Posted on 12/04/2019 8:57:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind
China has threatened to respond after the US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to approve a strongly worded bill paving the way for sanctions against Chinese officials over human rights abuses in Xinjiang.
In a statement, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the bill “deliberately defames the human rights situation in Xinjiang and discredits Beijing’s efforts to fight against extremism and terrorism in the region”.
“The core of the Xinjiang issue [in China] is not human rights, ethnic minority or religion; instead, the core is anti-terrorism and anti-separatism,” the statement said. “We warn the US that Xinjiang is China’s internal affairs and has no room for foreign forces.”
Beijing would respond further as the situation developed, the statement added. It did not specify what form a response might take, but mainland media on Tuesday reported that China was considering restricting US officials and lawmakers from visiting Xinjiang and would soon release an “unreliable entity list” that would include “relevant US entities”.
US Lawmakers voted 407 to 1 to approve the Uygur Intervention and Global Humanitarian Unified Response Act (UIGHUR Act) of 2019, which commands the US administration to identify and sanction officials deemed responsible for their involvement in the mass internment of members of ethnic minority groups in the country’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
It followed months of negotiations among lawmakers about how forceful the legislation should be.
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“would soon release an “unreliable entity list”
Sounds like a list I’d like to be on.
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Uygurs are moozlems. Why should we care? That’s what Shitt would do.
Documentaries I’ve seen on YouTube with Uygur refuges in Australia are pretty shocking. Male Uyghurs who disappear for years at a time, families broken up, children split off from parents to attend state school and housed in gated dormitories. Cultural clothing restricted. Mandatory mandarin use. The Han Chinese are systematically trying to wipe out an entire culture who just want to be left alone and desire self rule. Or at least have some kind of voice in local rule.
Communist authoritarians being communist authoritarians. Pretty ugly.
RE: Uygurs are moozlems. Why should we care? That’s what Shitt would do.
I have been to Xinjiang on a visit.
While there are Uyghurs who have been radicalized by Al Qaeda and ISIS, I found most of these people NOT to be even devout Muslims. Heck, I don’t even see them praying 5 times a day facing Mecca.
They are simply Muslims by “birth”. Many don’t even read the Koran. If you talk to some of them though, they are very wary about the Han Chinese ( 90% of China ) coming in and taking over their culture.
China says that the crackdown is necessary to prevent terrorism and root out Islamic extremism. The action is part of a larger campaign by Chinese leader Xi Jinping to promote Han nationalism as a unifying force – the Han are China’s ethnic majority (the Chinese that we see in the USA are MOST LIKELY, Han Chinese) – and to suppress any ethnic, cultural or religious identities that might compete for popular loyalty with the Chinese Communist Party.
South China Post?
That’s their new name for Australia? South China?
Oops. Wrong thread.
Trump is highlighting the abuses of the Chinese government of their subjugated peoples to justify decoupling from the Chinese economy. The Hong Kong and Uygur mistreatment is bad, but I think he should remind us of the invasion of Tibet that was done by the Communist Chinese in 1958 and caused the exile of the Dalai Lama and over 100,000 Tibetans to Dharmapala, India, with estimates of over a million Tibetans murdered in country. The subsequent destruction of over 6,000 Buddhist monasteries in the 1960s by the Red Guard revolutionaries stands out as one of the worst post-WW2 cultural extermination atrocities ever committed, worse than what the mad muzzies like ISIS and the Taliban did years later. Trump could probably pick up brownie points with all of the Hollyweirdos for making hay out of the plight of the poor ol’ Dalai Lama.
They are Muslims. Any chance they are causing trouble? This is one way to deal with that. Are they really in concentration camps, or are they just penned in? Many details I need to know before I really care.
RE: They are Muslims. Any chance they are causing trouble?
Not the majority of Uyghurs, no. But a few of them are terrorist sympathizers. The appearance of a small number of Uyghur fighting in Afghanistan and the exposure of Uyghur to more radical elements in the international Islamic community have increased fears of potential terrorism in Xinjiang.
The question is — is it good policy to detain hundreds of thousands to a million of them simply because of a few trouble makers?
Why does it take persecution of Uighurs, nominally Muslim, for the liberals to go against China?
I don't blame any civilized nation for putting the squeeze on the global genocidal baby raping slavers, they do have standing declarations of war against all mankind!
RE: Why does it take persecution of Uighurs, nominally Muslim, for the liberals to go against China?
Errr.. The House voted almost unanimously to pass the Hong Kong Human Rights Act bill supporting the Citizens of HK signed by Trump.
Anything that gets movement against the ChiComs is good.
Liberals sure don’t care about persecutions of Christians there. Or Buddhists. Or anti-Communists.
No. They have to see Muslim persecution to act.
Ok. I’ll take it.
RE: I don’t blame any civilized nation for putting the squeeze on the global genocidal baby raping slavers,
Are you saying that all Uighurs are genocidal baby raping slavers?
RE: No. They have to see Muslim persecution to act.
Well, Congress did pass the Hong Kong Human Rights Bill which was signed by Trump.
Last I saw, the vast majority of the Citizens of HK are NOT Muslims.
Do they pray to Mecca? Then yes!
RE: Do they pray to Mecca? Then yes!
See Post #5 above.
The timing of the new Hong Kong and Uighur Laws, leads me to further expect no big trade deal with China next week, and the next round of tariffs dropping on schedule (15 December).
That round (15% on $112 billion per year), is highly focused on the consumer electronics industry (laptops, cell phones, cameras, toys), and its highly integrated supply chain, which is concentrated in the Shenzhen area of South China (near Hong Kong, on the Mainland).
The stampede of that industry out of China would enter the phase of full scale deployment in 2020 - putting the decline of our “Rust Belt” to shame by its speed.
“Well, Congress did pass the Hong Kong Human Rights Bill which was signed by Trump.”
Very different Bills.
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