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Kai-shek's government was headquartered. They carried out one of=20
the most horrendous of terrorist campaigns known to modern warfare.=20
The city was razed to the ground, as were others. Tens of thousands=20
of women were raped and hundreds of thousands of people brutally
murdered.

China's Communist Party had prioritized the struggle for national
unity and against Japanese designs, aimed at taking control of the
enormous country and its natural resources and to condemn over 500
million of its citizens to merciless bondage.

Japan was looking for lebensraum. It was guided by a mixture of
capitalist and racist values: it was Japan's version of fascism.

The Anti-Japanese United Front had already been created that same
year, in 1937. The nationalists were also aware of the danger.=20
Japan occupied most of the coastal cities. At the end of the=20
Second World War, there were millions of Chinese casualties.

During the epic war, the communists stepped up their struggle against
the invaders and caused them significant damage.

The United States aided the communists and nationalists. Sensing that
its entry into the war was imminent, it asked the Chinese government
permission to send a volunteer squadron as well. The Flying Tigers
were thus created. Roosevelt deployed Captain Lee Chenault, who was
retired at the time, whose conduct expressed his admiration towards
the discipline, tactics and efficacy shown by the communist
combatants.

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the United
States entered the war. However, at no point during the war was Japan
able to withdraw its best troops, which, near war's end, numbered a
million soldiers.

The Truman administration, which, in an act of terror, dropped
nuclear weapons over Japan's civilian population, made Chang Kaishek
the United States' right hand man. He took up the anti-communist
struggle again, but his demoralized troops were unable to hold up
against the irrepressible advance of the Chinese People's Army.

When the war ended in October 1949, Kuomintang members, backed by the
United States, fled to Taiwan, where they set up an anti-communist
government fully supported by the United States. Chiang Kai-shek used
the U.S. Naval Fleet to travel to Taiwan.

Might China be yet another dark corner of the world?

Before Troy was built and the Greek city-states knew the Iliad and
Odyssey, unquestionably marvelous fruits of human intelligence,=20
a civilization that encompassed millions of people were already=20
taking shape on the long shores of the Yellow River.

Chinese culture finds its roots in the Zhou Dynasty, which existed
2,000 years before Christ was born. Its peculiar writing system
comprises several thousand graphic signs, which generally represent
the language's words or morphemes, a term coined by modern
linguistics which is little known to the lay public. The mysterious
magic of this language, which the natural intelligence of Chinese
children assimilates in the learning process, is beyond our grasp.

Many of the products which first emerged in China, such as gunpowder,
the compass and other inventions, were totally unknown in the Old
Continent. Had the winds blown in a direction opposite the route
followed by Columbus, perhaps the Chinese would have discovered
Europe.

Since 2000, the Taiwanese government had been controlled by a party
whose neo-liberal and pro-imperialistic policies were even worse than
the Kuomintang's stances, a staunch opponent of the principle of a
unified China, the Chinese Communist Party's historical proclamation.
This thorny issue threatened to unleash a war of unforeseeable
consequences, a new sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of over
1,300 million Chinese people.

The election, this past March 23, of a candidate from the party that
provided Chiang Kaishek with his political foundations, was
undoubtedly a political and moral victory for China. It removes from
the Taiwanese government a party which, in office for nearly 8 years,
was about to take new, nefarious steps.

According to press agencies, the party lost by a landslide, securing
a mere 4.4 million votes, from a population of 17.3 million people
entitled to vote.

The new President will be sworn in on May 20. "We will sign a peace
treaty with China," he declared.

The cables report that Ma Ying-Jeou supports the creation of a Common
Market with China, the island's main trade partner.

The People's Republic of China maintains a dignified and cautious
attitude towards the thorny issue. At Beijing's State Council,
Taiwan's official spokesperson declared that Ma Ying-Jeou's victory
proves that "independence is not a popular issue among the
Taiwanese."

This short statement speaks volumes.

The works of prestigious U.S. historical researchers divulge what
took place in the Chinese territory of Tibet.

Kenneth Conboy's The CIA's Secret War in Tibet (University Press,
Kansas) describes the sordid details of the conspiracy. William Leary
calls it "an excellent and impressive study of a major CIA covert
operation during the Cold War".

For over two centuries, no country in the world had recognized Tibet
as an independent nation. It was considered to be an integral part of
China. In 1950, India conceived it as such, following the triumph of
the communist revolution. England assumed the same stance. Until the
Second World War, the United States considered it a part of China and
even brought pressures to bear on England in this connection.
Following the war, however, they saw it as a religious stronghold
that could be used against communism.

When the People's Republic of China implemented the agrarian=20
reform on Tibetan soil, the elite saw its properties and interests
undermined and opposed the measures. This led to an armed uprising=20
in 1959. Tibet's armed rebellion -as opposed to those in Guatemala,=20
Cuba and other nations, where fighting took place under truly harsh
conditions- was prepared for years by US secret services, as these
studies reveal.

Another book -which essays an apology of the CIA- Mikel Dunshun's
Buddha's Warriors, tells the story of how the agency took hundreds=20
of Tibetans to the United States, led and equipped the rebellion,
parachuted armaments to Tibetan fighters and trained them in their
use. The rebels moved on horseback, as Arab warriors once did. The
book's prologue was written by the Dalai Lama, who writes: "Though=20
I am deeply convinced that the struggle of Tibetans will succeed only
through a long-term and peaceful process, I have always admired these
freedom fighters for their courage and their unwavering
determination."

The Dalai Lama, bestowed with the US Congress' Gold Medal, praised
George W. Bush for his efforts in defense of freedom, democracy and
human rights.

The Dalai Lama called the war in Afghanistan a war of "liberation",
the Korean War a war of "semi-liberation" and the Vietnam War a
"failure".

I have summarized information taken from the Internet, from the site
Rebeli=F3n, specifically. Because of space and time limitations, I have
not included the pages where the quoted paragraphs were taken from.

There are those who suffer from Chino-phobia, a condition shared=20
by many Westerners, accustomed by their education and cultural
differences to regard whatever comes from China contemptuously.

I was still virtually a child when people already spoke of a=20
"yellow menace". The Chinese revolution seemed impossible back then.=20
The true causes behind anti-Chinese sentiments were racist at root.

Why is imperialism so intent on forcing China, directly or
indirectly, to lose its international significance?

Some time ago, that is to say, 50 years ago, it sought to deny it the
prerogatives it had heroically earned for itself as a full member of
the Security Council. Later, highlighting the mistakes that led to
the Tiananmen Square protests, it deified the Statue of Liberty, the
emblem of an empire which today embodies the negation of all
freedoms.

The People's Republic of China passed legislation which stood out in
proclaiming and enforcing respect for the rights and cultures of 55
ethnic minorities.

The People's Republic of China is, at the same time, highly sensitive
with regards to all things related to the integrity of its territory.

The campaign orchestrated against China is like a bugle call aimed at
unleashing an attack on the country's well-earned success and against
its people, who will host the next Olympic Games.

The Cuban government issued a declaration categorically expressing
its support of China in connection with the campaign undertaken
against it on the issue of Tibet. This was the right stance to
assume. China respects the rights of its citizens to hold religious
beliefs or not. In China, there are Muslim, Catholic and non-Catholic
Christian and other religious groups, not to mention dozens of ethnic
minorities, whose rights are guaranteed by the Chinese constitution.

In our Communist Party, one's religion does not represent an obstacle
in the way of becoming a Party member.

I respect the Dalai Lama's right to believe, but I am not obliged to
believe in the Dalai Lama.

I do have many reasons to believe in China's victory.

Fidel Castro Ruz
March 31, 2008
5:15 p.m.