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Published on: 3/10/2007
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The role of American corporations in China and their complicity in the repressive, Orwellian state that China has become was the main theme of a talk given by Ethan Gutmann (left) at a forum, entitled, "Rules of Engagement: Restricting the Internet , Aiding Repression; In the wave of 9 million renouncing the CCP" March 31st in Portland Oregon.
Gutmann made his entry into China in 1998, working as a correspondent for a television documentary series, and became familiar with the expatriate community of American entrepreneurs in Beijing.He personally saw how the Chinese really conduct business, how most Americans, lured by the hype of quick profits, end up corrupting their business practices to accommodate the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which plays by a different set of rules.His observations were recounted in the book, Losing the New China: A Story of American Commerce, Desire, and Betrayal.
Hopes of the 1990s for a more open China have been crushed
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Gutmann then spoke about the damage that these western companies have done to the human rights of Internet users: "We really don't know how many dissidents, Falun Gong practitioners or labor activists are in prison, starved, put in psychiatric care or executed with a bullet because of Cisco,The sum total is a Web that has contributed dramatically to Chinese self-censorship, and the CCP loves self-censorship.
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Gutmann was building up to the horrific story of the Sujiatun hospital/death-camp." , and there's one more place, that's 15 miles from there and you might want to visit it, and I won't talk about its implications.Quite frankly I'm not really ready to at this point."But he did talk about it (see other ET stories).Finally, he calculated aloud the possible profits.
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Finally Gutmann put this revelation in historical perspective."Now, a death camp changes, everything, but then, keep in mind that if you don't want to believe the story yet, you don't have to!, Just like the first stories of the [Nazi] Holocaust.They appeared in the Jewish press, they didn't appear in the New York Times."
In closing, Gutmann suggested Internet companies discretely fund the small companies making systems to break through the Chinese firewall."Why?