More US subversive farce: Uighur Rights Act, Hong Kong and President Duterte
MARIO FERDINAND PASION
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GOOGLE algorithm directs inquiry on Xinjiang livelihood to all the gory headlines of the Western media about China’s alleged oppression and “concentration camps.” But look for the Chinese newspaper archives and search for, actually visit the positive developments, livelihood and reorientation projects, and one will find the countless productive enterprises and employment Uighur have gotten since the projects were initiated by China.
Worse is the constant and massive steamroller propaganda on so-called “atrocities” in Xinjiang that are simply concoctions of possibly professional horror fiction writers, such as the Turkish media report of the death in custody of Uighur poet Abdurehim Heyit. Chinese State media located and presented him to the world alive,
safe and never having been abused. Or 23-year-old Halinur claimed by Western social media as “missing” found to be working in a restaurant in her hometown Trupan ( https://youtu.be/pV6CccjeSVc).
A YouTube BBC video on “China’s ‘ thought transformation’ camps” labels every dorm- in school “prison,” but students have vocational and values education, dance and painting classes, free meals, and students have long hours of chanting Chinese lessons that the BBC interpreted to be “brainwashing” — failing to provide context that rote learning is normal in learning languages, the same way by which China has topped World PISA academic rankings while the US dropped below the Top 20.
China’s Xinjiang situation is much like the Philippines’ experience with the Islamic secessionist movement in Mindanao. In the Philippine situation, such movement led eventually to death and destruction in the
Battle of Marawi, instigated by the Islamic State-backed Maute group. Atop the Uighur secession network is the World Uighur Congress, which serves as the overt link of the terror network to international forums and funding sources, including the US.
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the admitted reincarnation ( https://youtu.be/
omvIYNoxEBs) of the CIA, is at the center of the human rights movement backing the World Uighur Congress. The NED donates millions of dollars to the World Uighur Congress, the primary vehicle of the so-called “human rights” crusade in Xinjiang. The NED, of course, is a main funder of Philippine media and “human rights” organizations attempting to destabilize Philippine polity, and has also been linked to funders of the Hong Kong protest groups and other US subversions of nations.
President Donald Trump, apparently for political exigencies,
signed legislation on June 17, 2020, calling for sanctions against those responsible for alleged “repression” of the Uighur Muslims in China’s far western region of Xinjiang, Passing the US Congress with only a single ‘no’ vote, China’s foreign ministry called the US law a malicious attack. There is no US similar law for the Western allied-countries that kill and injure thousands of innocents each year in the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, even in the US.
In fact, according to now disgraced Trump national security adviser John Bolton in his “kiss and tell” controversial book “The Room Where It Happened,” Trump “didn’t just ignore human rights, but encouraged China’s concentration camps.” Obviously, Trump saw the schools exactly for what they are, vocational training and education programs — which was what 37 other countries with many Muslims had seen too.
For all of the president’s flaws and antics, there is one thing about his political outlook that should be appreciated, his election campaign promise to “end the endless wars.” Trump reiterated this vow in a June 13, 2020 address to the West Point graduating class. But he is facing his own undeclared civil war in the US today and, in the squeeze, he finally signed the Uighur Rights Act. With “invisible threats” facing us in the 21st century, such demoniszng helps no one. We need more understanding and cooperation across cultures if we will have any chance of victory against the real, but “invisible” threats facing humanity. Mario Ferdinand Pas ion is a political alliance P hi l-Bri cs( Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Strategic Studies, and the chairman of Nat-Fil( Nationalist Filipino s Against Foreign Intervention ).
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