The U.S. government just gave the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) a victory, and violated international law, by repatriating a former bank manager to China. The repatriation will chill internal resistance in China.
The United States’ reported cooperation with Chinese authorities is a blow to the struggle for democracy in both China and the world. A victory was handed to the CCP that apparently followed from a major strategic mistake by the Biden administration, as it will chill resistance within China to Xi Jinping’s totalitarian government.
Not all defectors from the CCP are saints, of course.
He apparently did it for the money.
This terrorist organization, called the CCP, is today $314 million richer, and can publicly punish one of its defectors, because of the U.S. government.
The $314 million should have gone to the CCP’s victims, including Tibetans, Uyghurs, Falun Gong, and all those who have suffered from COVID-19 over the past two years. Returning the money to Beijing is complicity in its crimes.
According to the CCDI statement, the Chinese regime recovered the $314 million from three cases, including that of Xu. The other two former executives, Xu Chaofan and Yu Zhendong, were repatriated from the United States in 2018 and 2004, respectively.
The problem of repatriations to China is not just with the Biden administration, but with past Republican administrations, including those of Presidents Donald Trump and George W. Bush. Due to America’s trillions of dollars worth of investment in China, and hundreds of billions in annual trade, successive American governments, since the opening to China in 1971, have been willfully blind to Beijing’s excesses and cooperated with its despotism. While Trump did stand up to Beijing on trade issues more than other presidents, even his administration had a policy that allowed the repatriation of people back to China.
After Xi’s threats of war against the United States, Australia, Taiwan, and the Philippines, however, and the Chinese regime’s invasion of territory in India and Bhutan, not to mention its attempted taking of the entire South China Sea, and its naval pulsing of the Japanese Senkaku Islands, it is past time to recognize through executive order and legislation that any government led by the CCP is illegitimate and does not deserve the cooperation of other governments, especially democracies like the United States.
The next time the Beijing regime seeks the repatriation of anyone to China, it should be refused. We don’t repatriate people to terrorists, and we shouldn’t do so to the CCP.
