Misblog

Originally Published June 16, 2009; Last Updated and Republished September 20, 2009:

Reports are necessary but cannot substitute for nations deciding among themselves to unambiguously reject governments that have consistently demonstrated an inability to transparently pursue minimum political, economic, and legal reforms necessary to ensure non-coercive sustainable growth for the benefit of its citizens. Web: UPDATED 09/20/2009 UPI, Parents: Chinese officials took babies2.

2009 Report

• UPDATED 07/02/2009 BBC, China babies 'sold for adoption'. China's local authorities' corruption is only surpassed by their stupidity and barbarity.¹
• CSM, Economic downturn fuels human trafficking

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1. The article refers to the forcible taking of a Chinese child as "confiscation"—modern, developed, and internationally acceptable legal systems refer to this as kidnapping for the purpose of trafficking in children and enslavement.

China must credibly and objectively guarantee (as in DNA and verifiable non-coercive consent agreements) prospective American adoptive parents that the Chinese children they are adopting have not been kidnapped, trafficked, or enslaved.

Chinese parents, adopted Chinese children, and their adoptive American parents must have standing in American federal courts to sue for damages or adoption reversal of non-guaranteed or fraudulent China adoptions. A “damage bond” must accompany all adoption guarantees by the Chinese government.

2. UPDATED 09/21/2009 There is no end to the schemes used by local cadres to meet the center's revenue quotas.

The "ingenuity and barbarity" has become more acute as the center progressively protects more of the poor protesting peasants' meager incomes (they were paying a minimum of 37% of their income, which has now been limited to a maximum of 5%).

That hasn't stopped the cadres from exploiting peasant illiteracy or concocting other schemes to make-up for the shortfall. Particularly if cadres think the exploited peasants will not protest—unlikely as the number of rural protests skyrocket each year.

Fees for exceeding child quotas is a major source of local revenue—selling the above quota babies of poor peasants a repugnant extension.