Peaceful advocates of a political party intended to compete with the Communists have been jailed. China made the top of the list of repressors in the most recent annual report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Christians are regularly arrested and subjected to all manner of abuse and human rights violations, including severe torture. Almost 10,000 followers of the mild spiritualist exercise movement Falun Gong have been sentenced to labor camps. Reliable estimates put the total at 60 million innocent Chinese citizens murdered since the Maoist revolution.
Money contains no moral compass.
And to pretend that it does is to erase morality and substitute a grinning devil in its place. China s behavior has, if anything, only gotten worse with all this making nice, notes Charles Colson. What the appeasement model didn t take into account was the reality of evil and the need to restrain it. But evil is the best descriptor. Mr. Bush should offer an escalation of realism.