Cyber Warfare – The USA Should Beware

Should we be worried? Yes, we ALL should be worried. The Chinese are at it again and this time they're going hi-tech.

Chinese military hackers have prepared a detailed plan to disable America’s aircraft battle carrier fleet with a devastating cyber attack, according to a Pentagon report issued last month.

The blueprint for such an assault, drawn up by two hackers working for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), is part of an aggressive push by Beijing to achieve “electronic dominance” over each of its global rivals by 2050, particularly the US, Britain, Russia and South Korea. China’s ambitions extend to crippling an enemy’s financial, military and communications capabilities early in a conflict, according to military documents and generals’ speeches that are being analysed by US intelligence officials.



Describing what is in effect a new arms race, a Pentagon assessment states that China’s military regards offensive computer operations as “critical to seize the initiative” in the first stage of a war.

The plan to cripple the US aircraft carrier battle groups was authored by two PLA air force officials, Sun Yiming and Yang Liping. It also emerged recently that the Chinese military hacked into the US Defence Secretary’s computer system in June; have regularly penetrated computers in at least 10 Whitehall departments, including military files, and infiltrated German government systems this year.

Cyber attacks by China have become so frequent and aggressive that President Bush, without referring directly to Beijing, said this week that “a lot of our systems are vulnerable to attack”. He indicated that he would raise the subject with Hu Jintao, the Chinese President, when they met in Sydney at the Apec summit. Mr Hu denied that China was responsible for the attack on Robert Gates, the US Defence Secretary.

Larry M. Wortzel, the author of the US Army War College report, said: “The thing that should give us pause is that in many Chinese military manuals they identify the US as the country they are most likely to go to war with. They are moving very rapidly to master this new form of warfare.” The two PLA hackers produced a “virtual guidebook for electronic warfare and jamming” after studying dozens of US and Nato manuals on military tactics, according to the document.

The Pentagon logged more than 79,000 attempted intrusions in 2005. About 1,300 were successful, including the penetration of computers linked to the Army’s 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions and the 4th Infantry Division. In August and September of that year Chinese hackers penetrated US State Department computers in several parts of the world. Hundreds of computers had to be replaced or taken offline for months. Chinese hackers also disrupted the US Naval War College’s network in November, forcing the college to shut down its computer systems for several weeks. The Pentagon uses more than 5 million computers on 100,000 networks in 65 countries.

Jim Melnick, a recently retired Pentagon computer network analyst, told The Times newspaper that the Chinese military holds hacking competitions to identify and recruit talented members for its cyber army. And to just rub salt into the wound . . . just think that for every cuddly toy, electronic gadget or piece of clothing you buy this Christmas with the ‘Made in China’ label, a small percentage of that money will filter down to the experts and systems of this cyber warfare campaign.

The Chinese Sell Us Formaldehyde Toxins

UK trading standards are on alert after Chinese-made clothes in New Zealand were discovered to have up to 900 times the safe level of formaldehyde in them, according to the Mail on Sunday. Clothes made in China have been found to contain high levels of a potentially dangerous chemical used to protect clothes that have to be shipped great distances against mildew. However, long-term exposure to high levels can be harmful, causing problems ranging from minor skin rashes to some types of cancer. Tests discovered formaldehyde concentrations up to 900 times above the safety limit in children's and adults' woollen and cotton clothes from China.



The latest safety alert over cheap Chinese goods was sounded in New Zealand. It has been passed on to trading standards officials in Britain. Formaldehyde resins have been used on fabrics for decades to make wrinkle-free and stain-resistant-garments. The chemical can be used, for example, to keep the crease in trousers. Bryan Lewin, chairman of the Trading Standards Institute, said: "We would expect trading standards departments here to carry out tests to establish formaldehyde levels. At the same time, there is a general-requirement on importers, manufacturers and retailers to ensure that the consumer products they are selling are safe."

Labour Activist? They'll Knife You

The Date: November 20th , 2007.

This report I took from China Labour Watch. This report only substantiates all that I feel towards the wicked, evil regime in Beijing. It is as if this fascist regime thinks that they can get away with anything. Well, I have news for them: they can’t!

Read on . . .

It was learned that at 3.00 p.m. on the day of November 20 2007, that Huang Qingnan, director of Long'gang district's Migrant Workers' Centre (dagongzhe zhongxin) was stabbed. A reporter immediately telephoned Huang Qingnan, but the phone was answered by a friend of his who said that Huang's condition was very serious and they were rushing to save him.



Earlier in the day around 3.00 p.m. Huang Qingnan and a friend Mr. Zhu were chatting at Longhu village when a motorcycle without any license plates drove up. Two young men in their twenties got off of the motorcycle, and each on of them bearing a knife, began wildly stabbing at Huang Qingnan. Huang Qingnan immediately fell on his back and received six knife wounds of up to 15 centimetres in length on his legs and other areas of his body. His left leg was broken and bleeding: Qingnan was in trauma. After the attack the two thugs rode away on a motorcycle parked at a parking site nearby.

Mr. Zhu immediately called the police and took Huang Qingnan to the Shenzhen Long'gang Central Hospital to receive treatment. According to a doctor in the emergency room, it appeared as if he might lose the use of his left leg.

Huang Qingnan is currently the director of Shenzhen's Migrant Workers' Occupational Health and Safety Centre, which is a labour rights protection organisation registered with the department of commerce. Their primary activities are to provide migrant workers with free services such as a library, labour law education, and legal counselling. Their daily activities include holding cultural activities, labour law education and counselling, and by using various methods, seeking to improve the rights protection consciousness of migrant workers. Because the new Labour Contract Law is about to come into effect, the centre has conducted a series of outreach programs in order to disseminate information about this law. These activities may have led to opposition from some factory owners.

The thugs that attacked Huang Qingnan were really not a coincidence, as this is was not the most recent and most serious example of labour rights advocates in Shenzhen being attacked. Just one week before the incident with Huang Qingnan, on November 13th Shenzhen's Long'gang district labour rights activist Li Jinxin was kidnapped and beaten by unidentified thugs. He is still receiving treatment in the Longcheng hospital in Long'gang district.

And so it goes on, attacks by unknown thugs (probably Party officials), with no obvious recourse to the Law or any other lawful or provincial body.

Before Huang Qingnan was stabbed, his offices had been attacked on October 11th and November 14th. A short time after 3.00 p.m. on October 11th, four young ‘adolescents’ wielding metal rods pulled up to the Migrant Workers' Occupational Health and Safety Office. They walked over to the office and proceeded to smash the glass door to pieces before taking off again. A month later on November 14th, just after 3.00 p.m. a commercial truck came to the centre. A few young men jumped out of the vehicle and then continued to smash up the inside of the office before leaving. These two incidents were not construed as being so bad because no-one was injured. After these incidents, the centre’s staff reported it to the police but there have been no further investigations so far.

One only has to ask the reasons why.

Torture of a Buddhist Monk

In May 2004, I met the Tibetan Buddhist monk, Palden Gyatso, one of the most inspiring human beings I have ever met. My wife and I were attending a three day series of teachings given by HH the Dalia Lama in Glasgow, Scotland. I actually ‘bumped’ into Palden as we exited our taxis on that first morning. As he exited his taxi I looked at him – he looked at me – it was as if I knew this man from somewhere. He smiled and went on his way to the entrance to the exhibition centre with his aide.


Here is his story . . .

Buddhist monks are not known to carry around instruments of torture. However, the Venerable Palden Gyatso does, in a case which he carefully wraps in cloth. The 64-year-old Buddhist monk uses the electric prods and cuffs as visual displays when he describes 33 years of imprisonment and torture under the People's Republic of China government in his native Tibet. His tortures included being made to kneel in broken glass, beatings, hand and thumb cuffs that cut off circulation, electrocution and even being thrust into boiling water.

At a meeting before 200 people at the University of Washington Palden spoke about human rights abuses in Tibet under the Communist Chinese government. His talk was jointly sponsored by the Tibetan Rights Campaign, Amnesty International, Students for a Free Tibet and the Tibetan Association of Washington. His commentary was translated from Tibetan into English for the audience.

In 1949, China entered and occupied neighbouring Tibet. Ten years later, in 1959, when the Chinese government attempted to arrest the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, thousands of Tibetan monks, nuns and lay people demonstrated. Gyatso was one of the demonstrators who was imprisoned. China then began a crackdown on Tibet's monasteries and temples.

Gyatso and other imprisoned monks were placed ion cells without toilets or mattresses. They slept on the concrete floor and wore hand cuffs continuously, even when going to the bathroom.

In the daytime, Gyatso and other monks faced nine hours of hard labour, ploughing fields without the use of beasts of burden. The monks instead became the "cows." Two monks worked each plough. Chinese soldiers beat the monks with iron whips to motivate them to work. Gyatso recalls that many of the old monks could not stand the combinations of beatings and hard labour, so they died.

The Chinese also starved the prisoners, barely feeding them enough to survive. The prisoners survived by eating grass and even stealing food that was used to feed the pigs.

Gyatso said there was a time when China gathered up prisoners from around Tibet and sent them to China on foot. They would march in groups of 300 to 400. Since the prisoners were barely fed, approximately only 100 prisoners would survive. Gyatso said perhaps thousands of Tibetans have died this way.

Tibetan prison labour was also used to gather salt from mines in northern Tibet. Again, he said because they were barely fed, many died. "You can see so many corpses, they're buried in the valleys, covered with small stones."

In 1962, border tensions between China and India led the Chinese to "become suspicious" of their Tibetan prisoners. They were subjected to a lock-down, unable to leave their cells. Not able to gather grass for food, many died of hunger, Gyatso said. He said he even consumed pieces of his leather shoes in order to survive.

During interrogations, Gyatso said the Chinese made their prisoners kneel on broken glass and stones, with their hands tied behind their backs. All Tibetan prisoners were asked to renounce any ideas of Tibet as an independent, sovereign state and declare China as Tibet's rightful ruler. Gyatso said that when he refused, they would hand him from the ceiling. He said he still bears the scars on his hands and wrists from that time.

The Chinese even thrust his feet in boiling water, which would make the skin peel off. Gyatso said he underwent this torture "several times." He also added all other prisoners underwent the same or similar tortures.

Gyatso displayed several electric prods, which deliver a jolting electric charge when placed against a human body. Although one was made in China, he said two of the models had parts that came from Great Britain, a country with which China enjoys good trade relations. He said he saw no value for the electric prods other than to injure people.

"You cannot find a single Tibetan prisoner who has not gone through this shock (torture)" he said.

In graphic detail, Gyatso recalled the one time he was tortured so
extensively with an electric prod, he lost consciousness. When he woke up numb in his own urine and faeces, he noticed his tongue was cut in pieces and he had lost several of his teeth. Apparently, his body had undergone tremendous convulsions from the electric shock.

For the audience, he removed his dentures to show his missing teeth. These days, Gyatso wears dentures, paid for by a human rights group in Great Britain.

Gyatso noted that the Chinese have inserted electric prods into the vaginas and wombs of female Tibetan prisoners. Two Tibetan nuns who escaped to India in 1988 are unable to control their bodily functions due to this torture. They are also disabled, he said.

For Tibetan prisoners who are executed, the Chinese government forces their Tibetan families to cover all costs of the execution and burial expenses, he said. The family must even reimburse the Chinese for the cost of the bullets use to execute their member.

A variety of human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, keep tabs on the whereabouts of Tibetan prisoners. Gyatso encouraged audience members to participate in Tibetan and human rights organizations. He added that he was freed in 1992 only because of pressure from Amnesty International on the Chinese government.

Since his release, Gyatso has travelled the United States and Europe, speaking in universities about the Chinese occupation of Tibet. He said he considers it his life’s mission to speak out against the Chinese occupation of Tibet. Since 1949, the Tibetan Rights Campaign estimates the Chinese government has killed 1.2 million Tibetans.

"I am a real witness if Tibet has benefited from Chinese occupation."

Last year, he testified before a Senate subcommittee and the United Nations about human rights in Tibet. He recently completed a 45-day walk, the March for Tibet's Freedom, from Washington D.C. to New York City.

In spite of all these tortures over the years, Gyatso said, "The Tibetan prisoners never gave up. They never agreed that Tibet is part of China."

During his years in prison, Gyatso said what made him forget his own suffering was his thinking about the suffering of other prisoners. He also thought of the people in China being persecuted by their government.

Gyatso said he bears no vengeful feelings toward his tortures.

He is a true Boddhisattva!

Death Camps in China

Yes, you did read correctly, Death Camps in China – virtual prisons where Falun Gong practitioners are undergoing ‘live harvesting’ of their vital organs. The following is a statement by a journalist who witnessed these awful crimes against humanity. This is his story. It is depressing, distressing but very enlightening.

“ I only a common journalist, and The Epoch Times and I first reported together the facts about harvesting organs from living Falun Dafa practitioners in the Liaoning Provincial Thrombosis Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine.

I believed originally that through exposing this evil crime, it can be stopped, those who sinned in history can be punished, and the detained Falun Dafa practitioners can be released so that their lives can be saved. This is a most tragic, inhumane crime.

I am quite upset that the CCP has transferred all Falun Dafa practitioners detained in Sujiatun and destroyed the evidence. The CCP has once again deceived the international community and the media, and it has seduced the international community with economic profit, threatening all witnesses, agencies and countries that wish to expose the facts about the CCP's harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners.

Today is the day that Hu is meeting with Bush, and it is the moment when the global media and the world's people are paying attention to China. I chose to stand out on this day publicly, to condemn the CCP's crimes at Sujiatun. I have no regard for my own life or death. I want to use my life as evidence to expose the sins of the CCP in harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners.

I know the CCP will not leave me alone since I have reported this genuine situation, but I am still willing to stand out and risk my life in order to reveal these facts about the persecution. At the same time, I want to tell everyone, as I have repeatedly told you, that the crimes at Sujiatun are only the tip of the iceberg in the nation-wide persecution. Stealing and selling organs from Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners is happening in labor camps all over the country.

My reporting the crimes at Sujiatun was in hope of providing ideas to help investigate other labor camps, and calling on witnesses like Annie, who know such information, to bravely step forward. Step forward! I invite all of you to bravely step forward and testify about the crimes of the CCP.

Before and after 2000, I selectively contacted some people in China with different careers and societal backgrounds to collect information from different angles, which helped me gain new understandings of the Chinese government's statements, actions, and current situation.

In 2003, when the SARS epidemic was widespread in China, I traveled from Hong Kong, at the south end of the country, to Heilongjiang Province, at the north end, and witnessed the corruption and dirtiness of the CCP system. I contacted many officials in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. Their ways of deceit, greed, illegal behavior are beyond the imagination and shockingly evil. The new and old policies that the Central Government has established, the government agencies, the Court system, and the power that is bestowed by the people are all sacrificed when these officials extort people's money. When I contacted these officials, I realized for the first time that an underground camp existed at Sujiatun.

However, it is very difficult to investigate a secret location in such a big city, and to prove its existence. In the past three years, I have consumed large amounts of manpower, material supplies, and financial resources, but have finally found this facility in Sujiatun, where many Falun Dafa practitioners were detained, and their cornea, organs, and bone marrow harvested live, and then their bodies cremated. Even their hair is made into wigs, and their skin and body fat is sold. The remainder of their bodies is then cremated to destroy all evidence. Ladies and gentlemen, can you believe that such crimes are still underway in other regions in China?

I have collected information from websites of organ transplant centers in Tianjin City and Shenyang City in China. The advertising on these sites is aimed at attracting foreign patients to undergo live organ transplant operations in China, providing large quantities of organs.

On the English version of the website of the China International Transplant Network Assistance Center (CITNAC), it is posted that it only takes one week to one month to find a kidney match. Meanwhile in the United States, the waiting period is two years or longer. We all know that kidneys and other organs are very hard to keep fresh, with a window of only 24-48 hours for a kidney, and even shorter for a heart. It is clearly shown on the Tianjin City Eastern Organ Transplant Center website that transplant procedures have largely increased in frequency since 2001.

Some organ transplant experts have expressed that in order to maintain such a quick process of organ matching between patients and donors, there must be an underground channel of live organs existing in the Shenyang City region. Many doctors and nurses who answered the phones in the hospitals and transplant centers in Beijing and Shenyang Cities, admitted openly that the donors are all alive and very healthy, and they even directly admitted that they are Falun Gong practitioners. When specifically asked more questions, they would not talk on the phone, saying that it is a sensitive topic, and "Let us talk after you arrive here."

Informants Annie and Peter in Washington DC on April 20. Their speeches were their first public testimony about large-scale organ harvesting atrocities in China. (The Epoch Times)

Currently there are many flyers posted on the electricity poles about kidney or other organ transplants, and many advertisements appear on the Internet from Transplant Hospitals and Centers in China. China has become a large organ transplant country. The international community has learned that if one needs an organ transplant quickly, one needs to go to China, where such channels exist.

This crime is committed by a network of corporations and participants who steal and sell Falun Gong practitioners' organs. It involves guards in the labor camps, surgeons, nurses, the government officials of the public health system, police officials, central government officials, black market organ traders and overseas organ transplant traders. It is an enormous crime beyond our imagination.

Ms. Annie's ex-husband is a late-stage cancer patient now, and is receiving chemotherapy in a hospital in Canada. He tried to escape China, and did not want to join in the crime of harvesting Falun Gong practitioners' organs, and wanted to quit. He then was warned and threatened. His wife was stabbed deeply on the left side of her stomach when she tried to protect him. He is an orphan of a CCP hero. He confessed to his wife, burned five deep marks onto his arm, and told her all of his secrets. Annie stepped forward to help pay back her ex-husband's sins.

More than one doctor and employee involved in the Sujiatun organ transplant operations have testified that the organs are all harvested from living Falun Gong practitioners.

The CCP's persecution policy on Falun Gong practitioners is that killing is counted as nothing, and that there is no need to verify identities.

I have received many anonymous calls on my cell phone, including some from my previous colleagues and bosses, wishing that I would stop revealing what I have found, so that it could go from being a big incident to a small one, and then from a small one to nothing. I do hope my investigation is a mistake. But even if there is only a one percent possibility that it is true, we should step forward to expose it, and to stop such crimes, crimes that should not be accepted by anyone.”

Death in the Chinese Mining Industry

For the first time in its history the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has begun releasing death toll figures from coal mine accidents; they have also for the first time admitted that several thousand miners die annually. However, observers believe the real figure is much higher than the official one.

Just looking at the official figure, China's coal mine accident death toll far exceeds that of all other countries in the world put together. Mining in China has become the most dangerous occupation in the world. And this from a country that is going to host the Olympic Games next year.

Recently, Mr Feng, a Voice of America (VOA) short-wave radio listener in mainland China, wrote a letter to the VOA regarding a coal mine accident in Shandong province. Mr Feng said that during the flood accident in Huayuan Coalmine in Shandong, which led to the death of 170 miners, the cruelty of the local regime was blood-curdling.



Mr Feng wrote, "When the first group of miners got out of the mine, the water level inside the mine had already reached as high as the calf, but as the company was more concerned about profits than the miners' lives, they continued to send the second group of miners down into the mine—afterwards, the accident was classified as a natural disaster. The family of every dead miner should have received 170,000 yuan (approximately £11,333.00) in compensation, but the company's leaders embezzled the money. Consequently, it sparked daily protests of about 350 to 400 relatives in front of the Mining Bureau. The local regime mobilised large numbers of police to suppress the protesters, and sent three to four ‘officers’ to monitor every dead miner's family."

Mr Feng said the management of the mine is very inhumane. Miners are forced to work overtime under all kinds of pretexts, but never receive any compensation. It is common to work for over 12 hours without a break.

He wrote in the letter, "According to the mine's punishment regulations, the penalty for being late for work is 20 yuan (approximately £1.50), and the penalty for missing one shift is 100 yuan (approximately £6.50), but miners do not earn much in a whole month. In recent years, the mining industry has been very profitable, but miners' wages have not increased at all. The union is supposed to protect worker's rights, but now it stands on the side of the company, helping to find excuses to monitor the families of the dead.

Mr Feng also disclosed that in order to prevent the miners from protesting, the company sent 17 bus loads of miners to its other mines around the country, such as in Shaan'xi, Shanxi, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia.

He wrote, "Those miners that are transferred to other places do not receive any assurances. They live in tents, eating pickles everyday. Some of them complained to upper level authorities, but have received no reply. Some returned home without permission and were dismissed immediately, regardless of how long they have worked for the company. The company does not care for the miners' interests, but only cares about profits. Their only concern is to exploit the coal mine in the shortest time possible at the expense of miners' safety and the local environment."

This, I am afraid, is the sad state of an industry that is a million miles away from the cheap tat that is exported to the West under designer labels.

French Action Against Beijing Olympics

Two months ago a French-based group called the Collective for the Boycott of the Beijing Olympics (COBOP), supported by many other organisations, journals, professors, philosophers and intellectuals held a protest in front of the Chinese Embassy, calling for boycotting next year’s Beijing Games.

The Group pointed out that since getting the right to host the Olympics, the Chinese government has increased its “attempts to weaken dissidents, its critical intellectuals, the poor, the unproductive, and the country’s independent unions”. The Games has also “meant the accelerated demolition of many working-class neighbourhoods (hutongs) and historical sites. The international recognition of the Games, consecrated by the Olympic consensus, will put a stamp of acceptability on this violence”.

Pointing to China’s aggressiveness with regard to Taiwan, the release said that it not only has plans to take over Taiwan, it is also pursuing a diplomatic and warlike offensive on Japan whilst terrorizing the autonomous Uighur region. “The colonisation of Tibet is taking a genocidal turn: acts of murder, torture and forced abortion are committed with total impunity,” said the release. Referring to other controversial Games in Berlin and Soviet Russia, the release said that “the Olympic Games have always served as a screen for strategies of war and extermination”.

Finally the group pointed out that in the end the Olympics is about ‘manipulation and waste’. “Five billion euros are being spent to impose a fortnight of “fun” in a country where the oppressed are in every way deprived. The waste that the Olympic Games represents is an insult to world poverty. How can we tolerate that the sports world and its colossal capital preach this lesson of solidarity to billions of people living on less than 1 euro a day?,” the group asked.

“Ultimately for the 2008 Olympic Games, the International Olympics Committee’s diplomatic manoeuvre is well and truly to support a regime of totalitarianism and slavery” said Mr Fabien Ollier from COBOP. The demonstration was attended French and Tibetans living in Paris and across France.

It would seem that the French have taken the lead on this issue and it is up to all other free-thinking nations to follow suit!

Chinese Torture – 21st Century Style

Many years ago, the phrase ‘Chinese Water Torture’ involved four main methods. Firstly, the victim would be strapped down horizontal and was subjected to a steady drip of water onto his head. This could last for days on end and usually ended up driving the victim insane.Another method was where the victim was laid horizontally onto a bed of fast-growing bamboo shoots, which were then watered. The shoots pierced the victim, resulting in a slow and painful death.

A third, more devastatingly brutal method, was where the victim was force-fed bamboo shoots and water until he could not take it any more. The shoots grew inside the victim, until they eventually protruded through the skin.

And lastly, the victim was simply force-fed water until he drowned internally.
Fast-forward several decades later and what do we find?

Evidence has surfaced in recent years of over 100 torture methods being employed against Falun Gong practitioners in China’s labour camps, detention centers, and mental hospitals. Yes, you read correctly. If you follow Falun Gong, you are deemed mentally ill. This is a quite sickening in this modern day and age but it is yet another illustration as to the lengths the Chinese regime will go in stamping out any form of religious worship.
Of course the ultimate goal is to completely eradicate the Falun Gong either by coercing its practitioners to renounce their belief, or by physically destroying them if they refuse.

The tactics range from long-term sleep deprivation, being surrounded with loudspeakers demonising their practice 24 hours a day, to being force-fed with human feces, or shocked and even raped with electric batons.

Pictured below is a disturbing example of the types of burning torture carried out by the Chinese police/security services. Numerous reports have emerged from China of police and labour camp authorities burning Falun Gong practitioners with cigarettes, car lighters, irons, and hot metal rods as a way to force them to give up their beliefs. Sometimes, hot irons are heated to be red-hot, then used to burn practitioners’ flesh or pierce their nipples. Many have reported being burned repeatedly with cigarettes, including on their faces, necks, and genitals.

Take the case of Tan Yong Je, 27, who was severely burned with red-hot irons.

On June 2, 2001, while Tan Yong Je was being illegally held at the Luobo Labour Camp in Guangdong Province, three police officers tortured him. First they beat him and tried to force him to write “repentance statements” denouncing Falun Gong. However, Mr. Tan did not give in. Later, the guards tied him to a pillar. One guard heated up a rusted iron rod on an electric burner until the rod turned red, then pressed the rod against Mr. Tan’s legs in over a dozen places while asking: “Do you still want to practice Falun Gong?”

He still never gave in. Mr. Tan was seriously burned. His legs shook and he cried out loudly. He was in so much pain that he lost control of his bowel functions. One can only imagine at the total degradation of the helpless, innocent man.

The guards later dragged him back to his small cell and locked him in. He could neither walk nor sleep because of the pain. Later, the guards ordered him to work taking charge of an orchard. They thought that this sentiment would butter the man up for probable later, more brutal tactics. However, Mr. Tan made a daring escape and lived to tell his tale. He arrived in Hong Kong on June 10 and fled to the United States.

Miss Wang Hua Jun - burned alive by prison authorities

36-year-old Wang Hua Jun lived in Fengjiashan, Macheng City, Hubei Province. Police seized her on the morning of April 18, 2001 because she was protesting about the authorities’ persecution of her cult.



The police beat her so viciously all day long that by 11 o’clock that night she was on the verge of death. Eye witnesses said that practitioner Wang was still lying on the ground when the fire was started. When the fire started to burn, she moved, trying to get up. The police officers at the scene panicked because they were afraid she would somehow escape and speak the truth. But by this time Miss Wang was so exhausted, due to being so severely tortured, that she could no longer stand up.

Finally, when the fire had gone out completely, it was found that the front of her body was burned while her back did not have any signs of burning. Moreover, there were deep knife wounds on her throat and the back of her head! Police told witnesses, such as one female street cleaner, that the woman had set herself on fire. A “suicide note” miraculously still un-burnt by the flames was found inches from her charred body, along with her ID, which the police had confiscated months earlier.

These are just two cases of torture carried out by the Chinese police authorities. There will be more posted on this blog as time goes by . . .

What Kind of Regime Would Kill Its Own People?

The Chinese, that’s who . . .

The 55-year history of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is a phenomena built on a mountain of with blood and lies. The stories behind this bloody history are both extremely tragic and rarely known. Under the rule of the CCP, 60 to 80 million innocent Chinese people have been killed, leaving their broken families behind. Many people wonder why the CCP kills. While the CCP continues its brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and other ‘organised’ religions and recently suppressed protesting crowds in Hanyuan with gunshots, people wonder whether they will ever see the day when the CCP will learn to speak with words rather than guns, bullets and bayonets.

Mao Zedong summarized the purpose of the Cultural Revolution, " . . . after the chaos, the world reaches peace, but in seven or eight years’ time, the chaos needs to happen again." In other words, there should be a political revolution every seven or eight years and millions of people need to be sacrificed on the alter of ‘political expediency and economic growth’ every seven or eight years.

Ideologically, the CCP believes in the "dictatorship of the proletariat" and "continuous revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat." Therefore, after the CCP took over China, it killed the landowners to resolve problems with production relationships in rural areas. It killed the capitalists to reach the goal of commercial and industrial reform and solve the production relationships in the cities. After these two classes were eliminated, the problems related to the economic base were basically solved. Similarly, solving the problems related to the superstructure also called for slaughter.

The suppressions of the Hu Feng Anti-Party Group and the Anti-Rightists Movement, eliminated the intellectuals. Killing the Christians, Taoists, Buddhists and popular folk groups solved the problem of religions. Mass murders during the Cultural Revolution established, culturally and politically, the CCP's absolute leadership. In effect it has led to a Fascist state.

The Tiananmen Square massacre was used to prevent political crisis and squelch democratic demands. The persecution of Falun Gong is meant to resolve the issues of belief and traditional healing. These actions were all necessary for the CCP to strengthen its power and maintain its rule in the face of continual financial crisis (prices for consumer goods skyrocketed after the CCP took power and China's economy almost collapsed after the Cultural Revolution), political crisis (some people not following the Party's orders or some others wanting to share political rights with the Party) and crisis of belief (the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, political changes in Eastern Europe, and the Falun Gong issue). Except for the Falun Gong issue, almost all the foregoing political movements were utilized to revive the evil spectre of the CCP and incite its desire for revolution. The CCP also used these political movements to test CCP members, eliminating those who did not meet the Party's requirements.

Killing is also necessary for practical reasons. The Communist Party began as a group of thugs and scoundrels who killed to obtain power. Once this precedent was set, there was no going back. Constant terror was needed to intimidate people and force them to accept, out of fear, the absolute rule of the CCP.

On the surface, it may appear that the CCP was "forced to kill," and that various incidents just happened to irritate the CCP evil spectre and accidentally trigger the CCP's killing mechanism. In truth, these incidents serve to disguise the Party's need to kill, and periodical killing is required by the CCP. Without these painful lessons, people might begin to think the CCP was improving and start to demand democracy, just as those idealistic students in the 1989 democratic movement did. Recurring slaughter every seven or eight years serves to refresh people's memory of terror and can warn the younger generation, that whoever works against the CCP, wants to challenge the CCP's absolute leadership, or attempts to tell the truth regarding China's history, will get a taste of the "iron fist of the dictatorship of the proletariat."

Killing or mass murder has become one of the most essential ways for the CCP to maintain power. With the escalation of its bloody debts, laying down its butcher’s knife would encourage people to take vengeance for the CCP's criminal acts. Therefore, the CCP not only needed to conduct copious and thorough killing, but the slaughter also had to be done in a most brutal fashion to effectively intimidate the populace, especially early on when the CCP was establishing its rule.

Since the purpose of the killing was to instill the greatest terror, the CCP selected targets for destruction arbitrarily and irrationally. In every political movement, the CCP used the strategy of genocide. Take the "suppression of reactionaries" as an example. The CCP did not really suppress the reactionary "behaviors" but the "people" whom they called the reactionaries. If one had been enlisted and served a few days in the Nationalist (Kuomintang, KMT) army but did absolutely nothing political after the CCP gained power, this person would still be killed because of his "reactionary history." In the process of land reform, in order to remove the "root of the problem," the CCP often killed a landowner's entire family.

Since 1949, the CCP has persecuted more than half the people in China. An estimated 60 million to 80 million people died from unnatural causes. This number exceeds the total number of deaths in both World Wars combined!

As with other communist countries, the wanton killing carried out by the CCP also includes brutal slayings of its own members in order to remove dissidents who value a sense of humanity over the Party nature. The CCP's rule of terror falls equally on the populace and its members in an attempt to maintain an "invincible fortress." Is this beginning to resemble Nazi Germany and the emergence of one Adolf Hitler?

In a normal society, people show care and love for one another, hold life in awe and veneration and give thanks to God. In the East, people say, "Do not impose on others what you would not want done to yourself." In the West, people say, "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Conversely, the CCP holds that "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." In order to keep alive the "struggles" within society, hatred must be generated. Not only does the CCP take lives, it encourages people to kill each other. It strives to desensitise people towards others' suffering by surrounding them with constant killing. It wants them to become numb from frequent exposure to inhumane brutality, and develop the mentality that "the best you can hope for is to avoid being persecuted." All these lessons taught by brutal suppression enable the CCP to maintain its rule.

In addition to the destruction of countless lives, the CCP also destroyed the soul of the Chinese people. A great many people have become conditioned to react to the CCP's threats by entirely surrendering their reason and their principles. In a sense, these people's souls have died—something more frightening than physical death.

So I ask the question again, what kind of regime would kill its own people?

The Next Time You’re in ASDA or Wal-Mart . . .

When did you last buy something in either ASDA stores (UK) or Wal-Mart (US)? Like me, it might have just been recently, BUT I was in ASDA to buy some groceries. You see I don’t have anything against ASDA when it comes to such provisions as fruit and vegetables, soft drinks, biscuits, kitchen items, cakes and newspapers. It’s all the rest of the stuff I have a problem with. Why? Read on...

A recent China Labour Watch (CLW) report revealed the most austere working conditions amongst staff of manufacturers such as Fuhua Textile, Yi Kang Textile, Yi Xing Shun Fashion Manufacturer, and Regina Miracle International Limited. All of these factories (or sweatshops) had/do recently produced for internationally well-known brands such as Adidas, Bali Intimates, Hanesbrands Inc., Piege Co (Felina Lingerie), Quiksilver, Regina Miracle Speedo, Walcoal America Inc., and Wal-Mart.

In this particular investigation, CLW conducted an independent research on four textile/garment factories located in Guangdong Province (south China, skirting Hong Kong). Sadly, though major corporations claimed to have their own aspect of ethical standards in terms of maintaining corporate social responsibility, the investigation still discovered what can only be called inhumane, substandard and down-right appalling employment conditions among their suppliers.

Consider this; would you work for your employer under these conditions:

· Workers are required to work nine hours per day as regular hours in addition to five to six hours of mandatory overtime during peak season which accumulates to 14 work hours per day - about 420 hours per month.

· Staff are not protected with social insurance until after one full year of employment.

· Factories lacks basic safety training, thus workers and products' safety is questionable.

· No freedom of association exist in the factories which results in workers not having a fair playing field in terms of organising and protecting their rights.

· New staff are required to pay a one time £2.60 (40 RMB) health examination fee, £1.25 (19 RMB) summer uniform, £1.60 (25 RMB) winter uniform in addition to a £20.00 (300 RMB) monthly deduction from the monthly wage for the first three months. In other words, a total of £65.45 (984 RMB) wage deduction is imposed on new workers in their first three months.

· Workers are paid by the hour of usually £0.25 (3.59 RMB), and without overtime, it is impossible for staff to sustain themselves. From the living costs shown below, gathered by CLW investigators in 2007, one can begin to appreciate workers' difficult circumstances:

- Rent: about £12.00 (180 RMB) / month
- Utilities: about £ 6.00 (90 RMB) / month
- Living expenses (food, daily commodities, etc.): about £ 24.00 (350) RMB / month
- Education (tuition for children):
Kindergarten = about £ 32.00 (490 RMB) / month
Primary / Elementary School = about £ 150.00 (2,200 RMB) / term
Secondary / Middle School = about £ 180.00 (2,695 RMB) / term

Only from the statistics shown about education, is it not hard to imagine that almost none of these workers can afford to provide their children proper education, thus the endless cycle of poverty may possibly surround these workers for generations. In addition, without working overtime, it is merely impossible for workers to receive an actual living wage. How they exist from day to day is beyond all human comprehension.

So the next time you amble into ASDA or Wal-Mart with a wallet or purse full of pounds or dollars to spend on your next pair of boots or shoes, just think twice about what you have read here. There is every possibility that they have been manufactured by an employee of the above mentioned sweatshops under these depressing conditions.

Official! Tibetans Must Not Send Photographs Abroad

Forasmuch that I do not want this website to champion the Tibet cause in its entirety, with regard to Chinese cultural, economic and religious freedom, I must highlight this report that recently appeared in Reporters Without Borders. Can it really be that it is now an offence for a Tibetan to send a simple photograph abroad? Have the Chinese authorities clamped down on such a trivial, everyday occurrence to the detriment of the Tibetan people? Well, yes. Read on . . .

Reporters Without Borders voiced outrage at harsh prison sentences for “espionage” of three to ten years handed down yesterday to three Tibetans by the intermediate court in Kardze, Sichuan province on the Tibetan border.

The three, who had sent abroad photos of demonstrations held at the beginning of August by nomadic Tibetans, were charged with “espionage on behalf of foreign organisations, putting state security in danger”.

Adak Lupoe, a senior monk at Lithang monastry and Kunkhyen, a musician and teacher, were sentenced to ten and nine years respectively for taking photos and recordings of the demonstrations following the horse festival on 1st August. (No, you did not misread that statement – not 10 months and nine months – ten years and nine years!)

Under the Chinese justice system the fact of sending pictures to “foreign organisations” constitutes a “threat to national security”. Jarib Lothog was sentenced to three years in prison for helping send the photos.

Some shots of the demonstrations were used by media run by the Tibetan community in exile and by human rights organisations. Tibetans in the region have reported that since the ‘incident’, described by the State-run Xinhua News Agency as a “laying siege to government buildings”, tension has increased in the Lithan area and Chinese military reinforcements have been sent to the region.

“These very harsh sentences demonstrate the risks run by ordinary Tibetan citizens when they try to send information aboard, a step which is similar to citizen journalism,” the worldwide press freedom organisation said. Runggye Adak was given an eight-year jail sentence on the same day before the same court for being the “instigator of the 1st August rally”. He was found guilty of “separatist activism” after giving a speech supporting the Dalai Lama’s return to Tibet.

“It is striking that an organiser of the demonstrations was given a lesser sentence than those who took the photographs,” Reporters Without Borders said. “This shows the regime’s paranoia towards those who produce evidence of disputes within China, Tibet and Xinjiang. We call for the verdict to be quashed and the Tibetans released,” said the organization.

Perhaps this illustrates once more the very real brutal and totally unacceptable behaviour of a ‘justice’ system unquestioningly committed to stamping out all forms of ‘suspicious behaviour’ on the part of simple Tibetan human rights activists!

Beware of China

‘Beware of China’ is going to be a personal journal of my research and observations on the Chinese regime’s overt and covert policies of dominating world financial, industrial, cultural and religious markets and customs. What has spurred my imagination and motivation in developing such a blog? Well, to begin with I have been a life-long lover of Tibetan culture and religion and over the years have read the countless journals and other documentation covering the invasion of Tibet by the Peoples Republic of China. The utter destruction, the killings, torture, raping and pillaging of that country, the people and its resources, has led me to this point.

Regarding Tibet, consider this:

China invaded Tibet in 1949 based on the premise that it had always been part of China and that they came to liberate the Tibetan people from the feudal ‘hold’ by the Regents, the Dalai Lama and monastic rule. Lies, total lies. The truth of the matter was, Tibet and China lived peacefully side-by-side for 1300 years. It is not the purpose of this blog to delve deep into Sino-Tibetan relations, suffice to say, that after the Chinese cultural revolution of Chairman Mao, the Chinese decided that Tibet had always been a part of China and after the invasion of the Peoples Liberation Army in 1950, life would never be the same for Tibetans.

It seems like life today for all of us in the West, as well as the East, is being systematically influenced by China. One cannot go into a shop, a supermarket, a back-street haberdashery, a High Street boutique, even designer clothes shops, without being confronted by the now ubiquitous ‘Made in China’ label. I, personally, became more and more conscious of the extent of the sheer enormity of Chinese goods in our High Street shops and malls when I bought a pair of Wrangler jeans a couple of years ago only to find they were made in China. Wranglers made in China? Yes! Even American classics were being manufactured in China!

With my background knowledge of what China had done in Tibet, I decided to check every label and tag, brand, mark and stamp on anything and everything: electrical goods, clothes, toys, stationery items, computer equipment, food stuffs; you name it, the Chinese had manufactured it. It’s when I learned that they have and continue to use forced/slave labour, prisoners and even children to manufacture all of the above - and it is this that shall be the singular thread running through all subsequent blogs.

Just recently I read one of the most powerful books I have ever read in my lifetime. It was when visiting the http://www.boycottmadeinchina.org/ website that I discovered the thought-provoking Buying the Dragon’s Teeth by Jamyang Norbu. If I had my way, I would have this book made a part of the British National Curriculum - in fact it should be necessary reading for all people above the age of 16 around the world. I would have it given away on the National Health Service, because this book is probably the definitive work on the evil Chinese regime ever published.

With the writer’s/publisher’s permission I want to include a review of this important publication on this blogsite. We shall see. In the meantime look out for the beginning of a blogsite dedicated to exposing the evils of the most dangerous regime since the Nazis.