“In May 1989, nearly a million Chinese, mostly young students, crowded into central Beijing to protest for greater democracy and call for the resignations of Chinese Communist Party leaders deemed too repressive. For nearly three weeks, the protesters kept up daily vigils, and marched and chanted. Western reporters captured much of the drama for television and newspaper audiences in the United States and Europe.
On June 4, 1989, however, Chinese troops and security police stormed through Tiananmen Square, firing indiscriminately into the crowds of protesters. Turmoil ensued, as tens of thousands of the young students tried to escape the rampaging Chinese forces. Other protesters fought back, stoning the attacking troops and overturning and setting fire to military vehicles. Reporters and Western diplomats on the scene estimated that at least 300, and perhaps thousands, of the protesters had been killed and as many as 10,000 were arrested.” https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/tiananmen-square-massacre-takes-place
“More than 150,000 people turned out to honor the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre at a vigil in Hong Kong Monday night organized to honor the 30th anniversary of a deadly, public crackdown on dissent by the Chinese government.” https://www.dailywire.com/news/48019/more-150000-people-turned-out-mark-anniversary-emily-zanott
“The bill’s critics say those extradited would be exposed to China’s deeply flawed justice system, and it would lead to further erosion of the city’s judicial independence, with torture and unfair trials bound to follow. “It’s a proposal, or a set of proposals, which strike a terrible blow … against the rule of law, against Hong Kong’s stability and security, against Hong Kong’s position as a great international trading hub,” the territory’s last British governor, Chris Patten, said on Thursday.” https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2019/06/09/china-to-defy-uk-hong-kong-handover-agreement-with-new-extradition-bill/
“Earlier this week, the Chinese government summoned executives from American firms Dell and Microsoft and South Korea’s Samsung, among others, to warn them that any moves to ramp down their businesses in China may lead to retaliation, The New York Times reported. American companies were told “that the Trump administration’s move to cut off Chinese companies from American technology had disrupted the global supply chain, adding that companies that followed the policy could face permanent consequences,” the newspaper reported. “ https://www.breitbart.com/news/china-warns-tech-giants-after-us-huawei-ban-report/
What was the difference between Poland & China? “This June 2019 is a good time to remember this. Last week the world remembered the 30th anniversary of Tiananmen Square. And yet, just hours after Tiananmen, something else of major historic importance happened, and it happened in Poland: the people there held free and fair elections. The first round came on June 4, immediately after the Tiananmen protests. The second round would follow on June 18. These were, finally, the elections promised long ago at Yalta but had never happened.” https://spectator.org/spiting-polands-communist-bastards/
update….
“Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Saturday that a proposed extradition bill will be suspended, handing a stunning victory to thousands of protesters who packed the streets for a week to oppose legislation strongly desired by the mainland Chinese government.”
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/06/15/hong-kong-and-china-give-in-to-protesters-suspend-extradition-bill/
Geeze, significant scale. What academe wordsmith.
“An independent people’s tribunal has unanimously concluded that prisoners of conscience have been—and continue to be—killed in China for their organs “on a significant scale,” after a year-long investigation.
“Forced organ harvesting has been committed for years throughout China on a significant scale,” said chair of the tribunal, Sir Geoffrey Nice QC in a judgment delivered on June 17 in London.”
“U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) revealed in recent comments the extent to which the Chinese regime pressures Chinese nationals studying and working in the United States to steal intellectual property on its behalf.
“U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) revealed in recent comments the extent to which the Chinese regime pressures Chinese nationals studying and working in the United States to steal intellectual property on its behalf.
During a speech on homeland security and counterterrorism given at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington D.C. on June 17, Warner revealed that Chinese spies have threatened the families of Chinese international students at U.S. schools to bring back intellectual property.
Otherwise, “if your son or daughter does not come back with intellectual property, you, family, will be put in jeopardy,” he said.” https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-senator-chinese-families-are-threatened-by-beijing-if-their-us-educated-child-doesnt-bring-back-stolen-ip_2969354.html
“Second, China today runs concentration camps where authorities have detained millions of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Hui, other ethnic Turkic Muslims, Christians, and some foreign citizens. When called out on this by the U.S. State Department and in typical communist fashion, China dismissed these secret internment camps as ‘boarding schools.’
Third is the matter of harvesting organs from political prisoners.
One particularly rich source of fresh organs for China’s transplant industry in recent years have been members of Falun Gong, which was declared a heretical Buddhist sect in 1999 by then-party secretary Jiang Zemin. Hundreds of thousands — perhaps millions — of the group have been arrested and have disappeared into a vast network of secret prisons never to be seen again in one piece
Organ harvesting is a booming business in China where the Chinese have supply-side principles down cold. A medical tourist arrives with a need, an appropriate young political prisoner is selected, his execution then scheduled and carried out, and within hours a fresh organ — be it a lung, heart, kidney or whatever — is being installed in its new home. “
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/07/chinas_new_silk_road_will_flop.html
China would have known what to do with these valuable commodities.
“But data from Minnesota, the Centers for Disease Control and other sources indicate that babies do survive abortions, and laws are needed to protect them.
Minnesota has been keeping track of abortion survivors since 2015 when pro-lifers passed the state Born Alive Infants Protection Act. The law recognizes infants who survive abortions as human persons and requires that they be provided with reasonable medical care.
Since the law went into effect, state reports indicate that 11 babies have survived abortions: five in 2016, three in 2017 and …”
“The Bishop Emeritus of Hong Kong has spoken out forcefully against the Vatican’s newest “pastoral document” for the Chinese Church which gives reasons for why priests should register with the communist government. Cardinal Joseph Zen presented nine criticisms to Pope Francis and Cardinal Pietro Parolin on a recent trip to Rome, July 1, that outline his concerns about the document.
“A text is signed against the faith and it is stated that the intention is to promote the good of the community, a more suitable evangelisation, and the responsible management of Church assets. This general rule is obviously against all fundament[al] moral theology! If valid, [it] would justify even apostasy!” stated the Cardinal in his criticisms which were published on his website today.
“This document has radically turned upside what is normal and what is abnormal, what is rightful and what is pitiable. Those who wrote it hope perhaps that the pitied minority will die a natural death. By this minority I mean not only underground priests, but also the many brothers in the official community who have worked with great tenacity to achieve change, hoping for the support of the Holy See,” he stated later in his criticism of the pastoral document. “