Zhao Ningkang
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- Sep 19, 2012
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China’s Freedom Can Be Free
An open letter to American political leaders, scholars, journalists, and all citizens
People in the free world commonly believe in universal values: everybody is entitled to enjoy fundamental human rights. But people are split when the thing goes to whether they have an obligation to help those under the rule of dictators gain those rights: some say they have, and others say that’s the repressed people’s own business. This is not to say the later is hypocritical, only being sympathetic on lip service and would cower when it is needed for them to take some actual actions. That is not the case. The problem is rooted in how much price would have to be paid to help others gain liberation. It is understandable not to take action if the price is too high. Meanwhile, the repressed people can’t ask others to rescue them while the rescuers run the risk of lives.
That is to say, universal values are just immanent moral standards rather than code of conduct. People only take action due to their interests. I agree with this. In this open letter I ask the United States to do the deed according to its interests, not universal values.
There are two neighboring courtyards in the world. One is clean and the other is dirty. The dirty one is simply a cesspool. Unfortunate people are soaked in the pool and somebody drowns at any time. The two courtyards are the free world and the authoritarian world. Although people living in the free world don’t have to suffer the calamity, they often find flies and poisonous mosquitoes coming from the neighboring yard in their home. Flies stain their home and the mosquitoes attack them lethally at their unpreparedness. Helping clear the cesspool enables them to live in a not contaminated and secure environment. This is the United States’ interest.
Having resolved the problem of interest, the issue comes to price. Some may say, this interest is huge on the part of Chinese people and not very large on the part of Americans. We, Americans, only agree to pay a price not larger than the interest on our part.
I say, that’s enough. According to my tactic or strategy, the price needed for you to pay is very very small.
Some may say, come on. The histories of major democratic nations in the world have proven that freedom is not free. I say, that isn’t the way it works when the age comes to today. Today, it is real enough that freedom would be free.
Generally imaging, defeating a dictator needs to destroy his repressing tools. This needs a huge sacrifice of lives. But actually, things don’t go so. All the soldiers in the dictator’s army and armed police who open fire to civilians at the frontline of protests are offspring of the rank and file. Those who are put down are their own old folks. The soldiers are redeployed to here to suppress the local protest, while their own parents and siblings are being suppressed by their peers at their homeland. The populace who suffer brutal repression only because they resist the deprivation to their essential living condition aren’t mob making trouble out of nothing and damaging the social stability at all. And the soldiers themselves will be kicked away after retiring, becoming the same pauper as those who was suppressed by them.
Having no use for civil war, not having to sacrifice many lives to resolve this army, what needs to do is just to tell them these facts. Having known these facts, they will no longer willingly serve as the tools of dictator. Whether they would turn renegade immediately or not, the repressing tools have been disintegrated essentially.
Except for violent repression, concealing and cheating are also among the CCP’s tools to maintain its rule. It does all kinds of evil while blocks the passage of informations, not rendering others know its villainy, and simultaneously, endeavoring to propagate that it is serving wholeheartedly for the people. It has developed sophisticated deceitful tricks since it come into being, and until now, many still believe that it’s good men. Those who are cheated constitute to be the important social basis for it to continuously exist.
What needed to enlighten these people is still just facts. Fortunately, the CCP itself is proactively providing us so many facts appropriate to enlightenment. It has lost all sense of shame. It has been too unscrupulous to care about how evident its lies are. When a high-speed train crashed in Wenzhou, it buried in haste the locomotive which carried the most important evidences of the accident and coaches in which there are even unsaved passengers. In a terrible fire burned down a bustling shopping mall in Jixian, Tianjin, and more horrified is that the outlets for customers to evacuate had been locked for fear of loss of goods, it claimed that only a few person died. In the roundup for a wanted killer in Chongqing, a policeman participating the action is killed by mistake; it determined that the killed was just the wanted. Their lies are full of flaws. Our question to them can start with these evident flaws. They have to work out more and more lies to make the previous lies plausible. The more lies they make, the more flaws will be exposed. The flaws manifesting its true feature is most lifesome teaching material for the fooled people.
The truth is the most powerful weapon. We now have the Internet. When this weapon, not censored or monitored, is sent to the hands of every civilian, the cost of blood will be no longer needed for gaining freedom. Back in the day, it is nearly an illusion to say that freedom is free. But today, only to say freedom is free is more accordant to the new situation.
What needed to destroy China’s dictatorship is only the dissemination of truth, having no use for force against it. But this is not a matter simple enough for Chinese people themselves to accomplish independently. Chinese people need help here. The help needed by Chinese people is tools to spread truth. Chinese people don’t need the help of your advanced heavy weapons, because it is not that the enemy of Chinese people can only be defeated by those sophisticated weapons. The facts and principles that are said earlier and needed to be known by soldiers, the facts and truth that needed to be known by fooled people --- questions to the Communist party officials, their answers, the Party’s true features disclosed by the questions and answers, are required to be transmitted to the recipients through effective and handy tools. In addition, when brave ones stand out to call the unashamed liars to account and hence are likely persecuted by the Party, you are required to exert pressure on it to protect them from being injured. The CCP’s official suppressing apparatuses are disorganized due to informing the truth, while its secret and ignoble persecuting means have to be held back because of your severe intimidation. Thus, after the first brave person stepping forward, more and more people knowing truth but formerly being afraid follow to disclose more and more truth. Seeing these truth, fooled people wake up to reality and no longer work as the foundation of the CCP’s rule. So the huge corrupt edifice collapses.
This tactic or strategy doesn’t require you to resort to a single bullet and doesn’t sacrifice a single American young man or woman’s life. Starting from the United States’ interests, we acquire the harvest of eliminating the dictatorship in China. It is not a fantasy play. It is something long overdue but Americans always cannot recognize its reality. Inflammable firewood is already deployed by Chinese people, what needed you to do is just igniting it. This is a strategy to pry a huge stone with a lever. Implementing it, the forward motion of worldwide democratic progress will get rid of the stagnation since the beginning of the twenty-first century, and the neoconservative will free themselves from the awkwardness yielding in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are heroes to put others out of misery and they deserve praises and eulogization rather than doubts. Their beliefs are right. Every human heart desires to be free. Nobody is willing to be enslaved. There is only imposed dictatorship but no imposed democracy. The demand for democracy is inherent, but the power to help clear the blocks to democratic progress may come from outside. Proper strategy would render democratic progresses in authoritarian nations, even in a nation as large as China be, go like splitting a piece of bamboo rather than though troubled times.
Questioning which starts the democratic progress in China not only points to the flaws of their lies, but also certainly touches the whereabouts of huge amount of properties and money. Embezzling public and private properties is the most pervasive type of crimes the ruling group committed , and tracing where a specific sum of money is going or where it comes is the most convenient access for the civilians to build the sense of democracy. No matter how devoid of democratic tradition a authoritarian nation is, this method is most direct, simplest, and most applicative. The public lack of enthusiasm for democracy is because in reality they cannot see the hope that the robbed properties can be retrieved. To live better, some would rather join the ranks of thieves with competitive desires. Once the possibilities emerge that thieves’ acts of larceny are exposed, traced and liquidated, the public values transform immediately. By this time, everyone’s sense of democracy emerges spontaneously with no need for preaching theory of democracy to the public. The revealed truth make one recognize that the Party thugs not only robbed his own property, but robbed the whole country. The voice to liquidate them forms huge pressure, making them not to be able to resist. America’s action in Iraq didn’t cope well with the resistance of the remanent dictator power, leading to a too large price of yours; in China, this situation will not happen. The CCP is a thief accustomed to shading the sun to facilitate his larceny in the dark. When the lid it set to shade the sun is removed, it will be grappled under the sun, together with the stolen goods, with the presence of the owner of the goods, and it are surrounded by the police. At this time, it is unimaginable for it to have enough courage to resist. Not to mention the advanced equipments in the hands of police and the angry roaring of the owners of the lost properties, only the sunlight it never dare to see could dazzle it so heavily that it couldn’t even open its eyes. There are always news that malfeasants commit suicide for fear of punishment when they get wind of their being investigated. The CCP has so impressive resilience facing the programs of democratic promotion issued by the U. S., but when it faces calling to account, tracing along the clues and liquidation, they can only choose to capitulate and surrender early.
(to be continued)
An open letter to American political leaders, scholars, journalists, and all citizens
People in the free world commonly believe in universal values: everybody is entitled to enjoy fundamental human rights. But people are split when the thing goes to whether they have an obligation to help those under the rule of dictators gain those rights: some say they have, and others say that’s the repressed people’s own business. This is not to say the later is hypocritical, only being sympathetic on lip service and would cower when it is needed for them to take some actual actions. That is not the case. The problem is rooted in how much price would have to be paid to help others gain liberation. It is understandable not to take action if the price is too high. Meanwhile, the repressed people can’t ask others to rescue them while the rescuers run the risk of lives.
That is to say, universal values are just immanent moral standards rather than code of conduct. People only take action due to their interests. I agree with this. In this open letter I ask the United States to do the deed according to its interests, not universal values.
There are two neighboring courtyards in the world. One is clean and the other is dirty. The dirty one is simply a cesspool. Unfortunate people are soaked in the pool and somebody drowns at any time. The two courtyards are the free world and the authoritarian world. Although people living in the free world don’t have to suffer the calamity, they often find flies and poisonous mosquitoes coming from the neighboring yard in their home. Flies stain their home and the mosquitoes attack them lethally at their unpreparedness. Helping clear the cesspool enables them to live in a not contaminated and secure environment. This is the United States’ interest.
Having resolved the problem of interest, the issue comes to price. Some may say, this interest is huge on the part of Chinese people and not very large on the part of Americans. We, Americans, only agree to pay a price not larger than the interest on our part.
I say, that’s enough. According to my tactic or strategy, the price needed for you to pay is very very small.
Some may say, come on. The histories of major democratic nations in the world have proven that freedom is not free. I say, that isn’t the way it works when the age comes to today. Today, it is real enough that freedom would be free.
Generally imaging, defeating a dictator needs to destroy his repressing tools. This needs a huge sacrifice of lives. But actually, things don’t go so. All the soldiers in the dictator’s army and armed police who open fire to civilians at the frontline of protests are offspring of the rank and file. Those who are put down are their own old folks. The soldiers are redeployed to here to suppress the local protest, while their own parents and siblings are being suppressed by their peers at their homeland. The populace who suffer brutal repression only because they resist the deprivation to their essential living condition aren’t mob making trouble out of nothing and damaging the social stability at all. And the soldiers themselves will be kicked away after retiring, becoming the same pauper as those who was suppressed by them.
Having no use for civil war, not having to sacrifice many lives to resolve this army, what needs to do is just to tell them these facts. Having known these facts, they will no longer willingly serve as the tools of dictator. Whether they would turn renegade immediately or not, the repressing tools have been disintegrated essentially.
Except for violent repression, concealing and cheating are also among the CCP’s tools to maintain its rule. It does all kinds of evil while blocks the passage of informations, not rendering others know its villainy, and simultaneously, endeavoring to propagate that it is serving wholeheartedly for the people. It has developed sophisticated deceitful tricks since it come into being, and until now, many still believe that it’s good men. Those who are cheated constitute to be the important social basis for it to continuously exist.
What needed to enlighten these people is still just facts. Fortunately, the CCP itself is proactively providing us so many facts appropriate to enlightenment. It has lost all sense of shame. It has been too unscrupulous to care about how evident its lies are. When a high-speed train crashed in Wenzhou, it buried in haste the locomotive which carried the most important evidences of the accident and coaches in which there are even unsaved passengers. In a terrible fire burned down a bustling shopping mall in Jixian, Tianjin, and more horrified is that the outlets for customers to evacuate had been locked for fear of loss of goods, it claimed that only a few person died. In the roundup for a wanted killer in Chongqing, a policeman participating the action is killed by mistake; it determined that the killed was just the wanted. Their lies are full of flaws. Our question to them can start with these evident flaws. They have to work out more and more lies to make the previous lies plausible. The more lies they make, the more flaws will be exposed. The flaws manifesting its true feature is most lifesome teaching material for the fooled people.
The truth is the most powerful weapon. We now have the Internet. When this weapon, not censored or monitored, is sent to the hands of every civilian, the cost of blood will be no longer needed for gaining freedom. Back in the day, it is nearly an illusion to say that freedom is free. But today, only to say freedom is free is more accordant to the new situation.
What needed to destroy China’s dictatorship is only the dissemination of truth, having no use for force against it. But this is not a matter simple enough for Chinese people themselves to accomplish independently. Chinese people need help here. The help needed by Chinese people is tools to spread truth. Chinese people don’t need the help of your advanced heavy weapons, because it is not that the enemy of Chinese people can only be defeated by those sophisticated weapons. The facts and principles that are said earlier and needed to be known by soldiers, the facts and truth that needed to be known by fooled people --- questions to the Communist party officials, their answers, the Party’s true features disclosed by the questions and answers, are required to be transmitted to the recipients through effective and handy tools. In addition, when brave ones stand out to call the unashamed liars to account and hence are likely persecuted by the Party, you are required to exert pressure on it to protect them from being injured. The CCP’s official suppressing apparatuses are disorganized due to informing the truth, while its secret and ignoble persecuting means have to be held back because of your severe intimidation. Thus, after the first brave person stepping forward, more and more people knowing truth but formerly being afraid follow to disclose more and more truth. Seeing these truth, fooled people wake up to reality and no longer work as the foundation of the CCP’s rule. So the huge corrupt edifice collapses.
This tactic or strategy doesn’t require you to resort to a single bullet and doesn’t sacrifice a single American young man or woman’s life. Starting from the United States’ interests, we acquire the harvest of eliminating the dictatorship in China. It is not a fantasy play. It is something long overdue but Americans always cannot recognize its reality. Inflammable firewood is already deployed by Chinese people, what needed you to do is just igniting it. This is a strategy to pry a huge stone with a lever. Implementing it, the forward motion of worldwide democratic progress will get rid of the stagnation since the beginning of the twenty-first century, and the neoconservative will free themselves from the awkwardness yielding in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are heroes to put others out of misery and they deserve praises and eulogization rather than doubts. Their beliefs are right. Every human heart desires to be free. Nobody is willing to be enslaved. There is only imposed dictatorship but no imposed democracy. The demand for democracy is inherent, but the power to help clear the blocks to democratic progress may come from outside. Proper strategy would render democratic progresses in authoritarian nations, even in a nation as large as China be, go like splitting a piece of bamboo rather than though troubled times.
Questioning which starts the democratic progress in China not only points to the flaws of their lies, but also certainly touches the whereabouts of huge amount of properties and money. Embezzling public and private properties is the most pervasive type of crimes the ruling group committed , and tracing where a specific sum of money is going or where it comes is the most convenient access for the civilians to build the sense of democracy. No matter how devoid of democratic tradition a authoritarian nation is, this method is most direct, simplest, and most applicative. The public lack of enthusiasm for democracy is because in reality they cannot see the hope that the robbed properties can be retrieved. To live better, some would rather join the ranks of thieves with competitive desires. Once the possibilities emerge that thieves’ acts of larceny are exposed, traced and liquidated, the public values transform immediately. By this time, everyone’s sense of democracy emerges spontaneously with no need for preaching theory of democracy to the public. The revealed truth make one recognize that the Party thugs not only robbed his own property, but robbed the whole country. The voice to liquidate them forms huge pressure, making them not to be able to resist. America’s action in Iraq didn’t cope well with the resistance of the remanent dictator power, leading to a too large price of yours; in China, this situation will not happen. The CCP is a thief accustomed to shading the sun to facilitate his larceny in the dark. When the lid it set to shade the sun is removed, it will be grappled under the sun, together with the stolen goods, with the presence of the owner of the goods, and it are surrounded by the police. At this time, it is unimaginable for it to have enough courage to resist. Not to mention the advanced equipments in the hands of police and the angry roaring of the owners of the lost properties, only the sunlight it never dare to see could dazzle it so heavily that it couldn’t even open its eyes. There are always news that malfeasants commit suicide for fear of punishment when they get wind of their being investigated. The CCP has so impressive resilience facing the programs of democratic promotion issued by the U. S., but when it faces calling to account, tracing along the clues and liquidation, they can only choose to capitulate and surrender early.
(to be continued)