6/05/2004 02:41:08 PM|||Nathan Moore|||

Opinion Journal has a great article by one of the Tainanmen Square protest leaders, Wuer Kaixi. It seems that the events there have largely faded from the geopolitical consciousness.

The Chinese government that now exists is the heir and continuation of the most efficient, widespread, gargantuan murder machine in the history of the world. We sidestep the issue repeatedly, preferring Chinese cheap labor and the promises of their east coast as a ripe market for Western goods and services. It disgusts me. How can we condemn Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Communist Russia, but sit back and ignore the atrocities and evils of Communist China? The other evil bohemoths have been defeated and cease to exist. The Chinese government still oppresses one fifth of the world's people.

The communist government of China is the same one in the late 1950's and 1960's that wanted to lure American forces onto the Chinese mainland to nuke them. This is the same China that lobs missiles over Taiwan on a regular basis. This is the same China that refuses to allow democratic elections. Indeed, no freedom truly exists. Political jailings, rapes, and killings are widespread. The nation of China is not truly a nation. It is a conglomeration of peoples that have been subjugated, similar to the nations that fell under the Soviet Union's umbrella and the satellites of Eastern Europe.

If we can't take them on directly, fine. But let's not ignore the obvious. The people under the yoke of Chinese communism are no less deserving of a free life than we in the West.

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