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Headlines : Human RightsChina & America: The Tibet Human Rights PsyOp
Since the 1980s, China has become the main supplier of industrial goods to Western markets. Any threat against China and/or military venture directed against China’s Eurasian allies including Iran could potentially disrupt China’s extensive trade in manufactured goods. China’s export oriented industrial base is the source of tremendous wealth formation in the advanced capitalist economies. Where does the wealth of the Walton family, owners of WalMart, originate? WalMart doesn’t produce anything. It imports cheap labor commodities “Made in China” and resells them in the US retail market at up to ten times their factory price. This process of “import led development” has allowed the Western “industrialised” countries to close down a large part of their manufacturing outlets. In turn, China’s industrial sweat shops serve to generate multibillion dollar profits for Western corporations, including the retail giants, which purchase and/or outsource their production to China. Any threat of a military nature directed against China could have devastating economic consequences, far beyond the familiar upward spiral in the price of crude oil.
[Posted By ShiftShapers]Republished from The Center for Research on Globalization
China is no model of human rights but neither are the US and its indefectible British ally, responsible for extensive war crimes and human rights violations in Iraq and around the World. The US and its allies, which uphold the practice of torture, political assassinations and the establishment of secret detention camps, continue to be presented to public opinion as a model of Western democracy to be emulated by developing countries, in contrast to Russia, Iran, North Korea and the People’s Republic of China.
Human Rights “Double Standards”
While China’s alleged human rights violations in relation to Tibet are highlighted, the recent wave of killings in Iraq and Palestine are not mentioned. The Western media has barely acknowledged the Fifth “anniversary” of Iraq’s “Liberation” and the balance sheet of the US sponsored killings and atrocities perpetrated against an entire population, in the name of a “global war on terrorism”.
There are more than 1.2 million Iraqi civilian deaths, 3 million wounded. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) indicates a figure of 2.2 million Iraqi refugees who have fled their country and 2.4 million “internally displaced persons”:
“Iraq’s population at the time of the US…
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Anti-China Tibet Hypocrisy: War Crimes in Occupied Afghanistan: The most fundamental human right is the right to life. According to data from the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) and the UN Population Division, China has made huge advances in dramatically reducing mortality rate and infant mortality rate in both the Tibetan Autonomous Region and in China as a whole and to similar levels.
China hosts Iran nuclear talks
How’s that for Physics 101?
What did they think? That the Chinese would sit around crying and sucking their thumb? Who knows what other sub rosa payback is making its way through the global system.
No really, I kid you not :
China told to let N Koreans stay
A US watchdog has called on China to stop repatriating North Koreans, stating that many forced to return face torture because of their Christian beliefs.
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom said North Koreans returned from China face some of the harshest measures used to suppress religions in the North.
“If it is discovered that they have either converted to Christianity while in China or had contact with South Koreans — both of which are considered to be political offences – they reportedly suffer harsh interrogation, torture and ill-treatment”, the report released on Tuesday said.
The commission called on the international community to pressure Beijing to stop repatriating refugees and provide increased protection as required by international protocols
“Such action should begin immediately as China prepares to host the 2008 Summer Olympics”, the report said.
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Excuse me but. How many Iraqi Refugees is the United States giving harbor to? And can you tell me please, what happens to Iraqis who get repatriated and who’s fault is that?
Isn’t ironic, both the US and the USSR imposed their cold war on the rest of the world while now it’s the world that imposes it’s cold wars on their mentors.
Tears Over Tibet: Truthout contributor J. Sri Raman writes: “Far be it from me to hold any special brief for Beijing. I am not asking anyone to forget about what the Tibetan people have suffered, about the Cultural Revolution and its cruelties in the remote Himalayan region that lost treasures of heritage in mob attacks on 6,000 monasteries. And no Indian familiar with the country’s majoritarian fascism can dismiss the Tibetans’ fears as a minority.” (Read more…)
Western Media Fabrications regarding the Tibet Riots: Fake Videotape used by CNN
China Jails 30 Tibetans for Riots: The New York Times’s Andrew Jacobs reports: ‘‘A Chinese court in Tibet sentenced 30 people to prison on Tuesday for their role in the anti-China riots that broke out in Lhasa, the capital, last month, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The riots and subsequent crackdown left scores of people dead and earned China international criticism of its human rights record.’‘
Naomi Klein: China’s All-Seeing Eye
When the U.S. purges Iraq and sends ten million Americans to settle Iraqetussets call it hypocrisy.
America is the empire and securing the oil it thinks (wrongly) is crittical to cotrol said empire
the people worldwide who stand with Tibet stand with a thousands of years old culture and nation. perfect? what does that matter?
the people worldwide of conscience look at horror with the terrible mistakes made by europe in meeting the native peoples of Turtle Island
We look with shame for our trespass and stupitity and shortsightedness
we would have China realize this view and join modernity
the same modernity that calls for no iraq war, unlike red fascist china