The Chinese Communist Party has often accused Western countries of having a double standard concerning human rights issues, when in fact the CCP should really be blaming itself
- From: Chim <ChimS1@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:09:19 -0700 (PDT)
The Astonishing Double Standards of the CCP
By Zhang Tianliang
Epoch Times Staff Apr 28, 2008
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.
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