Related Links Take action on China Trade with Red China Chinese Spying/Military Human Rights in China China & Tibet Tibet Info P-3 Crew Swap for Olympics?   Falun Gong Amnesty Intl-China Laogai - Chinese Concentration Camps Tiananmen Square Massacre Petition - Boycott Beijing Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues & Strategy Bulletin of January 15, 2008  BEWARE OF BEIJING’S BULLYING AT AUGUST OLYMPICS             “With the Beijing Olympics nearing, China is determined to ensure that unbroken harmony will prevail.  The Associated Press, as reported in The Washington Times, reveals that ‘the Chinese government has created profiles on thousands of foreign journalists coming to report on the Beijing Olympics and is gathering information on thousands more to put into a database.  The Politburo extends its pervasive domestic censorship to the world.             “This policy statement from ‘a top official’ is in context with China’s intelligence services also having been ‘gathering information on foreign activist groups, aiming to head off protests and other political acts.’  Four days after the AP report, The Washington Post Foreign Service added that a leading ‘Chinese security official vowed … to punish anyone who takes part in a political, religious or ethnic demonstration or protest “in any form” ’ during the games.” FDR DID NOT SIT BESIDE HITLER AT 1936 OLYMPICS             “Present at these closely guarded games will be President Bush.  If he sees discordant protesters being dragged away, will he say anything to reporters there who have not been on China’s equivalent of our ‘watch lists,’ and are allowed to attend?  But China is also worried, said a senior Olympics official, about ‘boycott noise’ from groups around the world planning such a protest against what many call the ‘Genocidal Olympics.’ ” CORPORATE SPONSORS LUST FOR BLOOD-STAINED PROFITS “Right now, however, along with possible boycott of the games by athletes and prominent international figures who would ordinarily attend, is a campaign directed at the corporate sponsors of the Summer Olympics who have invested tens of millions of dollars in the games.  They believe their partnership in China’s time of glory will reward them with increasing access to China’s continually expanding market.  For example, General Electric, owner of NBC, has paid $894 million for the rights to broadcast the Genocidal Olympics.” THE REAL “OLYMPICS” IS SUDAN             “A New York-based human-rights organization – the non-profit Dream for Darfur – has been in contact with 19 major corporate sponsors of the Summer Olympics to persuade them to put life-saving pressure on China’s leaders to engage in a final effort to end the genocide in Darfur.  No country in the world is more vital to the economy of Sudan, the perpetrator of these mass murders and rapes, than China.             “Sudan’s president, Lt. Gen. Omar Bashir, is smugly confident that he has prevented the combined United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force from entering Sudan.  Only the prospect of losing China’s huge annual purchase of Sudan’s oil as well as its other large-scale investments in the country will get Gen. Bashir to disarm his savage Janjaweed militia and his uniformed soldiers while also grounding his attack helicopters, which keep bombing the black Muslim survivors in Darfur. …             “Among the corporations contacted are Coca-Cola, Panasonic, Volkswagen, Anheuser-Busch (Budweiser), the Adidas Group, McDonalds, Staples, Eastman Kodak and Microsoft.”  “ONE WORLD IS THE THEME”             “So far, however, Dream for Darfur reports, not one of those corporations has been ‘willing to acknowledge publicly that … the ongoing genocide in Darfur is morally unacceptable’ for the host of ‘One World, One Dream.’  What, then, can be done to shame these investors in the Olympics to undermine China’s utterly crucial support of Sudan, the country continuing to conduct the first genocide of the 21st century? …             “Actress Mia Farrow, who first unfurled the accusation ‘Genocide Olympics’ and is part of Dream for Darfur, says:  ‘We are appealing to the public … to put more pressure on these companies (and for) the press [to] do its job …  Business is not as usual when we talk about mass atrocities.’  So, now everyone who buys the products or services of the corporations can personally help end these atrocities.  How many of you care enough about these black African Muslims to stop the further rapes of their women and children and the slaughter of whole families?”  Source:  Nat Hentoff, The Washington Times, 12/31/07, p. A17   U.S. CORPORATIONS HELP BUILD BIG BROTHER IN BEIJING              “BEIJING:  In preparation for the Beijing Olympics and a host of other international events, some American companies are helping the Chinese government to design and install one of the most comprehensive high-tech public surveillance systems in the world.             “When told of the companies’ transactions, critics of China’s human rights record said the work violated the spirit of a sanctions law Congress passed after the Tiananmen Square killings.             “The Commerce Department, however, says the sophisticated systems that Honeywell, General Electric, United Technologies and IBM are installing do not run afoul of the ban on providing China ‘crime control or detection instruments or equipment.’ …”  CHICOMS, LIKE THE BIG BAD WOLF, BETTER ABLE TO FEAST ON FOES             “[A]s the first authoritarian regime to host an Olympics since the former Yugoslavia in 1984, China also presents particular challenges.  Long after the visitors leave, security industry experts say, the surveillance equipment Western companies leave behind will provide authorities here new tools to track not only criminals, but dissidents too.             “ ‘I don’t know of an intelligence-gathering operation in the world that, when given a new toy, doesn’t use it,’ said Steve Vickers, a former head of criminal intelligence for the Hong Kong police who now leads a consulting firm.             “Indeed, the autumn issue of the Chinese Public Security Ministry’s magazine prominently listed places of worship and Internet cafes as locations to install new cameras. …             “General Electric has sold the Chinese authorities its powerful VisioWave system, which allows security officers to control thousands of video cameras simultaneously and automatically alerts them to suspicious or fast-moving objects, like people running.  The system will be deployed at the Beijing national convention center, including the Olympics media center.             “IBM is installing a similar system in Beijing that should be ready before the Olympics.  It will analyze and catalog people and behavior. …             “United Technologies flew three engineers from its Lenel security subsidiary in Rochester, New York, to Guangzhou to customize a 2,000-camera network in a single large neighborhood, the first step toward a city-wide network of 250,000 cameras to be installed before the 2010 Asian Games.  The company is also seeking contracts to build that network. …”  BIG BROTHER REALLY IS WATCHING             “A table in the autumn edition of the security ministry’s magazine suggested the number of surveillance cameras that should be installed in each community, based on its size, international prominence and location – from 250,000 to 300,000 cameras in metropolises like Beijing and Shanghai to 1,000 to 5,000 cameras for small towns and rural counties.”  Source:  Keith Bradsher, International Herald Tribune (www.iht.com), 12/27/07  Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues & Strategy Bulletin of December 31, 2007 BIG BROTHER WANTS TO KNOW             “With the 2008 Olympic games coming soon, China is stepping up its censorship under the official slogan ‘constructing a harmonious society.’  Visitors who click on China’s largest Internet site, called Sina.com, are greeted by two cute cartoon police figures, one male and one female, who pop up onscreen every 30 minutes.             “These images link to the Communist Party Internet police in order to report any information the government might deem illegal.  It’s important for Americans to realize that China is still a very communist and anti-American country.”  Source:  Phyllis Schlafly, www.WorldNetDaily.com, 12/14/07 Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues & Strategy Bulletin of October 15, 2007 BUSH IS A “DEMOCRACY” HYPOCRITE             “President Bush has accepted an invitation from President Hu Jintao of China to attend the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing, a move that drew condemnation from human rights advocates and a Republican member of Congress, who are calling for a boycott of the Games. …             “The decision was announced while most Americans were still asleep.  But by the time Mr. Bush delivered his speech, human rights advocates were accusing him of giving his imprimatur to a country that is jailing dissidents, denying religious freedom and, in their view, not exerting its influence as a major buyer of Sudanese oil to stop what Mr. Bush himself has termed genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region.” FDR BOOSTED HITLER, GWB AIDS HU “Back in Washington, a Republican congressman, Representative Dana Rohrabacher of California, said in a telephone interview that he and eight other Republicans would press a resolution calling for the United States to boycott the Games.  In a statement, Mr. Rohrabacher likened Mr. Bush to Franklin D. Roosevelt, who attended the Berlin Games when Hitler ruled Germany.             “ ‘If this were 1936, would President Bush be anxious to sit next to Adolf?’ Mr. Rohrabacher wrote.  ‘The president’s presence in the Communist Party sky box is certainly contradictory to his so-called commitment to democracy in the Middle East or his emotional expression of concern over the genocide in Sudan.’ …             “Sophie Richardson, an Asia expert at Human Rights Watch, an advocacy organization, said Mr. Bush was giving ‘an enormous propaganda opportunity to an abusive government.’ ”  Source:  From Sydney, Australia, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, The New York Times, 9/7/07, p. A10 Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues & Strategy Bulletin of August 31, 2007  ROHRABACHER PUSHES FOR BOYCOTT OF CHICOM 2008 OLYMPICS              “An effort is brewing in Congress to persuade President Bush to boycott the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing over concerns on Chinese human rights violations.             “A resolution introduced by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, California Republican, calls for the U.S. government to take ‘immediate steps’ to boycott the games unless the ‘Chinese regime stops engaging in serious human rights abuses against its citizens and stops supporting serious human rights abuses by the governments of Sudan, Burma and North Korea against their citizens.’             “The nonbinding resolution was co-sponsored by seven Republicans. … Rep. Maxine Waters, California Democrat, also introduced a nonbinding resolution asking the president to boycott the Beijing games because of China’s ‘long-standing economic and military ties with Sudan’ and because China ‘continues to strengthen these ties in spite of the ongoing genocide in Darfur.’  Darfur is a region in western Sudan. …” NAZIS IN 1936, RED CHINESE IN 2008             “Mr. Rohrabacher likened U.S. support for the Beijing Olympics to the 1936 summer games in Berlin, in which the United States and its allies turned a blind eye to atrocities perpetrated by the ruling Nazi regime in Germany.  ‘Nazi Germany hosted the Olympics, giving Hitler a worldwide platform to showcase his fascist propaganda,’ Mr. Rohrabacher said.  ‘It was wrong to support the Olympic venue then, and it’s wrong for the United States to support this prestigious event being held in a similarly fascist regime in 2008.’ ”  Source:  Sean Lengell, The Washington Times, 8/23/07, p. A4 Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues & Strategy Bulletin of June 30, 2001 OLYMPIC KOWTOW TO RED CHINA BY BUSH EVOKES MEMORIES OF HITLER’S BERLIN IN 1936 "Picture this: Beneath a towering portrait of Chairman Mao, brutal Chinese dictators bask in the warm glow of international good will as the world’s top volleyball players romp across imported sand spread over Tiananmen Square - the same bloodied site where government troops massacred peaceful pro-democracy protesters in 1989. …" A LEADERSHIP VACUUM IN THE OVAL OFFICE "It is hard to remain neutral about the thought of bikini-clad competitors high-fiving in the communist plaza where military tanks mowed down young Chinese students carrying replicas of our Lady Liberty. But neutrality is the official stand the Bush administration took this week. ‘We decided not to decide,’ said Richard A. Boucher, State Department spokesman. Chinese President Jiang Zemin no doubt did some high-fiving himself when he heard the news." "NEUTRAL" ON MORALITY, JUSTICE, AND U.S. NATIONAL INTEREST "How can we remain neutral - uninvolved - about China’s bid for Olympic glory while religious minorities such as the Falun Gong are persecuted, repressed and tortured with cattle prods?" SLAVE LABOR AND SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING "How can we remain neutral while dissenting journalists are shut down, Internet cafes are raided and government critics have their tongues cut off? How can we remain neutral while the Chinese government continues to operate slave labor camps in open defiance of international laws?" ACROBATICS AND ABORTION "How can we remain neutral about rewarding China while government-sponsored infanticide, forced abortions and a coercive one-child policy continue to strike terror in the hearts of Chinese parents?" ACQUIESCING TO ASIAN IMPERIALISM "How can we remain neutral about a country that tried to subvert our election system and continues a campaign of military aggression in Asia? Just this week, The Washington Times’ Bill Gertz reports, Chinese warships menaced the Spratly island chain near the Philippines. Chinese military occupation of the Spratlys is part of Beijing’s strategy of expanding its empire." U.S. CITIZENS IN RED CHINESE PRISONS "And how can we remain neutral about Beijing’s Olympic aspirations while its leaders hold more than 30 U.S. citizens in Chinese prisons, as well as a growing number of Chinese-born scholars who are permanent U.S. residents and have children who are U.S. citizens? "These hostages are being detained by the Ministry of State Security on trumped-up charges of espionage and have been denied any semblance of due process. This column reported in March on one of those prisoners, American University professor Gao Zhan, who hasn’t been seen or heard from by her husband and 5-year-old, American-born son Andrew in four months. The family had been on vacation in China and was preparing to return to the United States when a group of 15 Beijing secret police in plain clothes swarmed Andrew and his parents at the airport. …" FREE TRADE DIDN’T PROMOTE FREEDOM - NEITHER WILL OLYMPICS "How can we remain neutral while the Chinese laugh off concerns about the human rights of their people and ours, and in the same breath argue that giving the Olympics to Beijing will provide an incentive for them to change their ways? If three decades of economic liberalization and free trade with us haven’t worked, who really believes a candy-coated Olympics (replete with forced smiles and fake beaches and dead grass painted green for show) will break China’s chains? "Whether China wins or loses its Olympic bid, it can already claim victory. Neutrality in the face of totalitarianism is condonation clothed in diplomatic cowardice." Source: Michelle Malkin, The Washington Times, 7/2/01, p. A16 BUSH ACQUIESCES TO RED CHINESE SPONSORSHIP OF 2008 OLYMPICS Steven Mufson writes (Washington Post, 6/25/01, p. 1) that "The Bush administration has decided to remain neutral on Beijing’s bid to host the 2008 Olympics, despite powerful appeals from members of Congress to oppose Beijing’s bid on human rights grounds. "The administration hopes that its neutral position will help defuse an issue that China has called an emotional one for its people, officials said. A senior State Department official said that awarding the games to China might even be a positive thing and give China ‘a powerful but intangible incentive’ to improve its human rights performance and to exercise restraint toward Taiwan." GOP CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP TAKES A DIVE "At the same time, momentum in Congress to take a stand against Beijing’s bid seems to be fading. Republican leaders might not bring to the floor a House resolution opposing Beijing’s bid before Congress recesses this week, congressional sources said. Congress will not return from recess until July 9, just four days before the International Olympic Committee meets in Moscow to choose a 2008 site. "Neutrality from the United States could boost Beijing’s chances of hosting the games over its three rivals: Paris, Osaka and Toronto. Beijing is considered the leading candidate and regards its selection as a matter of intense national pride; Chinese officials have complained that U.S. opposition contributed to Beijing’s failure to win the 2000 games. … "Responding to suggestions that the Olympics might help open up the political system, [California Democratic Congressman Tom] Lantos said, it is ‘idiotic’ to argue that it is helpful to allow ‘an authoritarian regime to bask in the reflected glory of the Olympics.’" NO VOTE ALLOWED IN CONGRESS " ‘I think I’ve got the votes,’ Lantos said, but he doubts the House leaders want it voted on. ‘It would be a rather regrettable and unfortunate phenomenon to appease Beijing by not allowing the voice of the Congress to speak on this issue.’ "