Communist China – 70 years old and still brutal

The China we see on television hides another China. Modern cities, advanced manufacturers, centers of technology mask tyranny and imprisonment.

In the Other China, “a million Turkic Muslims in the Xinjiang region are now being detained solely because of their ethnic identity, while many of their children are forcibly housed in state-run boarding schools.”

In the Other China, “millions of women have suffered the trauma of forced sterilizations and abortions, and … children cannot go to school because they were born outside of the One-Child or Two-Child policies.”

In Hong Kong, protesters carried American flags and sang “The Star Spangled Banner.” Like millions of other people, Chinese want to come here. “In 2017, nearly 90% of the applicants on the waiting list for America’s investment-based green cards were from China.”

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-09-30/china-repression-communist-party-70th-anniversary

The Gang of Five are gone; the Cultural Revolution died a violent death. Mao Zedong died, but not before killing tens of millions of his own people.

That China is not likely to reappear, but the millions in China’s prisons would say different.