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Harry Wu was born Wu Hongda Feb. 8, 1937 in Shanghai. He attended the Beijing College of Geology and belonged to the young, vital intellectual movement of the '50s and spoke out against communism...
That is not to blame the theory of communism per se as the cause of these famines--it can be argued that these famines are just examples of the poor execution (no pun intended) of the communist ideal. However, I do mean to point out that these regimes used the same rationale to justify their excesses: the rights of the collective over the rights of the individual...
...have nothing against the people who are protesting human rights abuses. However, I am distressed by the fact that as soon as China and communism are mentioned, people conjure up images of a lone person standing in front of a line of tanks or a totalitarian government. What the students of Harvard have to realize is that even though the Communist Party has been in power since 1949, the legacy of Mao and Deng has not lived on. China and its government today are ever changing and very different than what it was. --Susan Yan Tang...
WASHINGTON: Karl Marx had it right ? almost 150 years after The Communist Manifesto, "the specter of communism" is still provoking the union of strange political bedfellows. The enemy this time: cherubic Chinese President Jiang Zemin...
...existed this century. For instance, no one would have wanted Bao Dai as emperor of Vietnam in the 1950s. Instead of helping to patch the volatile Vietnamese political system, he was content to lead the life of a playboy and womanizer. He indirectly aided Vietnam's conversion to communism, since those wishing to have a democratic, independent Vietnam had no one to turn to as a leader...