CCP's Flagrant Disregard for Human Life

As a professor and the director over China's National Defense University
Defense Strategic Institute and a general in the People's Liberation Army,
Maj. Gen. Zhu Chenghu said at a briefing to foreign reporters that China
would resort to nuclear force should the U.S. intercede in a Taiwan Straits
conflict. He added that China was prepared to sacrifice the cities east of
Xi'an (implying six major cities with 33 million people) and warned that the
U.S. "will have to be prepared for hundreds of cities that will be
destroyed."
In a letter addressed to Zhou Wenzhong, the Chinese ambassador to the U.S.,
Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo criticized Zhu for making such comments.
"For a senior government official to exhibit such tremendous stupidity by
making such a brazen threat is hardly characteristic of a modern nation,"
the letter said.

Zhu subsequently claimed that he was merely expressing his personal views.
However, his comments signaled a threat to the U.S., Taiwan, and above all,
the Chinese people. If we look back in history, Zhu's comments are
representative of the tyrant Mao Zedong.

One cannot help but wonder, why the CCP after all these years continues to
walk in Mao's footsteps, failing to show any regard for human life. What
could be more important than human life? If nuclear war breaks out, how many
innocent lives in the U.S. and China would be lost?

Of course, history has shown us that the CCP is not afraid of sacrificing
human lives. During the second session of the 8th National People's Congress
in May 1958, Mao said that sacrificing lives in the event of a nuclear war,
in exchange for eliminating capitalism, would not be such a bad thing after
all.

Historically, under CCP rule, China's casualty rate during peacetime was
comparable to that of wartime. During the Great Leap Forward, 30 million
Chinese were starved to death, yet Mao showed no remorse. The deaths of
millions as a result of the Cultural Revolution and many other political
campaigns reflected Mao's inhumanity.

The use of tanks against its own people on June 4, 1989, was an
unprecedented atrocity in the CCP's history, further revealing its flagrant
disregard for human life. Deng Xiaoping once said: "Kill 200,000 in exchange
for 20 years of stability."

Seen in this light, Zhu's views are not surprising. Those supporting the
CCP's despotic rule would show no regard for the lives of their own people.
Consider the coal mine disasters, the starvation of farmers that sacrificed
their lives for the land, the flood in Heilongjiang, which took the lives of
hundreds of elementary school children, the cover-up of the SARS crisis, and
the death of college student, Sun Zhigang, due to police brutality.

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A CCP General With a “Personal Opinion”?

China’s General Zhu Chenghu raised international concern when he threatened
nuclear action against the United States. China’s response was to state that
the threat represents Zhu Chenghu’s “personal opinion” and not that of
China. Beijing would neither condemn nor officially refute General Zhu’s
statement in spite of protests from the U.S.
Zhu Chenghu is surely being celebrated for his words throughout the Chinese
Communist Party’s army. Should the U.S. government be surprised?

Surely the U.S. didn’t think that the Chinese government would risk
destruction to start a war with the U.S. The Chinese cannot beat the U.S. in
conventional warfare, but if there were an attack against Chinese warships
in a possible war over Taiwan, the Chinese government would use their
nuclear weapons directly against the U.S.

The Chinese government doesn’t want to hide behind North Korea’s aspiration
for nuclear power anymore. Instead, they want to make their own aggressive
nuclear status clear. Therefore, Beijing let one of its own generals give
the U.S. a direct warning.

The Chinese government has called it a personal opinion. If the common
people of China aren’t allowed to have their own personal opinions, how can
a general be allowed to have personal opinions regarding major international
relations?

This was a belligerent move by the CCP. We have to believe that the CCP will
most certainly do what they say they might do. The CCP considers the Chinese
people worthless, not to mention Americans. If something offends the
Communist Party, they will dare to do anything.

Peace loving people of China, people of the world, be aware.

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