Eugenics in China must stop
A decade ago I wrote a letter about how feeble the UN had become (under then-secretary-general Kofi Annan) vis-a-vis China (“Annan parrots Beijing’s line,” Sept. 17, 2004, page 8).
Aside from the UN’s consistent refusal to recognize the existence of the people of Taiwan, ever obedient to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) oppression of democratic Taiwan, I referred to China’s policies of eugenics, in particular in Tibet, a despicable methodology employed right under the nose of the UN for 50 years, aiming to essentially erase the Tibetan culture and people from existence — a slow strangulation.
The total perversion of eugenics by the Nazis has burned it into today’s world consciousness as a despicable feature of barbarism and butchery. It has been used to try to destroy entire cultures through rape and forced religious conversion (the Balkans come to mind), and it has been used in attempts to remove ethnic races from existence. The UN has remained mostly on the sidelines, interminably slow to act or impotent and incapable of acting because some of its major members such as China and Russia themselves use eugenics as an integral part of their official government policy to homogenize the population, to make them easier to control, or terrorize, as it were.
While US National Security Advisor Susan Rice is traveling to Beijing to talk with Chinese brass about the agenda for the US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) meeting later this year — hopefully not violating the Taiwan Relations Act by discussing arms sales to Taiwan — China announced new monetary “incentives” to “mixed” couples in those areas in China where it has had eugenics policies for decades, now offering to pay non-Han Chinese nationals to dilute their ethnicity in exchange for cash. It should be called “The Chinese Despicable Eugenics Policy of 2014” or “Han Chinese Breeding for Bucks Act of 2014.”
A Human Rights Watch spokesperson, according to an article from the Guardian, offered a gross understatement regarding this eugenics plan, referring to it merely as a means of reducing opposition to Beijing’s policies, as opposed to expressing outrage that China is brazenly offering to pay for eliminating various indigenous races, such as Uighurs and Tibetans (“China reveals plan for ethnic mixing,” Sept. 4, page 5). I question using the term “ethnic mixing,” a seemingly euphemistic term for ethnic cleansing.
Over the past two decades, Han Chinese have been shipped to every corner of China as a means of suppressing local ethnicity in favor of Han Chinese — jobs, property, administrative favoritism and now breeding — to eliminate those who might refuse to adopt Beijing’s homogeneous view of the world, one race, one language, one master, the CCP.
China is not the only country to use eugenics. It has been used throughout conflicts in many Arab and Muslim lands as a means of breeding out unwanted ethnic groups, such as in Sudan, Somalia, Egypt, now in Iraq and Syria by the Islamic State (IS) group, and throughout Africa where Islamic extremists make rape and murder of minority races a prominent feature of their efforts to create Islamic lands without ethnic variation.
Is there a difference between IS and Beijing? IS achieves its eugenic ends barbarically through rape, murder, forced conversion and beheadings. China achieves its eugenic ends with patience — in the case of Tibet, 60-plus years — using oppression, government policy, immigration shifts of Han Chinese, economic suppression and now breeding policies. Perhaps it is “barbarism with Chinese characteristics.”
I wonder if Rice knows exactly who she is meeting with and whether she realizes these same Chinese brass just initiated a policy to eliminate various minority races off the face of the earth.
Obama held a recent press conference regarding the beheading of a US-Jewish journalist by IS and then went to play golf immediately afterward. Hopefully Rice has learned from the backlash to that idiocy and has more sense than to violate the Taiwan Relations Act and ignore the interests of US allies — for example, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and the Philippines — to curry some favor to deal with issues like IS and Russia with a Beijing regime that thinks nothing of making ethnic cleansing an important feature of its domestic policy.
It is ironic that Washington might seek cooperation from a serial user of eugenics to fight a user of eugenics. Such is the insane world of the UN, hopelessly paralyzed.
Longhwa Lee
Los Angeles, California
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