horrors of chinese communism

8/2/2019 Horrors of Chinese Communism

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The Horrors ofThe Horrors ofChineseChinese

Communism and itsCommunism and its

OneOne--Child PolicyChild Policy


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Tree nearTree near JuJu HuaHua flyover of the Guanflyover of the Guan

Du district in Kunming, YunnanDu district in Kunming, Yunnan


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Police station near wherePolice station near where KieraKiera waswas

foundfound


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The problem: ChineseThe problem: Chinesecommunism and the onecommunism and the one--

child policychild policy

Mao Zedong and the rise of Communism

Current laws

Cultural effects

Why we as pro-lifers should be concerned


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Mao Zedong: a VERYMao Zedong: a VERY

brief overviewbrief overview Chinese Communist revolutionary, leader of thePeoples Liberation Army

Land reform/Campaign to Suppress

Counterrevolutionaries Mao claims that a total of 700,00 were executed

from 1949-1953, however, because executionquotas were often exceeded, the number is closer

to 2 million to 5 million

Further, at least 1.5 million but possibly as many as 4to 6 million were sent to reform through laborcamps, where many died


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ThreeThree--anti/Fiveanti/Five--antianti

campaignscampaigns Campaigns to rid capitalist influences and politicalopponents to Mao in urban areaso Used raw terror

Q

uote from Mao: A Life Driving enemies to suicide was a common tactic

under Maos reign


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The Great Leap ForwardThe Great Leap Forward A five year plan to transform the Chinese economyfrom a largely agricultural economy to an industrialone through a process of mandatory agricultural

collectivization Historian Frank Dikotter asserts that coercion, terror,

and systematic violence were the very foundationof the Great Leap Forward and it motivated one

of the most deadly mass killings in human history

Death toll: 18 million to 32.5 million, Dikotterestimates that the number is at least 42 million


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PropagandaPropaganda


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Chinas OneChinas One--Child PolicyChild Policy The Communist Party of China (CPC)s support ofthe policy comes from Maos support for Marxisttheory of population growth

Short and sweet of it: you may have only one child,and will incur a crippling fine (or worse) if you havemore than one.


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Heres the thing, though:Heres the thing, though: This reinforces Chinas favoritism towards boysbecause:o They will carry on the family name

o They will stay at home and work for the family, whereas if you had a girl,

she will marry off and leave home, which would mean no one will bethere to take care of the parents if theyre only allowed one child


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ConsequencesConsequences Gender imbalanceo Sex ratio at birth in mainland China was 117:100 (males/females) in 2000o The natural sex ratio is about 105:100, the world population ratio is 101:100

o There are 32 milllion more men than women in Chinao This shortage of girls leads to sex trafficing

Sex-selective abortion (though technically illegal) Four-Two-One problem

little emperors Infanticide

Child abandonment

Forced sterilization and abortion Ye Tingfang, a professor at the Chinese Academy ofSocial Science, says: [The One-Child Policy] violatesnatures law, and, in the long run, will lead to mothernatures revenge.


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Abortion in ChinaAbortion in China 13 million abortions in China a year compared to 20million births, but researchers believe the realnumber of abortions is higher because of so many

abortions at unregistered clinicso 35,000 abortions per day, compared to 3,000-4,000 in America

Sex-selected abortion is illegal, yet possible

Forced abortion is not a thing of the past; it is

happening today and is widespread


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New Evidence ofNew Evidence of

CoercionCoercion https://docs.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/viewer?a=v&pid=gmail&attid=0.1&thid=1358e81b797ded6d&mt=application/pdf&url=https://mail.google.com/mail/

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Womens Rights WithoutWomens Rights Without

Frontiers videoFrontiers video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjtuBcJUsjY&feature=player_embedded


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But couldnt Hepatitis B be responsibleBut couldnt Hepatitis B be responsible

for the high male/female ratio?for the high male/female ratio? In Emily Osters PhD dissertation at Harvard, Oster argued

that the high prevalence of Hepatitis B in Asia skewed

the gender ratio because regions with high Hepatitis B

infections tended to have high male/female birth ratios

for biological reasons not yet understood (butextensively documented)

Further research has found that this skewness was only

found around later born children, and if Hep B wasresponsible for the skewness, it would be expected

amoung all children, regardless of birth order

This suggests that other factors at play when it comes to

the gender imbalance that Hepatitis B cannot explain


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But doesnt China need the OneBut doesnt China need the One--ChildChild

policy to fix its population problem?policy to fix its population problem? Not really

[T]he policy itself is probably only partially

responsible for the reduction in the total fertility rate.The most dramatic decrease in the rate actuallyoccurred before the policy was imposedIt is

reasonable to speculate that there would havebeen a further decline in China's total fertility rate

had the voluntary policy of the 1970s continued.


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Even for the sake ofEven for the sake of

argumentargument What if Chinas One-Child policy worked? Government officials said the policy was a great

success, preventing at least 250 million births since

1980. At what cost???

Half the Sky


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Communism isnt SOCommunism isnt SO

badbad Tell that to the millions of women, children, andfamilies hurt by Chinas oppressive policies

Tell that to Kieras biological parents, or any parent

in China that had to give up their children underpressure to the government

Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association

The people of China are the victims of theirgovernment


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The point isThe point is The amount of bloodshed that has happened inChina at the hands of communism is breathtakingand unfathomable


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DiscussionDiscussion What can we, as Americans, do about the terribleinjustices of the Chinese government?o UN Population Fund

What would be acceptable, humane, and pro-life

alternatives to the One-Child Policy? Do we evenneed an alternative?

Check out my parents blog of when they were inChina to adopt Kiera,http://ourlittleflower.blogspot.com/

(to start at the beginning, go to December 2006 inthe archives. To read about the area that Kiera wasfound in, click A Humble Beginning in previousposts)

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