“Police warn families of Tiananmen crackdown dead not to visit graves on 37th anniversary,” reads the headline of yesterday’s story in New York’s Newsday.
How rude of those families!
How dare they show such utter disregard for the right of the Chinese Communist Party to “grind you up and crush your bones”! Or to have your “heads bashed bloody,” as CCP top Pooh Bear Xi Jinping has more recently been fond of saying.
Especially after all the trouble Xi and Chinese authorities have gone to easing all this unnecessary tension by facilitating a thoughtful and therapeutic four-decade “campaign to erase what happened from public memory.”
For 30 years, they allowed the thousands of teary-eyed Tiananmen Mothers to visit the gravesites, but come on, stop monopolizing the cemetery. I mean, there are millions of Uyghurs waiting to mourn, for heaven’s sake. And don’t forget the Falun Gong religious genocide. Organ harvesting political prisoners sure does quickly fill a cemetery.
Be a team player for the CCP.
Sans sarcasm, I note that at The Gate of Heavenly Peace no one really knows how many died on June 4, 1989. The Chinese students and workers killed by soldiers who shot into crowds and rolled over them with tanks have never, even to this day, been accounted for by the Chinese government.
It has only lied about the massacre, continuing to cover the horrors up — the government now even bullying grieving parents away from visiting their loved ones’ graves.
To think that President Bush, père, was so ready to usher in trade for the big boys of business that he sold out, 37 years ago, the protesters on Tiananmen Square!
Having snuffed out freedom in Hong Kong, inserted their hands into virtually everything we consume, and built up the world’s second largest military, what will be next for the Butchers of Beijing? Small cases of Chinese aggression — water cannons, ships sunk, a couple soldiers injured, even killed — have not halted. Asia is under threat.
Americans are not invulnerable.
We have a serious problem.
Which I’ll keep talking about in Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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Seven years after Richard Nixon traveled to China, President Carter established diplomatic ties with the PRC and each gave the other most favored nation status. I’m not sure how Bush 41 was expected to react to the Tiananmen Square shooting. Cut off relations? Ban trade with China? President Bill Clinton established permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with China in 2000, making it possible for the PRC to enter the WTO the following year. Neither party cared all that much about the ‘giant sucking sound’ of jobs moving to Asia.
You are absolutely correct that our pathetic policies toward China have been a thoroughly BIPARTISAN failure. But Bush #1 seemed to go out of his way to give the CCP a pass on the massacre, exerting zero pressure on the regime.
Don’t lose sight of the “transplant industry” in China. Falun Gong make perfect donors: health nuts, pacifists, loud and easy to find, and anticommunist. They need a lot of saving. And the transplant industry is likely to spread, because–logically, it make horrific sense. One donor/convict COULD save a dozen lives.
Good point. Yes, at Common Sense, I’ve regularly raised the issue of forced organ harvesting and China’s horrendous record against Falun Gong and other political prisoners. A couple instances below:
Pandemics — and Something Far Worse
March 18, 2020
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2020/03/18/pandemics-and-something-far-worse/
Stop the Chinazis
October 25, 2023
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2023/10/25/stop-the-chinazis/