PRI's Steve Mosher to Testify on Human Rights in China

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PRI's Steve Mosher to Testify on Human Rights in China

Wed Apr 19, 2006 13:54

C-SPAN...RE: CHINA
Bates Gill, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Freeman Chair in China Studies
Bates Gill, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Freeman Chair in China Studies discusses Chinese President Hu Jintao�s leadership of China, his trip to the United States beginning today in Seattle, and China�s increasing role in world trade. President Hu meets Thursday with President Bush in Washington, and finishes his trip Friday at Yale University.
4/18/2006: WASHINGTON, DC: 40 min.

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PRI's Steve Mosher to Testify on Human Rights in China

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Contact: Joseph D'Agostino, Population Research Institute, 540-622-5240 x 204, jad@pop.org

FRONT ROYAL, Va., April 18 /Christian Wire Service/ -- For the second time this year, PRI President Steve Mosher, China expert and author of several books, will testify before a House subcommittee about China. Mosher, who has lived in China and is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin, will talk about the systematic human rights abuses that take place under the Communist government’s coercive population control program. Chinese women undergo forced abortions and sterilizations by the thousands every year under the program, which legally mandates a maximum of one or two children for most Chinese families.

A little-noticed byproduct of China’s population control policy has been the growing gap between the numbers of Chinese boys and girls. Because sons are favored in China, girls are often aborted in the womb to allow their parents to try again for a boy without exceeding their legal quota of children. By 2020, up to 15% of young Chinese men will be unable to find brides.

The hearing of the House International Relations Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations is called “Human Rights in China: Improving or Deteriorating Conditions?” and will be chaired by Rep. Christopher Smith (R.-N.J.), Congress’ leading human rights advocate. The hearing will be held Wednesday, April 19, at 10:30am in Rayburn House Office Building 2172.

Mosher is the author of A Mother’s Ordeal and Hegemon: China’s Plan to Dominate Asia and the World, among other books.

To schedule an interview or for more information, please call Joseph D’Agostino at 540-622-5240 ext. 204. E-mail: jad@pop.org.
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Bush to Seek China's Help, Urge Change
San Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour ago
President Bush faces a delicate political balancing act Thursday when he welcomes Chinese President Hu Jintao to the White House: seeking China's help to end ...
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No Yuan is Expecting Answers When Hu Visits Washington

By Alan Fein

(AXcess News) New York - China's president Hu Jintao is to visit Washington this week with lots of festivities planned and the nation's Capitol preparing for his arrival to honor the Chinese President's visit. But many expect little in the way of change over China's currency, which lawmakers here want badly, in order to offset the huge deficit built up between the U.S. and China.

While President Hu visits Washington, President Bush and Hu are expected to discuss the Yuan, China's currency, in detail. Though it may turn out to be a one-sided conversation with Bush babbling and Hu smiling and nodding his head as if he understood what the Texan was saying in the first place.

Many believe that in order for Hu's communist party to survive in China his regime will need to revalue the Yuan from its current low exchange rate or face more revolt amongst China's vast population. That comes after China just changed its laws regarding foreign investment, which permits Chinese to invest directly in other countries securities - and currency. The rule also applies to China's banks. If the Yuan is not revalued, it will cost too much to buy foreign goods and investments.

Hu may try to tell Bush that China can't allow a free market to rule over its yuan. Yet after freeing up tight foreign investment policies, China has opened the door for both business investments as well as more imports of goods and to keep its currency undervalued will only add to inflation there.

Lawmakers are prepared to label China a "currency manipulator" if Bush comes away from Hu's visit with no resolution. That could force the Bush administration to charge China with anti-competitive behavior, basically levying penalties on goods shipped to the United States - if Congress so elected to enact.

While Hu's visit comes at an awkward time for Bush, it is not being labeled as an "official visit", which changes the tone of Hu and Bush's meeting. Hu was set to visit the U.S. last September, but Hurricane Katrina put a stop to that.

Still, China is the world's largest holder of foreign reserves ($875 billion), which is a big stick to wave over bush's head if Hu so chooses.

Last July China relaxed the value of of the Yuan slightly and began trading against a basket of foreign currencies rather than the dollar, as in the past, but its still not enough to cut back on the swelling $200 billion trade deficit with the U.S. To resolve that trade imbalance, China will have to revalue the Yuan. Let's just hope when Hu visits, Bush doesn't say no yuan's home.
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Rep. Christopher Smith (R-NJ)
Representative Christopher Smith (R-NJ) discusses human rights in China.
4/19/2006: WASHINGTON, DC: 45 min.

Last week, Beijing denied any widespread practice but admitted harvesting does happen in a few cases with the prisoner's prior consent

China 'sells prisoners' organs'
5.06PM, Wed Apr 19 2006
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China has been accused of selling organs from thousands of executed prisoners for use in transplant operations.

The British Transplantation Society is condemning the practice as unacceptable and a breach of human rights.

It says the organs of thousands of executed prisoners in China are being removed for transplants without consent and that the speed of matching donors and patients implied prisoners were being selected before execution.

Last week, Beijing denied any widespread practice but admitted harvesting does happen in a few cases with the prisoner's prior consent.

From July, selling organs will be illegal in China and all donors must give written permission.

Professor Stephen Wigmore, who chairs the society's ethics committee said: "The weight of evidence has accumulated to a point over the last few months where it's really incontrovertible in our opinion."

He added: "We feel that it's the right time to take a stance against this practice."

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