I have frequently written that Communist China is the Nazi Germany of the 21st century. Insofar as China is indisputably emerging as the pre-eminent threat to global freedom, this seems difficult to challenge. But the Nazi regime was not the only existential threat to liberty in the 20th century – its notoriety also derives from its character as a gangster regime responsible for heinous crimes against its own citizens.
Well…ditto China. Certainly as far as a number of activist groups are concerned.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently met with representatives of groups victimized by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) who urged the Trump administration to designate the CCP a “transnational criminal organization.”
Whether the Trump administration, distracted as it is by a battle for its political life, passes such a designation is one thing. Whether a possible Biden successor maintains that will to confront China is another (especially given the Biden family’s murky financial obligations to China). But the moral imperative seems hard to argue.
Washington-based advocacy group Committee on Present Danger: China organized the gathering, under the banner of the “Captive Nations Coalition,” which included representatives from the Tibetan, Uyghur, Inner Mongolian, Hong Kong, and Falun Gong communities. Also invited were people who have negatively affected by Beijing’s Belt and Road initiative, a massive foreign investment project that aims to advance the regime’s political and economic interests around the world.
Committee Vice Chairman Frank Gaffney said the victim groups hoped to convey to the State Department their experiences of suppression by the regime, in the hopes of advancing the message that “all of us are under threat from the global, totalitarian ambitions of the Chinese Communist Party.”
Gaffney said the representatives urged the administration to designate the CCP a “transnational criminal organization” under U.S. law. Such a designation would help “delegitimize the most odious and most dangerous entity in the world today,” Gaffney told NTD, an affiliate of The Epoch Times.
He added that it would also send a strong message to those in China who are “trying to empower, enrich, enable, and embolden this most dangerous entity to become even worse by transferring the wealth of Americans, particularly from our capital markets,” because this designation would mean that they would become accessories to criminal activity.
Well, that would certainly make things a tad uncomfortable for the Biden family, not to mention certain mining magnates in Australia.
Joyce Ho, president of Project Black Mask, a U.S.-based advocacy group for Hong Kong, said she told Pompeo at the meeting that the United States must continue fighting for the people of Hong Kong[…]“If we don’t have the support of the United States government, it seems that Hong Kong will go down the path of becoming the next Uyghur population or the next Tibet,” Ho told NTD, referring to Uyghur Muslims and Tibetan Buddhists who are suppressed in the Xinjiang and Tibet regions.
Which brings us to the most significant parallel with Nazi Germany: an organised campaign of heinous crimes against selected minority groups.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline that includes meditative exercises and a set of moral teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. Adherents have been subjected to harassment, detention, and torture in an effort to coerce them into giving up their beliefs.
Millions have been detained, according to estimates by the Falun Dafa Information Center.
Worse, thousands (at least) have been deliberately killed in order to harvest their organs in a state-sanctioned program of forced organ harvesting and selling on the international transplant market.
In 2019, an independent people’s tribunal concluded, after a yearlong investigation, that state-sanctioned organ harvesting had occurred for years in China “on a substantial scale,” and continues. The main sources for the organs are Falun Gong adherents, it said.
Pompeo said he was well aware of forced organ harvesting and that the department was looking into the issue, according to Lin.
“I think in the future, we will hear more about the crime of organ harvesting being exposed,” Lin said.
At the same time, China is credibly accused of, not just detaining millions of Uyghurs in massive prison camps, but perpetrating a regime of forced sterilisation and abortions, and other methods that can only be characterised by one word: genocide.
A criminal dictatorship with a cult of personality leader, marked by mass imprisonment, state-sanctioned murder and gruesome medical procedures, and genocide.
The only difference with Nazi Germany is rapidly becoming a question of which had the nattier uniforms.
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