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Xinjiang: what the West doesn’t tell you about China’s war on terror
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Published: 1:30am, 14 Apr, 2021
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Illustration: Craig Stephens
On March 22, the United States and the European Union imposed
sanctions on China
over alleged human rights violations against the Uygurs, the majority ethnic group in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
It was the latest in a series of escalating moves against Beijing that began on January 19 when then US secretary of state
Mike Pompeo
, on his last day in office, declared that China was committing “ongoing” genocide against the Uygurs.
Pompeo offered no evidence. It was reported in Foreign Policymagazine that the State Department’s own lawyers had found “insufficient evidence to prove genocide”. When the Canadian parliament subsequently passed a motion declaring genocide in Xinjiang, Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau abstained
, calling the term “extremely loaded”.
China has retaliated in kind, launching sanctions against European lawmakers and accusing the West of hypocrisy and spreading lies.
What we do not read about in the West is that
terrorism
was spiralling out of control in Xinjiang and remains a serious threat today.
I used to visit Xinjiang from Hong Kong until a few years ago, for an American firm which had invested hundreds of millions of dollars in two private businesses there.
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Both employed Uygurs and Han people alike. Those were coveted jobs. On my visits, I was taken to Uygur bazaars, Uygur dinners and Uygur dances, all of which my hosts presented to me with pride. Most officials I met were Uygurs.
Starting around 2007, however, it became increasingly dangerous to visit Xinjiang. The region was rocked by a spate of horrific terrorist attacks, resulting in over 1,000 deaths and countless injuries.
For example, on
July 5, 2009
, there was a riot in the capital city of Urumqi; 197 people were hacked, beaten or burned to death and 1,721 were injured. On
May 22, 2014
, two car bombings in the same city killed 43 people and wounded 94. There were dozens of other attacks.
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The extreme violence was not just confined to Xinjiang. In 2013, five people died and 38 were injured in a suicide attack by three Uygurs
in Beijing
. In 2014, a killing spree by eight knife-wielding Uygurs left 31 people dead and 141 wounded at a
Kunming railway station
.
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Global brands face backlash in China for rejecting Xinjiang cotton
Global brands face backlash in China for rejecting Xinjiang cotton
A 2016
study
commissioned by the US government noted that, from 2012 to 2014, domestic attacks in China “apparently became more frequent, more geographically dispersed, and more indiscriminately targeted”. The perpetrators, in many cases, were radicalised members of the Uygur ethnic group.
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blah blah bleh bleh blooh blue blyah blyat
stupid copycat copy paste artists strike again
1. slanty inferior cina babi copied their ang moh masters again
since their ang moh yankee masters coined fake "war on terror" against Muslims worldwide
cina babi COPYCAT copied the idea and used it against innocent Uighurs
2. since their ang moh yankee masters ratcheted up the propaganda against chinks, other partial slanties like turks or full on slanties like indon melayun also jumped on the bandwagon
now those slanties turks melayun indon also ooze love for uighurs
BUT
when same uighurs treated as "terrorists" and sent to guantanamo bay
same slanties turks indon melayu - shut their mouths up, zip, zilch, nada sifr. no noise out of their mouth back then.
also proves that slanties only bow to their ang moh kia masters, only know how to copy cat and copy paste
3. true to character, slanty here also copy cat and copy pasted
they merely say upwards of 200,000 innocents killed after yankee terrorism in iraq afghanistan elsewhere
instead of 3 million or more
coz then yankee cybertroopers will get active and spread more propaganda to make the chink slanty author lose his credibility - its called character assassination
since slanties are only copy cats and can't carry out original work, no investigative journalism either no independence no originality no brains
result = another shoddy copy paste job by saying "only" 200k innocents killed by yankees in last 20 odd years
in this way, they get in good graces of their yankee masters
one of whose major aim is to downplay all losses killing suffering caused by them and also downplay all losses suffered by them
that way, they can pretend all is well
and continue with warfare elsewhere knowing that donkey iranians turks or pakis don't have balls brains or brawns to develop nukes and ICBMs to drop them by the tens of thousands on yanks in a single day
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Weijian Shan
Xinjiang: what the West doesn’t tell you about China’s war on terror
- In 2002, the US and the UN both declared a Uygur militant group a terrorist organisation. The US then considered China a partner in the war on terror
- When the Trump administration delisted the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, it allowed the West to frame China’s anti-terror measures as ethnic persecution
Weijian Shan
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Published: 1:30am, 14 Apr, 2021
Why you can trust SCMP
94
51
Illustration: Craig Stephens
On March 22, the United States and the European Union imposed
sanctions on China
over alleged human rights violations against the Uygurs, the majority ethnic group in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
It was the latest in a series of escalating moves against Beijing that began on January 19 when then US secretary of state
Mike Pompeo
, on his last day in office, declared that China was committing “ongoing” genocide against the Uygurs.
Pompeo offered no evidence. It was reported in Foreign Policymagazine that the State Department’s own lawyers had found “insufficient evidence to prove genocide”. When the Canadian parliament subsequently passed a motion declaring genocide in Xinjiang, Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau abstained
, calling the term “extremely loaded”.
China has retaliated in kind, launching sanctions against European lawmakers and accusing the West of hypocrisy and spreading lies.
What we do not read about in the West is that
terrorism
was spiralling out of control in Xinjiang and remains a serious threat today.
I used to visit Xinjiang from Hong Kong until a few years ago, for an American firm which had invested hundreds of millions of dollars in two private businesses there.
Advertisement
Both employed Uygurs and Han people alike. Those were coveted jobs. On my visits, I was taken to Uygur bazaars, Uygur dinners and Uygur dances, all of which my hosts presented to me with pride. Most officials I met were Uygurs.
Starting around 2007, however, it became increasingly dangerous to visit Xinjiang. The region was rocked by a spate of horrific terrorist attacks, resulting in over 1,000 deaths and countless injuries.
For example, on
July 5, 2009
, there was a riot in the capital city of Urumqi; 197 people were hacked, beaten or burned to death and 1,721 were injured. On
May 22, 2014
, two car bombings in the same city killed 43 people and wounded 94. There were dozens of other attacks.
Read more
Why Chinese feel free to dismiss America’s human rights concerns
Read more
Xinjiang cotton: the business lessons in H&M, Nike’s differing fates
The extreme violence was not just confined to Xinjiang. In 2013, five people died and 38 were injured in a suicide attack by three Uygurs
in Beijing
. In 2014, a killing spree by eight knife-wielding Uygurs left 31 people dead and 141 wounded at a
Kunming railway station
.
02:38
Global brands face backlash in China for rejecting Xinjiang cotton
Global brands face backlash in China for rejecting Xinjiang cotton
A 2016
study
commissioned by the US government noted that, from 2012 to 2014, domestic attacks in China “apparently became more frequent, more geographically dispersed, and more indiscriminately targeted”. The perpetrators, in many cases, were radicalised members of the Uygur ethnic group.
...
blah blah bleh bleh blooh blue blyah blyat
stupid copycat copy paste artists strike again
1. slanty inferior cina babi copied their ang moh masters again
since their ang moh yankee masters coined fake "war on terror" against Muslims worldwide
cina babi COPYCAT copied the idea and used it against innocent Uighurs
2. since their ang moh yankee masters ratcheted up the propaganda against chinks, other partial slanties like turks or full on slanties like indon melayun also jumped on the bandwagon
now those slanties turks melayun indon also ooze love for uighurs
BUT
when same uighurs treated as "terrorists" and sent to guantanamo bay
same slanties turks indon melayu - shut their mouths up, zip, zilch, nada sifr. no noise out of their mouth back then.
also proves that slanties only bow to their ang moh kia masters, only know how to copy cat and copy paste
3. true to character, slanty here also copy cat and copy pasted
they merely say upwards of 200,000 innocents killed after yankee terrorism in iraq afghanistan elsewhere
instead of 3 million or more
coz then yankee cybertroopers will get active and spread more propaganda to make the chink slanty author lose his credibility - its called character assassination
since slanties are only copy cats and can't carry out original work, no investigative journalism either no independence no originality no brains
result = another shoddy copy paste job by saying "only" 200k innocents killed by yankees in last 20 odd years
in this way, they get in good graces of their yankee masters
one of whose major aim is to downplay all losses killing suffering caused by them and also downplay all losses suffered by them
that way, they can pretend all is well
and continue with warfare elsewhere knowing that donkey iranians turks or pakis don't have balls brains or brawns to develop nukes and ICBMs to drop them by the tens of thousands on yanks in a single day
