The official Olympic slogan may be “one world, one dream,” but China is showing each day that it and the world have vastly different views of just what that means — like the “one China” policy.
What has emerged since the unrest in Tibet overflowed is that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), despite it relentless efforts to portray itself as mature and magnanimous, has instead revealed itself to be the same tyrannical cult that has for 60 years or more oppressed, repressed, suppressed, murdered, re-educated, imprisoned, disestablished, prohibited, filtered, propagandized and the list goes on.
With ever-more strident rhetoric as the Games approach, Beijing has proved once again that in China, under the CCP, no dissent is permitted, not any, none, not even a bit. If the people are not permitted to dissent, or even to discuss dissent, or even to discuss thinking about whether to dissent, the “freedom” Beijing is constantly heralding evaporates, it is nothing more than a canard.
Which brings us to the topic of the “Genocide Olympics,” as they have been aptly called (for Tibet as much as for Darfur), much to Beijing’s chagrin.
Beating the drum loudly on the issue of sport versus politics, Beijing has repeatedly protested that the Olympics are only about sports and should not be politicized. Yet the entire production of the Olympics has been a public relations effort by Beijing to promote itself as the new world power on the block. The games are designed to show the amazing China, the wonderful China, the harmonious China.
But in truth, the CCP, which is only 5 percent of the population and has a ruthless iron grip on the military and government, has for 60 years oppressed the people of China with tyranny, dictatorship, repression and suppression. In some cases, genocide and eugenics have been employed as a means of land acquisition and suppression of dissent.
This is the true face of Beijing and no matter how many protests and how much typical CCP rhetoric about its “stern disapproval” of such unfounded criticism we hear, nothing will change that. In Beijing, oppression is freedom, war is peace and ignorance is strength. In Beijing, one plus one equals three.
Only when Chinese President Hu Jin-tao (胡錦濤), or his successor, or his successor’s successor, look in the mirror and face and address the vital and irreversible fact that China is a communist dictatorship using tyranny and blackmail as its primary tools of government and trade, will the rest of the world be willing to recognize it as a mature member of the international community of nations.
“One world, one dream” coming from Beijing has an ominous sound to it.
“One harmonious world under the heel of the Chinese Communist Party,” no doubt, is the true dream of Beijing.
No thanks.
To China, I say, run the Olympic torch all over the world, but hear the voices of dissent raised against you. Hear the truth. If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
Lee Long-hwa
New York
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