Woman Strangled to Death for Possessing the Nine Commentaries

Renowned Democratic Activist Publicly Resigns from the CCP

Chinese Embassy Staff Member in Ottawa Defects 

Leveling the Playing Field, or Another Smokescreen?

The CCP’s Last-ditch Gamble: Biological and Nuclear War

Self-Examination Movement Signals a New China      Back

By Annette Jun Guo

The Epoch Times Staff 

Recently Major General Zhu Chenghu of the People’s Liberation Army in China spoke about Taiwan Strait issues in Hong Kong. He said that if the U.S. interfered with a Chinese attack on Taiwan, China would use nuclear weapons and “Of course the Americans will have to be prepared that hundreds of their cities will be destroyed by the Chinese.”

This is the first time the Chinese military has said it would be the first to use nuclear weapons. Ever since 1964, China’s first successful atomic bomb test, the Chinese government has been, in public at least, adhering to several nuclear weapon policies. That is, not at any time, nor under any circumstances will it preemptively use nuclear weapons to strike any other countries or regions. Please note that [they said] other countries or regions.

At the end of the1990s, high-ranking Chinese military officers once hinted that China might use nuclear weapons to strike the west coast of the US. This time, they openly threatened [destroying] hundreds of US cities.

While this may have shocked America, it is no surprise to Chinese people, especially those who grew up in China. A lot of Chinese people have a deep understanding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Foreign policy is an extension of domestic policies. We have to take a close look at China’s domestic policies in order to investigate and study the formation and transition of its foreign policy. Starting from late last year, The Epoch Times published a series of editorials about Chinese Communist Party called the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. These nine articles systematically introduce the formation of Chinese Communist Party, its development and specific actions it made during the process of forming and solidifying its ruling power in China. The commentaries offer an in-depth analysis of the behavioral patterns and nature of the Chinese Communist Party.

The Communist Party and communism have replicated Darwinism’s theory of natural selection and evolution into human society. They think that competition, which in Communist Party language is called “class struggles,” is the sole source of mankind’s development. Therefore, fighting with out making any compromises is the fundamental way in which communists function. Mao Zedong has a famous quote: “There is endless fun in fighting with the heaven, fighting with the earth and fighting with people.” The Nine Commentaries argue that this is the fundamental reason for the Chinese Communist Party’s abuse [of its people] and monopoly of violence.

Let’s now come back to our initial topic. As for the nuclear threat Zhu Chenghu sent out to the U.S., the Chinese government has claimed that it was just an individual’s speech. Many Americans may not think Zhu’s statement represents CCP nuclear policy. However, please consider how much “individual speech” exists in China. I can easily provide a name list of hundreds of independent writers. They were sent to jail because of speaking individually. These people’s speeches were not as sensitive as Zhu’s. It would be ridiculous if we believed that a Chinese high-ranking military officer had the freedom of making his individual view known in public.

This nuclear threat is producing and spreading terror. The Chinese Communist Party has successfully ruled China with terror. Therefore, it has naturally extended the use of terror to foreign policy and in dealing with other countries. Namely, the previous nuclear policy of Chinese Communist Party was merely a cover-up. It used deception when it didn’t have enough power to attack. [Zhu’s] unofficial nuclear threat happened because the Chinese Communist Party thinks that it had grown big and strong and thus has the power to exert some influence through terror. Imagine that if the CCP continues to grow, what will China’s nuclear policy be in ten years!

After the Epoch Times published the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, it sparked a mass wave of people to cancel their memberships in the Chinese Communist Party. During the past half a year, over 3 million Chinese have quit the Chinese Communist Party and its associated organizations. These people do not wish to do anything to the Chinese Communist Party, but simply have decided, after reflecting, want to cut off their ties with violence and hatred. They are getting rid of the shackles of hatred. [This movement] is the beginning of a great spiritual movement of re-examining ones self. It signals the start of a new China.

A China free of hatred and violence is a China truly able to harmonize with the globe.     Back

Woman Strangled to Death for Possessing the Nine Commentaries     Back

By The Epoch Times

The Chinese Communist Party has initiated a new wave of arrests and persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and dissidents who have promoted the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. It is also targeting those who have openly withdrawn from the CCP and the Communist Youth League, says the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG).

According to WOIPFG, since April 2005, more than 600 Falun Gong practitioners have been detained. The detentions have occurred nationwide, with most of those held being beaten and interrogated. Dozens have been arrested and sentenced to prison terms. At least one person was beaten to death for possessing the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. WOIPFG condemns the CCP’s violence against these innocent people.

Ms. Guo Lifang was a Falun Gong practitioner from Xiangtan City, Hunan province. Guo, 54, was strangled to death for possessing a copy of the Nine Commentaries. At 3 p.m. on March 31, 2005, three people, including at least one police officer, broke into her home. When the police saw a copy of the Nine Commentaries on her desk, they took her to the municipal detention center to interrogate and torture her. On the morning of April 17, Guo’s family was informed that she had died of unnatural causes. An autopsy showed nothing unusual in her stomach. The only apparent signs were strangle marks on her neck.

With such an allegedly healthy, energetic person having been tortured to death over a two week period, police, fearing the consequences, have offered the family monetary compensation, which has been refused. The case is being concealed, and no one is permitted to view the body. Even staff at the detention center are being monitored.

WOIPFG urges Chinese Communist Party officials to follow the examples of Chen Yonglin, Hao Fengjun and Han Guangsheng, all of whom were former Party officials that have renounced the CCP.    Back

Renowned Democratic Activist Publicly Resigns from the CCP       Back

By Xin Fei

The Epoch Times Staff 

Chen Xi, a renowned democratic activist in China and involved in the 1989 student movement, was released on May 26, 2005, after serving 10 years in prison. On the day of his release, Chen was interviewed by The Epoch Times and indicated he would never change course in striving for democracy. He said, “A slave would only care about food, water, and staying alive; but a human being cares about dignity, integrity and human rights.” On July 29, 2005, Chen solemnly declared his resignation from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Chen’s Public Resignation Statement

“At a young age, I enthusiastically joined the Communist Youth League, the Communist Young Pioneers, and the CCP. It was an era when Mao Zedong provoked one social class against the rest to enforce proletariat dictatorship. I belonged to the worker class, and was naturally loyal toward the “great leader” and eager to become a member of the vanguard.

“At that time, I whole-heartedly believed in the great undertaking of communism and the Party. I even pledged to fight to death to support it.

 

“Today, I laugh at my own past, and feel a sense of shame for being deceived and controlled since a young age.

“My experience has confirmed what F. A Hayek said, ‘We might conceive of a civilization thus coming to a standstill, not because the possibilities of further growth had been exhausted, but because man had succeeded in so completely subjecting all his actions and his immediate surroundings to his existing state of knowledge that no occasion would arise for new knowledge to appear.’ ”

“Thanks to the era of ‘total dictatorship,’ thanks to the dictators, and thanks also to those seeming “gentlemen” who only want to control and suppress others and to seek power—they have given me real-life lessons and a reference point for oppositional tactics. They have made me more mature, and enabled me to think and truly believe and to understand how to be a human being.

“In the past, I have been a loyal member of the Communist Party. Today, I am a member of the democratic movement. I declare my resignation from the CCP, in form and in essence.”

Chen stated that in the past few decades, the Chinese civilization has experienced a miserable, twisted era in history, and the Chinese people and the nation have paid costly prices. But people easily forget the past, and forgetfulness is precisely the scariest thing. If people do not deeply reflect the past, then there will be no future for China and the Chinese people.

Chen said that even when he was in prison, he kept asking why has a malevolent spirit such as the CCP appeared in this great land of China to so destroy and distort mankind? In darkness one knows no light. “Only today do I see where the light is.”

Chen pointed out that resigning from the CCP is a peaceful step toward building a democratic China and awakening more people’s conscience and courage. It also helps people overcome forgetfulness and fear. This will benefit not only China, but also the entire human race.    Back

Chinese Embassy Staff Member in Ottawa Defects      Back

By Li Lin

The Epoch Times Staff 

Sources disclosed that on July 15, Yang Jianhua, a staff member from the Chinese Embassy in Ottawa walked out of the Embassy with his wife and son. Now the Chinese Embassy is searching for him and suspects that he and his family are hiding in an eastern Canadian city. Meanwhile, the Chinese Embassy is tightening its control over other Embassy staff.

The news source discloses that Yang Jianhua is 33 years old. He came to the Chinese Embassy in Ottawa in the spring 2004 and worked as a hairdresser for the Embassy. Last month, his wife and son came to Canada to visit him. Yang grasped the opportunity, drove out of the Chinese Embassy and fled with his wife and son on July 15. They left behind their passports when they fled the Embassy, since the passports had to be surrendered to the Embassy when relatives visit.

The recent defector, Chen Yonglin, who used to be the top secretary of the Chinese Consulate in Sydney, Australia, exposed that many Chinese personnel stationed abroad are dissatisfied with the Chinese Communist system and want to defect. When Mr. Chen was granted the permanent protection visa, the current Chinese Ambassador to Australia, Fu Ying, warned the Australian government that granting the permanent protection visa is equivalent to opening the door for Chinese officials to flee. Fu warned that this could cause a large number of Chinese officials to defect, since they will defect to Western societies once they have the opportunity.

Xu Jiesen, an overseas Chinese in Ottawa, said, “After the June 4 Tiananmen massacre in 1989, more than one or two staff from the Chinese Embassy and Consulates in Canada defected. Now the number of people who have withdrawn from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has exceeded 3 million, and quite a few are Chinese Embassy and Consulate staff. While recognizing the true nature of the CCP, more and more people are abandoning it.”   Back

By Heide B. Malhotra

The Epoch Times Staff 

House Republican Phil English (R-PA) introduced a legislation addressing trade imbalances between the US and China — Bill H.R.3283, The United States Trade Rights Enforcement Act — this month. (Please see US House OKs Bill Aimed at Subsidized China Goods)

The bill received backing by the House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Bill Thomas (R-CA) and was cosponsored by six Republicans, including Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Rep Mike Rogers (R-MI).

Rep. Bill Thomas was among the fifteen “No” votes on a resolution that blocked the Chinese National Overseas Oil Company’s (CNOOC) bid to buy Unocal. The resolution prevents control by a Chinese state-owned company over anything that might be detrimental to US security interests.

“One would not expect [that] a bill put together under his guidance, and thus able to get his endorsement, would contain anything really harmful to the interests of those who have placed their economic bets on China’s emergence as the next great power,” says William R. Hawkins, Senior Fellow for National Security Studies the US Business and Industry Council (USBIC), in his scathing article “English Bill Provides Little in the Ways of Direct Action on China.”

The bill was introduced to appease House Republicans refusing to vote for the US–Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA).  “Rep. English introduced this bill when a weaker proposal by Rep. Bill Thomas, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, failed to win additional votes for the passage of CAFTA.

Specific mention in the bill was given to China’s currency manipulation, intellectual property rights, software piracy, Chinese government subsidies, and trade barriers against US agricultural products and other US goods and services.

“We are introducing a responsible, comprehensive bill that will strengthen our trade laws and renew our effort to level the playing field for American manufacturers competing against illegally subsidized Chinese goods,” says Rep. English during a press conference.

Small manufacturers and members of USBIC see the bill as another smokescreen. “The same approach is being used by the People’s Bank of China to mollify the Bush administration and Congressional critics,” says Kearns.    Back

The CCP’s Last-ditch Gamble: Biological and Nuclear War   Back

Hundreds of millions of deaths proposed

By San Renxing

The Epoch Times Staff 

As The Epoch Times’ Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party spreads ever wider in China, it is awakening Chinese people to the true nature of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and inspiring them to renounce their Party memberships. With a rapidly growing number of people quitting the Party daily, the Communist Party sees that the end is near.

In a show of strength to save itself from demise, the CCP has brought out a sinister plan that it has been preparing for years, a last-ditch gamble to extend its life. This plan was laid out in two speeches written by Chi Haotian, Minster of Defense and vice-chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, and posted on the Internet. The background surrounding the speeches is still shrouded in mystery. The titles of the two speeches are “War Is Approaching Us” [1] and “War Is Not Far from Us and Is the Midwife of the Chinese Century.” The two, judging from their similar contexts and consistent theme, are indeed sister articles.

These speeches describe in a comprehensive, systematic, and detailed way the CCP’s nearly 20 years of fear and helplessness over its doomed fate, and its desperate fight to extend its life. In particular, the speeches lay uncharacteristically bare what is really on the CCP’s mind and hide nothing from the public—a rare confession from the CCP that can help people understand its evil nature. If one truly understands what is said in this confession, one will immediately catch on to the CCP’s thinking.

In short, the speeches are worth reading….

This article is very long.  If you wish to read the full article, click on the following web link:

To subscribe this newsletter, please send an email to: subscription@chinascope.org.