Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel – the World Finally Says “No” to China 刘晓波获诺奖 – 自由世界对中共党朝说“不”

Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel – the World Finally Says “No” to China

刘晓波获诺奖 – 自由世界对中共党朝说“不”

By Kai Chen 陈凯 11/14/2010

www.kaichenblog.blogspot.com

When I met John Yoo, a law professor from U.C. Berkeley, I told him about the nature of the Chinese society: In the West, people worship someone (Jesus) who was murdered. In China, people worship someone (Mao) who murdered millions. Mr. Yoo smiled in agreement and promised me he would relay my message to his students.

For decades since China reentered the world stage after Mao’s death, a tacit agreement on a silent “appeasement” policy by the Western world toward China has been the norm. A quiet resignation over a large country with 1.3 billion people under a brutal communist regime somehow has become the only option by the free world. In America, the right, with an illusion that “an open door” changes everything, wants to use “free trade” with China to tap into the huge market under rhetoric that a rising standard of living will change the Chinese regime toward democracy, while the left has always been eager to grab something other than freedom to denigrate American exceptionalism. While in the Richard Nixon Presidential Library there is a Mao statue sitting among the likes of Winston Churchill, Thomas Friedman of New York Times wrote articles openly admiring the Chinese communist system putting on a spectacle in the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. President Bush attending the Beijing Olympics with other world dignitaries further solidified the Red Dynasty’s world status as something not only to be recognized, but to be emulated with moral tribute. Somehow “using end to justify means” is no longer a vice when China is referred.

American society today and Western world in general, is infested with a sense of opportunistic passivity when the issues are related to China. Mao’s diners, Mao’s portraits, Mao’s statues, Mao’s T-shirts can be seen in many places. The image of the biggest mass murderer in human history even had a place in Obama’s White House’s Christmas tree, 2009. When I protested the statue of Mao in the Nixon Library, a museum recently transitioned from under a private foundation to the National Archive, the Library authority put up a sign by the Mao statue to say that the U.S. government does not take any moral position on Mao. I wonder maybe the U.S. Government also has no moral position on Hitler and Stalin. Something is terribly wrong. I always thought America stood for something – something meaningful, something good and great.

Then I learned that many powerful people in the U.S. government have extensive business connections and interests in China: Diane Feinstein, Henry Kissinger, Edward Nixon (brother of the former President) and many others have large stake in their businesses making a huge profit in China. President Obama also has a half brother living in China with a Chinese wife. Knowing what I know about China and the communist regime, I can guarantee you that the Chinese government, with their system of Party-State mercantilism (Everything is of the government, by the government and for the government.), these powerful people with U.S. governmental connections will never be allowed to fail. They will be used as mouth pieces and pawns for the communist regime’s interests.

Lately I have been engaged in a battle against a Chinese government funded Confucius Classroom in Hacienda La Puente Unified School District, California. There have already been many dozens of Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms with funding from the Chinese government in the U.S. colleges and high schools. The communist regime’s scheme to infiltrate and contaminate America is very simple yet very effective: Corruption works and works well, because human beings are sinful beings. They invite the U.S. educational officials, most likely School/College Board members, to go to China on free trips with all the perks legal and illegal. After the U.S. officials taste the dubious yet sweet personal benefit they would otherwise never have a chance to sample in America as an elected public official, they will essentially become the agents of the Chinese regime, under the threat of blackmail and the lure of bigger and grander future benefit to themselves, their families and friends.

The difference between a free nation and a despotic tyranny is that in a free nation, corruption is viewed and punished as corruption, while in a despotic tyranny corruption is viewed and rewarded as resourcefulness, wisdom and even virtue.

The gradual deterioration and corruption of American political and civic culture with the influence of the Chinese regime has done extensive damage to the U.S. diplomatically, politically and economically. And the corrosion is deepening. It seems that no one has the will and ability to stop the Chinese political infiltration, economic expansion and moral corruption upon the world, until now…

A tiny nation of Norway with its annual award of Nobel Prizes to the prominent achievers in the world reversed this insidious trend set by the Chinese regime to pollute and annihilate the world conscience. By awarding Liu Xiaobo, a prisoner of conscience languishing in a Chinese jail simply because he spoke the truth, the 2010 Novel Peace Prize, suddenly the world has found its voice of conscience, a voice silenced for decades by fear, by moral confusion, by political correctness.., a voice though still small and weak but nonetheless representing eternal, universal human values. Indeed, this Nobel Peace Prize, awarded for the first time to a Chinese citizen, is the world conscience saying “No” to the Chinese regime. Since the years of President Ronald Reagan, the world has not been able to find someone with courage and vision to articulate the moral values of freedom, justice and human dignity, to point the direction of human progress. Everything everybody is concerned with is money, wealth and economy. People seem to have forgotten what America is all about: America is rich not because Americans pursue money; America is rich because Americans treasure individual freedom to create. By the same token, America is diverse not because Americans pursue diversity; America is diverse because Americans cherish individual freedom to express.

Yet today some Americans are actively promoting fake American values such as economic well being and diversity. Some even use these fake values to woo, kowtow and emulate China – a despotic tyranny, a criminal enterprise that has murdered 80 millions of its own citizens and continues to torture, persecute and kill those who yearn and struggle to be free. A moral and intellectual perversion is happening in America and in the Western world in general: People start to see government as the solution of their problems. People forget that freedom implies individual virtue and responsibility. People start treating freedom as some kind of tool to achieve wealth, power and diversity. They are putting the wagon before the horse: Individual freedom with limited government is never some kind of tool to pursue wealth and power. Individual freedom with limited government is a moral proposition for a just society. It is an end in and to itself and everything else is only the result, never the goal.

Being an American by choice, not by birth, I am painfully aware that many native born Americans have no idea what this greatest country in the world truly means to mankind, to a freedom-yearning, freedom-loving person like me. I often feel like I am more American than most Americans. And I feel morally obligated and even destined to tell those who were born in America:

America is the single most exceptional country in the world and the greatest human society ever envisioned and achieved on earth by those who love individual freedom. America is the culmination of human knowledge about mankind itself through centuries of trials and tribulations. America is not a nation of God, not a nation above God, but a nation under God. America, with its limited power but unlimited moral resources from God, must stand up in the world for those who are still enslaved and oppressed. America must articulate tirelessly on the world stage the values of freedom, justice and human dignity. America must eliminate its own fear and moral confusion and return to what the founders originally intended, enunciated in the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution. America must stand up to all despotisms and tyrannies in the world. America must call evil by its name. America must face down China – a mortal threat to world peace, a sworn enemy of freedom and say “No”.