FRONT ROYAL, Va., July 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Steven W. Mosher, renowned China expert and president of the Population Research Institute (PRI), has criticized President Bush for agreeing to attend the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. As the only Western eyewitness to the brutality of China's one-child policy in 1979, Mosher insists that Bush's presence represents a moral victory for a corrupt and brutal government.
"President Bush's presence at the Beijing Olympics is a propaganda coup for the Communist regime," says Mosher. "His smiling face will be all over the state-run press, used to convince the Chinese people that the U.S. cares more about ping pong matches and gymnastic competitions than about religious freedom or human rights."
Mosher is the author of the newly published Population Control--Real Costs, Illusory Benefits, which documents the undeclared war that the Chinese government has carried out on its own population. He cites rampant human rights abuses and destructive domestic and foreign policy as reasons for the United States to boycott the Beijing Olympic games.
"Human rights are nonnegotiable, or they are not rights at all," Mosher says. "Abuses of basic rights, such as the right to bear children, cannot be expunged by reference to any calculus of costs versus benefits." Bush's attitude toward Beijing Olympics, he says, implicitly condones the state of affairs and should be challenged by all those concerned about human rights.
His book is available at PRI's web site: www.pop.org, and at bookstores everywhere.
The Population Research Institute (PRI) was founded in 1989 by Fr. Paul Marx, OSB, PhD and is dedicated to: (1) ending human rights abuses committed in the name of "family planning", (2) opposing outdated social and economic paradigms premised on the myth of overpopulation, (3) informing the public about the social and economic benefits of moderate population growth, and (4) promoting pro-natal and pro-family attitudes and policies worldwide. Steven Mosher is the author of numerous books, including A Mother's Ordeal, available in 11 languages.
SOURCE Population Research Institute
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