What Republicans need to learn from Sarah Palin’s speech in Hong Kong
Pushing the issue of “Human Rights” in China has long been driven by misinformation and bitter rhetoric of which the Liberal left has long been happy to furnish Americans. This problem had been so dramatic in the past that even many Republicans have made the mistake of jumping on the liberal bandwagon when it comes to this issue.
The left’s manipulation on Conservatives begins by using these facts:
1. It is natural for conservatives to have a distaste for “Communism” and “Socialism.”
2. The Chinese government is a Communist one.
3. Many Americans have long hated China because of that “Communist” label.
This manipulation is then snowballed by the liberal mass-media’s portrayal of injustice in China such that most of the information that we had possibly been able to get in English about this subject is provided by liberals who want to see China‘s government fail because it pushes capitalism. This is a battle that we’ve long seen on our own soil, and it is the liberals who want to use it for their anti-capitalistic agenda against the two most capitalistic nations in the world (The United States and China).
Thus, it is not surprising that Hillary Clinton gave a speech in Beijing in 1995 on this subject with several falsities inside that speech such as, “It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken simply because they are born girls.” We all know that Hillary Clinton plays dirty as demonstrated by the death trail that the Clintons have left behind with all those “accidental” and “mysterious” deaths that surround the Clintons‘ political careers. Hence, this is no exception, and it should not come as a surprise to any of us.
We cannot forget that China’s capitalism was drastically accelerated by Ronald Reagan working with Deng Xiao Ping in the 80’s by loosening trade between the two countries. Sarah Palin knows this too, and she capitalized on it in her Hong Kong speech. Here’s an excerpt from Palin‘s Hong Kong speech:
The more politically open and just China is, the more Chinese citizens of every ethnic group will be able to settle disputes in court rather than on the streets. The more open it is, the less we’ll be concerned about its military buildup and its intentions. The more transparent China is, the more likely it is that they will find a true and lasting friendship based on shared values as well as interests. And I’m not talking about a U.S.-led democracy crusade. [We’re] not going to impose our values on other countries. We don’t seek to do that. But the ideas of freedom and liberty and respect for human rights, it’s not just a U.S. idea. They’re very much more than that. They’re enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and many other international covenants and treaties.
Notice the drastic difference in tones and ideas between Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin: Hillary demanded through specific criticisms based on a very small percentage of cases (and yes, it’s truly a needle in a haystack simply because all of those actions in Hillary’s accusations are illegal in China in the first place such that people can‘t just go killing other people even if they are infants) in a country of 1.2 billion people that she get her way. The contrast to this in Palin’s speech is that she asked for transparency based on a universal idea of “freedom and liberty and respect for human rights.”
Thus, we have many Republicans who like to push this agenda the Hillary way. It’s wrong. We must not forget that there is no country in the history of the world that is as fortunate as the United States to have had such great founding fathers who gave us our freedoms and our liberties. China did not have Thomas Jefferson. We did. Unlike us, this generation of Chinese people truly inherited a Communist government, but they are making strides to be more like how we were during the Reagan era.
Obama has announced to the world that we are not a Christian nation. China is making strides to become one. The Republicans who claim that they are conservatives should look at China’s intentions of striving toward OUR formula of Capitalism + Christianity = Conservatism.
And finally, is painfully obvious that Sarah Palin recognizes (apart from many members of her political party) that, in the name of humanity, the Communist party in China actually did a noble deed in Tibet because overthrowing the Dalai Lama meant freeing thousands of slaves under the Dalai Lama‘s grip and feeding tens of thousands of famished people. Having the ability to see these deeds as humanitarian ones and still being able to convey a good human rights message is what sets Sarah Palin apart from many of her colleagues in the Republican Party.
