Prior testimony of a Uighur rights activists in European Parliament, via AP
Posted on 03/22/2021 7:54:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Update (0910ET): Well that didn't take long. Chinese authorities have already retaliated to the EU sanctions... and threatens more (emphasis ours)
On March 22, the European Union imposed unilateral sanctions on relevant individuals and entities in China based on lies and false information under the pretext of the so-called human rights issue in Xinjiang.
The European side ignored facts, turned black and white, grossly interfered in China's internal affairs, flagrantly violated international law and the basic norms of international relations, and seriously damaged China-EU relations. China firmly opposes and strongly condemns this. The Chinese government is unwavering in its determination to defend national sovereignty, security, and development interests.
China has decided to impose sanctions on 10 persons and 4 entities that have seriously harmed China’s sovereignty and interests and maliciously spread lies and false information on the European side, including: Member of the European Parliament Petty Koffel, Geller, Glucksman, Ku Chuk, Lexman, member of the Dutch parliament Shelzma, member of the Belgian parliament Kograti, member of the Lithuanian parliament, Sakariene, German scholar Zheng Guoen, Swedish scholar Ye Biyang, European Council Political and Security Committee, European Parliament Human Rights Subcommittee, German Mercator Center for Chinese Studies, Danish Democratic Alliance Foundation. Relevant personnel and their family members are prohibited from entering the mainland of China and the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions. They and their affiliated companies and institutions have also been restricted from communicating with China.
China urges the European side to realize the seriousness of the mistakes, self-examine, correct mistakes, stop pretending to be a "human rights teacher", stop playing with hypocritical double standards, stop interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, and stop on the wrong path Go further. Otherwise, China will make a further firm response.
Seems like global geopolitical tensions have notably heated up since Biden's admin took over?
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On Monday European Union foreign ministers took a nearly unprecedented move in pulling trigger on sanctions against top Beijing officials for human rights abuses stemming from China's crackdown on its Uighur Muslim minority - the first such sanctions in over three decades.
"The ministers approved the travel bans and asset freezes on four Chinese individuals and one entity, whose names will be made public later on Monday, accusing them of rights abuses against China’s Uighur Muslim minority in Xinjiang," Reuters reports.
Prior testimony of a Uighur rights activists in European Parliament, via AP
It follows a couple years of widespread reports of 'systematic' human rights abuses in the northwest Xinjiang region, where millions of Muslim Uighurs are said to be confined to Communist 'reeducation' and labor camps.
As Reuters emphasizes further, these are "the first sanctions against Beijing since an EU arms embargo in 1989 following the Tiananmen Square crackdown."
After it first emerged last week that the EU was preparing the punitive measures, the Chinese mission to the EU posted a statement expressing outrage over the move, calling it "confrontational". It pleaded not to pursue such a dramatic step: "We ask the EU side to think twice," a statement posted to Twitter said.
Amb. Zhang on EU's possible sanctions: Sanctions are confrontational. We want dialogue, not confrontation. We ask the EU side to think twice. If some insist on confrontation, we will not back down, as we have no options other than fulfilling our responsibilities to the people. pic.twitter.com/durTRjhXQj — Mission of China (@ChinaEUMission) March 17, 2021
With this significant action it appears that US pressure and spiraling relations with Beijing, focused heavily on human rights-related complaints and the crackdown on the Uighurs which the Trump administration had previously dubbed "genocide", are now for the first time manifesting in a very definitive way in Europe.
Notice that it was the EU, not the Xiden Administration. After all, mass murder is only a “cultural difference”.
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Sounds a bit like: "Zero tolerance for you, but not for me."
China operates according to tried and true rules (developed over a long period of time). One major rule is "don't strike until the enemy is most vulnerable."
Now this recent pushback might not look like a "strike" but it is a significant change from their normal behavior.
It appears that they perceive weakness in the EU and the U.S. at the same time and are probing both to define that weakness further and locate its limits.
The above combined with their movements in the South China Sea and around Taiwan right now raise a lot of red flags.
Perhaps a better conclusion than the author's.
And, I would add, it is possible China is looking for an easy fracture by challenging what we think is the less firm ally. That calculation, of course, may depend on how effective China thinks its current influence is over the U.S.
China has used the Globalists in the U.S. in combination with their use of the Democrats and RINO's to weaken our country.
It was clear that, at some point, they would have to turn on the Globalists and move them into the enemy category.
It appears that China is letting the Democrats, RINO's, and Globalists learn of its bellicose intentions at the same time.
Though the media won't pick up on it (being controlled indirectly by China via the Democrats), this is a major development.
There is an ancient rule in China which says "never ask the weight of the emperor's cauldrons." Asking the weight of the emperor's cauldrons is akin to measuring the White House drapes or more accurately interpreted in China as "don’t let your enemy know you’re his enemy until it’s too late for him to stop you."
It appears that China is in the process of telling us and the EU that we are both its enemies.
Taken as a threat, china's infrastructure and communication capabilities should be immediately destroyed.
beijing bombed into stone age rubble.
That would be a good start.
It was a coordinated action by the EU together with the US, UK, and Canada.
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