China has become a big capitalistic success and is one of our
largest trading partners, supplying all the vast discount
outlets in the US, such as
Wal-
Mart, with most of their goods. But there are more important
things in life than just a bargain. Should we use our influence
with China to try to change some of the things they
DON'T do
well?and exactly what are these?
The British newspaper The Independent reports that while
the US is criticized by the rest of the world for executing
such large numbers of prisoners, China is way ahead of us:
they execute about 10,000 people per year. Amnesty
International says that every 3 months, China kills more of its
population than the rest of the world, including the US, does
in three years. You can be executed if you're guilty of what
would be petty offenses here, such as bribery,
embezzlement and petty theft. Innocent people are
frequently executed and like many Muslim countries,
executions take place in front of massive crowds, the way
hangings did 200 years ago here. One reason to execute
people for even minor offenses is to save on the expense of
building and maintaining prisons, which is a huge industry,
employing whole towns, in the US. Executions may also be
condoned because China has such a huge problem with
overpopulation.
We've been criticized for
torturing
prisoners in secret camps. In China, disappearances and
torture of Dalai Lama supporters are common. So-
called "psychiatrists" often diagnose political dissidents,
religious nonconformists, unionists and whistle-blowers
as "dangerously mentally ill," meaning they are taken to
mental asylums, where they are undoubtedly tortured and
executed.
China now has the third or fourth largest military in the world,
including nuclear weapons. It has threatened both Taiwan
and Japan.
People may be surprised to learn that China, like the former
Soviet Union, has large Muslim regions. Xinjiang is one of
these. With its official anti-religion policy, China has
persecuted religious activists and sent them to prisons as
well. There's a danger that, in our fight against Islamic
terrorism, we will not be as critical of this as we should be.
China wants to "save face" by denying it has health problems.
It and manipulates the health statistics that it presents to
the rest of the world. For instance, the Chinese government
denies there is any AIDS there, even though there are
probably millions of cases of HIV. Its initial denials about its
SARS epidemic in 2003 allowed the virus to spread to other
countries. Health officials are worried that the same thing will
happen with bird flu.
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