WHY CHINA NOT IN G7 ?

Why China is excluded in G7 summit?

Author: Koon Yew Yin 

Publish date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021, 5:48 PM

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China has warned the G7 leaders that the days when a "small" group of countries decided the fate of the world were long gone.

 

The G7 leaders must read this brief lesson in history. They should be ashamed of themselves.

1. Which country was once the colony master of Malaya & India?          

Answer :  Britain.

 

2. Which countries invaded and occupied Indonesia?    

Answer :  Netherlands for 350 years and Japan for 3.5 years.

 

3. Which countries invaded and occupied Vietnam?

Answer :  France 1857-1940 & 1946-1954, Japan 1940-1945 and USA (in Southern Vietnam) 1955-1975.

 

4. Which countries were responsible for colonisation of the African continent? 

Answer : Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain and Italy.

 

5.  Which 8 countries were responsible for the occupation of China in early 20th century? 

Answer : Britain, US, Germany, France, Russia, Japan, Italy & Austria-Hungary.

 

6. Which countries are responsible for colonising and almost annihilating the Red Indians in northern America?

Answer :   France & Britain.

 

7. Which country colonised and almost annihilated Aborigines in Australia and New Zealand? 

Answer :  Britain.

 

8. Which are the member countries of G7?

Answer :  United Kingdom/Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan & USA.

 

 

And now the million-dollar question...????

9. Why are the G7 members see China as a threat even though China is the only major nation on earth that has never invaded or occupied another country?

Answer :  Ego or fear of retribution?

The comments, by a spokesman for the Chinese embassy in London, come as the leaders, who are meeting in England, seek a unified position over China.

They adopted a spending plan in response to a massive Chinese scheme. US President Joe Biden is determined that Western powers need to act now to counter a resurgent China. Joe Biden is promising more financial support for developing countries hit by the climate crisis, and funds for infrastructure projects in the developing world, an alternative to a Chinese programme.

 

President Biden said he wanted the US-backed Build Back Better World (B3W) plan to be a higher-quality alternative to Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The scheme has helped finance trains, roads, and ports in many countries, but has been criticised for saddling some with debt.

 

Joe Biden is like telling a joke because US does not even have 1 high speed rail.

 

China High-Speed Rail

High-speed rail (HSR) in China is the world's longest high speed railway network and most extensively used -- with a total length of 37,900 km by the end of 2020. The HSR network encompasses newly built rail lines with a design speed of 200–350 km/h (120–220 mph). China's HSR accounts for two-thirds of the world's total high-speed railway networks. Almost all HSR trains, track and service are owned and operated by the China Railway Corporation under the brand China Railway High-speed (CRH).

High-speed rail developed rapidly in China over the past 15 years. CRH was introduced in April 2007 and the Beijing-Tianjin intercity rail, which opened in August 2008, was the first passenger dedicated HSR line. Currently, HSR extends to all provincial-level administrative divisions except Macau and Tibet. The HSR network reached just under 38,000 km (24,000 mi) in total length by the end of 2020. The HSR building boom continues with the HSR network set to reach 70,000 km (43,000 mi) in 2035.

The advent of high-speed rail in China has greatly reduced travel time and has transformed Chinese society and economy. A World Bank study found "a broad range of travellers of different income levels choose HSR for its comfort, convenience, safety and punctuality."

Notable HSR lines in China include the Beijing–Guangzhou high-speed railway which at 2,298 km (1,428 mi) is the world's longest HSR line in operation, and the Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway with the world's fastest operating conventional train services. The Shanghai Maglev is the world's first high-speed commercial magnetic levitation ("maglev") line, whose trains run on non-conventional track and reach a top speed of 430 km/h (267 mph). In 2020, China started testing a maglev prototype train that runs at 600 km/h and aims to put a 500-km-long high-speed maglev line into commercial use by 2025.

US should follow China

Implementing high-speed rail (HSR) will provide the Americans with more transportation choices. It will also make sure that the people remain an economic engine, and meets the environmental and energy challenges of this century.

Investing in high-speed rail:

• Creates Jobs:
  Building high-speed rail will create hundreds of thousands of jobs.  Every $1 billion in investment creates 24,000 jobs. These are highly skilled jobs that will revitalize the domestic rail industries supplying transportation products and services. Many additional jobs are created through the commerce fostered through the economic activity and development which they spark.
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• Increases Economic Activity:
  Every $1 invested creates $4 in economic benefits. Upgrading passenger operations on newly revitalized tracks, bridges and rights of way is spurring business productivity along corridors.  The rail services will connect Americans’ economically vital mega-regions and help keep them mobile, productive, efficient and internationally competitive.
• Reduces Congestion and Boosts Productivity:
  Congestion on our nation’s roads costs $140 billion in lost time and productivity.  The U.S. population is projected to grow by another 100 million people in the next 40 years. The population growth is creating mega-regions that will not prosper unless they can be freed from the stranglehold of highway and airport congestion. At the same time, the United States cannot build enough highway capacity or airport runways to meet demand.
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• Reduces the Nation’s Dependence on Foreign Oil: 
  Implementing high-speed rail will keep billions of dollars in the U.S. economy by decreasing the amount of oil that the U.S. consumes.    According to the International Association of Railways (UIC), high-speed rail is eight times more energy efficient than airplanes and four times more efficient than automobile use. It will also decrease greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality.
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• Expands Travel Choices and Improves Mobility:
  High-speed rail can deliver people from one downtown to another as fast as or faster than air travel.  The addition of HSR as an integrated part of America’s transportation system will help airports work better and highways work better. It will also expand options for citizens in rural and small urban communities with increased transfer points and feeder services that connect with new HSR corridors.

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ONLY HATE MONGERS AND SHORT-MINDED INSECURE WOULDN'T AGREE

 

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WHEN EUROPEAN LEADERS refused to back the US’s anti-China campaign, internet connections were shut down to ensure no outside heard the discussion, a report from the site said.

It happened during the Saturday evening discussion at the G-7 meeting in Cornwall, UK.

TOUGH LINE

The problem: All parties agreed that China (like France, Indonesia and others) was taking a tough line on violent Islamist radicalism. 

But America is using “Uyghur rights groups” financed by the CIA’s regime change unit to exaggerate the process into a horrific “worse than the Holocaust” narrative in a bid to get the world on its side in an economic war against the Chinese, who are working to rise above their “developing nation” status. 

As part of the strategy, US leader Joseph Biden wanted the G7’s joint communique to mention a recent chapter of the US-penned narrative, which is to paint entrepreneurs who employ Uyghur staff as monsters who run slave camps. The UK’s Boris Johnson and Canada’s Justin Trudeau said they would back it, but European countries declined, knowledgeable sources said. 

COINCIDENTAL TIMING

It is worth noting that Amnesty International and the New York Times both “coincidentally” released “unverified” reports of atrocities in Xinjiang, presented as fact, to bolster Biden’s claim. 

The NYT report repeated Adrian Zenz’s IUD statistics, omitting to note that they had long been debunked, and contained an absurd reference to “the destruction of Hong Kong”, despite the fact that Hong Kong is now statistically the world’s healthiest and one of the world’s wealthiest cities.

SECRET CENSORS

After the meeting, a Biden spokesman tried to make the fight sound trivial. “There is a little differentiation, I think I would say, within—within, I think, the spectrum of how hard they would push on some of these issues,” reporters were told. 

But insiders told reporters that the quarrel over the US narrative got so heated that censors snapped into action. 

“The disagreements, aired during a session that at one point became so sensitive that all internet was shut off to the room, pitted European nations against the United States, Britain and Canada,” according to a CNN report.

It was unthinkable that the people of the world should hear the discussion and be enlightened.

VAGUE REFERENCES

And what happened in the end? The anti-China hawks lost, the Europeans won. The communique, when it was published, made only vague references to Hong Kong and Xinjiang, and no mention of slave labor.

Even with Amnesty International and the NYT backing them up, the US State Department lost this round.

NOT FOOLED

In related news, a classic idiom has been updated: “You can’t fool all the people all the time, even if you are richest country in the world spending hundreds of millions of dollars to try to make people hate a developing country.”

That’s good news for people everywhere, including Americans, many of whom are no fans of covert US activities overseas.

Peace.

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RETALIATION FROM CHINA ? 

Retaliatory actions by Chinese,  cut subsidies,  curb steel productions,  pass 9% increase cost of production to overseas consumers,  carbon neutral policy,  start china own entities lists,  sanctions against western politicians titles for tat for fake news,  hostility and speed up core technology innovation and development.

Recently, global steel prices have soared three-fold, and Taiwan’s steel stock prices have almost doubled at least simultaneously.  This is a phenomenon that has never occurred in the past two decades. What is the reason behind it?

The apparent reason is that Australia has substantially increased the price of iron ore, but the main reason is that China has drastically cut production capacity and cancelled subsidies to curb production capacity and no longer encourage exports.

Since China is the world’s largest steel producer, its production capacity accounts for 55% of the world’s total. Therefore, when China cuts production and curbs exports, and India, the second largest steel producer, falls into the epidemic situation, it is conceivable that the demand for steel is in short supply.  How serious the situation is, so prices soared.

Why should China reduce production capacity and curb exports when demand in the global steel market is tight?  Why not take the opportunity to expand production and make a good profit?

The answer is that China used to cut steel production capacity and curb exports to create inflation and hit the economic recovery plans of the United States and the Western world.

In the past, China provided ample global market demand and low-priced steel products, which played a decisive role in helping the world suppress prices and avoid triggering global inflation.  Even if the United States has repeatedly implemented the so-called quantitative easing (QE) policy and printed a large number of banknotes, it can still enjoy low-interest funds without causing the depreciation of the dollar and inflation.  In fact, these are all factories in the world, China, sacrificing environmental protection, bearing cheap labor, and contributing to global economic development.

But this time China is obviously no longer willing to take advantage of it anymore, curb steel supply and allow global inflation to let European and American countries experience the soaring prices without China's sacrifices!

 When the price of steel, a pillar product in economic development, and all raw materials have skyrocketed, look at Biden's trillion-dollar infrastructure. Will it continue?  See if the Fed can maintain the original low interest rate policy ?

When inflation causes interest rates to rise, the European and American stock markets and bond markets will inevitably collapse, and the international economic order will be in chaos. At this time, the new eight-nation coalition forces that the United States attempts to unite again will collapse like scattered sand and will no longer be able to attack and contain China!

China has begun to set rules for the United States!  The "List of Unreliable Entities" promulgated by the Ministry of Commerce today is the Chinese version of Section 301.  Use the market to block the counter-technology blockade.  This original list of deaths shocked the global technology market and capital!  This is the first country in the world to set rules for the United States after World War II.  If you just look at this list as China's counterattack against the current bullying of the United States, you would underestimate the lethality of this list.  The significance of the list is not only to address the current U.S. government's head-on response to China's unreasonable and unreasonable actions by U.S. companies, but also to formulate rules for the great shift between China and the United States five or ten years later.  Set rules for American chip and software companies: cut off supply and network to Chinese companies at will, and please get out of the Chinese market.  Set rules for arms sales companies to Taiwan: threaten China's national security, or may pose a threat, please get out of the Chinese market.  Not only American companies, but Japanese and European companies, also set the rules for you!  Set rules for US government officials, politicians, congressmen, media professionals, and various think tanks: China's security, dignity, and inviolability!  This is the 38 degrees north latitude of the Korean War, and this is the 16 degrees north latitude of the Vietnam War. If you cross the line, you will be beaten!  This is the sword of Damocles in the East!  The whole world understands the voice of China.  American, European and Japanese companies understand the voice of China.  The capital of Wall Street understands the voice of China.  The dollar plummeted.  U.S. stocks fell in a row.  U.S. debt fell overcast.  In a capitalist society, dialogue is done in a language that capital understands.  In a socialist society, we use the unity of the whole society to show our strength.  This sword will hang there forever for five, ten, thirty years!  This sword is called China's right to speak !!!  All friends who have a patriotic heart, or overseas Chinese and foreign friends, please move your finger to forward it to your circle of friends or WeChat group. The more you forward, the better, to show that you have a Chinese heart.

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THE HYPOCRICY OF G7

AN OPEN LETTER FROM REPRESENTATIVES OF CHINESE PROFESSIONALS IN THE U.K. TO THE LEADERS OF THE G7 COUNTRIES

Author: Koon Yew Yin

Publish date: Sun, 13 Jun 2021

The West especially the US have been bullying China for a long time and I have been writing articles to defend China. This is the best piece I have ever read. Although it is quite long, I am sure it is worth your while to read it.    

10 June 2021

Dear Sirs and Madam (G7 Leaders) 

We are a collective of professionals of Chinese ethnic origin residing in the United Kingdom. We wish to express the community’s hope that leaders at the 2021 G7 will take all necessary step to defuse the current hostility towards China and the Chinese people. Many of us had lived experience in China, and extensive relationships with the country and people. We implore the leaders of the G7 to regard China as a friend and not as an enemy.

We are glad that the Covid-19 pandemic is the main agenda for the 2021 G7 conference. However, we are anxious that this forum should not be abused as a platform to propagate anti-China covid-19 related myths. As the 7 April, 2020 Nature publication rightly warned, “continuing to associate a virus and the disease it causes with a specific place is irresponsible and needs to stop. As infectious disease epidemiologist Adam Kucharski reminds us in his timely book The Rules of Contagion: history tells us that pandemics lead to communities being stigmatised, which is why we all need to exercise more care.

The international rule-based system has designated the WHO as the competent body to deal with such a pandemic. Hence, all political accusations about the virus that is not science-based are unhelpful and a distraction to making the world safe from the pandemic.

A member of this collective, Dr Michael Ng, a community leader and a university professor in the U.K., is involved in combating pandemic related hate crimes against the Chinese community. He wishes to remind the G7 that any attempt to politicise the Covid-19 issue against China would fan the flame of hate crimes against the community. That would undo all the excellent efforts of the local councils, civic groups, police force and community leaders who had helped defuse the spread of hate crimes.

Dr Ping Hua, a research scientist, is concerned that the rise of hate crimes and daily demonising of China has created such a hostile environment for Chinese scientists that could stymie the scientific and intellectual exchanges between the West and the world’s fastest-growing economy.

We note with concern the United States anxiety over the economic rise of China. China’s per capita is only one-fifth of the United States, with only one military base abroad compared to 800 of the United States. She is not a threat to the West. China’s rise is complementary to Western interests. A more prosperous China could only benefit the working people in the West through higher demands for western goods and services. Treating China’s rise as a threat to the United States or the West is based on fiction.

China is not a utopia, but it is undoubtedly not a dystopia as Western critics and media visualise. The Chinese people are aware of the ideological differences between the West and China. Yet over 90% supports the government in Beijing. This is the finding from a 13-year long survey carried out by the Ash Center of Harvard University. They found that the majority of the population surveyed feels that today is better than yesterday. They expect tomorrow to be better than today. The millions of Chinese who voted with their feet to return home after their travel and studies in the West corroborates with the Ash Center findings.

China’s governance is different from the West. That does not necessarily mean that the Communist Party of China can defy the wishes of its citizen. This is the conclusion of the Survey. According to Edward Cunningham, who co-authored the research from 2003-2016, “CCP isn’t immune to shift public opinion, especially in areas like corruption, environmental degradation, health, and overall standards of living.”

When considering whether China is a friend and partner, or enemy, G7 should consider the independent findings of the Ash Center.

We are concerned that current hostilities towards China in the West are manufactured and ratcheted up in the United States to serve the interest of the military-industrial complex and the electoral needs of both the Democrats and the Republicans.

The alleged genocide in Xinjiang and the threat of invasion of Taiwan are the two most important examples.

On Genocide in Xinjiang

We believe that the claim of genocide in Xinjiang is untenable as the Uighur population has increased from 5 million to 13 million since the 1950s. If China does enslave a million Uighurs, the CIA enhanced aerial surveillance technology could easily prove the allegation with video images of prisoners in the yards. They have not done so.

Critics of China have studiously ignored a World Bank statement of the 11 November 2019 that dealt with the allegation that skills and learning institutions associated with the Bank were de facto prisons. “In line with standard practice, immediately after receiving a series of serious allegations in August 2019 in connection with the Xinjiang Technical and Vocational Education and Training Project, the Bank launched a fact-finding review, and World Bank senior managers travelled to Xinjiang to gather information directly… The review did not substantiate the allegations.”

Mr Bitu Bhalla, a member of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn and International Arbitrator, and Mr Wah-Piow Tan, a Balliol-educated Human Rights solicitor, were unimpressed by the various legal opinions supporting the claim of genocide against China. “China and the World Bank’s $100 million education and training program in Xinjiang,” they observed, “is cast-iron evidence that China has no specific intention to kill a part or whole of the Uighur population. Without specific intention, there cannot be any genocide.” What genocide regime would spend $100 million to educate and train the people you plan to kill?” They are also disappointed that the issues of proportionality were not adequately addressed, or addressed at all by those Barristers criticising China’s response to the threats of terrorism.

“Unlike Britain or the United States, China confronts an Al-Qaeda and ISIS-inspired insurgency seeking to establish an Islamic Caliphate in Xinjiang and Central Asia. Even the Indian government, an ally of the West, has argued for the suspension of human rights when fighting terrorism,” said Tan.

On China threat to Taiwan

According to the Economist, Taiwan has become the most dangerous place globally because of the risk of military conflict between the United States and China. There is enough nuclear arsenal between them to destroy the planet.

What the United States perceives as China’s threat to Taiwan is viewed differently by the Chinese people. At an International Affairs Fellowship forum, a U.S. think tank, a panellist reported that 100% of overseas Chinese students in the United States considered Taiwan a province of China. “The possible validity of Chinese claims” over Taiwan, remarked historian Max Hastings in a recent opinion piece in Bloomberg, was not even considered by the China experts advising the American administration. Max Hastings had raised a valid question. The overwhelming majority of countries worldwide recognise the People’s Republic of China as the legitimate government of China and pursue the one-China policy. This is de facto recognition of China’s sovereignty over Taiwan. To China, it is an unfinished reunification process.

The United States has its own hidden agenda to embolden the Taiwanese separatists, in the same vein as encouraging Uighur or Hong Kong separatists. We hope the G7 should advise the United States to refrain from redefining its one-China policy, thereby destroying any likelihood of an amicable arrangement for reunification.

The impending war

We are particularly concerned that Britain’s aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth II, the third-largest globally, is speeding towards Taiwan to flex its muscles at China. Instead of supporting the hawkish approach of the United States towards China, the G7 should review the futilities of wars launched since the 2001 9/11 attack. The wars in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Libya had caused 800,000 deaths, displaced 21 million people, wasted $ 6.4 trillion. These wars created failed states, not democracies.

The current propaganda war complementing the military adventures against China are efforts to retain the United States hegemony. The flawed policy has more dire consequences than those of the last two decades. The G7 should review the previous 20 years of war launched by the U.S before contemplating to support Biden’s military-led Indo Pacific Tilt, which is the code word for China-bashing in the South China Seas area.

The stakes are so high that the advice of Bruce Kent, the veteran peace campaigner, ought to be taken seriously: “we can learn to live harmoniously as neighbours… we have to learn to live as partners.”

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US COWARDLY IS USING XINJIANG TO FIGHT CHINA

Why Xinjiang is central to US cold war on China 

As China seizes the tech innovation initiative, US has mobilized a rights-related diplomatic weapon to fight back By VIJAY PRASHAD And JIE XIONG APRIL 17, 2021

On March 22, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken authorized sanctions against Wang Junzheng, the secretary of the Communist Party of China’s Committee of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), and Chen Mingguo, director of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau (XPSB). These sanctions, Blinken said, were because Wang and Chen are accused of being party to “genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang.” 

The US Treasury Department followed suit with its own sanctions. Wang and Mingguo responded by condemning these sanctions, which were not only imposed by the US but also by Canada, the UK and the European Union. Wang called the sanctions “a gross slander,” while Chen said he was “very proud of being sanctioned by these countries.” 

In October 2011, then-US secretary of state Hillary Clinton announced a “pivot to Asia,” with China at the center of the new alignment. Clinton said many times – including in Hawaii in November 2011 – that the administration of former president Barack Obama wanted to develop “a positive and cooperative relationship with China,” the US military buildup along Asia’s coastline told a different story. The 2010 US Quadrennial Defense Review noted “China’s growing presence and influence in regional and global economic and security affairs” and called it “one of the most consequential aspects of the evolving strategic landscape.” 

In 2016, US Navy Admiral Harry Harris, head of the Pacific Command, said the United States was ready to “confront China,” a statement given strength by the US military buildup around China. The administrations of Donald Trump and Joe Biden have largely followed the “pivot to Asia” policy, with a special emphasis on China. The United States has been struggling to keep up with China’s rapid scientific and technological advancements and has few intellectual or industrial tools in place to compete. This is the reason it has tried to stall China’s advances using diplomatic and political power, and through information warfare; these elements comprise what is called a “hybrid war.” 

Information warfare Prior to a March 2019 event co-hosted by the US Mission to International Organizations in Geneva, most people the US were largely unaware of the existence of the Xinjiang region in China, let alone of the 13 million Uighur people (one of China’s 55 recognized ethnic minorities). Given that the Uighurs are the demographic majority in this westernmost province of China, the official name of the administrative unit is the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. The March 2019 event featured Adrian Zenz, a German researcher and a senior fellow in China studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, an organization founded in 1993 by the US government to promote anti-communist views.

In April 2020, this foundation – against all evidence – accused China of being responsible for the global deaths resulting from the spread of Covid-19. Zenz is also associated with the conservative defense-policy think-tank the Jamestown Foundation, founded by William Geimer, who was close to the US administration of the late Ronald Reagan. Zenz and Ethan Gutmann, another researcher at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, continued to repeat their conclusions regarding “genocide” in Xinjiang to the US Congress and in a range of mainstream publications. Hosted by the British Broadcasting Corporation and Democracy Now, Zenz provided what appeared to be documentation of atrocities meted out by the “Chinese authorities” against the Uighur population. Zenz and Gutmann would be joined by organizations funded by Western governments but which – as non-governmental organizations – pose as independent research and advocacy groups (such as the Global Center for the Responsibility to Protect and the Uighur Human Rights Project; the former is funded by Western governments and the latter by the US government’s National Endowment for Democracy). 

In June last year, then-US secretary of state Mike Pompeo attacked the Chinese government, basing his statements on Xinjiang on the “German researcher Adrian Zenz’s shocking revelations.” Zenz provides a set of scientifically dubious and politically charged papers, which are then used as fact by the US government in its information war against China. Anyone raising questions about Zenz’ claims is, meanwhile, marginalized as a conspiracy theorist. Diplomatic and economic warfare The US government’s information warfare against China has produced the “fact” that there is genocide in Xinjiang. Once this has been established, it helps develop diplomatic and economic warfare. 

On March 22 this year, the same day as the US sanctions, the Council of the European Union unilaterally imposed asset freezes and travel bans on four Chinese government officials, including Wang Junzheng and Chen Mingguo as well as Wang Mingshan and Zhu Hailun. The United Kingdom and Canada also joined in this venture that day. It appeared to be a coordinated attempt to portray China as a country violating human rights. This assault came soon after China had achieved a major human-rights goal, lifting 850 million people from absolute poverty. The US government and its media outlets tried to challenge this remarkable achievement. Trump had pushed a trade war with China as soon as he came into office in January 2017; his policy framework remains in place under Biden. 

To draw together the trade war and the Xinjiang information war, in mid-December 2020, Zenz and the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy (formerly the Center for Global Policy) released an intelligence brief on “coercive labor in Xinjiang.” The claims in this briefing – building on a 2019 Wall Street Journal article on supply chains and Xinjiang – created a media firestorm in the West, amplified by Reuters and then picked up by many widely read outlets. It led to the US government ban on Xinjiang cotton. A third of the world’s textiles and clothing come from China, with the country accounting for US$120 billion worth of exports of these products per year and $300 billion in exports of all merchandise annually. According to China’s National Bureau of Statistics, 87% of China’s total cotton output comes from Xinjiang. Most of the high-quality Xinjiang cotton – and the textiles produced from it within China – go to Western apparel companies, such as H&M and Zara. In 2009, many of these companies created the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI), which has – until last year – been upbeat about developments in Xinjiang (including co-ops of small farmers in Xinjiang). 

As recently as March 26 this year, the BCI made a clear statement: “Since 2012, the Xinjiang project site has performed second-party credibility audits and third-party verifications over the years, and has never found a single case related to incidents of forced labor.” Despite the BCI’s recent confident statement and its optimism, things are rapidly changing for Xinjiang cotton farmers as the BCI appears to get on board with the United States’ intensifying hybrid war on China. The BCI closed down its page on its work in China, accused China of “forced labor” and other human-rights violations, and set up a Task Force on Forced Labor and Decent Work. Officials of Xinjiang’s government contested these claims, saying that much of the field labor for cotton in Xinjiang has already been replaced by machines (many of them imported from the US firm John Deere). A recent book edited by Hua Wang and Hafeezullah Memon, Cotton Science and Processing Technology, confirms this point, as do a range of media reports from before 2019. But facts like these don’t seem to stand a chance in the overwhelming information war. Xinjiang – two and a half times the size of France – is now at the epicenter of a cold war not of its own making. 

This article was produced by Globetrotter, which provided it to Asia Times.

US IS REPEATING OF WHAT HAD BEEN DONE TO IRAQ, LIBYA AND AFGANISTAN TOWARDS XINJIANG

US risks reigniting Islamic extremism in Xinjiang

Once again, the US uses long-standing problems such as the rise of extremism in Central Asia to create problems for its adversaries

By VIJAY PRASHAD And JIE XIONG

APRIL 29, 2021

“Kashgar is a key location for the land and sea interface of the Belt and Road, connecting not only westward to West Asia, Europe, the Red Sea and Africa, but also southward to the Indian Ocean through the port of Gwadar,” said Professor Li Bo of the China Research Institute, Fudan University. It is, he told us, “a core area of the Belt and Road strategy.”

Kashgar, one of the westernmost cities in China, is the main urban area of southern Xinjiang. Traders from across Asia have assembled at its Sunday bazaar for 2,000 years.

More than 1,000 kilometers north of Kashgar is the town of Nur-Sultan, previously known as Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. Here, in 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke about the need for a “Silk Road Economic Belt.” This Belt would include trade deals and transportation networks, cultural interactions and political connections.

The project would become the One Belt, One Road initiative, which is now known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). China’s National Development and Reform Commission released a report in March 2015 that planned for six economic corridors, which would be funded by more than US$155 billion from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the Silk Road Fund.

Since then, many of these corridors, which run from China into Central Asia and also down through Pakistan and Afghanistan, have been completed.

Last December, a freight train traveled from Istanbul, Turkey, to Xian, China, covering 8,693 kilometers of this new Silk Road. The train carried Turkish appliances meant for the Chinese market.

Accusations by the US government and its allies of genocide and forced labor in Xinjiang have brought China’s westernmost province into the gaze of the international media. This approach toward Xinjiang defines the information war prosecuted by Washington.

In our conversations with Professor Li Bo and Professor Wang Yiwei, director of the Institute of International Affairs at Renmin University, as well as intellectuals from Kashgar and Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, we developed a storyline that includes the dynamics of Xinjiang’s social development, the threats of extremism, and the enfolding of its problems into the wider hybrid war unleashed against China.

Develop the west

“The economy of Xinjiang is not as good as that of the eastern coast [of China],” Professor Wang told us. This reality was understood 20 years ago when the Chinese government launched the Western China Development Program (Xībù Dàkāifā) in 1999.

In 2010, Kashgar was designated as a special economic zone, with the intention of drawing investment into southern Xinjiang to tackle high poverty rates and to shape the province into a gateway to Central Asia and Europe.

At the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2012, the delegates made Xinjiang’s development a priority. Construction of infrastructure, development of energy sources, linkage of Xinjiang’s economy with the BRI, and the development of talent emerged as the main avenues for the province, Professor Li told us.

In 2019, Xinjiang’s government announced that between 2014 and 2018, 2.3 million people had been lifted out of poverty and 1.9 million of them lived in southern Xinjiang, where the Uighur population is concentrated.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Chinese government made an effort to find a way to improve life for farmers and herdsmen in the Taklamakan Desert of southern Xinjiang. This has helped to continue a pattern of lifting most of the 6.1% of the province’s population who were experiencing absolute poverty in 2018 out of that state (the poverty level decreased to 1.2% of Xinjiang’s population in 2019 and continues to trend downward).

“When I visited Xinjiang,” Li told us, “I was struck by the fact that the province is involved in a great struggle. This struggle is manifested in several ways: in the development of social and economic life, in the integration of minority ethnic groups into the broad social life of China, and in the difficult task of fighting terrorism.”

Washington’s jihad

August 2013, the 74-year-old imam of a mosque in Turpan, 200km east of Urumqi, was brutally killed by extremists. These extremists – likely members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) or the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) – killed Abdurehim Damaolla because he was part of the Islamic Association, which worked with China’s government to combat extremism.

Within Uighur society, a gulf opened up between the vast majority of the people who opposed radicalization along religious lines and those who joined the ETIM and the TIP.

The roots of the ETIM and the TIP go back to the 1960s and 1970s when Saudi Arabia’s World Muslim League began to proselytize a harsh version of Islam to counter communism. Those drawn to these views left Saudi-run schools – many in Pakistan – to join Washington’s jihad in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

There, Uighur extremists joined other disaffected Central Asian militants to form various outfits that pledged jihad against communism.

When the USSR collapsed, these groups sought to use violence to advance their agenda against the post-communist states in Central Asia. The first among them was the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), which was affiliated with al-Qaeda.

Uighur militants joined the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, the IMU, and the global platform known as Hizb-ut Tahrir (Party of Liberation). Extremists from Xinjiang cut their teeth on jihad in Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and the Central Asian states.

Xinjiang first saw a major violent attack by these militants in the 1990s in Urumqi and in southern Xinjiang’s smaller towns. A major riot on July 5, 2009, in Urumqi led to the deaths of almost 200 people. Since then, there have been many smaller attacks.

“Uneven economic development,” Wang said, “is the basis for terrorism and extremist religious ideology.”

Shohrat Zakir, chairman of the Xinjiang government, concurs, and notes that his government has put forward an agenda to “root out terrorism.”

There is no point in merely treating this like a war, as the US did in Afghanistan. This is not a war that can be won by violence, Zakir said, but it must be won by education and by economic development.

Asked about vocational education, Zakir explained, “Some residents there [in Xinjiang] have a limited command of the country’s common language and a limited sense and knowledge of the law. They often have difficulties in finding employment due to limited vocational skills.

“This has led to a low material basis for residents to live and work there, making them vulnerable to the instigation and coercion of terrorism and extremism. There is still a long way to go for southern Xinjiang to eradicate the environment and soil of terrorism and religious extremism.”

New cold war

In 2011, then-US secretary of state Hillary Clinton proposed a New Silk Road Initiative. The idea was for the US to use Afghanistan as the core of a north-south axis that would break the Central Asian states away from their links to Russia and China; this axis would orient these countries to South Asia and then to the United States.

Failure to settle the problems of Afghanistan led the US to abandon that project. Instead, it has turned its focus to undermining China’s BRI.

The information war now conducted against China centers on Xinjiang. Once again, the US uses long-standing problems – such as the rise of extremism in Central Asia (fueled to some extent by the US since the 1980s) – to create problems for its adversaries.

Officials in China tell us that the government has long ignored the economic development of Xinjiang and has not been able fully to handle the various grievances of the minority ethnic groups. But the answer to these problems is not to deliver Xinjiang to disaffected affiliates of Washington’s jihads.

As with Syria and Libya, Washington once more plays a reckless game with Islamic extremism.

This article was produced by Globetrotter, which provided it to Asia Times.

THE EVIL OF YANKEE DODO !

Wow never saw this footage before! 

We were led to believe that it is the iron fist of the CCP that led to the massacre of many 'peaceful protestors'.

From the Western media,  nothing was shown on the rioting, damage to public property and loss of many lives including soldiers caused by the rioters and why the army had no choice but to crush the rioters once and for all. The amount of damage caused far exceeded that of what happened in HK recenly. 

The western propaganda whitewashed the events leading to June 4 to portrayed the evil and inhumanity of communism towards 'peaceful democratic activists'. 

Without the Hongkong incident we would still have believed the West.

Very likely the Tiananmen rioting was instigated and funded by the CIA. They succeeded in painting a negative narrative on China all these years and tried to bring down the gomen and pressured it with sanctions but failed.  The world was impressed with China's growth and progress despite the evils of Communism n so the Americans did that again with HK. But this time everyone sees the American complicity,  involvement and agenda. 

The Chinese gomen should translate this video to English n let the whole world see the other side of events leading to the Tiananmen 'massacre'.

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Great Article by  Vijay Prashad. 

Must read... Especially relevant to US worshipers........!

Writer: Vijay Prashad, the Indian Historian, Journalist...

He is very sharp, just like the other intellectuals outside of the US, they can see so clearly what's happening to the US   and what's its problems really are.....

Title: Mr Blinken really had ' blinkers on'.

The problem is NOT China, but the US. 

The US has conned the world for far too long, with its smooth and sweet rhetorics through the control of the media, with grandiose moral high grounds of human rights, freedom of speech,  democracy etc., when itself is among the chief violators, not only in the US itself but throughout the world. 

The US on false pretexts bombed up Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen ( through its proxies) among others, created the human refugees' catastrophe for which Europe had to bear the brunt of handling it. 

The US for decades had been an Evil Empire, it's actually the bull in the China shop. 

It has also destabilized many Latin American countries,  and now karma has shown up at its own southern borders with refugees. 

I agree that Mr Blinken is a better-looking version ( Version 2) of Mike Pompeo, but they are the same, carrying out the the American Military Complex. 

The Americans don't follow any international law or order, though they keep pontifying about it. 

They are above the laws and do what they like.

In short, they are the big bully and now the rogue on the International Stage.  

At the recent meeting in Alaska,  the US delegation was told to f...off, China gave the US a longer lecture in rebuttal. 

The US asked China not to bully America's lapdog Australia by imposing tariffs on Australian goods, but it’s ok for the US to impose tariffs on Chinese goods.  

The Australians are now feeling the pinch and the US is now trying to get Australia out of the ditch... more crudely out of the shit that the Americans pushed the Australians into.  

The world now needs China more than China needs the world ... that's a debate by itself, for another day.

The US has resorted back to gunboat diplomacy. 

Apart from forming Quad, the US had asked and Britain and France had both just obliged by each sending a warship into the Pacific Ocean, from its very depleted fleet. 

This time around, China will not be intimidated. The Americans are mistaken, that just because the West won the Cold War against the Soviet Union, they can win the Cold War, the Trade War against China. 

China is the giant that Napolean foresaw will awake one day and it has now woken up. 

China has delivered 700 to 900 million people out of poverty whereas more and more Americans have fallen below the poverty line. 

Is food and shelter, not a basic human right? 

CHINA's progress did not come from the exploitation of other countries, like colonisation, rape and plunder and destruction of other countries,  but through the hard work and the sweats toils and tears of the Chinese peasants and people. 

Don't forget the suffering of the 60 million 'Lost/ Damaged generation of China. These were the children who grew up, who were ' abandoned' by their fathers and mothers who left their countryside to work in the factories in the cities and the economic zones. The children don't get to see their parents for at least a year or even longer... a tremendous social price paid, so American consumers can enjoy cheap goods. 

At rallies after rallies, Trump retched up anti-China and anti-Chinese sentiments by accusing China of raping, plundering and robbing Americans because of repeated annual trade deficits for years of about US 550 Billion. 

The question the world can ask is, did  China point a gun at the US to force it to buy Chinese products,  unlike the time the West forced China to buy its opium? 

The US bought Chinese goods because it benefitted the American Consumers.... it helped to keep inflation down in America. What Trump did not tell the American public is that each year US Companies in China reek in revenues to the tune of US 750 Billion. 

Who forced the American companies to go and operate in China? 

The West, America and Europe have developed at the expense of the AAA (African, Asian, Aboriginals) countries and peoples.. through colonization, exploitation, killings, slavery etc. 

Enough is Enough, the 500 years curse is over. 

The 21st century is the Asian century and Women will dominate. 

Biden had called Putin a Killer and President Xi a thug. 

The truth and the irrefutable fact is the Americans and the British have killed the most number of innocent people in all of human history. 

How can America,  a nation of about 240 years lecture a 5000 years old, Chinese civilisation?

The Wild Wild West foreign policy of the US will this time not work against China's Sun Tzu ‘Art of War'.

Sadly,  the US today is the world's biggest terrorist and gangster and a threat to international peace and human civilisation. 

Time for America to Repent.  

Do not be surprised if one day, Russian and Chinese missiles rained down on the US... if the US persists with its wet dreams that God created America and Mickey Mouse created the rest of the world. 

PS. The Americans have been able to convince the Eskimos to buy refrigerators 🤔

I still believe the Americans planted the Covid 19 virus in Wuhan. 

Trump and Pompeo had been saying that the virus escaped from the Wuhan lab and they have the evidence. The whole world is still waiting to see the evidence.

HOW ONE PARTY SYSTEM WORKS IN CHINA

 A TALE OF TWO POLITICAL SYSTEMS

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