THE EVIL EMPIRE OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Ronald Reagan first condemned the Soviet Union as an “evil empire” in a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando Florida on March 8, 1983.

Publicly naming the explicit nature of Soviet imperialism provided the necessary focus for those of us working on a strategy to rid the world of it – a strategy the press called the Reagan Doctrine.  Less than eight years after President Reagan spoke those immortal words, the Soviet Union was no more.

Ex-KGB agent Vladimir Putin is determined to resurrect this evil empire with oil billions, gangster capitalism, and Russian thuggery.  But Russia is dying demographically and by 2015 half the Russian Army will be Moslem.  By 2020 or maybe before, the eastern half of Russian Siberia will be Chinese Siberia (TTP, November 2006).

Russia has no future beyond ephemerally high oil prices.  Once they crash, so does Russia.

So is there an heir to the title of Evil Empire in this new century?  Yes.  It is China.

One principal reason is that the internal structure of the former Soviet Union and China are the same.  One benefit of the Beijing Olympics is to make that blindingly clear.

The Soviet Union possessed an imperial empire of colonies throughout the world, from Eastern Europe to Afghanistan to Angola to Nicaragua and Cuba.  China has no external empire of colonies, although it is propping up every scumbag dictatorship it can, from Zimbabwe to Sudan to Burma to Venezuela and Iran.

Yet the Soviet Union didn’t simply possess a colonial empire, it was itself a colonial empire within its own borders.  It was composed of internal colonies that would be – as predicted by the Reagan Doctrine – independent countries if they had the freedom to choose.  The prediction turned out to be accurate.

China is the same.  It is itself a colonial empire within its own borders, composed of internal colonies that would be independent if they had the freedom to choose.

If you understand this, you understand the fear driving the Chicoms to ruin their Beijing Olympics, to crush all the fun and enjoyment and excitement out of the Games for the sake of Security.

But security from what?  (If you Google “Beijing Olympics” plus “security” you get 1, 250,000 hits.)  What are the Chicoms so afraid of?  They say “terrorists” – but obviously not foreign ones.  Foreign terrorist groups have never perpetrated a terrorist act in China, and there are no reliable reports of them planning to.

No, the Chicoms are freaking out in paranoia over fear of their own people protesting their tyranny.  Which brings us to Kashgar.

I took this picture in Kashgar in 1986.  It is by far one of the most exotic places in the world, a Silk Road oasis near where China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and former Soviet Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan all come together.

Marco Polo was there in 1274 and he would have recognized it in 1986.

But not now.  It has been overrun by Han Chinese.  Kashgar is in what the Chicoms call the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.  The native people who live there call it East Turkestan.

That’s to distinguish it from the five “Stans” of the former USSR – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan – together comprising West Turkistan.  Turkistan, east and west, is called such because the folks native to it (‘i-stan’ means ‘land of’) are ethnically Turkic, speaking Turkic languages and coming from a common ethnic stock.

Which means like their ethnic brethren to the west, the Uighurs (wee-gurz) and other Turkic peoples of East Turkestan are not Han Chinese.  They hate China and dream of being free of China’s imperialism.

And also like their western brethren, they are Moslem.  Which provides an opening for the Chicoms.  Any Uighur protest, any demonstration, any complaint against Chinese rule is condemned by the Chicoms as activities of Moslem terrorists.

And if there are no such activities, the Chicoms make them up and conduct them themselves.  For that’s what happened in Kashgar on August 4, resulting in the headline story in newspapers around the world:  16 Chinese Police Killed In Suspected Uighur Attack.

Supposedly, two Uighurs from the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) ran a dump truck into a group of 70 Chinese border police as they were jogging past the Yijin Hotel, then attacked them with knives and “homemade grenades.”  Somehow the two managed to kill 16 policemen even though one of them lost an arm when they crashed the truck.

Folks, the whole thing was made up, fabricated – just like the ETIM is made up, fabricated by Chicom propaganda.  There is no such outfit, there is no such guy as its leader Hasan Mahsum (conveniently “killed” in 2003).  The Chicoms even scammed the easily bamboozled US State Department into declaring the phony ETIM on the Terrorist Exclusion List.

Journalists investigating the Kashgar incident cannot locate any eyewitnesses or solid evidence it actually occurred.  So to up the ante, today (8/07) the Chicoms released a video purportedly made by “ETIM terrorists.”  The story, Chinese Islamists Threaten Olympics made the Drudge Report.  It was produced by Chicom propagandists.

But here’s a story that isn’t made up.  On July 9 school was canceled throughout much of the Kashgar area so that thousands of Uighur school children could be bused to a Kashgar suburb called Yengishahar.

As the children and other Uighurs – 10,000 all together – stood assembled in the town square, three Uighur men were brought out blindfolded and hands tied by a squad of Chinese police carrying rifles.  An official announced that the men had just been convicted of “connections to terrorist plots.”  No mention at all of their actually committing terrorist acts.

The official informed the crowd that the punishment for the men’s crime was death.  Whereupon the Chinese execution squad raised their rifles and fired point-blank at the men, killing them in front of thousands of children.

That’s why China is an Evil Empire.  Millions of Uighurs face Han Chinese colonial oppression every day, as do millions of Tibetans, millions of Inner Mongolians, and millions of non-Han peoples such as the Zhuang, Buyei, Yao, and Bai forming a population majority in China’s southern provinces bordering Burma and Vietnam.

Ronald Reagan gave hope to the “captive nations” within the Soviet Empire by calling it what it morally was.  George Bush has now given hope to the captive nations within the Chinese Empire.

Last October, he met the Dalai Lama and attended the ceremony honoring him with the Congressional Gold Medal.  Bush had hosted the Dalai Lama in the White House previously in November 2005.

That sent the Chicoms into spasms of apoplexy.  GW compounded their outrage by meeting last week with five advocates of freedom in China – Harry Wu (you read about him in Chicoms and Chaos, January 2005), head of the Laogai Research Foundation (the Laogai are the Chicom Gulag concentration camps); Chinese blogger Sasha Gong; Chinese democracy advocate Wei Jinsheng;  leader of the Chinese Christian Undergound Church Movement Bob Fu – and the champion of Uighur freedom, Rebiya Kadeer.

This is an extraordinary group of people, main leaders of freedom and democracy for China, for all the peoples of China.  For President Bush to meet them in the White House right on the eve of his going to Beijing comes close to matching Reagan’s moral condemnation of the Soviets.

For that is what is needed:  the moral condemnation of Chicom colonialism and imperialism.

Let’s not go too far in comparing George Bush to Ronald Reagan.  Nonetheless, it’s illuminating to read this New York Times story from 1987:  Beijing Is Backed By Administration On Tibet.

I was in Tibet when the story was written, and there are no words to describe how revolted I was by it when I read it upon my return.  Reagan never supported freedom for Tibet, always supported China’s tyranny, and refused to ever meet the Dalai Lama.

So it’s a good bet that Reagan would have attended the Chicom Olympics as is Bush.  These Olympics are serving to make Chicom oppression just as obvious to the world as Beijing smog.

So obvious that our next president – who met the Dalai Lama on July 25 in Aspen, Colorado while his “citizen of the world” opponent was preaching to a horde of Germans – just might give his own Evil Empire speech.

Actually naming the truth – that China is an imperial colonial empire within its own borders – by the President of the United States could bring more freedom to that empire than most anything else.

In the meantime, I’d like to encourage you to learn more about East Turkestan.  There’s the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples’ info on East Turkestan, and the Uyghur American Association (they spell Uighur with a ‘y’).

And not to be missed is a visit to the TTP archives for Tyranny and the Boogieman of Islam (June 2005).  You’ll read about (and see) the Beauty of Loulan, learn that the original inhabitants of East Turkestan thousands of years ago were not Chinese – they were Caucasian.

Mixing with other non-Chinese Asian people they became the Uighurs.  China really isn’t a country – it’s a Han Chinese empire.  To understand that is to understand the fundamental nature of the People’s Republic of China.