China urges U.S. to 'abandon prejudice' over Xinjiang

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China urges U.S. to 'abandon prejudice' over Xinjiang

China urges U.S. to 'abandon prejudice' over Xinjiang


ReutersSeptember 12, 2018

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FILE PHOTO: Security personel stand in front of an armoured vehicle in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, March 24, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China urged the United States on Wednesday to abandon its "prejudice" over Xinjiang, as the Trump administration considers sanctions against Chinese officials and companies linked to allegations of human rights abuses in the Chinese region.

Discussions have gained momentum within the U.S. government over possible economic penalties in response to reports of mass detentions of ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims in the far western region, which have prompted a growing international outcry.

Any sanctions decision would be a rare move on human rights grounds by U.S. President Donald Trump against China, with which he has engaged in a trade war while also seeking Beijing's help to resolve a standoff over North Korea's nuclear weapons.

The U.S. State Department said it had received a letter from a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers at the end of August asking Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to impose sanctions on a number of Chinese officials accused of overseeing the policies in Xinjiang.

Those included Chen Quanguo, Communist Party chief in Xinjiang and also a member of the politburo, one of the party's top decision making bodies.

"China consistently resolutely opposes the United States using Xinjiang-related issues to interfere in China's internal affairs," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a daily news briefing.

"If the media report is correct, we urge the relevant side to respect the facts, abandon prejudice, and stop doing and saying things that harm Sino-U.S. mutual trust and cooperation," Geng said, referring to news reports on the U.S. deliberations.

Geng added that all people in China "fully enjoy freedom of religion in accordance with the law".

Beijing has said Xinjiang faces a serious threat from Islamist militants and separatists who plot attacks and stir up tension between the Uighur minority who call the region home and members of the ethnic Han Chinese majority.

Chen made his mark swiftly after taking the top post in Xinjiang in 2016, with mass "anti-terror" rallies conducted in the region's largest cities involving tens of thousands of paramilitary troops and police.

One of his most visible initiatives has been to build thousands of grid-style police checkpoints across Xinjiang, and human rights advocates have decried martial law conditions and mass DNA collection.

Last month, a U.N. rights panel said it had received credible reports that up to one million ethnic Uighurs may be held in extra-legal detention camps in Xinjiang, and called for them to be freed.

U.S. sanctions could be imposed under the Global Magnitsky Act, a federal law that allows the U.S. government to target human rights violators around the world with freezes on any U.S. assets, U.S. travel bans, and prohibitions on Americans doing business with them.

Widely read Chinese state-run tabloid the Global Times wrote in a Wednesday editorial that foreign forces were trying to "prise apart" China using religion as an excuse.

"It's fortunate that China is so strong that those forces foolishly clamouring can only add a bit of pressure from public opinion, but their dream of long-arm jurisdiction is in the end a mirage," the paper said.
 
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Since neither Imran Khan nor Recep Tayyip Erdogan, self-professed defenders of oppressed Muslims everywhere, are not complaining about what China is doing to the Uighurs, one can only conclude that all this talk about genocide is pure slander. One can only dream that the Islamophobic West, constantly criticized by these two righteous defenders of the faithful, would finally decide to treat Muslim minorities right by imitating China's methods.
 
Unlikely that anything of significance comes of this. To be honest, the radical Islamic problem has really created a situation wherein not everyone is too enthusiastic in supporting the move. On the other hand, what I sense emerging is a pattern of striking a fine balance to maintain pressure on China in public over "treatment of minorities" and privately simply washing off the hands of the issue, using it only to extract concessions of various forms.
 
Unlikely that anything of significance comes of this. To be honest, the radical Islamic problem has really created a situation wherein not everyone is too enthusiastic in supporting the move. On the other hand, what I sense emerging is a pattern of striking a fine balance to maintain pressure on China in public over "treatment of minorities" and privately simply washing off the hands of the issue, using it only to extract concessions of various forms.

China can do Anything

And get away with it

It can totally " CLEAN " Xinjiang , Tibet
And Hongkong and the West will
Still only be worried about their Trade deficit

By the Way , China has Opened So many FRONTS that Both US and EU are fumbling in the dark

They have alliances , projects and programmes with ALL Anti Western Nations

Whether it is Russia , South China Sea
Afghanistan , Australia ,Iran , Pakistan , Africa -- they are active everywhere

US and EU are busy discovering Chinese Espionage Gangs and Preventing Cyber Attacks and Intellectual property Thefts
 
China can do Anything

And get away with it

It can totally " CLEAN " Xinjiang , Tibet
And Hongkong and the West will
Still only be worried about their Trade deficit

By the Way , China has Opened So many FRONTS that Both US and EU are fumbling in the dark

They have alliances , projects and programmes with ALL Anti Western Nations

Whether it is Russia , South China Sea
Afghanistan , Australia ,Iran , Pakistan , Africa -- they are active everywhere

US and EU are busy discovering Chinese Espionage Gangs and Preventing Cyber Attacks and Intellectual property Thefts
I bet west is shocked that some one is giving them their own medicine.
 
Well a formal recognition by parliaments is the first step. The US had made the same declaration.


Just waiting on the EU now, then we can talk about sanctions.

Yeah, I hope there's positive movement on this.

Even that "possible" should have been in italics. No morals in NZ anymore.