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| | Despite its misleading name, the PLA is not controlled by the Chinese people but by its Communist regime, and its objective is not about "liberating" anyone, but about serving as the Chinese Communist Party's unquestioning enforcers and brutally subjugating China's population under Communist rule. | | Despite its misleading name, the PLA is not controlled by the Chinese people but by its Communist regime, and its objective is not about "liberating" anyone, but about serving as the Chinese Communist Party's unquestioning enforcers and brutally subjugating China's population under Communist rule. |
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| | :{{See also|Long March through the institutions}} | | :{{See also|Long March through the institutions}} |
| | [[Cultural Marxist]]s have long romanticized [[Mao Tse-tung]]'s Long March as inspiration to achieve power in a godless, [[socialist]] and [[totalitarian]] new order. | | [[Cultural Marxist]]s have long romanticized [[Mao Tse-tung]]'s Long March as inspiration to achieve power in a godless, [[socialist]] and [[totalitarian]] new order. |
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| | The Long March was a 6,000 mile retreat of the Chinese Communist Army back to northwest to Outer [[Mongolia]] and the [[Soviet Union]] after it being routed by the [[Kuomintang]] in October 1933 to January 1934. In the fifth operation by the KMT, which aimed to encircle and annihilate the CCP, the CCP lost its rural strongholds one after another. With its base areas continually shrinking, the main [[Red Army]] had to flee. The “Long March” was aimed at breaking out of the encirclement and fleeing to [[Outer Mongolia]] and the USSR along an arc that first went west and then north. Once in place, the CCP could escape into the Soviet Union in case of defeat. | | The Long March was a 6,000 mile retreat of the Chinese Communist Army back to northwest to Outer [[Mongolia]] and the [[Soviet Union]] after it being routed by the [[Kuomintang]] in October 1933 to January 1934. In the fifth operation by the KMT, which aimed to encircle and annihilate the CCP, the CCP lost its rural strongholds one after another. With its base areas continually shrinking, the main [[Red Army]] had to flee. The “Long March” was aimed at breaking out of the encirclement and fleeing to [[Outer Mongolia]] and the USSR along an arc that first went west and then north. Once in place, the CCP could escape into the Soviet Union in case of defeat. |
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| − | ==Tiananmen Square massacre== | + | ===Tiananmen Square massacre=== |
| | The People's Liberation Army was used to kill the people of their own country during the [[Tiananmen Square democracy protests]] at the end of the [[Cold War]]. While Communist regimes in [[Eastern Europe]] and [[Russia]] collapsed, the Chinese Communist Party clung to power by unleashing the the so-called "People's Liberation Army" against their own people. | | The People's Liberation Army was used to kill the people of their own country during the [[Tiananmen Square democracy protests]] at the end of the [[Cold War]]. While Communist regimes in [[Eastern Europe]] and [[Russia]] collapsed, the Chinese Communist Party clung to power by unleashing the the so-called "People's Liberation Army" against their own people. |
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| | While the official number of unarmed [[civilian]] protesters was put at 2,200, the likely number of innocent Chinese civilian protesters murdered at the hands of the CCP is more likely at least 10,000. | | While the official number of unarmed [[civilian]] protesters was put at 2,200, the likely number of innocent Chinese civilian protesters murdered at the hands of the CCP is more likely at least 10,000. |
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| − | ==Falun Gong== | + | ===Norinco scandal=== |
| | + | :{{Main article|NORINCO scandal}} |
| | + | The China North Industries Corporation ('''Norinco''') manufactures high-tech defense products, some of which are adaptations of Soviet equipment. Norinco produces precision strike systems, amphibious assault weapons and equipment, long-range suppression weapon systems, anti-aircraft & anti-missile systems, information & night vision products,<ref>http://www.norinco.com/c1024/english/productsandservices/index.html</ref> high-effect destruction systems, fuel air bombs, anti-riot equipment, [[small arms]], vehicles (trucks, cars and motorcycles), machinery, optical-electronic products, oil field equipment, chemicals, light industrial products, explosives and blast materials, civil firearms and ammunition, etc. It also does domestic civil construction projects. |
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| | + | In 1994, some employees of Norinco came under American investigation from both the [[FBI]] as well as the [[BATF]] after a successful sting dubbed “Operation Dragon Fire.” In May 1996, in what was called "the largest seizure of fully operational automatic weapons in U.S. history,"<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,135999,00.html Anatomy of a Sting], Michael S. Serrill, [[Time magazine]], Jun. 24, 2001.</ref> 14 individuals and an [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]] company were indicted for the unlicensed importation and sale of 2000 [[AK-47]]'s into the United States. [[U.S. Customs]] agents posing as arms traffickers convinced a group of Chinese arms dealers, including three Norinco representatives, that they were in the market to buy guns for drug rings and [[street gang]]s.<ref>[http://www.courttv.com/archive/legaldocs/misc/smuggle.html Massive Seizure of New Automatic Weapons Illegally Smuggled by PRC Weapons Producers], [[U.S. Department of Justice]] Press Release, May 23, 1996. Retrieved from CourtTV September 25, 2007.</ref> "The defendants offered the government undercover agents more sophisticated weapons, including hand-held rocket launchers, mortars, anti-aircraft missiles, silenced machine guns and even tanks," said a spokesman for the U.S. Customs Service.<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/US/9605/23/china.arms/ Feds seize 'incredible arsenal', U.S. agent says China was aware of weapons-smuggling operation], [[CNN]], May 23, 1996.</ref> The Customs Service discovered during the investigation that these weapons were bound for [[Oakland]], [[California]] street gangs.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070301055156/www.washtimes.com/national/20030523-123039-1385r.htm Chinese firm hit with U.S. sanctions], By Bill Gertz, ''The [[Washington Times]]'', May 23, 2003.</ref> According to an affidavit signed by two of the undercover agents involved in the investigation, representatives from Norinco offered to sell urban gangs shoulder-held missile launchers capable of downing a large commercial airliner. |
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| | According to an investigation by the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, over 100 different military hospitals have developed or expanded their organ transplant facilities, with over 2,000 medical personnel involved. These include military general hospitals which belong directly to the Central Military Commission, all military branch general hospitals, general hospitals which belong to the seven regional military commands, [[hospital]]s affiliated with military medical universities, military hospitals coded with numbers, and armed police general hospitals. The transplant volume performed by Chinese military hospitals is the largest of any military in the world. They also play a role in resolving core technical issues in organ transplantation and supporting civilian hospitals with living organ supplies and technical assistance.<ref>https://endtransplantabuse.org/an-update-chapter-twelve-a-state-crime/ </ref> | | According to an investigation by the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, over 100 different military hospitals have developed or expanded their organ transplant facilities, with over 2,000 medical personnel involved. These include military general hospitals which belong directly to the Central Military Commission, all military branch general hospitals, general hospitals which belong to the seven regional military commands, [[hospital]]s affiliated with military medical universities, military hospitals coded with numbers, and armed police general hospitals. The transplant volume performed by Chinese military hospitals is the largest of any military in the world. They also play a role in resolving core technical issues in organ transplantation and supporting civilian hospitals with living organ supplies and technical assistance.<ref>https://endtransplantabuse.org/an-update-chapter-twelve-a-state-crime/ </ref> |
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| | “The Central Military Commission authorizes relevant military personnel and units to manage military affairs. All related information is regarded as military secrets. Personnel responsible for military control have the authority to arrest, detain or execute any doctors, police, armed police, and researchers who leak information.”}} | | “The Central Military Commission authorizes relevant military personnel and units to manage military affairs. All related information is regarded as military secrets. Personnel responsible for military control have the authority to arrest, detain or execute any doctors, police, armed police, and researchers who leak information.”}} |
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| | According to China expert Ian Easton. in January 2016, the CCP launched a sweeping military reform and reorganization program. It was the first time a purge like this had happened in Communist China’s 70-year history. To succeed, Xi fired, imprisoned, and, in several cases, executed, well over 100 high-ranking generals in front of their peers.<ref>https://youtu.be/Se_r1qwWMMA</ref> | | According to China expert Ian Easton. in January 2016, the CCP launched a sweeping military reform and reorganization program. It was the first time a purge like this had happened in Communist China’s 70-year history. To succeed, Xi fired, imprisoned, and, in several cases, executed, well over 100 high-ranking generals in front of their peers.<ref>https://youtu.be/Se_r1qwWMMA</ref> |
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| | In July 2019, the CCP released a threatening defense white paper that read, | | In July 2019, the CCP released a threatening defense white paper that read, |
| | {{quotebox-float|“Solving the Taiwan problem and achieving complete national unification is in the fundamental interest of the Chinese race. It is obviously necessary for achieving the Chinese race’s great renewal... China must be unified and obviously will be... If anyone splits Taiwan off from China, China’s military will pay any price to totally defeat them.”<ref>http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2019/10/28/2003724771</ref>}} | | {{quotebox-float|“Solving the Taiwan problem and achieving complete national unification is in the fundamental interest of the Chinese race. It is obviously necessary for achieving the Chinese race’s great renewal... China must be unified and obviously will be... If anyone splits Taiwan off from China, China’s military will pay any price to totally defeat them.”<ref>http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2019/10/28/2003724771</ref>}} |
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| | ==References== | | ==References== |