Inside China Today

Inside China Today – Tuesday 6th October

- Chinese champion awarded Human Rights Leadership Award;

- Beijing residents say National Day parade was threatening and militaristic;

- Chinese textbooks fabricated, teacher says.

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Chinese champion awarded Human Rights Leadership Award

Li Guohong, an employee at the Henan Sinopec Zhongyuan Oilfield, has received an award from the Asia-Pacific Human Rights Foundation. He was presented the ‘Human Rights Leadership Award’. Li Guohong expressed his thanks and is positive over his efforts to help vulnerable groups. He pledges that in future, he will be more actively involved in this work.

However Li is unable to travel to California to accept the award in person as Communist authorities will not allow it.

Also receiving the award are Wu Fan, the President of China’s transitional government; Chen Yizi, adviser of the former Chinese Premier; Zhao Ziyang, public Union lawyer; and Xia Lin and Wang Xiaoning, who are on the Chinese Social Democratic Party Central Committee .

Mr. Li Guohong said the recognition he received encourages him to work harder.

(Recording) “Some of my behaviours are recognised by some groups and people. I am very please with that. It is my honour. It is due to this that I shall be able to do more to help others. I see there are other friends that have received the award. I, personally, think that they are much better than I. I only follow my own wishes, because I am only a person who lost his rights, so I have to protect my own rights.

Li has worked for many years to defend the rights of vulnerable groups. Between 2001 and 2002, he was detained for a month on the popular charge of “subverting state power”. The CCP uses this charge to put away anyone it is afraid will undermine its power. This is mostly human rights advocates, members of outlawed religious groups and political dissidents.

Li’s crime was publishing articles and being in contact with members of the China Democracy Party. In 2007, he was sentenced to 18 months of re-education, or brainwashing as we call it in the West.

Caden Pearson and Tian Xi of the SOH Radio Network.

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Beijing residents say National Day parade was threatening and militaristic

During the Chinese Communist Party 60-year anniversary of its rule, a huge number of people mobilized. The number of people has rarely been seen in the CCP’s history. The CCP used the Military Review as an efficient instrument to show off its military force; however, this activity didn’t win any honor for the CCP. Instead, it established a militaristic image to the outside world.

After watching the Military Review, Mr. Liu from Beijing, had this to say:

[Recording]: “The Military Review this time is a kind of intimidation and a kind of psychological oppression to its ordinary people. This Military Review seems to be very serious. There are martial laws, 7 province union actions, and inspections. Lots of places have been searched. But in fact this is also the CCP’s guilty conscience to keep away ordinary people and mainly guard itself against resistance from those common, low-level, weak population.”

Mr. Liu added today’s CCP is like a remake of the Nazis. He warned that, in a desperate situation, they may become militaristic.

[Recording]: “Adopting dictatorship is to protect its authority. But very likely it will use military power aggressively and finally become militaristic like the Nazis. By looking at the current situation, this is an inevitable choice. Otherwise, a tumultuous situation will occur. To stabilize the situation, the CCP has to use this kind of aggressive military show to intimidate its opponents at home and abroad. And it will go in this direction farther and farther.”

The CCP has established its authority for the past 60 years; however, Mr. Liu believes people’s thoughts are changing and the CCP’s dictatorship is no longer applicable in China. Mr. Liu said, if the CCP insists on centralization of power and dictatorship, eventually its authority will decline.

[Recording]: “My friends including those known from the Internet, call on Nationalizing Military, stopping party and media prohibition, and forming a democratic Multi-Party structure. The majority of them hold this opinion. Such a dictatorial system with the party threatening people with weapons is taking a step back into history. If it’s not changed, it may cause a horrible result. If authority is maintained in a militaristic way, I don’t think it will last long.”

Donna Ware; Qin Yue; and Yu Liang of the SOH Radio Network

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Chinese textbooks fabricated, teacher says

The content of this story is not surprising, but it is true. Which is more than several Chinese primary school text book publishers can boast. A language teacher from a Chinese school has exposed fabricated information in primary school text books. These text books apparently adopt real historical figures and events, but are told the way the CCP wants its nationals to know.

Guo Chuyang has been a language teacher for six years. She has worked with more than 20 primary school language teachers to establish a civil education system research group. This group collected and analysed more than 300 textbook articles in a two year period. The materials were sourced from three primary school textbook versions dated from 2002 to 2009. They found more than half the articles were fabricated.

The group published a report titled, “Analysis: The Textbooks of Chinese Children”. On October 5, the Global Times reported Chuyang comparing the Chinese-language teaching textbooks to the tainted milk powder mixed incidents of 2008. In which several infants were poisoned by with the toxic substance melamine.

The Chinese Sound of Hope reported on He Yi. The 19 year old University of California student was a past student of Guo Chuyang. He discovered that a story he learned in grade two while he lived in mainland China, entitled “Edison Rescues Mother” was pure fabrication.

The text book article he read taught that Edison’s mother suffered from acute appendicitis. And that under the light of a few oil lamps, the 7-year-old Edison used mirror reflection to help the doctor complete the operation successfully.

Yet historical facts show that Edison was born in 1847. The earliest discussion of appendicitis in the medical field was dated in 1886. Thus when Edison was 7, the appendicitis operation was nowhere in existence.

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