Scrupulous respect for the unscrupulous?

More than a million Uighurs have been imprisoned in a massive internment camp in the western Xinjiang autonomous region in China, said a report from the UN. "We are deeply concerned at the many numerous and credible reports that we have received that in the name of combating religious extremism and maintaining social stability (China) has changed the the Uighur autonomous region into something that resembles a massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy, a sort of 'no rights zone'," said G McDougall. In 2015, China banned Uighur Muslims from fasting during Ramadan and ordered restaurants to stay open, although how they knew whether anyone has eaten or not is a mystery. In 2017, men were banned from growing beards and women from wearing veils, children compelled to attend state schools where they could be brainwashed, passports were confiscated and every car forced to install GPS trackers. This is nothing. China almost wiped out the Falun Gong, which is a sort of quasi religious meditation, seen as a threat to the supremacy of the Communist Party. Most gruesome, Falun Gong members were arrested, imprisoned in secret jails and then they were executed  and their organs harvested, as required. Sometimes organs were harvested from living people. However, China does not ban Tai Chi, maybe because it is practiced only by the elderly. The state-run newspaper Global Times claimed that the government has prevented a great tragedy in the Xinjiang region by stopping Islamist militants from attacking the majority Han Chinese. Prompt action by the authorities has prevented the Xinjiang region from becoming another Syria or Libya, said the newspaper. Even foreign nationals are not safe, as a citizen of Kazakhstan discovered. "The Trump administration is considering sanctions against senior Chinese officials and companies to punish Beijing's detention of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Uighurs and other minority Muslims in large internment camps, according to current and former American officials," wrote E Wong. China has warned the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet that she should scrupulously abide by the mission and principles of the UN charter" and "respect China's sovereignty, fairly and objectively". Why has the US suddenly woken up to the barbarous Chinese? China is shutting churches, destroying crosses and burning bibles in a bid to wipe out any form of religious sentiment. Evangelical Christians are a solid support base for Donald Trump despite the many accusations against him. China always retaliates to perceived insult so we shall see if it levies sanctions against US officials and companies. Chinese communists against the US God, who to trust.