{"id":45735,"date":"2022-05-22T14:16:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T18:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=45735"},"modified":"2022-05-22T14:16:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T18:16:19","slug":"its-long-past-time-to-reconsider-our-relationship-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=45735","title":{"rendered":"It’s Long Past Time To Reconsider Our Relationship With China"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daily Wire<\/a> recently posted an article about organ donations in China.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Dr. Enver Tohti, a former physician in China, remembers the day with horror. The whistleblower said his chief surgeon approached him and asked, \u201cDo you want to do something wild?\u201d The surgeon then took Dr. Tohti and other medical professionals to the site of a public execution, pointed to one of the criminals, and told him, \u201cAs quick as possible, remove the liver and two kidneys.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThen, I saw he was alive,\u201d Dr. Tohti, who is now an Uber driver in London, recently told<\/a> Vice TV.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stories of China harvesting organs from live \u201cdonors\u201d have proliferated for decades, but a new and credible scholarly article has exposed concrete evidence that China has engaged in the gruesome practice. Researchers Matthew P. Robertson of Australia and Jacob Lavee of Israel combed through 2,838 papers on Chinese organ transplantation published in medical journals, covering prisoner organ donations between 1980 and 2015. They published<\/a> their findings on April 4 in an article titled \u201cExecution by organ procurement: Breaching the dead donor rule in China<\/a>,\u201d in the American Journal of Transplantation, a peer-reviewed journal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article continues:<\/p>\n

Robertson told me it is important that the media not misreport their data about live organ transplants. \u201cIt\u2019s not that there were only 71 of this sort,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s 71 that we found.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

He and his co-author are almost certainly undercounting the incidences when CCP officials killed prisoners by removing their beating hearts, because they counted only those officially documented in medical journals. \u201cWe don\u2019t know how many transplants actually end up in a medical paper,\u201d said Robertson. \u201cIt could be one in 100; it could be one in 1,000; it could be 1 in 10.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hard numbers are difficult to come by, but estimates abound \u2014 and none of the numbers add up. In 2019, the China Tribunal found<\/a> that Chinese physicians likely performed 60,000 to 90,000 organ transplants a year from 2000 to 2014, but the number of eligible organ donors registered in 2017 numbered only 5,146. Another estimate places the number of organs taken from Falun Gong practitioners at 41,500<\/a> over a five-year period. For his part, Robertson said once Chinese Communist Party officials perfected the process, they employed this form of organ removal \u201cprobably with all heart transplants\u201d in the nation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

These allegations also illustrate the legacy media\u2019s perpetually favorable coverage of the People\u2019s Republic of China. \u201cChina used to harvest organs from prisoners. Under pressure, that practice is finally ending,\u201d The Washington Post told<\/a> its readers in 2017. \u201cChina vows to battle corruption in organ harvesting,\u201d reported<\/a> the Associated Press a year earlier. But human rights attorney Hamid Sabi told the UN Human Rights Council in 2019 that forced organ harvesting in China \u201ccontinues today<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Such silence makes it all the more important for Western media outlets to cover these atrocities. \u201cChina and their advocates<\/a> will do everything they can to belittle or discredit\u201d such findings, said Andrew Bremberg, a former ambassador and now CEO of Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation<\/a>. \u201cAnd all too often, people in the U.S. and the West will do their best to ignore\u201d them.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

But in order for such human rights abuses to end, the West must act. Thanks to Robertson and Lavee\u2019s research, some of the doctors who took part in China\u2019s forced organ harvesting are now known, Bremberg said. \u201cBut we don\u2019t know all of their relationships with U.S. or other Western-based hospitals or universities, or whether they collaborate or publish with other Western academics.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

A bipartisan collection of legislators \u2014 Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Chris Coons (D-DE) and Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), Tom Suozzi (D-NY), and Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) \u2014 introduced the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act last March. The bill would allow<\/a> U.S. officials to identify and sanction those involved in organ harvesting, including revoking their passports.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s past time to hold Beijing accountable for these heinous acts,\u201d said Sen. Cotton.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is not an acceptable practice and needs to be addressed. No country engaged in the practice of live organ harvesting should be allowed to trade on any world markets. The only way to end this ghoulish practice is to hit China in the pocketbook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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