This is our response to a story of a recent Chinese Olympic Torchbearer in London named Bai Jian, which has been translated by the Australian “China Hand” Geremie Barme (pronounced “Barmy”) and published in the China Digital Times.
Our first observation is that the first 20 (twenty) paragraphs of Bai Jian’s essay are entirely about his personal story of financial difficulties, absolutely irrelevant to any reasons to protest against the Olympic Torch relay. His implied message seems to be that the main purpose of the Olympic Torch and all that it represents is to raise Chinese individuals like himself out of poverty. That’s rubbish. China’s Olympic Torch – whatever it symbolizes and promotes – certainly does not promote charity or compassion, let alone any rule of law in which real prosperity can be cultivated and endure.
Thus, Bai Jian’s implied appeal to the ethos of charity among the Western cultures which the Torch is visiting, is a distraction, an irrelevancy and a dishonest attempt by China’s Central Propaganda Department (who control everything Bai Jian tells to Western audiences) to appeal to European and American ethos of compassion and charity which are not shared by the Chinese Communist Party, who to this day remain avowed Leninists who abjure and contemn any beliefs in charity or compassion.
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