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September 8, 2010
Human Rights: The White House and China
The White House recently reversed another policy of the George W. Bush administration and sent a report on America to the UN Human Rights Council. President Obama’s litany of abuses by the United States includes discrimination and oppression of minorities, women, gays, the handicapped, and even takes Arizona’s new immigration law to task. Our president also modestly adds the grand work he is doing to save us from ourselves, like his healthcare program.
In November, Human Rights Council members from nice places like Cuba, Saudi Arabia, and Mexico will consider the White House confession of American cruelty and then draw up a remedial plan for Washington to carry out under UN supervision. In a stroke, President Obama will have ceded even more American sovereignty to international organizations. On the other hand, do you know what the Peoples Republic of China does about human rights? You should.
Every time the UN or NGOs like Amnesty International confront China with proven reports of systematic persecution of minorities like Muslim Uyghurs, Christians, Tibetans, and the Falun Gong religious sect, Beijing does exactly the same thing the Soviets did—the Chinese communists simply deny it all. President Obama is not their role model. China does not write self-indicting reports and certainly does not permit the UN or any other international body to oversee Chinese government actions and internal affairs. Laudable as that attitude may seem to us as we suffer the kakistocracy now running amok in Washington, we best remember that displays of Chinese pride stem from the fact that China is a communist authoritarian state. If you are a Chinese citizen you forget that at peril of your life.
With over a billion Chinese available, life is cheap to the commissars. It is so cheap that in 2007 they executed the head of their equivalent of the Food and Drug Administration for taking a few bribes. Then they shot Wang Zhendong for swindling some folks out of a mere $385 million by selling them boxes of ants. If Worldcom CEO Bernie Ebbers had been a Chinese citizen when he made $11 billion disappear, Beijing would have drawn and quartered him instead of awarding him 25 years in a comfortable jail.
Amnesty International reckons China accounts for 80% of all executions reported in the world. That is probably a low figure since a member of the Chinese legislature has bragged that his government executes 10,000 people every year. Nevertheless, because China finances our huge debt, talks like a free market nation, and sports a kind of stock exchange, we want to think they are like us. We seem to overlook their demands that we get out of the Pacific and leave them in charge. But as President Obama makes humble bows to China’s president, there are still those who remind us of the true nature of that Asian workers paradise. This week there were two such reminders in Washington.
Recently the Kennedy Center again featured Shen Yun, a display of Chinese dance, song, and music that can only be described as an extravaganza. Those fortunate to have tickets to the production sponsored by New Tang Dynasty Television, the Falun Dafa Association, the Asia Vision Foundation, the Landos Foundation, and the M&S Grill, had their senses overwhelmed by color and sound difficult to adequately describe. And through it all ran a silken thread of Buddhist philosophy and a prayer that the “Red Regime” and the “Red Tide” will sink. The ambassador from Beijing was not in the audience.
If you missed Shen Yun this time, they will return. In the meantime, do not miss seeing Mao’s Last Dancer, an award-winning film now running in local cinemas. Based on the best-selling autobiography of Li Cunxin, it tells the fascinating story of 11-year old Li, one of six brothers born to an impoverished Chinese peasant family. Selected by Madame Mao’s Ballet Academy for ideological and artistic training, Li became one of the first exchange students the Mao regime allowed to visit America. Dancing with the Houston Ballet, Li discovered freedom and refused to return to China. That led to an abduction standoff at the Chinese consulate that made world headlines.
Since Li Cunxin now lives “down under,” it is not surprising the film was directed by Bruce Beresford, the Australian who brought us dozens of films like Tender Mercies, The Contract, and Driving Miss Daisy. The movie is another of his masterpieces. Whether you like ballet or not, you will be taken by Beresford’s mesmerizing blend of dance, drama, and romance until, like me, you will find yourself applauding the perfect finale. Then, like me, on the street outside the theatre you will remember it was the rulers of Mao’s communist China who caused the anguish in Li’s life.
The brutal masters of today’s China are no different.
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing editor Chet Nagle is a Naval Academy graduate and Cold War carrier pilot who flew in the Cuban Missile Crisis. After a stint as a navy research officer, he joined International Security Affairs as a Pentagon civilian – then came defense and intelligence work, life abroad for 12 years as an agent for the CIA, and extensive time in Iran, Oman, and many other countries. Along the way, he graduated from the Georgetown University Law School and was the founding publisher of a geo-political magazine, The Journal of Defense & Diplomacy, read in over 20 countries and with a circulation of 26,000. At the end of his work in the Middle East, he was awarded the Order of Oman in that allied nation’s victory over communist Yemen; now, he writes and consults. He and his wife Dorothy live in Virginia.
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The well orchestrated campaign against President Barrack Obama is driven by racist fly by nights and is doomed to fail.
In many ways Obama has restored the respect of Anerica globally and not anxious fear as was during the dim Bush administration.
Cut the crap and get down to serious writing!
posted by: Gwada Ogot
Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 12:37 AM
Gwada Ogot please explain how an article on China and human rights is a racist attack on Obama? Did you really read the article? What is doomed to fail is your blindly trying to defend everything Obama does to the point of ignoring other problems in our world.
posted by: Mapl Light
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 02:00 PM
Why use Chinese baggage to paint the Obama administration in bad light- just how much money did the Bush administration borrow from the Chinese? Isnt this just a part of the well orchestrated internet slime campaign thats all too evident?
posted by: Gwada Ogot
Sunday, October 3, 2010 at 02:45 PM
