Beijing recently arrested and sentenced several eminent people, such as human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng, who is now in police custody; Chen Guangcheng, the blind rights activist of Shandong Province, who was sentenced to a four-year, three-month prison term for "disrupting traffic" and "deliberately damaging public property"; Zhao Yan, news assistant at The New York Times Beijing office, who was given a three-year jail term for fraud; and Ching Cheong, a Singapore Straits Times senior journalist who received five years in jail for spying.
These events are unfolding as the Hu Jintao-Wen Jiabao administration is trying to create a harmonious society and improve China's image prior to the start of the 2008 Olympic Games. Then why is the Chinese communist regime being so bold as to take such drastic measures and make such risky moves in total defiance of the unanimous condemnation by the international opinion?
This question can be answered by reviewing a number of recent major events that are affecting the communist regime. The Chinese communist regime has always been good at playing tricks, and this time the scheme it is employing is to duck the bullet by setting up false targets.
Three Factors Influencing the CCP's Actions
First, 20,000 or 30,000 people are withdrawing from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations every day , and the wave of people quitting the CCP has reached more than 13 million today. Shaken at its root, how can the CCP continue its rule? If the CCP falls, nothing will be left. What use could its image serve, then? So, sustaining its rule is its first priority.
Some may doubt that the massive CCP could ever fall so easily. But what happened to the former Soviet communist regime is an eloquent testimony. When the river bursts its banks, a flood will follow. I watched a TV drama last night, and I found a relevant point to the story.
There was a "boss" in a prison cell who had many followers. Whenever a new inmate came in, he would be beaten and made to agree that he would surrender any good food he received, such as meat, to the "boss." One day, however, a more fearless prisoner who knew some martial arts was brought in. It didn't take him too much effort to subdue the "boss." His followers, who till then had been bullied by him and been timid in speaking up or expressing their resentment, now saw an opportunity. They closed in on the "boss" and gave him a good beating. The "boss" then became spurned by everyone.
So don't be fooled by the CCP's inflated show of strength and its tens of millions of members. As the saying goes, "When the tree falls, the monkeys on it will disperse." When the time comes, the monkeys will not only desert the fallen tree, but also come back to hold the tree accountable. That is why the CCP will risk its life to prop up this rotten tree.
Confirmation of CCP Organ Harvesting
Second, former Canadian Secretary of State (Asia Pacific) David Kilgour and international human rights lawyer David Matas concluded through their independent investigation that "there has been and continues today to be large-scale organ seizures from unwilling Falun Gong practitioners" in China. Now the CCP's atrocity, an unprecedented horror, has been condemned by the international community.
Even the Australian government, which has kept close ties with the CCP, has voiced its indignation and asked for an inquiry inside China. Indeed, if a person can still stand on the side of the CCP on an ethical issue such as the organ harvesting from living persons, he is not human anymore. So how can the CCP not be afraid? It will thus be willing to make any sacrifice as long as it can divert people's attention.
Yuan Sheng Seeks Asylum
Third, China Eastern Airline pilot Yuan Sheng's fleeing has taken down the smokescreen carefully put up by the CCP to show that it ostensibly no longer persecutes Falun Gong. When people see that the persecution against this group of kind-hearted people still continues, they further realize the CCP's nature in its attempts to sustain its illegitimacy by abusing morality and justice. Consequently they have abandoned the CCP in their minds, if not in action. Can the CCP afford not to be afraid?
The CCP's reprehensible horrors cannot be concealed forever, and the communist regime in China cannot extricate itself from its forthcoming collapse by resorting to its customary tricks.
The Chinese people have only one effective way to deal with the CCP's maneuvers: They must quit the CCP and let it fade away.
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