Five Eyes today’s axis of white supremacy

Canada’s House of Commons on Monday approved a non- binding motion accusing China of committing genocide against Uygurs in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The motion also calls on the International Olympic Committee to move the 2022 Winter Olympic Games from Beijing. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Cabinet abstained from the vote and the motion is sure to meet the objection of the International Olympic Committee.

Canada, the UK and Australia, three members of the Five Eyes alliance, have recently taken action to put pressure on China. They have formed a US- centered, racist, and mafia- styled community, willfully and arrogantly provoking China and trying to consolidate their hegemony as all gangsters do. They are becoming a racist axis aimed at stifling the development rights of 1.4 billion Chinese.

Five Eyes alliance members are all Englishspeaking countries. The formation of four states, except the UK, is the result of British colonization. Those countries share the AngloSaxon civilization. The Five Eyes countries have been brought together by the US to become the “center of the West.” They have a strong sense of civilization superiority. The evil idea of racism has been fermenting consciously or unconsciously in their clashes with the two countries.

Except for New Zealand, the smallest of the five countries which is unwilling to get too involved in international conflicts, the other four are increasingly coordinating their attacks against China and have rapidly transformed from the intelligence- sharing mechanism into a political clique. With a common language, a common historical background, and a coordinated attack target, such an axis is destined to erode international relations and allow hooliganism to rise to the diplomatic stage in the 21st century.

Since the Five Eyes countries are spread across continents, they have the hubris of being the world in their own right. Media organizations in the US and the UK are particularly developed and capable of dominating global public opinion in English, which increases their insolence to represent the international community and world public opinion. The total population of the Five Eyes countries is only a third of China’s. After all, they are only a tiny fraction of the inhabitants on this planet.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned on Monday that white supremacy and neo- Nazi movements are becoming a “transnational threat” and have exploited the coronavirus pandemic to boost their support. Unfortunately, the most serious white supremacy threat occurred in the Five Eyes countries. Hostility towards immigrant groups and non- Western countries became the realistic carrier of this white supremacy, and even neo- Nazi movements. If Tom Cotton, a US senator, who clamored for 90 million Chinese Communists to be consigned “to the ash heap of history,” is not a neo- Nazi and extreme racist, then who else is in this world?

The Trump administration is an extremely typical white supremacy government. The domestic and foreign policies of the Trump administration are connected to each other, and the activities of the Five Eyes alliance are also driven by them. Trump’s team has gone, but their core diplomatic legacy of suppressing China has been largely preserved. The mechanism of the Five Eyes alliance to jointly suppress China has not only solidified, but also accelerated its operations.

Global diplomacy in the 21st century must not be hijacked by a fake international community with an axis of white supremacy. We cannot allow their selfishness to masquerade as the common morality of the world, and they cannot set the agenda of mankind. What they want is sham multilateralism, and what they actually pursue is hooliganism in their own interest circle. By resisting them, China is not only defending its own interests, we are also defending the diversity of the modern world, which is based on the free choices of people and paths taken by different countries.

Global diplomacy in the 21st century must not be hijacked by a fake international community with an axis of white supremacy.

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ( HKSAR) has taken a new step in its WTO labeling row with the US, with the global trade body agreeing on Monday to create a panel to consider the dispute raised by Hong Kong concerning a US order that requires Hong Kong products to be relabeled as “Made in China.”

Experts still pin their dispute settlement hopes on high- level talks between China and the US, but they see the WTO’s move as reinforcing the case for Hong Kong to win approval for its demand to withdraw the US requirement.

The WTO Dispute Settlement Body ( DSB) agreed at a meeting on Monday to the city’s request to set up a dispute resolution panel as regards the US labeling requirement’s violation of WTO rules, the HKSAR government said Tuesday in a statement posted on its website.

Laurie Lo, the HKSAR’s permanent representative to the WTO, spoke at the DSB meeting, reiterating the city’s “strong objection to the US’ unilateral and irresponsible imposition of the new requirement on origin marking for Hong Kong products.”

The origin- marking requirement, which is unjustifiable and inconsistent with a raft of WTO rules, damages Hong Kong’s interests as a WTO member, Lo said, according to the statement.

This marks the second arbitration request from Hong Kong. The first on January 25 sought a dispute resolution panel, which was rejected by the US.

Hong Kong’s US- bound exports would be re- stamped as “Made in China,” US customs announced in August last year, in a move to end the city’s special treatment under the Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992.

Items failing to comply will reportedly be subject to a punitive 10- percent duty at US ports.

The new rules, which were originally supposed to come into force in September last year, eventually took effect in November due to an extension of 45 days.

“There is a strong chance that the panel will rule in favor of the HKSAR’s request, as the US order lacks a legal basis,” Huo Jianguo, vice president of the China Society for World Trade Organization Studies, told the Global Times on Tuesday.

Thus far, 13 WTO members have indicated an interest to join meetings of the would- be panel as third parties, an indication of their concern with the issue that implicates the multilateral trading system as well as the equal rights of WTO members, read the Tuesday statement, citing a spokesman for the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau of the HKSAR government.

Unless the US can prove that Hong Kong is not a separate customs territory – essentially a mission impossible, factoring in the city’s high degree of autonomy – the US originmarking order is destined to be overthrown by the dispute settlement panel, Huo said, although it could take several years for a final WTO ruling.