| CHINA E-LOBBY UPDATE: AUGUST 30, 2000 TOP STORY: COMMUNIST OFFICIALS KILL NEWBORN BABY FOR �ONE CHILD� POLICY PROVINCIAL COMMUNISTS CAVE IN, PROMISE PUNISHMENT FOR DROWNING OF INFANT The Times of London reported a terrifying incident revealing how far the Communists are willing to go to enforce their one child policy. An expectant mother in Caidain, a town in Hubei province, was forced to abort her child via saline injection. When the baby was born alive and healthy, local Communist health officials demanded the father kill the child. After he refused, they drowned the child at the parents� home. The one child policy in the People�s Republic of China has led to untold numbers of sterilizations, forced abortions, pregnant women imprisoned, and infanticides. Usually, Communist media avoids these incidents like the plague, but the outcry was so widespread in Hubei that provincial Communists, probably on orders from above, promised action against the officials. Thanks to member Ron Vogel for the story. Link: The Times of London FOCUS: RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION BY COMMUNISTS AT HOME, AND ABROAD 130 CHRISTIANS ARRESTED, DALAI LAMA FORCED OUT OF RELIGIOUS SUMMIT As reported from several sources, including the Washington Post, Communist police in Henan province arrested 130 members of a banned Fangcheng Christian church last week, including three American citizens. Agence France Presse reported the Communist had freed the Americans on Friday, but the rest were still held. Links: Washington Post, AFP The Washington Times, citing the Information Center on Human Rights and Democracy in China, reported several of the followers were beaten, including the three Americans. The center also reported the arrests of 50 more Protestants last weekend, while AFP reported the arrest of an underground Catholic priest Father Gao Yiuha. Links: AFP - arrest of Father Gao, Washington Times, AFP - More Protestant arrests Meanwhile, the U.N. summit of religious leaders began without the Dalai Lama, Tibet�s spiritual leader. According to the Washington Post, the controversial snub was �forced� on the summit organizers by the PRC. Link: Washington Post OTHER TIBET NEWS ATTACK ON BUDDHISM BY COMMUNIST CHINA INTENSIFIES The situation in Tibet is steadily deteriorating. Communist China escalated their battle against religious freedom, expelling monks from temples, and threatening government employees who would celebrate Sagadawa, a Tibetan festival, with a pilgrimage, or send their children to school in India. AFP, citing the Tibet Information Network, quoted a Tibetan resident who said, �It is like a second Cultural Revolution.� Link: AFP BOOK ON PRESIDENT CLINTON SEIZED BECAUSE OF ONE PICTURE WITH DALAI LAMA Communist authorities seized 16,000 copies of a book about President Clinton, according to the BBC. The paper reported the book, a photo essay on the Clinton Administration, was seized because of one picture in which the President and the Dalai Lama appear together in the White House in 1994. The Communist also banned another book, Celestial Gallery, because it included an article by a pro-Tibet Buddhist scholar. Link: BBC. Note: News on Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Xingjiang/East Turkestan can be found in their usual place near the end of the update. OTHER HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS NEWS ZHONG GONG LEADER SAYS HE FACES EXECUTION IF RETURNED TO COMMUNIST CHINA Zhang Hangbao, founder and leader of the Zhong Gong spiritual sect, may have his fate decided by an immigration judge on Friday. Zhang, who insists he will be executed if he�s forced back to the PRC, has several charges pending in Communist China. In addition to the usual �subversion� charges given all dissidents Communists charged him with rape, which his followers and analysts consider an obvious ruse. Link: AFP PUBLISHING HOUSE SHUT DOWN FOR BOOK EXPOSING CORRUPTION AFP reported Communist authorities closed the Reform Publishing House in order to stop the printing of a book on corruption that �portrayed the Communist Chinese party in a negative light.� Frank Lu, Director of the IC on HR & D in China, said one of the house�s employees told him of the closing, part of a widespread crackdown on intellectual freedom. Link: AFP HONG KONG AUHTOR BANNED FROM BEIJING BOOK FAIR FOR PRO-TAIWAN VIEWS AFP, citing the Apple Daily, reported the Communist have banned Lam Hang-chi from a book fair in Beijing due to his views on Taiwan. While Lam, who founded the Hong Kong Economic Journal, said he never expected the Communist would allow the sale of his books, some Taiwan publishers were so angry they talked of pulling out of the fair. Link: AFP MAGAZINE PUBLISHER SET FREE OVER THE WEEKEND, NO WORD ON HIS BROTHER Tendency publisher Huang Bei Ling, who usually goes by Bei Ling, arrived in the United States over the weekend after Communist China released and deported him. As reported in previous updates, police arrested Bei after his magazine published articles on underground writers and poems not cleared by Communist censors. Link: BBC ONE CHILD PROTESTORS IN GUANGDONG SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON A municipal court in Guangdong province sentenced 13 protestors to five years in jail. They were protesting the one child policy, particularly a provision that banned student aid for families with more than one child, according to Hong Kong iMail. Link: Hong Kong iMail OTHER MAINLAND NEWS FARMERS IN JIANGXI PROVINCE PROTEST HIGHER TAXES BBC reported eyewitness accounts of over 2,000 farmers protesting high taxes in Yuandu, a township in Jiangxi province. One eyewitness told AFP that some protestors stormed the building. The IC on HR & D in China reported as many as 20,000 farmers are protesting the higher taxes imposed by local Communists to pad their salaries. Link: BBC CORRUPT COMMUNIST TO BE EXECUTED FOR CONTRACT KILLING Hao Ruiduan, head of the Huaiyang County Grain Bureau in Henan province, received a death sentence from the province�s Intermediate court for hiring hit men to kill a deputy he feared would expose corruption at the bureau. Hao�s hired killer confessed when he was not paid for his job, due to the fact that he had killed the wrong man. Link: AFP GREAT CORRUPTION FIGHTER IN COMMUNIST MOVIE A COMPLETE FABRICATION Last week�s update reported a Communist anti-corruption film that party and government officials had been ordered to see. AFP recently reported the main character, a �squeaky clean town mayor,� is a complete fabrication. When asked why the Communists had to create the fake hero, dissident Bao Tong dryly responded, �They can�t find a real one.� Link: AFP POLICEMAN SHOOTS FIVE OVER WIFE�S TRAFFIC ACCIDENT, KILLING ONE Usually minor traffic accidents don�t make the updates. However, BBC reported that police officer Fang Jianyun rushed to the scene of his wife�s car accident � she hit a melon stall in the town market � and after a brief argument, shot three market officials and two bystanders. One market official died. Several policemen in Communist China have committed similar heinous acts, believing themselves to be above the law. Link: BBC AMERICAN-RELATED NEWS WEN HO LEE WINS BAIL HEARING Wen Ho Lee, the Los Alamos scientist suspected of downloading nuclear secrets to unclassified computers, perhaps to be transferred to Communist China, was granted bail set at $1 million. Los Alamos is the presumed source for many top nuclear secrets stolen by Communist China over the last twelve years. Link: Washington Post PENTAGON LETS COMMUNIST CHINESE MILITARY PLANNERS SEE JOINT FORCES COMMAND The Washington Times reported last week that a delegation from Communist China�s Academy of Military Sciences visited the Joint Forces Command, which is where the most advance thinking on war-fighting tactics, strategy, and capability is conducted. AFP, citing an unnamed Pentagon official, reported only the unclassified tour would be given. Links: Washington Times, AFP COMMUNIST CHINESE OFFICERS VISIT HARVARD TO LEARN U.S. RESPONSE TO TAIWAN Over the weekend, over 20 Communist Chinese colonels visited Harvard to begin a two-week stay learning about the possible reactions of the U.S. to an invasion of Taiwan, which many believe the Communists could use to prevent U.S. involvement should Taiwan be attacked. While an ex-Clinton operative sponsored the lectures, the Washington Times noted Bush top foreign policy aide believes Communist China is not a threat. Link: Washington Times INTERNATIONAL NEWS SUDAN BRINGS IN 700,000 COMMUNIST CHINESE SOLDIERS, PRISONERS TO FINSH REBELS The ultra-repressive Islamic government of Sudan, panicked that black Christian and animist rebels are within 10 miles of productive oil fields, has received 700,000 Communist Chinese soldiers to help fend off and destroy the rebel army, according to the newsmax.com, which cited the London Sunday Telegraph. Communist China, a major partner in Sudan�s oil operations, called the report false early this afternoon. Link: Newsmax.com JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS PRC, BLASTS PRESS AND MILITARY Yohei Kono, Japan�s Foreign Minister, tore into the Communist press during a trip to the PRC this week. Kono is meeting top Communist officials for talks regarding the several Communist ships spotted near Japanese waters. He also expressed concern about the PRC�s high military spending, which according to the Washington Post, led to Japan�s governing Liberal Democrats delaying economic aid to Communist China. Link: AFP, Washington Post COMMUNIST CHINA ENRAGED AT MYANMAR (BURMA) OVER TAIWAN INTELLIGENCE AGENTS Every broken clock is right twice a day. According to the BBC, citing the Democratic Voice of Burma, the military junta of Myanmar (Burma) is in hot water with Communist China over a policy allowing Taiwanese aliens to build temples and teach Chinese in Burma. Communist China believes the Taiwanese are intelligence agents for the ROC, and according to DVB, they �backed their allegations with evidence.� Link: BBC REPUBLIC OF CHINA (TAIWAN) NEWS ROC OFFICIAL ASKS FOR TALKS ON TRADE BETWEEN PRC AND OUTLYING ISLANDS Mainland Affairs Council Vice-Chairman Chen Ming-tung, called on Communist China to restart cross-strait talks. In particular, Chen requested talks on the �mini three direct links� of open trade, communications, and shipping between the PRC and the outlying islands of Kinmen, Matsu, and Penghu. BBC relayed the story from Taiwan�s Central News Agency. Link: CNA PRC BLASTS PRESIDENT CHEN FOR NOT TAKING OF REUNIFICATION POST Communist China lit into President Chen Shui-bian for refusing to take control of the National Unification Council, a body formed in 1990 by his predecessor, Lee Teng-hui. Lee headed the Council during his entire tenure as President, but Chen, elected on the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party ticket, would alienate many supporters if he did so. He said earlier he might appoint someone else to head the Council. Link: AFP HONG KONG NEWS BILLIONAIRE LI KA-SHING RAPPED FOR THREATENING TO PULL OUT OF CITY OVER BAD PRESS The BBC reported over 200 prominent politicians and academics in Hong Kong have ripped billionaire Li Ka-Shing, local billionaire, Communist sympathizer, and owner of Panama Canal firm Hutchison Whampoa, for saying he would reduce his investments in Hong Kong if he continues to get bad press. The group, which made their case in newspaper ads called the comment a threat to free speech in the former British colony. Link: BBC POLLSTER TOLD TO STOP POLLING GOVERNMENT POPULARITY MAY BE �SACRIFICED� An panel from Hong Kong University probing allegations Communist-appointed Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa told university pollster Robert Chung to stop polling his government�s sinking popularity may be trying to avoid the truth. Asiaweek reported the direction of the panel�s probe caused a professor from another university to charge the authorities and Hong Kong University were teaming up to �sacrifice� Chung. Link: CNN - Last Section in the Article XINJIANG/EAST TURKESTAN NEWS ETHNIC CHINESE STILL HEADING FOR REGION IN DROVES The mayor of Shihezi confirmed last week that over 10,000 ethnic Chinese migrate to his city every year. He did not say if the migrants were part of the Communists� plan to subsume the Muslim Uighurs, who are still a majority in the region of Xinjiang. Under the Communist rule for five decades, many Uighurs, particularly in southern Xinjiang, support a movement for an independent state, which they would call East Turkestan. Link: AFP Feel free to forward this to anyone you think might be interested in receiving this. Anyone who wishes to join can send his/her name and e-mail address to [email protected]. |