Communist China has shown its brutal and oppressive character again:
A JOURNALIST considered the doyen of China correspondents has been held in Beijing and could be charged with stealing state secrets after he tried to obtain a copy of interviews with Zhao Ziyang, the Communist leader who was purged after the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Ching Cheong, a Hong Kong national who works for The Straits Times, a Singaporean newspaper, would be the first reporter for a foreign publication to face charges in China.
His wife, Mary Lau, said: “He told me that he expected to be shut up for a long time. It seems they suspect him of stealing state secrets.” Mr Ching, 55, was detained in the southern city of Guangzhou on April 22. He had been trying to obtain a copy of interviews with the late Zhao, who opposed the use of military force to suppress the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Imprisoning foreign journalists is a step up from the Tibetan genocide, but countries that behave this way aren’t ready for full membership in the community of civilized nations. China is effectively a criminal enterprise, nearly as savage as its client state, North Korea.
Totally OT, and yet considering who is prompting me to leave this post, fitting:
Richard, I just read your post on mummmmmmon’s blog and his rude, insensitive, barbaric response. I don’t know anything about you, but I surmise that you lost a daughter on 9/11 at the WTC. I want to extend my condolensces and sympathy to you in this loss. I can’t even begin to imagine the horror of losing a child in any manner (I have two–two and 10 months), but the shock of having that happen would be more than I could bear. My prayers are with you.
You know, frankly I find “Syphilis and Religion” by Graham Parker much more eloquent.
Cheesehead: no he didn’t lose a daughter- she was going to get on one of the planes.
However, as I noted in my reply, I knew someone who actually was killed in the attack. My father knew more people who perished. My best friend almost perished. But, like I said there, it has no bearing on the discussion, but yes, I knew more people personally who came much much closer – and in one case too close- to the effects of this terrorism funded by petro dollars.
Thanks for the sentiments, Cheesehead, but my daughter narrowly escaped death that day by choosing to take a Delta flight out of NYC instead of UA 93, the other choice she was given after her flight to CA was cancelled the previous day.
John’s father-in-law is a prominent officer in the Chinese Red Army, so any mention of the Tibetan genocide makes him squirm.
I’m glad your daughter wasn’t on that plane. I can certainly see where in your case common sense and patriotism would be given a sharper emotional edge by having been that close to losing a family member on 9/11.
John’s father-in-law is a prominent officer in the Chinese Red Army, so any mention of the Tibetan genocide makes him squirm.
No Richard, that’s not true. My father in law passed away over a decade ago, and wasn’t in the Red Army.
Got any more whoppers?
Changing your story?