Sunday, May 09, 2021

With hypocrites, fools and knaves, it's so easy.

 "Chinese President Xi Jinping has become the chief architect of the biggest extermination campaign of the 21st century -- the Uighur genocide in Xinjiang. According to interviews and raw data, China wants to end the Uighur people," DNA. "Tur Sunay Ziyawudun, a Uighur woman was detained twice by the Chinese." "I was tortured with an electric stick pushed inside my genital track," Ziyawudin said. "Many young women were crying, screaming when they were told they would be sterilized and could never have children."   In response, Chinese officials called these women "liars", "morally depraved", of "inferior character" and claimed that infertility is due to sexually transmitted diseases, BBC. "Chinese authorities have removed a controversial social media post from an official Communist Party account comparing the exhaust of a Chinese space shuttle to the flames of India's thousands of funeral pyres," abc.news. "The image was uploaded by the Chinese Communist Party's powerful Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission to Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter." "The Chinese Communist Party is leveraging India's COVID-19 surge to advance its long running campaign to denigrate democracies and boost its image, according to a new report.," Fox. Of the Five Eyes nations, "Four of the members have jointly condemned China's treatment of its Uighur population in Xinjiang province," BBC. "Surprisingly, perhaps, for a nation that prides itself on respect for human rights, New Zealand's Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta declined to join in this Western condemnation of Beijing, saying 'it felt uncomfortable' with expanding the alliance's role by putting pressure on China in this way." Yet New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern appeared in head scarf and hijab after 50 Muslims were shot dead in Christchurch in 2019. Reuters. Politics over principles, it seems. Why not, when "China and Iran signed a deal over the weekend that their foreign ministers said was designed as a strategic partnership for the next quarter of a century," BBC. "China's ruler Xi Jinping has taken on a new title last used by Chairman Mao in a move to further tighten his grip on power, US officials have said," Daily Mail (DM). "The president and general secretary of the country's Communist Party has now adopted the role of 'helmsman', an honorific position which denotes ultimate authority." Iran has a Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, with total power over army, judiciary and government, who is supposed to be an Islamic cleric, wikipedia. "The Uighurs speak their own language, similar to Turkish, and see themselves as culturally and ethnically close to Central Asian nations," BBC. "Turkey has been accused of agreeing to hand over Uighur Muslims to China in exchange for access to its COVID-19 vaccines. The allegations stem from the timing of two events in December: the long delayed arrival for Turkey's order of vaccines from the Chinese firm Sinovac and Beijing's abrupt move to ratify a 2017 extradition deal with Ankara," Business Insider. "Since early 2019, Turkey has arrested hundreds of Uighurs and sent them to deportation centers," Foreign Policy. "Erdogan's remarkable U-turn has a simple explanation: His regime and Turkey's economy are in crisis." "Chinese investors have spent at least 134 billion pounds on UK assets, including private schools, infrastructure businesses and top ranked British firms," DM. "Seventeen schools are already owned by Chinese companies, but that number is set to rocket." "China pretends it's a developing country, steals technology, uses forced labor, and manipulates markets to its advantage," USA Today. "It's playing Biden and America for fools." Which they are. The US cannot take on China on its own. It needs to make friends with Russia, instead of imposing sanctions on it. Hypocrites, fools and knaves. So easy for China.           

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