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May 8, 2007 at 09:37:27

Communist China and Vietnam: Running the Same Dishonest Human Rights Playbook

by John Carey Page 2 of 3 page(s)

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Next month, the President from Vietnam will visit the United States for the first time. Human rights activists are already wondering if the usual play book will be used by both sides or if the U.S. will actually press Vietnam on human rights, as promised. The world awaits the outcome.

Now we look to China.

Beijing was chosen to host the 2008 Summer Games by the International Olympic Committee. As part of the deal, China agreed to make progress in several human rights areas.

Now, NGOs and human rights organizations are already saying that China is falling short of its commitments on human rights.

Even though there is virtually no chance of human rights issues impacting China’s Summer Games, China’s international media charm offensive is in high gear.

We have seen China responding by hopping like a bunny to all kinds of criticism from around the world. China has announced new, more liberal rules for the media. China has made all kinds of pledges from stiffer self imposed environmental and global warming goals to renewed actions on freedom of religion.

China even replaced the Foreign Minister, who did not speak English, with the former Ambassadore to the United States who speaks English like a Princeton man.

China is making some real improvements in human rights and other areas of international interest, but there is much work yet to do for a China desiring acceptance by the law abiding world community.

The issues for China are great and some seemingly small.

When President Hu Jintao Visited Sudan last February, his presence violated the sanction of the U.N., the E.U. and others wanting to seal the Sudan from aid or trade until improvements in the situation that many have called genocide in Darfur could be assessed.

During President Hu’s visit to Sudan he offered economic aid and more investment in Sudan’s oil industry. Darfur was not mentioned publicly at all.

The United States has complained to China for decades that many in China violate international laws and standards on intellectual property rights such as copyrights and trademarks by producing “knock offs” of everything from Rolex watches to major motion pictures like the blockbuster “Titanic.”

These violation cost business and owners in the west tens of billions of dollars a year.

But the copyright infringement discussion pales in importance to China’s vast array of human rights abuses.

As we get closer to the Olympics next summer, one can expect some saintly behavior and some angelic pronouncements from China. But after the last gold medal is awarded we caution everyone against saying anything negative about their communist Chinese Olympic hosts.

We doubt that there will really be a new playbook.
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In response to this article we heard from a man who went though Communist Vietnam’s “re-education system” after Saigon fell in 1975. He spent 12 years in “re-education” and admitted maybe he was a slow learner.

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John E. Carey is the former president of International Defense Consultants, Inc.

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A writer is a rogue goose. All other gees fly in a flock formation; every goose knows his place and time for honking. The rogue goose is undisciplined. He leaves the formation indiscriminately to have a look at it from aside. He roams back and forth, takes a peep at the leader, honks a little bit from behind, distracts everyone and writes on what he sees. Time passes and as he wants to return back to his place he discovers someone else there. Thus he either has to wait until they land for rest...

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Mark SashineA writer is a rogue goose. All other gees fly in a flock formation; every goose knows his place and time for honking. The rogue goose is undisciplined. He leaves the formation indiscriminately to have a look at it from aside. He roams back and forth, takes a peep at the leader, honks a little bit from behind, distracts everyone and writes on what he sees. Time passes and as he wants to return back to his place he discovers someone else there. Thus he either has to wait until they land for rest...

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Obscession and stalking

Mr. Carey in his usual strangely detached manner is obscessed with China and Vietnam ( wow, they are so far from us and easy to criticise, I suppose). In one of the comments recently Mr. Carey mentioned that I was obscessed with him, although I surely did not 'track' him the way he persistently tracks the 'communist China', ignoring the simple fact that our, US companies love those communists in a typical American style. Mr. Carey writes as if he is delirious: no matter what happens in the world- off we go to criticise China or Vietnam, those real bad guys. He ignores the simple premise that the only way to criticise the system of governance of another country is through proper comparison with your own and .. PATRIOT ACT surely puts the US out of business here. Hey, how about violations of the rights of the Iraqis and Afghanis by the US and their murderous cronies- any comparison with those bad Vietnamese? I wonder if Rob Kall realises that Mr. Carey stalks China and Vietnam for whatever purposes not clear to me. He behaves as if he sits on the Mount Olympus and defines which nation can be given a status of 'good' or 'bad'. This is unbelievable! Does Mr. Carey ever read any other articles on this site? Those which describe the most horrible abuses of our laws, the incarcerations of children, the Gitmo abominations, the.. I do not know where to start. Every time I see Mr. Carey's article I feel that I talk to the hand, so to speak. It is as if he lives in his own Universe. That is, of course, possible but people like that... they should at least open the window sometimes. Ahoy, Mr. Carey, there is a big world out there!

by Mark Sashine (53 articles, 19 quicklinks, 250 diaries, 3574 comments) on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 at 2:33:29 PM

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Dom JermanoAmerican against War and Violence. Writer, English Teacher, Inventor, Creator of the First Manmade Floating Farm On The Ocean.... My companies name is ACET: Algae Charcoal Ethanol Technicorp. We grow Algae for Oil.

An Ugly Ogre Named John.

You are right on Panurg. This guy has an axe to grind. I bet he has never set a foot in China. He is probably a disgruntled Vietnam Vet? I don't know. He claims abuses from China, and is blind to his own USA....U-Sick..American

He loves LBJ and the lie of Vietnam? They killed over 7 million Vietnamese people and that is not a human rights problem? They kill innocent people in Iraq and that is not a human rights problem? Today I heard an American Apache Helicopter gunned down and killed several children in an Iraqi Primary School. That is not a human rights problem?

Wow..this guy must be Guiliani's VP running mate.. Absolute murdering numbskull

by Dom Jermano (20 articles, 0 quicklinks, 40 diaries, 930 comments) on Tuesday, May 8, 2007 at 6:18:51 PM