By Dr. Frank Tian Xie, Speech on the forum “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party”, held at the New York City Press Club on January 25, 2005-

How the West is Lost – Lost in the Illusions and Deceptions of the Chinese Communists

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good evening, everyone. 50 yrs ago, when the Chinese Communists took over China, the West was wondering, “How did we lose China?” “Why did we lose China?” Today, it is the Western world that is lost, lost in the illusions and deceptions of Chinese Communist Party.

I would agree with Gordon Chang who says that the communist rule in China will be over within a decade. I am more optimistic than that, it may come sooner than that, for reasons I will give shortly.

In the near future, after the fall of Chinese Communist Party (CCP), when people start to look back, they will find that a series of events led to the final destruction of the CCP. The last but one of such events could probably be the death of Zhao, and the last of the chain of events, or the very first of the events that eventually lead to one thing after another and ultimately uprooted the last evil empire on earth was, very likely, the publication of the “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party” by the Epoch Times.

So why am I saying that? How could the Nine Commentaries, a mere nine papers, lead eventually to the collapse of a regime, a party, with 60 million members, nuclear weapons, nuclear submarines, and the largest armed forces in the world?

It actually has everything to do with the nature of CCP, the tyranny it exerts within, and the deceptions it exports to the outside world. Let me give you some examples here. The lies and deceptions are everywhere, in all walks of the society. We can examine it from several dimensions, business and economics, society, information infrastructure, and government and politics.

An economics professor at Pittsburgh, Dr. Thomas Rawski found through his independent research that between the years 1996 and 1999, the accumulated GDP growth in China was about 25.6%. Now think about this every one, how much energy would China have to consume to support such a growth? Keeping in mind that, the energy consumption in China is not getting much more efficient during the same time period, the generators, turbines and various machines were all the same. So you would expect the energy consumption in China during the same period of time to be equal to the growth of GDP, if not higher. Yet the reported energy consumption, by the government, showed a decline of 12.2%. This is impossible. One of the numbers must be wrong, and both could be wrong. It is said that once, the Chinese premier claimed that the GDP growth for that year was to be 7%, and when the numbers were in, all of the 30 some provinces but one reported a growth rate of over 7%, with the only exception Tibet. It’s an open secret that even high-ranking Chinese officials do not believe in their own statistics, but rely on data sources from abroad, such as those from the CIA.

Let me give you another example. In Gordon Chang’s book, he also mentioned the pending banking crisis in China. Corruption in the banking system is so prevalent, it is accelerating. Two bank officials from Harbin branch office of Bank of China embezzled 1 billion Yuan (RMB), the Chinese currency, which is about US$100 million. This is a lot of money, considering per capita income in China is only US$2000-3000. And what was the money used for? It was supposedly to be used for highway construction in the North-East of China. There is another example, three governors of a bank in Guangdong province colluded, during their consecutive terms, and stole US$1 billion from the bank they managed, that’s 10 billion Chinese dollars.

As to the business investment in China that everyone talks about, the myth of a super charged, non-stop, booming Chinese economy is yet another illusion created by the regime. Some say it is booming, but remember before a bubble is about to break open, it is indeed expanding and appearing to be very pretty and colorful, until it suddenly bursts. In the power industry, there is an exodus of investment from China. As to the profitability of doing business in China, most companies in their 10Q and 10K reports, do not list their China operations separately, and we have no way of knowing what their exact situation is. A friend of mine talked to a high level executive at Siemens. On condition of anonymity, the executive admitted that their China operation is not profitable, but they have to be there, for fear that their withdrawal from China would hurt the performance of their stock in Germany.

Looking at the society, this is a regime that arrests its own people, its own intellectuals, dissidents, and democracy fighters, holds them in jail, and releases one from time to time as a bargain chip as they “negotiate” with foreign governments on human rights issues. They are actually holding their own people hostages!

About a month ago, there was this tsunami that took 160,000 lives in south Asia. As our previous speakers just said, the Communist government of China killed 65 million of its own people, not because of any natural disasters, but during completely peaceful times, in its 50 years of power. That is 400 times the death toll of the tsunami, and it is like having a tsunami scale of killing every one and half month, every year, for 50 years!

Let’s take a look at the information infrastructure, students in China find themselves unable to visit the web page of MIT, why? It is because a student at MIT is a Falun Gong practitioner. On his or her personal web page, there are links to Falun Gong, an ancient meditation practice from China that is being persecuted in China. The regime would block the web site of such a prestigious school just to prevent people from accessing that information. Lately, with the death of Zhao Ziyang, even a web search using the key word “Zhao” becomes a problem. It is just such a weak, lying, and deceiving regime throughout.

Concerning government and politics, this is one part where I would disagree with Gordon Chang a little. Political reform has come to a dead end with the death of Zhao, the last reformer. After his death, the deceptive government again blocked information about mourners’ activities and acted to prevent people from showing their respect to Zhao. Zhao is a leader that dared to say to students in Tiananmen Square, “I am sorry, we are late.” This is a leader who showed his human, benevolent side. This is a leader that the people really loved and supported, yet he was the one that was kicked out from office. There is in place a system some called the “Reverse Weeding Out.” Within the party, those good, decent people, people with hearts, are actually the ones that are weeded out. Zhao is such an example, Hu Yaobang may be another. When those few good ones are being weeded out, who’s left behind then? This “reverse weeding out” system in the CCP means that there’s no hope for reform from within, or for the CCP by itself to change the political landscape of China. There might be hope before, but now, the hope is fading out.

People in the West may wonder why, why do they have to lie all the time? What is there for them to gain by lying? It is because of their lack of legitimacy. A regime without legitimacy to rule will lie, kill, and deceive, all for maintaining their power.

So, it’s tyranny plus deception that has been upholding the grip of power by CCP in China, and the regime is built completely on lies and violence. The reason I am saying that the Nine Commentaries is going to eventually lead to the total collapse of the Communist Party is because this Nine Commentaries has, for the first time in history, systematically unfolded the truth behind the CCP’s cover-up, and exposed all the lies and deceptions of the Party.

When the truth is uncovered, and when all the lies and deceptions are exposed, the empire will collapse, instantly.

Thank you.

Dr. Xie is Assistant Professor of Marketing in the LeBow College of Business, Drexel University, in Philadelphia.