The Goddess of Democracy faces
Mao: On this day in 1989, the People's
Liberation Army was
ordered to clear Tiananmen Square, and many squares
and areas around the
country, of people from all walks of life seeking a more
representative
government, massacring and wounding untold thousands.
U.S. 'Garbage'
Congress Shows True Colors With Talk of Beijing Turmoil 25 Years Ago (Huanqiu, China)
Late last month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed
Resolution 599, which asked the Beijing government to 'respect freedom of
assembly, expression, and religion, the rule of law for all its citizens, and
to stop censoring discussion of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations and
their violent suppression.' This editorial from China's state-run Huanqiu refers only to the 'political
turmoil that occurred in Beijing 25 years ago,' and condemns U.S. lawmakers for
seeking to undermine China's social order by, among other things, seeking to 'pass
information onto the Chinese people.'
Tank Man: The world will never forget this photo of a man, alone and unarmed, standing in front of tanks of the People's Liberation Army, in an attempt to prevent the Tiananmen Square massacre, one of the most ignominious events in modern times.
On
May 28, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution [House
Resolution 599] condemning China's human rights situation. The resolution revisited
the political turmoil that occurred in Beijing 25 years ago, and criticized
China for the measures taken to maintain social stability. It also called on
the U.S. Broadcasting
Board of Governors to engage in information penetration in China, and urged
the White House to put the human right issue at the top of the agenda in its dialogue
with China. The House of Representatives, which set aside its usual bickering
and overwhelmingly passed the resolution, with only a single vote against.
For
many decades, the U.S. Congress has adopted countless anti-China resolutions,
which constitute an important element in Sino-U.S. relations and reflect
deeply-held perceptions and social attitudes of the American elite. Yet they do
not represent bilateral ties. Generally speaking, China has adopted an attitude
of defiance toward these noises from the U.S. Congress.
In
fact, over recent years, the more harshly the U.S. Congress has reproached China,
and the more arrogant its demands, the more damage has been done to America's
image in Chinese mainstream society. These actions by U.S. lawmakers have to
some extent shaped the Chinese people's understanding of the United States.
As
our contempt for U.S. accusations and preaching have risen over the past 20
years, China has been the big winner in terms of social competition. In the
early 1990s, China was in the midst of a struggle to vanquish poverty. Back then, people could never have
imagined driving their own cars, owning their own real estate, and rarely if
ever were able to travel, particularly since there were hardly any highways and
few airports.
Today
we live in "another China," where our living conditions and essential
rights have been incredibly improved. Meanwhile over these same 20 years, many
developing nations which had blindly obeyed Washington's trickery have
consequently been plunged into war, unrest, or social stagnation. China's success has even enriched the word "reform,"
while words like "revolution" and "spring" have had their
meanings blurred, after being used to refer to cases that have so often ended in
failure.
Ukraine,
for example, has been one of the West's most dutiful students - and a vivid
tragedy. In addition, the examples of the former Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and
the Middle East, have been more of a call to arms for Chinese society than any
human rights resolution passed by the U.S. Congress. With our long history of
civilization, the Chinese people have the capacity to organize ourselves during
decisive moments of national revival. We can identify risks and recognize the most likely
ways of achieving a breakthrough.
U.S.
lawmakers are probably not stupid enough to confuse China's "reforms"
with a "revolution" or a "spring." Rather, they are deliberately
seeking to deny China's right to walk its own political path. Yet China's path
is leading to a better and more stable world, and even Western scholars have
begun to explore the competitiveness of the China model, the result of which is that the U.S.
Congress is redoubling its efforts to sully China.
Posted By Worldmeets.US
This
latest resolution passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, which wantonly
attacks measures taken by China to ensure social stability, has more nefarious
purposes. It is an effort to create instability by passing information onto the
Chinese people and undermine China's social order.
U.S.
lawmakers overestimate the capacity of U.S. resolutions to manufacture mischief
in China. This is like spitting at a brick of the Great Wall of China.
Today's
U.S. lawmakers have experienced the climax of American power and the rise of
China, and the odd odor coming from the U.S. is because the U.S. Congress has
become a garbage dump for anti-China emotion. So in China's future dealings
with the United States, it will often have to plunge forward while holding its
nose. One hope that U.S. lawmakers have a necessary capacity for introspection,
and become more fully aware of the bitter consequences of what their chambers
have been disseminating.
