Lies doomed to infamy
West follows a routine of manufacturing and peddling rumors on Xinjiang to attack China
As the Western lies and false accusations against China on Uygurs are gradually excoriated, the iniquitous machinations of some Western powers and their compliant media to contain China’s rise and disrupt China-Islamic cooperation are condemned and doomed to disgrace.
Due to their vested interest, the United States and some allies and much of their mainstream media seem keen on ignoring facts and falsely accusing China’s poverty relief and anti-terrorism policies in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, trying to drive wedges into the growing social and economic cooperation with the Islamic world.
As noted by Lawrence Wilkerson, who was chief of staff to former US secretary of state Colin Powell, at the Ron Paul Institute in August 2018, “The CIA would want to destabilize China and that would be the best way to do it to foment unrest and to join with those Uygurs in pushing the Han Chinese in Beijing from internal places rather than external.”
Wilkerson’s revelation was further validated by Sibel Edmonds, a former translator with the US’ Federal Bureau of Investigation on another occasion, showing funding for Uygur-related anti-China organizations and activities over the past decade by US agencies linked to both the US’ Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of State.
In recent months, parliaments and politicians of the US, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada suddenly and in a well-orchestrated manner voiced their care for human rights of Muslims in China and rushed to embrace Western media misinformation of so-called “genocide”, “forced labor”, and “concentration camps” in Xinjiang.
They even promoted a ban on use of cotton from Xinjiang, the world’s fifth largest cotton base.
Some Western media have lost their morality and objectivity in falsifying and fanning lies. As was recounted by China Watch Institute in its report titled “Things to Know about All the Lies on Xinjiang: How Have They Come About?”, anti-China forces in the West have developed a routine for manufacturing and peddling lies and rumors to attack China.
As some academic experts and journalists from the US, France, Australia, Sweden, Norway have pointed out, the empirical basis for some US think tanks to accuse China of “genocide” and other wrong-doings is weak. This is proved by latest statistics that Uygur population growth is at least eight times faster than the rate for Han people in Xinjiang from 2010 to 2020. Whoever claims such population growth is “genocide” is either blind or plain evil.
As the aforementioned academics emphasized, the US interest in the fate of the Uyghur people is not motivated by the protection of human rights, but rather geopolitics, as its anxiety grows on seeing China is increasingly welcomed across the world.
The US claims that it cares about the human rights of Muslims and it has banned several high ranking Chinese officials from Xinjiang and sheltered deviant Uygur activists, but it is the US that led to the deaths of more Muslims and induced more misery than any other country in the world.
It is the US that led invasions into the Islamic world — Iraq and
Afghanistan among others — and caused devastation to a dozen Muslim countries in the name of human rights protection or counterterrorism. While hundreds of thousands of Muslim civilians were massacred at home, at mosques, outside schools and offices in US-initiated wars, millions were displaced from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya, among others, and more are driven to live in extreme conditions.
China, however, has been supporting sustainable development of the Islamic world mainly through the Belt and Road Initiative, bringing local people investment and real benefits, and without any empty slogans and conditions.
Chinese efforts are also underway to reduce tension within the Islamic world. And as a gesture of goodwill, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited six countries in the Middle East in late March, met with officials from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in April, and hosted talks with Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Turkmen and Uzbek counterparts in mid-May.
The Chinese government has invited Muslim scholars, rulers and leaders of major religious political parties to observe Xinjiang in person, after regular visits by diplomats from members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. China has also welcomed Western experts, officials and religious scholars to Xinjiang to see and learn the truth.
In Xinjiang, all people of about 40 ethnic groups, including Uygurs, Uzbeks and Kazaks, have the right to a better life through work. The Chinese government has harnessed the strength of the entire nation to help local Muslims receive education, secure jobs and lead better lives. It has thus succeeded in lifting them out of the poverty that bothered them for centuries.
By smearing China with one Uygur issue after another, the US, the UK and Canada are pinning themselves onto a history of infamy. Justice that prevails will make China stronger.