So you sit there, drinking your caffe latte, amazed at the opening ceremony of the Olympics and how wonderful and pretty it is. Sometimes you read the newspapers and you get wind about China being a big economy, along with all the jokes about how everything is made there nowadays. It doesn’t really bother you as the nearest you get to learning anything of their society and culture is when you read the label on the back of a plastic toy or when you switch on your TV.

There are other reasons you need to be aware of China. Not only are they already a world superpower poised to usurp the US, but they have an economic gun to the heads of all the major economies, including ours. Their government is de facto the worst and most obnoxious control structure of any organised society in the world, barring the heinous collapsed warzones such as Somalia.

There are reasons you need to know about China as a country, and reasons to switch off the Olympics. The fact that such a majorly offensive human rights-abuser won the games is no accident, but an act of brilliant Western cunning and absolutely no accident. By giving them the Olympics, the spotlight is on them and they are opened up to public scrutiny. All the issues can come to the fore and Western journalists can run around (almost) undisturbed to report on all the crap they have been up to. It’s a gift horse to dissidents, a strategic political move by rivals and a virtual invasion by the powerbrokers to enable their enemies to get inside and find a foothold so they can show the world why they should be strangled.

To host the games, China is forced to open its gates to the press, stop polluting for a short time, and to bend over like a little bitch in order to get the kudos.

Want to know why this country needs a kicking? Or more accurately, it’s communist government and their supporters? Human rights don’t exist in China. The rights of the individual are supplicated for the “greater good” in order to maintain a “Harmonious” society. That’s diplomatic BS meaning you as a person get fucked and is told it’s for everyone’s benefit. As one of the last Communist governments and command economies, the end of their rule by subtle invasion of Western trade and capitalism can’t come soon enough. Hopefully Taiwan will break free before that.

When you watch this crap, you support it and condone it. When you buy a product made there, you give money to the government in business tax.

The massacre of protestors
In 1989, students, workers and academics rose up against the authoritarian government in China, meeting in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Over 300 (official count, unofficial is over 2000) were openly killed in cold blood live on TV to put down the protest. Most were shot but others were driven over with tanks and firebombed. The government now bans all mention of it and very few young people in the country know what happened – that the PRC massacred people on masse in public when they defied them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989

The world’s no 1 polluter
China is without doubt the worst consumer of fossil fuels and its air is so thick with smog that weather engineering and government embargos have had to be enforced for photos to be able to be taken of the 2008 games. Only 1 percent of the country’s 560 million city dwellers breathe air considered safe by the European Union, and nearly 500 million people lack access to safe drinking water. 2 out of the 10 most polluted cities in the world are there and last year they produced 6.200 million tonnes of greenhouse gases. Ad they’re not stopping.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/world/asia/26china.html

The Internet is monitored and censored by an electronic “wall”
Internet subscribers in China only get what the government want them to see. All Internet traffic is policed through the “Golden Shield” national firewall by a department of over 30,000 officers, and all activity is monitored. Most Western websites are banned, as are anyone who mentions Tiananmen Square, Tibet and/or Falun Gong. Writing “subversive” things on blogs, forums or chatrooms will get you arrested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China

The illegal occupation and rape of Tibet
We may have invaded a few Middle Eastern countries, but when it comes to all-out military bullying, China is way out ahead with its colonisation of Tibet. If you wanted to pick a fight, you wouldn’t go for the most peaceful and least-violent country in the world that’s full of Buddhists and farmers. After they invaded it in 1950, they murdered 1 million people, destroyed 3000 monasteries and turned it into a shanty town. In 1951, they annexed it. There are more police per civilian heads than anywhere else. Tibetans are openly persecuted and violently repressed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7299221.stm

Total press/Internet censorship
China’s media only get to publish what the government wants them to – nothing critical, and everything about how wonderful the government is. In fairness, the media has done its part to fight back (Particularly because of the removal of government financial support), but journalists have no real say in what they might want to say. If you talk about any of those uncomfortable topics, you’re on your way to jail.
http://www.cfr.org/publication/11515/

They sell weapons to Sudan and oppose an end to the Darfur crisis
While the rest of the world was busy denouncing the mass rape and slaughter carried out by the government-backed Janjaweed militia in Darfur, China was selling them arms to do the killing because of their stake in the nation’s oil supplies. Their defence was that they didn’t care because they didn’t start the fight, and wouldn’t stop because it wasn’t their problem.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3847

Zero freedom of speech in public or private
Be very careful of what you say in China, as if you are overheard being critical of the government or mentioning anything uncomfortable, that’s a ticket to jail via the local police, as well as “re-education” by the authorities for if and when you get to go back home.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JQP/is_371/ai_n6204998

Religions and their leaders have to be registered and “patriotic”
Although technically religious freedom is allowed under law, the fact that religion also tends to come with the freedom of assembly and protest (including the obligation to resist persecution), it’s a non-starter in China. Anything “disruptive” is banned. All religious groups have to be registered with the government, and all appointments to official positions (e.g. bishops etc) need to be vetted, Any religion that is allied to a foreign country or culture (e.g. capitalism) s considered “harmful” so is banned. As long as your spirituality is “patriotic” to China, it’s OK. Government wokers and PRC party members are required to be atheist.
http://www.religiousfreedom.com/wrpt/Chinarpt.htm

Christians are persecuted in their house churches
Being one of the 50 or so million Christian in China isn’t fun at all as religious practices are heavily controlled. If you want freedom you need to belong to a house church, which the government really doesn’t like and ruthlessly persecutes. And by persecution we mean torture, execution and labour camps.
http://www.persecution.org/suffering/countryinfodetail.php?countrycode=16

Dissidents are arrested and imprisoned, protests are put down
China is essentially an authoritarian police state. We are lucky enough to be able to argue in public, support different political parties and make our own choices. The PRC do not allow dissension of any kind because it is “harmful” to a “harmonious” society. Dissidents of rival political groups are routinely arrested and imprisoned without trial for weeks on end, often being tortured and executed on-demand without fair trial. Basically-speaking, you are a PRC supporter or you’re nothing at all. If you fight back, you’re killed. Routine for a banana republic of course, but this is state-sanctioned oppression.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4326341.stm

Birth control policy and forced abortion
China has an overpopulation problem and its answer in 1979 was the “One Child Policy” that isn’t just sick, it’s morally reprehensible. It is what it sounds like – you are only allowed to have one child. And guess what happens if you have more? You got it. Forced abortions, sterilisation, child-killing and sex-selective infant care. Boys are favoured over girls, so the latter are literally thrown away, as the ration is now 118:100 in masculine favour. If you are in a rural area the rules are more relaxed, but the government still gets the final say. The politicians tell you how many children you are allowed to have.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1615936,00.html

More public executions than any other country
Amnesty International consistently ranks China as carrying out the highest number of executions of any country (nearly 2000, or at least 50% more than the US and Iran), citing their policy of official secrecy as a source of inaccuracy . 68 crimes will get you put out into a public stadium and shot in the head within a year of your trial, including fraud. And to top it off, your family are made to pay for the solder’s time and ammunition expenses. Women and children are rarely spared. They now even have mobile vans for it.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/04/14/amnesty.executions.ap/index.html

Rural worker peasant apartheid
China effectively has 2 tiers of social class, and its middle class are growing at a massive rate. Under the Hukou registration system, farmers and works are classed as the lower tier, whereas those who live in the cities the middle and upper. The government has actively suppressed rural workers from migrated to urban areas through paperwork, financial burdens and even military force. To be a rural worker in China means you are condemned to live in shanty towns with no access to the basic entitlements of any normal human society (e.g. health care etc), and you are part of the “Chinese Apartheid”.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20010610/ai_n14391109

Persecution and suppression of Falun Gong
Falun Gong is a spiritual practice the Chinese government banned in 1999 and is very, very sensitive about. Searching for it on the Internet will get you into a lot of trouble. The “6-10” office is responsible for the full-spread outright persecution of practitioners and to say they are at it with a vengeance is an understatement – because it clashes with Marxist ideology, the propaganda campaign is immense and practitioners are rounded, up, tortured and executed wherever they are, causing Amnesty to declare a human rights emergency. Falun Gong is to the PRC what a Paedophile tea group is to us – the only difference being that they are peaceful and have done nothing wrong.
http://www.faluninfo.net/

Organ harvesting
Just when you thought they couldn’t get any more oppressive and offensive, Amnesty and the World Health Organisation are reporting that widespread live organ harvesting was being conducted from Falun Gong practitioners detained in forced labour camps, hospital basements, or prisons, who were being blood and urine tested, their information stored on computer databases, and then matched with organ recipients. They were injected with drugs to stop the heart, their organs removed and later sold, and their bodies incinerated. This is not a criminal gang somewhere, it is a Asian superpower state.
http://en.epochtimes.com/211,111,,1.html

This is not a conspiracy novel or some kind of exaggerated anti-Marxist rant; this is a real government in a real country. And it’s the one on your TV screens hosting the Olympics as you switch over the channel to watch it. It’s the same country that made the plastic crap on your table.}

China’s wholesale disregard for the basic principles of human rights is so long that no amount of writing could so it justice. All you have to do is walk down to Portland Place in London to see the regular daily protests outside their embassy with pictures of those who have been tortured, murdered, silenced, beaten and repressed by an authoritarian organisation who is now growing to be the most powerful and dominant economy in the world.

You have the freedom to turn away from what is written here, disagree with me and criticise me if you so choose to. We take our freedom for granted. If you were in China, you wouldn’t be allowed to read this, and i certainly wouldn’t be allowed to write it. The basic liberties we enjoy are so precious that we daren’t abandon them here, whether they be necessary for so-called “security” or other non-existent reasons. There is no such freedom to think or choose in China, so when you see Chinese person make sure they get to see all the things their government doesn’t want them to see so they can go back home and tell everyone they know what they have discovered.

We will out-trade them and root out the authoritarian crap, and it will be the Internet that kills them. The Olympics will land a large punch, but the real death blow will be when you and me stop giving them the means to persecute their own people.

As you watch the Olympics, remember that the same stadiums the athletes are running around in are the same buildings used to execute political dissidents and children. We live in comfort here but we must always be at war. We are at war with governments like theirs until the children they produce every day are free to disagree with their authorities, and us.

And that is why i say FUCK BEIJING. FUCK CHINA. FUCK THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT.