On January 11, 2012, Enghebatu Togochog, SMHRIC spokesperson was a guest on 77WABC with John Batchelor and Gordon Chang to briefly discuss the human rights situation in Southern (Inner) Mongolia.
I was directed to a piece on the China Heritage Project of the Australia National University webpages called “Caging the Monster.”
It begins:
“I am a Chinese writer. Allow me to say a few words about my country.”
and ends:
Finally, I hope you believe me that I am not a class enemy, nor an over-thrower of governments. All I want is to cage the monster. Yes, I am criticizing my country, but that doesn’t mean I hate my country. Rather, I love my country. I love her splendid mountains and rivers and her great civilization. I appreciate the suffering she has experienced. In fact, I love my country even more because of the suffering she has been through. Yes, I am criticizing her rotten system, but I do not want to see bloodshed while my country is improving herself. I hope the system will improve gracefully. I hope in the near future, in my country, flowers of freedom will blossom and children will smile without fear. I hope in the near future, my country, an ancient civilization, a land of suffering, will become a nation of prosperity, peace and freedom, for all.
The part in the middle is thought-provoking as well as the writings of a brave person who could suffer tremendous punishments for speaking his mind. Please take a moment to read his words and pass them along for others to see so that his potential sacrifice will have greater value.
For Freedom,
Freedom’s Herald
The day after I read about the new ‘lawlessness advisory,’ and how foreign business people can be beat-up and abused with no legal recourse, the Indian press once again drops a bombshell.
“Alert for Chinese terror threat to Dalai Lama” is the title of an article in the Times of India. Now rather than a clandestine operation against His Holiness the Dalai Lama, someone blurted it out in public. Everyone has to know that the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has it out for His Holiness and has been actively pursuing means and measures to silence him. There are plenty of articles pointing out what the US planned to do against Castro and some of the schemes that were actually attempted; can anyone seriously believe that Chinese security forces would be any less egregious?
In the years to come, the full details may leak out, but for now, we have one plot that has been identified. Six Chinese nationals are bound for India with plans to harm His Holiness and they are labeled ‘from China’s secret service.’
(Please tell me I am not alone in believing that the activities of the government of the PRC are criminal and continuing to treat them like BFFs is nonsense. This has been going on for years, but everybody just wants to sweep it under the carpet for the sake of cheap labor.)
The PRC, the new superpower (and continuing to insist that it is still a 3rd world country,) plans to send people to a foreign sovereign nation for essentially a terrorist operation. From a government whose laws link opposing viewpoints as a form of terrorism and always whines on about meddling in their sovereign affairs, this is so hypocritical. On one point they set the bar for terrorism in their country to be ‘separatist ideology’ and then send thugs to actually commit criminal acts that, if carried out, would be considered a terrorist attack. And ‘meddling in the affairs of a sovereign nation’ is one phrase that the Foreign Minister of the PRC should forget to utter. This is but one example of their arrogance towards the people and laws of other nations and indicates they will get away with whatever we let them get away with. Like calling and threatening US citizens or sending spies into overseas communities, or attacking dissidents from official Chinese government facilities in foreign nations, or selling weapons and ammunition to the ‘other side’ during armed conflicts or just jailing all the dissidents you can get your hands on.
To silence Rebiya Kadeer, they have jailed her children.
To silence Hada, they jailed him for fifteen years and after his sentence was over (Dec. 2010), he is still confined – and his family.
The same is true for countless people and it continues every day.
So please, let your feelings be known to the new man at the helm of US-PRC relations, Vice President Joseph Biden. As his website reads:
“Vice President Joe Biden is committed to creating the most open and accessible administration in American history”
If you care, let him know what you think, and – pass it along…
For Freedom
Freedom’s Herald
Imagine, the thought of doing business in the People’s Republic of China is normally shown as a great thing with many profits to be had. After all, didn’t these people hold an international sporting event not too long ago? We can ignore the abuses in human rights because ‘that is the way they are’ or the low wages (or zero wages if you are trapped in laogaiju) are OK because ‘they have a different take on life and aren’t materialistic.’ Rubbish, of course; but it will soothe the conscience while pocketing the dividends of cheap oppressed labor.
While I’m still imagining the business idea, where many international corporations are spending significant cash to fund new business with the leaders of the People’s Republic of China, I bumped into an advisory on the website of the Beijing Embassy of India:
Advisory for Indian businessmen/traders doing trade/business with Yiwu- Jan 3, 2011
01/03/2012
Advisory for Indian businessmen/traders doing trade/business with Yiwu
Indian traders and businessmen are hereby cautioned not to do business with Yiwu in Zhejiang province. They should be aware that when there are trade disputes with Yiwu, the Indian businessmen/traders can be illegally held under detention and mistreated by Chinese businessmen there. Based on experience, there is no guarantee that legal remedies will be readily available. Furthermore, in case of disputes arising, experience suggests that there is inadequate protection for safety of persons. All people who have business/trade with Yiwu are cautioned against doing business there and all people who do not have business/trade with Yiwu are requested to be careful that they do not do business with Yiwu. Indian businessmen are cautioned to stay away from Yiwu.
In case the original is removed, a pdf version exists here.
Seriously. There are lawlessness advisories on the internet for the People’s Republic of China? Are they normally kept to a smaller audience or is this just a the mark of escalating lawlessness. And you want to give them my job?
For Freedom,
Freedom’s Herald
The name of the book is “Business and the Risk of Crime in China” and is available from the Australian National University website.
Before you do business in the Peoples Republic of China, you may wish to obtain the latest information on what protections are accorded businesses and their owners.
For Freedom,
Freedom’s Herald
When Christian Bale went to see a blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng last week, the plainclothes police guarding Chen reportedly roughed up the actor.
When confronted the PRC Foreign Ministry spokesperson blamed the incident on Bale, saying:
What I understand is that the actor was invited by the director Zhang Yimou to attend the movie premiere. He was not invited to any village in Shandong to create news or make a film.
If he wants to create news, I don’t think that would be welcomed by China.
Reuters 12-21-2011
Chen is just one of many activists that are under house arrest as a result of the ‘Arab Spring.’ Almost all are in for trumped up charges, if the authorities even file charges. The only reason for the mass jailings is to maintain the absolute power of the Communist Chinese Party over the Chinese people and others that have been or are in the process of being ‘assimilated.’
How long before most of the people under the control of the Chinese Communist Party have had enough?
For Freedom,
Freedom’s Herald
Chinageeks has a summary of the happenings in Wukan, where corrupt Chinese government officials have been ejected from the village by the people. Now the village has been surrounded and the violence will escalate.
The Seeds of Wukan from chinageeks films on Vimeo.
These are brave people.
For Freedom,
Freedom’s Herald
Latest Hada Family News Update
A year after finishing a brutal 15 year sentence for speaking out on human rights, Hada and his family are still not free.
The PRC has, of late, been exerting a lot of pressure on the sovereign nation of Nepal.
Whether the pressure is to rewrite history and state that Tibet has never been independent or to return people to the control of the Chinese government after they have risked life and limb to escape.
On the first issue, I ran across a recently updated article in the Tibetan Political Review entitled, “The Forgotten History of Tibet’s Role in Nepal’s 1949 UN Application,” that states that Nepal used a treaty between the independent nation of Tibet and Nepal to prove their statehood to the UN. More recent statements to the contrary from the Maoist-led government have followed the PRC’s carefully worded dictates, but that doesn’t change history.
On the second pressure point, there has been quite a few instances where individuals have been subjected to refoulement. Like clockwork (or maybe dominos in a row,) country after country has bowed to the extreme meddling in their sovereign affairs by the PRC to permit the illegal return of people who fear retribution from the Chinese government authorities. Cambodia, Thailand, Pakistan and Kazakhstan have all returned Uighur refugees and in the no-so-distant past, but Nepal stood up to them and said no.
To give in to the demands of the PRC, even with so-called assurances, the fate of these human beings are in the hands of a cruel and despotic system where morality is measured in the loyalty towards the continuation of their rule, rather than the health, well-being and dignity of fellow citizens.
This may be old news to some, however it isn’t to the families of those who have been returned. They have yet to hear any word about their loved ones. Years will pass before the document is quietly smuggled out that shows they were shot dead on the runway when they landed, or they lasted through two weeks of torture before they succumbed to their injuries, or whatever other ghastly end some sick bureaucrat envisioned was necessary as punishment to dare disagree with the Party.
Every time that the PRC puts up such a fuss about returning ‘their’ people to ‘their’ country, there should be such a resounding cry of ‘NO!’ that they do not ever ask again. This is against UN conventions, why are they even asking? If PRC authorities are willing to contravene international law, maybe these folks have information that would be worth listening to or why else would the PRC try to bully it’s neighbors into breaking international law?
For Freedom,
Freedom’s Herald
Another glimpse of the rising world power (PRC) was exposed recently.
While a despotic dictator was clinging to power in Libya, fighting against not only the Libyan people, but also the might of NATO’s air muscle, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) extended an offer to sell weapons to the regime.
The PRC, hoping to prop up another despot in Africa, extended the offer back in July, according to the Globe and Mail in an article entitled, “China offered Gadhafi huge stockpiles of arms: Libyan memos.”
So, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the dictatorship of the people, decided that the policy of the PRC should be to ignore what the people want and stick with a despot. Obviously, it isn’t what the people want that matters – what does that say about being the proclaimed dictatorship of the people? Will they sell them out as well to maintain power – no need to answer – actions speak louder than words.
Now to examine our global ‘partner,’ our Asian ‘ally,’ our ‘friend,’ the PRC. If even one element of the weapons sold to Gadhafi injured a single sailor, airman or marine in NATO with even a scratch, that is a cause for war. The entire world backs the Libyan people and their struggle for freedom, how is it possible that a country on the UN Security Council could prolong the crisis by selling arms to the Gadhafi regime?
Make no mistakes, whether it is selling weapons to street gangs in the US or to dictators in Africa, the PRC is willing to sell the merchandise.
And they talk about being ‘civilized.’
For Freedom
