https://cross-currents.com/2020/07/03/speak-out-against-annexation/
Given the guarantees that China gave to the former British colony which
are now being unilaterally broken, it is nothing less than an
annexation. It will bring far greater hardship and sorrow than the one
in the Middle East, to a population three times the size of the West
Bank. We’re not talking checkpoints and denied access to olive trees
here. We are talking about the overnight end to effective civil
liberties for everyone in Hong Kong, and the real prospect of
prosecution and incarceration by a government that has shown itself
willing and able to keep hundreds of millions under its thumb.[1]
Why are we not hearing any outcry from the World Council of Churches, or
the academic world, or the European Parliament? Why no marches on the
Capitol, like the Palestinian Lives Matter one of a few days ago?
Simply put, the morality of these churches and of the university campus ends when it butts heads with providers of cheap tchotchkes.
Hard to beat that for hypocrisy. Especially since this is only the
latest episode in the global game of moral blindness to the many
outrages perpetrated by the Chinese Communist regime. Had the EU
considered a boycott of China, Tibet might be free today, rather than
remaining – after decades of oppression, cultural repression, and murder
– under the thumb of the Communist Party, the only people who count in
the People’s Republic.
Exactly right. China right now is where Germany was in 1937 when Hitler, y"sh, marched into Austria and enacted "reunification". At the time Germany was re-arming while shouting that it felt threatened which made the craven Allies refuse to re-arm so as not to make Germany feel more threatened.
ReplyDeleteSo look around China's borders. Who's going to be the Sudetenland and the next Czechoslovakia?