Elnigar Iltebir (left) and her sister Eldidar attend a protest rally at the Chinese embassy in Washington on July 7, 2009.
Posted on 08/15/2019 1:42:26 PM PDT by BeauBo
The White House has appointed a Uygur-American academic to a top position on China policy in a move meant to put more pressure on China over mass detentions in the far western region of Xinjiang, analysts said.
The appointment comes as Beijing faces intense international pressure over reports that up to one million Uygurs and other Muslims have been held in camps in Xinjiang, camps that Beijing says are vocational training centres.
It also comes as China and the United States remain deadlocked in a trade war after more than a year of negotiations and tit-for-tat tariffs.
Citing serving and former American officials, US-based Foreign Policy magazine reported on Thursday that Elnigar Iltebir, a Harvard-educated academic and daughter of a prominent Uygur intellectual, was appointed the US National Security Council’s director for China.
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Elnigar Iltebir (left) and her sister Eldidar attend a protest rally at the Chinese embassy in Washington on July 7, 2009.
What has been happening in China is so freakishly devastating and disturbing. Incredible that a country with a human rights record arguably rivalling North Korea have as much power as it does.
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This will really PO the PLA.
Now lets get a Tibetan Buddhist, a Han Chinese Catholic, a Pastor from an underground Church and a Falun DaFa member, as well.
Who are we to criticize another country’s attempts at controlling Sharia law and the Islamist menace?
“human rights record arguably rivalling North Korea”
Well my son lived in China there for three months and somehow managed to survive. :-) Lots of pollution but nothing like NK.
Human rights and pollution are arguably two very different problems with wide social impact. The fact is, they may exist side-by-side, or independent of each other, but neither adds much to the improvement of human relations or social progress.
China has a LONG way to go to show they have much regard at all of individual rights and personal freedom. Quite a trick to shame them into behaving like civilized people.
“nothing like NK.”
That’s true. China has a bigger population in their concentration camps, and executes many, many more than North Korea.
China also employs a higher percentage of its population in spying on the rest of their population - only Saudi Arabia can compete with them on that. You need money to afford a top of the line police state.
Expect the Trump Administration to drastically turn up the heat on China. The Administration is slowly upping the pressure on both President Xi and the multinationals manufacturing in China. It is doing this incrementally for at least two reasons. First they want to give US multinationals time to relocate their manufacturing supply chains from China and, second the gradual increase in pressure is making the ChiComs stumble into mistakes and retaliate which gives the Administration cover to ratchet up the tariffs.
If China invades Honk Kong it spells the end of the communist party in China because the Trump Administration has the political cover to drastically limit trade with China.
“the end of the communist party in China”
From your lips, to God’s ears.
It seemed so far fetched to hope for end to communism in the Soviet Union - until it happened.
Free China!
People in NK are starving. If NK’s military regime went down the Norks would flood into China.
My son lived in a middle class home for 3 months and managed to travel about unrestricted. Other FReepers have visited China. I don’t know of one that has visited NK. So there are degrees of bad my FRiend.
And South Korea, and neither China and South Korea want that, that's why in a way, they prefer the Status Quo.
Yep.
Are they really worth harvesting?
I’m with you. I’m thinking this is not a bad idea, personally. Certainly beats the UK’s approach. Or Germany’s.
When we intervene on the side of the Muslims, we have often gotten it very wrong; for example when we attacked Serbia and empowered Albania or when we overthrew Libya and uncorked the North African invasion of Europe.
Kind of like appointing a member of La Raza to advise someone on US policy.
China is not the USA, nor is their border with DPRK like our border with Mexico. China would likely have their military contacts in DPRK take over "regime change," and even if chaos somehow did occur, they would have 500K troops on the border so fast, not even a squirrel would get across. There would be no NY Times, AP nor any reporter anywhere near there to question or stir up protest either.
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