TRIPLETT: On China’s many atrocities
CCP piles up human rights violations
“It is no accident that virtually every
one of the Red Revolutionary families has sent its next generation (and the
family money) to safe havens in the West.”
By William C. Triplett II
The Washington
Times
Friday, September 28, 2012
It just so happens that both the United
States and China
will be engaged in leadership decisions this fall. In the case of the United
States, after a full discussion of the issues, the American people will elect a
new president or re-elect the incumbent. The American president will become (or
remain) the leader of the alliance of democratic nations.
By contrast, the Chinese
people will have had no voice in who has been pre-selected for them by the Chinese
Communist Party. They will not even know what policies he
favors or opposes. The new Chinese
Communist Party leader will head the alliance of nondemocratic
regimes.
Since the Tiananmen
Square massacre in 1989, Chinese officials have committed one
atrocity after another on their own people.
Many are hidden, but some have received
international attention. For instance, on Sept. 25, a British newspaper
published graphic pictures of a Chinese villager crushed to death beneath the
rollers of a giant road-grading machine. The villager had opposed the efforts
of a corrupt Chinese
government official to steal village land for commercial purposes,
and he was silenced — permanently. The man’s remains were “splattered under the
rollers of the giant machine,” the Daily Mail reported. This method of
execution may have been more imaginative than most, but the fact of corrupt
Chinese Communist officials abusing or even killing honest opponents remains
far too common.
On another occasion, it was revealed that
the Chinese
government was trying to block a United Nations
report from being released showing secret ties among China, Iran and North Korea
for the smuggling of weapons of mass destruction. U.N.
officials, to their credit, leaked their report to the wires.
If we only look at Communist Party
activities over the past 12 months, we would have to include the following:
Only one Chinese has ever won the Nobel
Peace Prize, and he’s still rotting in a communist jail.
There is increasing suppression of
Chinese who merely wish to practice their religion in peace and in private.
Environmental crimes by
Chinese-government-owned firms threaten the health and safety of hundreds of
millions of Chinese citizens and increasingly affect those downwind and
downriver.
Execution of prisoners for their valuable
body parts continues.
Increasing party efforts to eradicate
Tibetan culture and religious life lead to self-immolations by Tibetan young
people out of despair.
Cyber warfare is being directed at Japan
because of a territorial dispute.
Bullying and war threats are aimed at China’s neighbors in the
South China Sea.
Diplomatic protection of the Iranian
regime continues as well as increased purchases of Iranian oil and increased
investments in the Iranian petroleum sector.
Likewise, diplomatic protection of the
Syrian regime continues with no end in sight.
Rampant espionage directed against the
U.S. government and American private firms has reached historic levels.
We are beginning to
understand the extent of Chinese
government firms’ pillaging of the resources of African countries, in
league with their dictators. The People’s Liberation Army conducted a summer of
missile demonstrations meant to intimidate China’s neighbors on all
sides.
This is not a rain of dead cats — it is
just the Chinese Communist
Party’s current activities. If we were to go back beyond 12 months,
the data would become unmanageable and the body count in at least the tens of
millions.
President Reagan used to note
that a fish rots from the head downward. When a country’s top
leadership is selected in secret and not elected by the public, it has no
legitimacy. Its illegitimacy spreads downward to the point where a corrupt
local government official can commit a heinous act and the people have no
recourse but armed rebellion. No one knows this more than the Chinese
Communist Party rulers. It is no accident that virtually every
one of the Red Revolutionary families has sent its next generation (and the
family money) to safe havens in the West.
William C. Triplett II is
former chief Republican counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and
co-author of “Bowing to Beijing” (Regnery, 2011).
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