MARINA DEL REY, CA -- Americans should mark October 1, Communist China's 50th anniversary, with a show of moral condemnation, said a senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute.
     "Since 1949, China's leaders have demonstrated that they are brutal, pitiless despots -- enemies of freedom, individual rights, America, and the civilized world -- who have killed tens of millions of their own people and have enslaved hundreds of millions more," said Robert Tracinski.
     Tracinski highlighted some of China's recent and continuing atrocities:

Jailing, torturing, and murdering ideological dissidents, including members of pro-democracy and religious sects
Enforcing its one-child-per-family policy by forced abortions, infanticide, and the systematic, state-sanctioned killing of orphans
Stealing U.S. atomic secrets allowing China to threaten a nuclear attack against its avowed number one enemy: America
Threatening military action against Taiwan, and selling weapons to terrorist states like Iran

     "China is not a civilized country and America and the rest of the world should stop treating it as one," Tracinski said. "China's leaders have made it clear that they consider America China's number one enemy. We should be China's number one enemy because our founding ideas -- freedom, individual rights, capitalism -- are completely antithetical to theirs. It is time our leaders publicly name China America's number one enemy and break off all dealings with the bloodiest dictatorship on earth."