Did you check under your Christmas tree? Was there even one gift there not “Made in China”?

Yes, China is important economically — and ideologically.  China’s contempt for human life and for Christian morality is unequalled worldwide.

15,000 Chinese are executed every year — mainly from religious minorities — many such corpses being harvested for transplantable organs. 

China’s “justice” system is an outrage.  From 1998 to 2002 the rate of not-guilty verdicts was under one percent.

Some prominent Australians (Julian Burnside QC, Peter Westmore, John Xiao etc.) try to publicise such facts, but our corporate/media dictators want them hidden.

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The international community, instead of threatening China with sanctions, rewarded them with the 2008 Olympics.

Chinese Christians were warned not to organise public worship during the Games. However the Feast of the Assumption (for Catholics, a holy day of obligation) fell on August 15^th.

So about 1000 Catholics attended a Mass celebrated by Bishop Jia Zhiguo — and the bishop was locked up. Bishop Jia (now 73) has, so far, spent 15 years of his life in prison.

The Australian media took a big interest in who won gold medals for running, throwing things, jumping etc. – but none in who was risking life and health for the Faith.

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It’s something new for the overseeing authority of Australia’s biggest trading partner to be a Communist Party. Opposition finance spokesman, Barnaby Joyce, has expressed misgivings. But Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, condemned him for “erratic and irresponsible comments”.

China’s government is contemptuous of Australia — arresting Australian mining executive, Stern Hu, campaigning to stop Australia giving a visa to Uighur leader, Rebiya Kadeer, and — most frighteningly — mobilising Chinese students in Australia for political purposes during the Olympic torch relay.

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Experts warn that the price of upsetting China would be a lowering of Australia’s “living standards”, making it unlikely that either Liberals or Labor will seriously oppose Chinese takeovers.

The Nationals might.

The Church should perhaps be doing something.