The Communist Party's megalomaniacal paranoids elevated Jiang Zemin to power 12 years ago following his butcherous handling of freedom demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. It tortures people who try to organize democratic parties, who practice Buddhism or Catholicism, or who engage in certain kinds of breathing exercises. It ties them up by their arms or upside down by their ankles and beats them with wooden poles. It listens to them howl, watches them bleed, and keeps on beating them. Sometimes it beats them to death.
China is a place from which many still flee and defect.
It recently has declared open season on Chinese scholars from America. It compels abortions, particularly of girl fetuses. It maintains a vast gulag, the laogai. Its economy runs on slave labor, even to the manufacture of tennis shoes and butterfly paperclips. It regards the United States as its principal adversary and wants to smother Taiwan in the mainland's embrace.