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good
morning let me first thank the organizer
of the forum for giving me this
opportunity to speak and to speak on the
topic of the myth of Han China whatever
it does
means time demands that I get directly
to my hypothesis that the myth of a h
China as a homogeneous and harmonious
and stable Society is a particularly
Insidious myth that blends us from the
reality of Chinese
Society if it is a shroud of Deceit
carefully oven by the CCP to conceal its
true
intent that intent is to reduce Chinese
Society to a fom of slaves to an all
powerful
State the myth of H
China is as racist as the idea of a
white America
as
repulsive as apoide in South a
Africa
potentially as cataclysmic for China as
the myth of aing Supremacy was to
Germany and the
world the CCP employs the vast resources
of a China's wealth to perpetuate this
myth of a harmonious and a stable H
China as means for rationalize its
otherwise illegitimate claim to power it
craftily weaves the threats of
homogeneity Harmony and stability into a
fabric of beging lies and the half truth
that cover the harsh realities of
repression from the world all too Meer
to look the other
way a wonderful example of how the
Chinese government weaves the myth of
aan China is the article written by
former Hong Kong chief executive ton cha
in
celebration of the 60th anniversary of
the PRC and published in the Washington
Post on
October 31st
2009 in the article Mr Tong reflects on
the enormous progress made by China
since the establishment of the PRC in
1949 he states that at no other point in
history has so much improvement been
made for so many people in such a short
period he attributes this progress
to the Harmony and the stability brought
to Chinese Society through the
enlightened policies of the
CCP this article R an a post in the alad
section of the Washington Post
unfortunately the view of a harmonious
and stable and prosperous China created
through the enlightened governance of
the
CCP hands over the corridors about power
policymaking in Washington and other
capitals around the
world this view is reinforced by
thousands of
lobbyist apologists compromised
academics all of whom are seduced in one
way or another by the power and wealth
of the CCP
let us ask
ourselves where is this hog
harmonious and stable
Society is it with the
Tibetans whose culture has been poed to
the point of
Extinction is it with the wigers who are
labored terrorists and whose young women
are systematically enticed to other
provinces by the Promises of
jobs only to find Despair and unwelcome
marriages to hunt Chinese
men is it with farmers and peasants
whose lands are routinely seized without
compensation by unscrupulous developers
in collusion with corrupt
officials is it with Christian leaders
who are routinely arrested and beaten
because they want to practice their
Faith peacefully and privately without
interference of an atheist
state where are these enlightened policy
of this mythical harmonious H
China they are nowhere to be
found the emptiness of this myth was
powerfully illustrated by the empty
chair reserved for my friend Le sh B on
the stage of 2010 Nobel Peace Prize
award ceremony here last
December for his writings on Democracy
for CH o this eloquent framework for
reforming China's Society Le Shao was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for this
same effort the enlightened Chinese
government awarded him a 11 years in
prison where are these enlightened
policies of PRC this
unprecedented
progress is it the Land Reform of
1950s that caused tens of millions of my
countrymen to starve to death is it the
cultural revolution of the 1960s and the
70s that left Chinese Society in shred
of
decades is it in the infamous one child
policy that leaves millions of marriage
age men without women to marry and the
forces of millions of abortions a year
causing the highest female suicide rate
of any country in this
world or perhaps we can find
Enlightenment in t Square massacre of
1989
where thousands of my fellow students
were killed and named by tanks of the
People's Army this massacre is well
documented by the world but its very
existence is denied by this enlightened
Chinese
government the answer to any of these
questions dictate only one conclusion
and proves the hypothesis that the idea
of a harmonious and homogeneous Han
China is an Insidious and dangerous
myth it is a self-serving lie of a
garment in fear of its own people and in
dread of the truth that its rule has
been on a mitigated
disaster a disaster eloquently defined
in ch o
quote the Chinese people who have
endured human rights disasters and
uncountable struggles across these same
years now include many who see clearly
that freedom equality and human rights
are Universal values of a humankind and
that democracy and a constitutional
government are the framework for
protecting the these
values by departing from these values
the Chinese government's approach to
modernization has proven
disastrous it has stripped people of
their rights destroyed their dignity and
corrupted normal human
intercourse so we ask where is China had
it in the 21st century will it continue
with modernization and the authoritarian
rule or or will it Embrace Universal
human human values join the mainstream
of civilized Nations and build a
democratic
system there can be no avoiding these
questions end
quote this word from
ch8 published in December 2008
reverberate today
around the globe where we see popular
revolts against authoritarian regimes in
North Africa and the Middle
East there can be no avoiding this
question how much longer can we allow
ourselves to be seduced by this myth of
a homogeneous harmonious and stable H
China how much longer will the Chinese
people endure this enlightened
government whose
policies have caused the death of more
people than those caused by Hitler and
Stalin
combined in the
words of the Soviet disident Andre
sakarov our government cannot hold again
to its people
forever when the arm ties the gun falls
to the ground and a billion people rise
against this enlightened government what
will that look
like with that in mind I ask you how
much longer can we afford to support
this myth and the government that wees
it thank you