August, 2005 - Nr. 8
Concern about China
Sybille Forster-Rentmeister
In recent times many things have come to light about the communists party in China, that warrants a closer look, especially since we are having a large contingent of Chinese nationals coming to Canada, trying to free themselves of the shackles of communism. A fast growing publication, The Epoch Times, has been instrumental in exposing the machinations of terror in China and caused over 2 million people to renounce the party that is no longer what it set out to be. It no longer speaks for the people but for vested interests, as was pointed out and supported by testimony from a recent Chinese government defector. Other Chinese specialists were casting great shadows of uncertainty on the reigning government and posed questions that cannot be explained with the figures the Chinese government is presenting to the world.
What will happen when next year China is to reveal its banking system openly to the world? How will the figures that do not make any sense then stand up to scrutiny?
Why are we rewarding a country with aid and big financial contracts when we know for a fact that humans rights is something nonexistent in China?
As
part of a lecture series there was a panel discussion in the Toronto
University complex organized by a Friends of China organisation. The guest
speakers included Sheila Copps, former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and
a
very outspoken Senator Di Nino, who is in fact not a friend of China, but
rather a champion for Taiwan and Tibet.
Sheila Copps wondered herself why Canada did not adopt the same strategy with China as it did with South Africa.
All felt that it is up to the Chinese people to rid themselves of the evil that has befallen them. Yet it is quite clear from the lessons we can observe from history that nothing will happen if the pressure will come only from the inside. No oppressing regime ever gave up from internal pressure alone. Disapproval of other governments, not economic prostitution, as it was described at that forum, is the answer to such exercised oppression. The economic repercussions can be anything from mild to disastrous, depending how the whole story will end. But a reinventing of the system would be the Chinese Government’s best bet, since most of its officials are already leaving because they do not believe in the system they served anymore. Instead they bought fancy estates in Canada and the USA from foreign reserve funds.
To follow the story development closely go to www.epochtimes.com . You will find the reading fascinating.
