(Teh Eng Koon/AFP/Getty Images)Apr 28, 2008
By Zhang Tianliang
Epoch Times Staff
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has often accused Western countries of having a double standard concerning human rights issues, when in fact the CCP should really be blaming itself.
While branding many other governments as holding "hegemonic foreign policy and domestic democracy," the CCP takes care to implement a completely opposite policy: They are servile with foreigners and relentless with its own people.
Take for instance the regulations the CCP promulgated governing the prevention and control of AIDS at ports and border checkpoints. The regulations stipulate that Chinese citizens who stay overseas for longer than one year are subject to an AIDS examination upon their arrival in China. However, foreigners and the Chinese with acquired foreign citizenship are exempted from these quarantine procedures.
In addition, in China's official report on national food safety and quality published on August 17, 2007, it indicated that over 99 percent of exported food products were up to standard, while for domestic food products the same rate was only 77.9 percent. This is another striking example of the regime's discrimination against its own people.
During the great famine of 1958 that lasted until 1962, over 30 million Chinese people starved to death. During the famine, the CCP spent 2.3 billion yuan (US$ 328 million) as aid to other communist countries. Had the money been used for food, many could have been saved.
The CCP has also implemented double standards over its foreign policies. It often harshly criticized democratic countries while siding with rogue countries. China has published documents concerning the human rights situation in the U.S., but it has never published anything about human rights conditions in North Korea, the Sudan or Myanmar. On the contrary, the CCP has often sided with Serbia and Iraq totalitarian governments at critical moments. However, when some 200,000 Chinese in Cambodia were massacred by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s and in 1998 when many Chinese in Indonesia were killed, raped and had their homes set afire by rioters, the CCP just remained silent.
Not only does the CCP adopt double standards, many Chinese people have been trained to embrace a similar ideology when expressing their patriotism.
For instance, some Chinese have frequently showed strong resentment for the "Tibetan Separatists" as though safeguarding the nation's sovereignty and territorial integrity was their supreme mission, regardless of the fact that the Dalai Lama has repeated over and over again that he has no intention of having Tibet declare independence. Contrary to that, the same group of Chinese people have never expressed any rejection to Mao Zedong's handing over Mongolia (1.5 million square kilometers in size) and Jiang Zemin's giving the northern frontier to Russia (1 million square kilometers in size).
Another example is the fury and rage some Chinese have cast towards CNN commentator Jack Cafferty after his so-called "anti-China" remarks. In contrast to this, they have remained silent about the announcement made by the Xinhua News Agency, mouthpiece of the CCP, that starting from February 22 this year, Beijing would begin issuing "temporary residence permits" to ensure the security of the upcoming Olympic Games. Without such permits, any Chinese who are not Beijing permanent residents will be swept out of the city like garbage. It seems that these Chinese people haven't realized that such a permit is actually a more severe form of discrimination against their fellow countrymen whose humble wish is just to watch the Olympics in Beijing.
When Japan invaded China during World War II, it led to twenty million Chinese casualties. Nowadays, many Chinese people still get all worked up and upset when talking about Japan. Nonetheless, ever since the CCP seized power in 1949, repetitive political movements in China have caused the unnatural deaths of at least 80 million Chinese. Even though that death toll is four times as high as that caused by the Japanese, it is totally ignored by the "angry Chinese" who seem to have a form of selective amnesia.
Many Chinese were particularly unhappy with the apparent betrayal of Empress Dowager Cixi of Qing Dynasty who issued the order "Please the invaders using everything we have" to settle the Eight-Nation Allied Army's Invasion in 1900. However, Cixi's wrongdoing is just the tip of the iceberg when compared to what the CCP has done since its takeover. According to a recent article by Chinese economist Zuo Dapei titled "Chinese Banks Have Become the Super Cash Dispensers for Foreign Investors," the selling of 13 Chinese banks and insurance firms to foreign investors at very cheap prices caused losses of more than a trillion yuan (US$142 billion) worth of national assets during 2006 alone. In the face of such betrayal, the "angry Chinese" have pretended to be blind again.
When facts like the ones above are brought to light, we cannot help feel deeply worried about the future of our country. Many people's thinking may not be sufficiently rational to analyze and make an effort to understand all of the facts before making their judgments. Some may seem to suffer from Schizophrenia, venting their sentiments in the name of "patriotism." Others may be just trying to please the CCP in hopes of political gains. If the "angry Chinese" do not really care about China's future or their fellow countrymen's welfare, their "patriotism" has no constructive meaning at all. Instead, it can only hurt the nation.
While branding many other governments as holding "hegemonic foreign policy and domestic democracy," the CCP takes care to implement a completely opposite policy: They are servile with foreigners and relentless with its own people.
Take for instance the regulations the CCP promulgated governing the prevention and control of AIDS at ports and border checkpoints. The regulations stipulate that Chinese citizens who stay overseas for longer than one year are subject to an AIDS examination upon their arrival in China. However, foreigners and the Chinese with acquired foreign citizenship are exempted from these quarantine procedures.
In addition, in China's official report on national food safety and quality published on August 17, 2007, it indicated that over 99 percent of exported food products were up to standard, while for domestic food products the same rate was only 77.9 percent. This is another striking example of the regime's discrimination against its own people.
During the great famine of 1958 that lasted until 1962, over 30 million Chinese people starved to death. During the famine, the CCP spent 2.3 billion yuan (US$ 328 million) as aid to other communist countries. Had the money been used for food, many could have been saved.
The CCP has also implemented double standards over its foreign policies. It often harshly criticized democratic countries while siding with rogue countries. China has published documents concerning the human rights situation in the U.S., but it has never published anything about human rights conditions in North Korea, the Sudan or Myanmar. On the contrary, the CCP has often sided with Serbia and Iraq totalitarian governments at critical moments. However, when some 200,000 Chinese in Cambodia were massacred by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s and in 1998 when many Chinese in Indonesia were killed, raped and had their homes set afire by rioters, the CCP just remained silent.
Not only does the CCP adopt double standards, many Chinese people have been trained to embrace a similar ideology when expressing their patriotism.
For instance, some Chinese have frequently showed strong resentment for the "Tibetan Separatists" as though safeguarding the nation's sovereignty and territorial integrity was their supreme mission, regardless of the fact that the Dalai Lama has repeated over and over again that he has no intention of having Tibet declare independence. Contrary to that, the same group of Chinese people have never expressed any rejection to Mao Zedong's handing over Mongolia (1.5 million square kilometers in size) and Jiang Zemin's giving the northern frontier to Russia (1 million square kilometers in size).
Another example is the fury and rage some Chinese have cast towards CNN commentator Jack Cafferty after his so-called "anti-China" remarks. In contrast to this, they have remained silent about the announcement made by the Xinhua News Agency, mouthpiece of the CCP, that starting from February 22 this year, Beijing would begin issuing "temporary residence permits" to ensure the security of the upcoming Olympic Games. Without such permits, any Chinese who are not Beijing permanent residents will be swept out of the city like garbage. It seems that these Chinese people haven't realized that such a permit is actually a more severe form of discrimination against their fellow countrymen whose humble wish is just to watch the Olympics in Beijing.
When Japan invaded China during World War II, it led to twenty million Chinese casualties. Nowadays, many Chinese people still get all worked up and upset when talking about Japan. Nonetheless, ever since the CCP seized power in 1949, repetitive political movements in China have caused the unnatural deaths of at least 80 million Chinese. Even though that death toll is four times as high as that caused by the Japanese, it is totally ignored by the "angry Chinese" who seem to have a form of selective amnesia.
Many Chinese were particularly unhappy with the apparent betrayal of Empress Dowager Cixi of Qing Dynasty who issued the order "Please the invaders using everything we have" to settle the Eight-Nation Allied Army's Invasion in 1900. However, Cixi's wrongdoing is just the tip of the iceberg when compared to what the CCP has done since its takeover. According to a recent article by Chinese economist Zuo Dapei titled "Chinese Banks Have Become the Super Cash Dispensers for Foreign Investors," the selling of 13 Chinese banks and insurance firms to foreign investors at very cheap prices caused losses of more than a trillion yuan (US$142 billion) worth of national assets during 2006 alone. In the face of such betrayal, the "angry Chinese" have pretended to be blind again.
When facts like the ones above are brought to light, we cannot help feel deeply worried about the future of our country. Many people's thinking may not be sufficiently rational to analyze and make an effort to understand all of the facts before making their judgments. Some may seem to suffer from Schizophrenia, venting their sentiments in the name of "patriotism." Others may be just trying to please the CCP in hopes of political gains. If the "angry Chinese" do not really care about China's future or their fellow countrymen's welfare, their "patriotism" has no constructive meaning at all. Instead, it can only hurt the nation.
5 comments:
who care about the chinese anyway, let them kill it people soon or later the chinese innocents will rise up and kill them back!
Epoch Time is home for Falun Gong propaganda against China since day1, just like KI Media is home for Ah Khmer-Yuon propaganda against Cambodia.
having double standard in politics is not good for the country. this goes with anyone, the royalist, cpp, opposition, etc, etc... no one should be allowed to be above the law, period. otherwise, it would be be fair to the general public, the ordinary people, then it's deja-vu again. cambodia must learn from the past mistakes if we want to change, reform and grow up. two wrongs don't make it right. thank you.
Yes, that is why we must put Ah Xam Rainxy's ass in jail for accusing everyone as Khmer Rouge killers.
One must stop the Vietcong Suicidal Commando such as the one @8:45AM before he blows himself up to pieces!!!
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