Campaigners from the human rights cause have recently addressed the European Parliament, and for today's update the China Support Network is highlighting their important words -- words of warning from Wei Jingsheng, China's most famous dissident, who increasingly expects to see Mainland Chinese Communists undertake a war against free-and-democratic Taiwan. In the other address, the President of the Montagnard Foundation reminded the European Union of the Democracy and Human Rights clause in its EU/Vietnam Cooperation Agreement. In words from the Montagnard Foundation, "Mr. Kok Ksor notes that despite clear evidence of ongoing human rights violations committed by the government of Vietnam the European Commission has still avoided using the instruments at its disposal to strongly denounce this situation...."
An observer with the China Support Network, John Kusumi, noted, "It is good to see these campaigners gaining such a high level audience in Europe. In the 1930s, Winston Churchill was an ignored and lonely voice in the wilderness, as he said (and I'm paraphrasing) -- 'Hey, there's a problem with Nazi Germany.' Now in the present day, Wei Jingsheng and the rest of our cause get insufficient attention as we warn the world -- 'Hey, there's a problem with Communist China.'" Kusumi went on to note another parallel or analogy: "Another voice in that category is columnist Lev Navrozov -- a former Soviet dissident, and leader of the Center for the Survival of Western Democracies. In the '70s and the '80s, he was warning us about the Soviet Union -- and today, he is vocally expecting the worst of Communist China."
Kusumi concluded, "I recommend that Wei and Navrozov should have a press junket and 'go around' of talk show appearances, either separately or together. The Chinese dissident and the Russian dissident are telling us similar things about China. As it pertains to Asia, we should not leave national security an uncovered base." Below are reprinted tracts on the recent speeches at the European Parliament