, HK media July 6, 2007 (CSN) -- Tang Baiqiao, Chairman of the China Peace
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An Invitation to Washington
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China's pro-democracy movement: Washington event upcoming Monday, 7/2 Veteran figures will road test their political messages at the new Victims of Communism Memorial - featuring a statue of Tiananmen Square's Goddess of Democracy June 29,
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CDP Takes The Lead
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Chinese democracy movement rises above its Inside Baseball The news from CDP suggests that a highly competent Xu Wenli is winning his high-stakes power play By John P. Kusumi DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT INSIDE BASEBALL The Chinese
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NED-China-awards to highlight human rights abuse, honor Tom Lantos
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NED-China-awards Life and work of Tom Lantos will be honored with Democracy Service Medal According to their press release, on Tuesday June 17, the National Endowment for Democracy will honor the heroic efforts of Chinese workers, lawyers, and writers
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Nancy Pelosi's Remarks of June 4, 2008
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Thank you all very much for your wonderful welcome. Nineteen years ago, Chinese students, workers and citizens marched in peace in Tiananmen Square. They raised the Goddess of Democracy in the image of our own Statue of Liberty. They quoted America's
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Wednesday Event in San Francisco
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San Francisco Event To Remember Tiananmen Square We are pleased to add to our listings of events, commemoration of the 19th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in the Chinatown of San Francisco. In San Francisco's Chinatown -- just one block
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Sunday Event in Seattle
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Date: Sunday, June 1st, 2-4 pm Place: Westlake Park 401 Pine St. Seattle, WA Against Violence in Tiananmen, Tibet and Elsewhere As the Beijing Olympic comes closer, in 2008, the world is spotting human rights issues in China more than ever before.
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Appeal for the Color Orange
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In line with our recent story about the Color Orange movement, what follows is the text of an email appeal. The project's originators would like all concerned to copy and paste this into an email, then send it to everyone on your list or in your address
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John Kusumi blogs about April, 2008
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It can be said that my month of April really began on March 30. On that day, the Human Rights Torch Relay got underway in the United States, and I spoke at length to its kickoff rally in Boston, Massachusetts. That was two weeks after a renewed uprising
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For Tibet's monks, death by starvation?
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According to the blog over at SFT (Students for a Free Tibet), As the Chinese government continues its inhumane siege of major monasteries in and around Lhasa, a new danger is emerging for Tibetan monks: death by starvation. Chinese military forces
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Wei Jingsheng speaks at Tibet protest opposite U.S. White House
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On the afternoon of March 22, 2008, the Tibetans in the Washington DC metro area held a rally in the park just north of the Whitehouse. They protested the Chinese Communist government's killing of Tibetan people and monks. They also protested President
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Wei Jingsheng At European Parliament
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Wei Jingsheng Speaks at the European Parliament to the ALDE Group about Chinese Human Rights Issues: The Death Penalty, Arms Embargo, and Beijing Olympics The chairman of the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition, Mr. Wei Jingsheng, was invited by the
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Bush, Dalai Lama Remarks Transcript
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On Wednesday, October 17 2007, a ceremony was held at the U.S. Capitol, in which the Dalai Lama -- spiritual and temporal leader of Tibetans -- was honored and received a Congressional Gold Medal. This blog post is not an analysis, but just the literal
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Cinderella Singer Hides from Communist Goons Trying to Stop Her from Attending International Vocal Competition
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The following story is inspired by the situation of Su Hongyu: Su Hongyu had always dreamed of being a singer. Since the time she was six years old she used to spend hours a day listening to famous singers around the world. Her parents would ask her
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Washington Post publishes Yang Jianli
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It was interesting to see the Op-Ed article by Yang Jianli, released by the Washington Post for its September 30 issue. It is rare for mainstream U.S. news media to let on -- to breathe a word of the existence of the Chinese democracy movement, still
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Remarks of Yang Jianli
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The following fifteen minutes of remarks were given by Dr. Yang Jianli, a Chinese dissident newly free in America after five years as a political prisoner, at a press conference on Capitol Hill, Tuesday August 21, 2007. Yang was flanked by his family, by
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Freedom First, Olympics Second appears in ET
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Here is a second article about last week's event that appeared in the Epoch Times: http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-7-9/57426.html
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CDP Direction/Timeline for Chinese government
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Proposed Direction and Timeline to the Chinese Government for the Implementation of Political Reform in the People’s Republic of China Xu Wenli (May 15 2006) We recognize and applaud the efforts taken by the various Chinese political opposition
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Burma's Democracy Movement May Boycott China's Geoncide Olympics
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This interesting re-posted article (originally from Dictator Watch) is from a viewpoint aligned with Burma's pro-democracy movement. CSN and Chinese dissidents have stood in solidarity, where we have great sympathy with Burma's pro-democracy movement
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The story of an event & protest in Hollywood/L.A., 3/3/07
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The Beijing Tourism Bureau sent out more than 500 people for a parade in Los Angeles to promote the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but encountered several hundred demonstrators protesting the event. Hundreds of paraders versus hundreds of protestors More
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CCP Defector Jia Jia Regains Freedom
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According to NTDTV, "A former Chinese official who defected from the Chinese communist party and sought refuge in Indonesia, has now been released by Indonesian officials. On March 9, Indonesian authorities detained Jia Jia and said they planned to
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Official US State Department Memorandum on Legal Status of Taiwan
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Memorandum July 13, 1971 To: KA/ROC – Mr. Charles T. Sylvester From: L/EA – Robert I. Starr Subject: Legal Status of Taiwan You have asked for a comprehensive memorandum analyzing the question of the legal status of Taiwan in terms suitable for
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Oppose the threat to Taiwan!
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Dear All: The China Support Network recommends this protest, against the Mainland China "Anti-Secession Law" that is intended to threaten Taiwan with military action. Oppose the threat to Taiwan! If you are in or near New York for Wednesday, 3/14
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Observance of Tibetan Uprising Day
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Join Tibetan Uprising Day in New York Saturday, March 10th, 2007 10am: Rally starts at Cadman Plaza near Brooklyn Bridge 12pm: Programs at Dag Hammerskjolk Plaza at the United Nations (47th Street & 1st Ave) 4pm: Vigil and Speeches at Union Square (14th
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Communist China soon to be carbon emitter No. 1
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I don't wish to start a debate on the science of "climate change" (although I do think it would be an entertaining and informative one), but I do believe I have the ultimate evidence that Kyoto is an utterly useless, and even dangerous, agreement:
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19MM resignations from the Chinese Communist Party!
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On Feb. 27, '07 while the U.S. stock market was on its roller coaster plunge, and different numerical milestone was reached -- the reported number of people, resigning from the Chinese Communist Party, reached and passed 19 million. This pertains to a
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Recent repartee
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An earlier post from the CSN blog, 'Nuances for media savvy types,' became an article, published at two web sites, one 'left-leaning' and one 'right-leaning.' It's here-- News Media Protects Bad Guys
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Good Morning. Your world is now less safe.
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The United States of America, arguably the most powerful nation on Earth, just caved to Stalinist North Korea. There is no other way to describe today's "agreement," besides surrender or betrayal. We will all see and hear a lot of false praise for the
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CSN is proudly sponsoring the Coalition:
Logo links to Coalition website, NoOlympics.org
No political freedom - China has had zero
progress on opening up its political system. At its top, the Chinese
Communist Party is the same party that the Soviet Union backed; that Mao
Zedong used to persecute millions; and, the same party that on June 4,
1989 used its PLA troops to clear Tiananmen Square--with live
ammunition, used against China's college students and innocent civilian
demonstrators--in the 'Tiananmen Square massacre.' 3,000 people were
killed while asking for "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
China's system remains a totalitarian dictatorship of one party--the
Communist Party--with ways that are evil, murderous, corrupt,
diabolical, and brutally repressive. |
Religious crackdown - Since 1999, China's
crackdown against Falun Gong has been front-and-center, with
practitioners persecuted, incarcerated, sent to labor camps, tortured,
killed, and having their organs removed for medical transplants.
The government has made known that no one will be held accountable for
Falun Gong deaths, so police have pushed them out of high rise windows
and later listed suicide as the cause of death.
China also persecutes Christians, Buddhists, other qi gong groups, and
Uighur Muslims. |
Forced abortions - China has a 'One Child
Policy' that allows just one child per couple. For second pregnancies,
coerced abortions are ordered, and forced sterilizations are also
performed.
Work units keep information about women's menstrual cycles and birth
control. |
Torture - In Chinese prisons, beatings are
common, as are sleep deprivation and extremes of heat, cold, and hunger.
Electric cattle prods are used, and there is worse sadism. Women
reporting rape and sexual torture noted, "Iron wire has been used to
pierce our nipples. They have sexually violated our bodies using
eggplants, toothbrushes and plastic water bottles." The electric cattle
prods have shocked prisoners' sexual organs. Some have been force-fed
urine and feces.
Per reports, "None of the policemen who have conducted such sadistic
acts have been punished. Instead, they are rewarded and promoted by the
government!" |
Journalism crackdown - China lacks freedom
of the press. China was the leading jailer of journalists in 1999, 2000,
2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005, per the Committee to Protect
Journalists, which said--
"Central authorities in China under the administration of Hu Jintao have
taken broad steps to tighten control over the press, sometimes with the
aid of businesses operating in China's increasingly commercialized media
environment."
News coverage remains guided by party-controlled news agencies.
Journalists who stray from the party line may face vague charges like
'subverting state power' or 'leaking state secrets.' In a famous recent
case, Shi Tao was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for the latter
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Internet crackdown - China applies tech
savviness to suppressing free expression on the internet. Projects like
"The Great Firewall of China" and the "Golden Shield Project" serve to
block access to unacceptable foreign websites, and to place domestic
internet users under surveillance. The new "Google.cn" is a search
engine that censors itself, saying nothing about the Tiananmen Square
massacre or efforts to free Tibet.
Microsoft, Yahoo, Cisco, and Google have all been helpful to the
Communist regime in its censorship efforts. They "caved in to Beijing
for the sake of profits," per Rep. Tom Lantos at a Congressional hearing
about it. Yahoo helped Chinese authorities to jail Shi Tao, by providing
account information to China's regime. Shi got a ten year sentence. |
Cultural genocide in occupied Tibet - Tibet
was invaded by the Red Army of Chinese Communists, soon after the 1949
rise of communism in mainland China, and Tibet has suffered under
occupation ever since. Human rights atrocities continue to befall
Tibetans, with over a million Tibetans killed in China's mass murder.
Some 6,200 Tibetan monasteries have been destroyed. These monasteries
served as the centers for Tibetan cultural, educational and religious
life. The number of Tibetan monks-over 100,000 in 1957-has been reduced
to less than 4,000 today. Sacred art and statuary have been melted into
bullion or sold for foreign exchange by the Communist Chinese. An
estimated 60 percent of Tibet's religious and historical literature has
been burned or destroyed.
China has moved massive numbers of Chinese settlers into Occupied Tibet,
to dilute the Tibetan percentage of the population. Tibetan Buddhism and
Tibetan culture are being wiped out by Communists, deliberately and
systematically. |
| Energy and resource competition - With its
rapidly growing economy and its huge population, China is adding to the
world demand for energy and resources; adding to competition for, and
increasing the scarcity of, precious commodities including oil, the
world's non-renewable energy source. China is a net importer of oil, and
hence it has interests in the Middle East and in Central Asia - interests
on a collision course with ours. Our price of gasoline is rising due in
part to China. |
Support for terrorism and rogue nations -
China has been both a banker and a financier to al-Qaeda, laundering
money for al-Qaeda and purchasing a U.S. cruise missile that had failed
to explode.
In the Middle East, China has stepped into the role of the former Soviet
Union. The regionís politics now have two camps: client states of China,
and client states of America. In Afghanistan and Iraq, U.S. troops
uncovered Chinese made weapons as hard proof that China has been
provisioning our enemies. Burma, Cuba, Sudan, Pakistan, Iran, North
Korea, and Vietnam are among more client states of China. |
| WMD proliferation -
Why have Pakistan and North Korea recently gained nuclear weapons? Why
is Iran now threatening to do the same? A partial answer is that it has
pleased the Chinese regime to be of assistance to these nations' WMD
programs, and to their acquisition of vehiclesómissilesóto deliver such
warheads. China has proceeded with such technology transfers, perhaps
with one eye on making money, and with one eye on opposing the United
States. |
| Threats to free-and-democratic Taiwan - When
Communists took over mainland China, they never got to the island of
Taiwan, where freedom and democracy have taken root and bloomed. There
is one country on each side of the Taiwan Strait, but Beijing has
harassed and bullied Taiwan for 57 years. Beijing blocks Taiwan from
membership in the UN and in the WHO. Beijing routinely threatens to use
force to unify Taiwan with the mainland, and in 2005 passed an
anti-secession lawópossible legal pretext to a Taiwan invasion. Some 800
ballistic missiles have been placed on the mainland facing Taiwan. That
military buildup continues, and war in the Taiwan Strait would require
the United States to get involved, due to U.S. commitments for the
defense of Taiwan. Chinese generals have threatened to 'nuke' the U.S.
if it defends Taiwan. |
| Trouble for U.S. national security -
Elsewhere in our pages, Chinese threats to national security were
discussed—its military modernization, possible role in nuclear screening
of U.S.-bound cargo, energy and resource competition, support for
terrorism and rogue nations, WMD proliferation, and threats to the free
and democratic country of Taiwan. A nuclear-armed communist superpower,
on balance, is a national security risk. Communists, dictators, tyrants
and thugs—including Chinese leaders—are threats to freedom. |
| Trouble for U.S. economy - A trade deficit
is a bad thing from dollar one. A trade deficit with tyranny is worse.
That suggests the current U.S. trade deficit with China is "bad times
202 billion, and then some." Possible further trouble from trade
deficits includes— job loss, wage depression, weakening of the U.S.
dollar, higher inflation, higher cost of living, and erosion of the
industrial base. A trade deficit is a transfer of wealth in the wrong
direction; a hemmorage of liquidity for our economy; and, it contributes
to the current account deficit in our nationÌs balance-of-payments
accounting. |
| Slave labor (Laogai camps) - China has
laojiao, administrative detention for up to three years with no due
process and no trial. Laojiao is the first step on a prisoner's route to
Laogai, a labor camp (prison and incarceration) where inmates endure
brutal conditions, torture, and forced labor. Laogai labor may
manufacture things like Christmas lights and toys for export. Laogai
labor also goes by another word: slavery. That's economic dirty pool
that cuts against American workers as well as the millions of suffering
Chinese in the Laogai camps. |
| Prisoner organ harvesting for profit - If
prison camps and labor camps are not enough, China also runs death
camps—horrific concentration camps that remind one of the Nazi Holocaust
in World War II's Europe. The Laogai Research Foundation has documented
the practice of organ harvesting from prisoners upon execution, and
recently the Epoch Times documented a camp for Falun Gong practitioners
where slaughter for organs was the purpose. Per reports, organs were
taken from prisoners while still alive, prior to extermination in this
'camp of no return.' |
| Crimes against humanity in East Turkestan -
East Turkestan is a land like Tibet in that it was invaded and occupied
by Communist China. The same atrocities as in Tibet are perpetrated
here, and another: Communists used the land for above-ground open-air
nuclear tests, killing over 200,000 East Turkestanis, who tend to be
Uighur Muslims. |
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