Concealment About China's Communism
The Western media do not identify China as a Communist country. Western newspapers do not identify Hu Jintao as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, even though that is the office with the power and authority, not the presidency of the country. When Madeleine Albright visited Beijing, she beamed as she held up a copy of China Daily which proclaimed China's commitment to the rule of law. Yet, the fine print identified the key provision of the Chinese "rule of law" as the supremacy of the Communist Party.
The Communist Party controls what Chinese people read and watch on television. Journalists are required to undergo Marxist indoctrination and are told how to handle sensitive issues like the anniversaries of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Journalists who reveal Communist directives are jailed for leaking "state secrets."
The Chinese government has a firewall to block sites on the Internet it doesn't want its citizens to see. Thousands of censors monitor sites and intimidate citizens. According to Reporters Without Borders, at least 50 Internet dissidents are in jail. Wall Street Journal, 8-7-08
Update on Chinese Poisons
First it was cat food, then baby milk formula, then all dairy-based products from yogurt to chocolate. Now, chicken eggs contaminated with high levels of melamine have been found in Hong Kong. Contaminated Chinese candy was found in Connecticut. The state-run Chinese media admit that the industrial chemical melamine is regularly added to animal feed in China, creating fears that fish, meat, and who knows what else may be poisoned.
Follow the money. Because melamine is rich in nitrogen, low-quality foods and animal feed show artificially high protein readings on tests and bring higher prices. Nobody questions the fact that the melamine is deliberately added to food products, and has been for years. Even after the pet food scandal last year, China did nothing to clamp down on melamine use (as the government promised). At least 52,000 people have fallen ill from tainted milk, and several babies have died. Don't expect the trial lawyers to sue for damages; China is not allowing such lawsuits. Associated Press, 11-1-08
Why does the U.S. import any food or prescription drugs from China?
Update on Heparin from China
At least 81 Americans have died from use of the blood-thinner heparin, which was imported from China containing a poisonous counterfeit ingredient. The big majority of our prescription drugs today contain ingredients that are imported from China.
Here we reprint a portion of a letter received from an American citizen: "I am one of the hundreds who were poisoned by heparin from China, and nine months later, I am still trying to find help! ... I continue to get worse and worse. I have had every test they can think of ... and all of them have come up empty handed. They have, however, given much more proof that this heparin does and will have long lasting effects way after being exposed to it. ... From going through the lists that I have found in my research of all the symptoms, I probably experienced about 2/3rds or more of them. ... I have muscle tissue dying, I have nerves dying, I have arteries 'filling,' I have blood pooling, I have kidney problems, and the list goes on and on."
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