Human rights in China: NOT PC

Why Obama forced Chen out of the embassy.

The Diplomad blog explains how the State Department lives in a bubble where they try to please foreign governments and each other, not worrying about the little people, including voters.

To add more fuel to the fire, Chen is not a sympathetic dissident for the Obamistas. While he is blind, he is not a woman; he's anti-abortion and pro-family; he's heterosexual, not well-educated, and, apparently, pro-American. He is far from the Obamistas' "ideal"dissident, e.g., a Colombian lesbian labor leader struggling to set up abortion clinics in poor neighborhoods, while fighting the nefarious efforts of the Coca-Cola company to poison children with its sugary brew.

(the Catholic news source ) AsiaNews gives a report.


LATIMES article connects the dots?  
the Human rights organization is based in Texas and run by Christians (Chinese Christians, but never mind)...


There is a "Christian" connection: Most of these human rights activists are Christian (as was Harry Wu). So what, you say, after all hardly any Christians live in China? Uh, wait a second: ten percent of Chinese may be Christian...

this 2010 NPR article says one in three in China say they are "religious", mostly Buddist, but notes the the underground house churches are growing:

Some recent surveys have calculated there could be as many as 100 million Chinese Protestants. That would mean that China has more Christians than Communist Party members, which now number 75 million.

2007 article in AsiaTimes explains why, and why this could result in China becoming democratic....

But this LATIMES story reports why Chen is so inconvenient for the Obama adminstration:

Pall cast over U.S.-China deal over Chinese dissident

American officials, who had hoped they were on the verge of a diplomatic triumph, denied that they had warned Chen that harm could come to his wife, and scrambled to convince skeptical Chinese activists and the world that in their six days of tense negotiations they sought only to do what Chen had wanted.

But the setback risked damage to the administration's efforts to show itself strongly committed to the cause of human rights in China. And it threatened to prolong a diplomatic crisis with China a day before the opening of high-level talks aimed at smoothing relations on urgent issues including Iran, Syria and the global economy.

In other words, they "threw him under the bus" to get China to act nice in other matters...this bodes ill for the Philippines, since although we have been assured of the US helping us protect our borders, someone last week said that the US planned to remain neutral in the fight.

Pinoys are aghast that the mutual defense treaty is being abrogated...

Guess we're the next ones to be "thrown under the bus"...

Fight? It's not just the Spratlys: Now they are claiming the shoals off of Luzon...