China’s ethnocentric problem

In the run-up towards the Olympics, the Chinese Government decides to that they prefer less Koreans around

Changchun, China — With the Beijing Olympics ahead, the Chinese Communist Party have been targeting defectors in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, leaving the defector community in China greatly unsettled.

The police in Jilin have been inspecting foreigners’ identification in the Yanbian Prefecture since April in advance of the approaching Beijing Olympics torch relay, which arrived in Yanji on the 16th of this month. In this process, at least 100 defectors were hauled to the Chinese police, and more than 20 were arrested in Wangqing, Yanbian Prefecture on July 10th.

Chung Myung Sook (41, pseudonym), who came to Jilin after escaping arrest by the Chinese police while residing in Wangqing, said, “In Wangqing alone, eighteen women, two men, and even children were taken. Among the defectors who were arrested, the women had been living with Chinese spouses for at least several years, which were known to the police office holding jurisdiction.”

Chung relayed the situation, “Last March, when rumors began that inspections of border transgressors would be toughened up with the Beijing Olympics ahead, the defector women in the Wangqing area went to the police station themselves to verify this fact. They were told that “Married women will not be detained,” and additionally, “This inspection was not ordered by the neighborhood police station or the local governing party, but is headed by the Jilin Provincial Communist Party.”

It seems in every Asian country has an ethnocentric view of the world. Until China and other Asian countries care about other people other then their own, human rights will be an exclusively western concept.