Courier Mail Queensland
Laws mean nothing
CHINA’S Ambassador to Australia, Fu Ying says that there are laws in China which would guarantee former diplomat Chen Yonglin’s freedom if he returns to China.
There also are laws in China which guarantee freedom of speech and freedom of belief but the Chinese Communist Party is in power and these laws are meaningless. Ask the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre about China’s freedom of speech; ask the brutally tortured Falun Gong practitioners about China’s freedom of belief.
— Louise , Sunnybank.
Financial Review
DIPLOMACY OR KOWTOWING?
The story regarding the Chinese diplomat Mr Chen Yonglin seeking asylum here in Australia highlights the issue of how our federal government continues to ‘legitimise’ its dealings with China’s totalitarian regime. When will we as a nation take responsibility for fundamental human rights, or are our trade deals more worthy of being sanctified?
I applaud Mr Chen for his actions of speaking out to the public about his task of monitoring democracy advocates, Tibetans and Falun Gong practitioners, peaceful groups considered ‘challenging’ to the Chinese Communists Party’s despotic rule. His courage is also commendable as he risks his life if deported back to China; a land that still refuses to acknowledge any lives lost in the Tiananmen Square massacre, decades of cultural genocide in Tibet, and the brutal persecution against millions of Falun Gong practitioners that regrettably continues to this day.
Since December last year, over two million Chinese Communist Party members have renounced their allegiance to a system that has murdered tens of millions of its own people, awakening now from its stranglehold of propaganda and lies.
The question remains – will our government actively commit to their moral obligations as a democracy or will we continue kowtowing to a repressive regime responsible for unconscionable human rights abuses? Can we demonstrate the courage of Mr Chen or will we hang our heads in shame when the world awakens from China’s global economic deception?
Gerard
Buderim, Queensland
