Monday, Nov. 4, 2002
Last Friday morning I saw something terrible on C-SPAN: Chinese "President" Jiang Zemin speaking at the George Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M University.
After his speech, Jiang answered puffball questions about pandas and basketball. The event ended with a standing ovation.
Outside, individuals peacefully protested the tyrant.
Under Jiang's one-party regime, assemblies and publications that criticize him or the Communist Party remain forbidden. In January, historian Xu Zerong was sentenced to 13 years in prison for research critical of China's foreign policy. The same month, journalist Jiang Weiping was sentenced to eight years for exposing corrupt functionaries like Bo Xilai, governor of Liaoning province and son of Communist Party elite Bo Yibo.
Jiang is also an enthusiastic persecutor of religious and spiritual groups, especially the meditation movement Falun Gong. Banned […] in July 1999, over 500 Falun Gong practitioners have been tortured to death and tens of thousands sent to labor camps and mental institutions.
China is truculent abroad as well as domestically. Jiang maintains a genocidal occupation of Tibet perpetrated since 1950.
China's war against human rights has been denounced across the political spectrum, from Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., to former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader.
Charles Hermann, associate dean of Texas A&M's Bush School of Government and Public Service, commented, "Students should have the opportunity to hear different points of view, including those that may be repugnant to many people."
Will Osama bin Laden next be invited to Texas A&M? How about Ugandan mass murderer Idi Amin? After all, these individuals also have "different points of view" to share with the Texas A&M community.
In addition to the Texas A&M speech, Jiang visited President Bush at his Crawford ranch, where they ate fried catfish and ribs. A photograph showed the two smiling, with Bush's hand on Jiang's shoulder.
This is the same Jiang who, according to the recently released "Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America," "has obsessively and gleefully watched and re-watched pictures of the aircraft crashing into the World Trade Center."
Bush has previously soft-pedaled China's systemic brutality. At Beijing's Tsinghua University on Feb. 22 he asserted that "China has made amazing progress in openness" and referred to "a China that is becoming one of the most dynamic and creative societies in the world."
I wonder how Xu Zerong, Jiang Weiping, and Falun Gong members would respond to that.
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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/11/4/23911.shtml
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