"China continues repression of a free Catholic Church" & "A never-ending stream of atheist atrocities," News in Brief, C.I. June 2006, pp. 23-24.Your brief report on the current situation in mainland China is one of the few frank and honest assessments of that country's current situation. Most business and government leaders are solely interested in China's vast market and pool of (relatively) cheap labour. We make weak and vague statements on how China must improve its human rights records, yet we continue to extend to them the hand of friendship, we allow them into the WTO See World Trade Organization. , and we gave them the right to host the Olympic Games Olympic games, premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests. The Olympics of Ancient Greece Although records cannot verify games earlier than 776 B.C. . Tourists, even many Catholic tourists, returning from China impressed im·press 1 tr.v. im·pressed, im·press·ing, im·press·es 1. To affect strongly, often favorably: and perhaps blinded by the gleaming new office towers and five-star hotels, overlook the country's atrocious human rights record, its persecution Persecution Albigenses medieval sect suppressed by a crusade, wars, and the Inquisition. [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 53] Camisards uprising of Protestant peasantry after the revocation of Edict of Nantes in 1685 was brutally suppressed by the of the Catholic Church, and its rape of the environment. As someone who grew up in the formerly free city of Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , it pains me to see my land of birth being ruled by such a despotic regime. When will the world begin to see China for what it really is? Vancouver, BC |
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