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China is not on the crossroads, but on the road to destroy the world

SHENG Xue

(Speech for online panel “China at a Crossroads: Standing up for Human Rights during the Pandemic”)

 

First, Human rights persecution cases in different situations in different periods


1, Dr. WANG Bingzhang (王炳章)

Two days later, it will be 18 years that Dr. Wang Bingzhang was kidnapped by the CCP back to China from Vietnam and sentenced to life and imprisoned in solitary confinement.

Dr. Wang came to Canada studied in McGill University in 1979 and obtained his Ph.D. degree in Medical. He started the Chinese overseas democracy movement in 1982. He was kidnapped by the CCP from Vietnam back to China in 2002 and sentenced to life in prison.

His brother WANG Bingwu (王炳武) who lives in Mississauga told me the family in Canada has not received any information from Dr. Wang or the prison since the outbreak last December in China.


2, WANG Zang (王藏)

Yesterday, I received the letter from WANG Li (王丽). WANG Zang’s wife. She asked the international community to rescue her husband.

She said that 10 days ago, more than 40 police came to her family. More than twenty policemen guarded the door. Another twenty some police broke in to the door and pressed WANG Zang onto the ground.

Some police also held down four kids and their grandma. The police wrapped Wang’s head in a black bag and handcuffed him and dragged him away in front of the four kids.

Wang Zang is a talented poet and writer who refuses to cooperate with the tyranny and also write about the truth of the pandemic.


3, Dr. ZHAO Zhongyuan (赵中元医生)

People may know that hundreds Chinese human rights lawyers have been severely persecuted. Many of them were tortured and given unknown drugs.

However, you may don’t know what will happen if you help these lawyers.

A Chinese medicine Dr. Zhao, fled to Canada from China last October. He and his wife live in my house now. He helped and treated some human rights lawyers.

As a result, all his business licenses were cancelled. Several surveillance cameras were installed outside his home. He was called into the police station and his hands were locked on the heating pipe.

He was intimidated by the police, who said that if he helped a human rights lawyer again, he would not be able to go home again.

During the pandemic, the police repeatedly went to Dr. Zhao’s family in Beijing to harass and threaten his relatives.

 

There are also FANG Bin (方斌) and CHEN Qiushi (陈秋实), who have been missing for several months because they told the truth of China's epidemic situation.

I want to tell you the stories of PENG Ming (彭明), YANG Tianshui (杨天水), LIU Xiaobo (刘晓波). They could never tell their story by themselves. They have been persecuted to death in Chinese prison.

I also want to talk about 黄琦 (Huang Qi), 秦永敏 (Qin Yongmin), 胡石根 (Hu Shigen). They are all wonderful people and have been in prison for many years. There are no any information since the outbreak from them.

I could tell you 10,000 political prisoners’ names and their moving stories. But you won’t have that much time to listen.

 

Second, is there too much human rights persecution in China, which makes people feel desperate, so people choose to ignore it?

If there are only a few or a dozen unjustly or persecution cases in a country. Some people might get excited and will love to invest time and energy to pay attention and to help with the cases.

If there are hundreds or thousands of this kind of cases. People will feel sad, angry and Feel anxious.

If the number of persecuted people reaches one million or ten million, people will turn around and to do something much easier.

Do people feel hopeless? Or people also feel that they cannot show their personal role and their value in this huge whirlpool of human rights persecution?

 

Third, the number of deaths has turned into cold data, because it is so difficult to count.

The facts we are facing

The number of deaths persecuted by the CCP can no longer be counted.

The deaths number of Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongolians, Falun Gong practitioners, Christians, human rights defenders, citizens who have been demolished houses, farmers who have been robbed of land, etc. have becoming icy data.

Who can tell the exact number? Who still has the patience to care about the stories and the lives?

When more than 150 Tibetans continued to call the attention of the international community with self-immolation during the past decade……

When the organs of one million Falun Gong practitioners were stolen alive, for two decades……

When millions of Uighur Muslims were put in the 21st century’s concentration camps……

When thousands of churches and temples were demolished and millions of Christians and monks were detained and tortured……

When thousands of young people in Hong Kong were brutally killed one by one in front of the whole world for a whole year, many of them were pressed by the police against their heads and necks……

There has been no large-scale demonstrations initiated by the mainstream society of democratic countries.

Am I Right? I wish I am wrong.

 

Fourth, Why and How is the CCP getting tougher and stronger?

31 years ago, the CCP publicly used tanks and machine guns to kill thousands of students and citizens in Beijing and other cities in China.

A few years after the massacre, democratic countries decided to stop condemning and boycotting the Chinese Communist Party, but to have friendly dialogue and business with them.

Perhaps some people think that as long as China is more open, the economy develops, and the people are rich, democracy will naturally come to China.

Then, the international community continued to provide opportunities for CCP and let it to enter the international community with a tyrannical proud attitude.

However, democracy did not come to China. CCP is tougher, richer, more technical, more influential, and more tyrannical than ever.

China's 1.4 billion people have not become free people, but have more become slaves and weapons of CCP. And there are such Chinese people all over the world.

During the pandemic, these people played a big role in letting the world to see the power of CCP.

 

Fifth, China's penetration and threat to democratic countries.

When CCP learned the outer shell of democracy and stole our management, procedures, and technology.

CCP also grasped the weaknesses of the democratic system and know how to use tyranny's strengths to attack our weaknesses.

CCP sent their ideology, media, Confucius Institute, lifestyle, and many people to democratic countries.

At the same time, CCP uses buyouts, benefits, and influence to drive people in almost every field to speak for them. Democracies have many more enemies in their own countries.

We must understand that there is only a competitive relationship between political parties in democratic countries.

The communist tyrannies are the enemy of freedom and democracy.

CCP is the biggest terrorist tyranny, and the world needs to fight against it together, otherwise it will be too late.

China used to be at a crossroads many times, but now China is not at a crossroads. China is rushing on its way to destroy the world.

 

Six, My own story

It seems that I have no time to tell my own story.

My story can show you how far the CCP can stretch its hands to seal overseas dissidents, how much power it can use and how cruel and shameless it can be.

If you are interested, you can search online. The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, the Committee to Protected Journalists and Daily Mail told a little of my story.

However, I still feel very lucky because I am in Canada.


Thank you.


June 9, 2020

 


 

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About the event:

china at a crossroads


This conference is bringing together leading voices to discuss human rights in China during the coronavirus pandemic.

About this Event

In collaboration with our partners the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights (RWCHR), Freedom House, the National Endowment for Democracy, China Digital Times, the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project, the Canada Tibet Committee, the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China, the Federation for a Democratic China, Hong Kong Watch, the Macdonald -Laurier Institute, Initiatives for China and the Nobel Women's Initiative, the conference will focus on the following themes.

This event will be streamed on our YouTube channel as well as our Facebook page.

1) China's attempt to quarantine the truth and increasing threats against the media and journalists

Moderator: Judith Abitan, RWCHR

Xiao Qiang, Director and Research Scientist at Counter-Power Lab at UC Berkeley, Founder and Editor of China Digital Times

Sarah Cook, Senior Research Analyst for China at Freedom House and Director of China Media Bulletin

Christopher Walker, Vice President, Studies and Analysis, National Endowment for Democracy

2) China's political prisoners and mistreatment of minorities

Moderator: Kyle Matthews, Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies

Nury Turkel, Uighur human rights lawyer, founder of the Uighur Human Rights Project, and Commissioner of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom"

Naomi Kikoler, Director of the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

- Sheng Xue, award-winning poet, journalist, writer, human rights activist, and vice Chairperson of the Federation for a Democratic China.

3) Identifying ways to hold the Chinese government accountable for the pandemic and human rights abuses

Moderator: Terry Glavin, journalist and RWCHR Senior Fellow

Senator Kimberley Kitching , Australian Senator and Chair of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee

Irwin Cotler, Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, Former Canadian Minister of Justice/ Attorney General of Canada and longtime Parliamentarian

Carl Gershman, President, National Endowment for Democracy

Emily Lau , Journalist and First Woman elected to the Hong Kong Legislative Council

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