The first attempts by US now we known as “Color Revolution” “Regime Change” subversive activities by NED (CIA) in China that failed. 美國1989年在中國進行的首次嘗試由美國民主基金会(美國中情局)今天被稱為的“色彩革命”，“政權更迭”顛覆活動，但失敗了。World Affairs – Objective, Nonpartisan and Insightful – Tiananmen Square Massacre – Facts, Fiction and Propaganda世界事务: 客观、无党派和有洞察力 – 天安门广场大屠杀——事实、小说和宣传 “As far as can be determined from the available evidence, NO ONE DIED that night in Tiananmen Square.” What?! Who would make such a blatant propagandist claim? China’s communist party? Nope. It was Jay Mathews, who was Washington Post’s Beijing Bureau Chief in 1989. He wrote this for Columbia Journalism Review. “从现有证据可以确定，当晚天安门广场没有人去世。”什么？！谁会做出如此明目张胆的宣传者主张？中国共产党？不。杰伊·马修斯是1989年《华盛顿邮报》北京分社社长。他为《哥伦比亚新闻评论》写了这篇文章。

One thing is for sure: if Americans became violent as it happened in the last few days of Tiananmen Square protests, the US police and the military will ruthlessly kill thousands of people. 有一点是肯定的：如果美国人像天安门广场抗议活动的最后几天那样变得暴力，美国警察和军队将无情地杀死数千人。

https://worldaffairs.blog/2019/06/02/tiananmen-square-massacre-facts-fiction-and-propaganda/

Here are a few more examples of what western journalists once said about what happened in Tiananmen Square in June 1989:

CBS NEWS: “We saw no bodies, injured people, ambulances or medical personnel — in short, nothing to even suggest, let alone prove, that a “massacre” had occurred in [Tiananmen Square]” — thus wrote CBS News reporter Richard Roth.

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BBC NEWS: “I was one of the foreign journalists who witnessed the events that night. There was no massacre on Tiananmen Square” — BBC reporter, James Miles, wrote in 2009.

NY TIMES: In June 13, 1989, NY Times reporter Nicholas Kristof – who was in Beijing at that time – wrote, “State television has even shown film of students marching peacefully away from the [Tiananmen] square shortly after dawn as proof that they [protesters] were not slaughtered.” In that article, he also debunked an unidentified student protester who had claimed in a sensational article that Chinese soldiers with machine guns simply mowed down peaceful protesters in Tiananmen Square.

REUTERS: Graham Earnshaw was in the Tiananmen Square on the night of June 3. He didn’t leave the square until the morning of June 4th. He wrote in his memoir that the military came, negotiated with the students and made everyone (including himself) leave peacefully; and that nobody died in the square.

But did people die in China? Yes, about 200-300 people died in clashes in various parts of Beijing, around June 4 — and about half of those who died were soldiers and cops.

WIKILEAKS: A Wikileaks cable from the US Embassy in Beijing (sent in July 1989) also reveals the eyewitness accounts of a Latin American diplomat and his wife: “They were able to enter and leave the [Tiananmen] square several times and were not harassed by troops. Remaining with students … until the final withdrawal, the diplomat said there were no mass shootings in the square or the monument.”

But what about the iconic “tank man”? Well, if you watch the whole video, you can see that the tanks stopped and even let the tank man jump on the tank. He eventually walked away unharmed. In fact, there are almost no pictures or videos of soldiers actually shooting at or killing people (doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, but it’s a point to keep in mind).

Propaganda involves not only exaggeration, but also omission. Western media rarely show pictures of tanks and military vehicles burned down, because this will demonstrate how restrained the military was.

Here’s a slideshow of military buses, trucks, armored vehicles, and tanks being burned by the “peaceful” protesters:

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Sometimes the soldiers were allowed to escape, and sometimes they were brutally killed by the protesters. Numerous protesters were armed with Molotov cocktails and even guns.

In an article from June 5, 1989, the Wall Street Journal described some of this violence: “Dozens of soldiers were pulled from trucks, severely beaten and left for dead. At an intersection west of the square, the body of a young soldier, who had been beaten to death, was stripped naked and hung from the side of a bus.”

Wait, how could the protesters kill so many soldiers? Because, until the very end, Chinese soldiers were unarmed. Most of the times, they didn’t even have helmets or batons.

Unarmed Soldiers with protesters
Here is one more picture of unarmed Chinese police and military hanging out with the public. Compare these pictures to what’s happening in the USA during the Black Lives Matters protests.

And here’s a video of the Chinese military and the protesters singing songs to one another in a friendly duel. This was the climate for many weeks. The Chinese government and most of the protesters never expected the situation to escalate.

So what exactly happened in Beijing in 1989?

To understand the chaos, let’s start with the two most important people in this story: Hu Yaobang and James Lilley.

Hu Yaobang was the Chairman & General Secretary of the CCP. He was a “reformer” and was liked by young people. And he died on April 15, 1989. Without his death, there would probably have been no drama in China that year! College students initially gathered at the Tiananmen Square only to mourn his death.

Within a day or two after Yaobang’s death, the US realized that hundreds of thousands of young people would be congregating in Beijing. It was the perfect time for a coup, since the rest of the world was dismantling communism that year! Thus, on April 20, 1989 – five days after Yaobang’s death – James Lilley was appointed as the US Ambassador to China. He was a 30-year veteran from the CIA.

An article from Vancouver Sun (17 Sep 1992) described the role of the CIA: “The Central Intelligence Agency had sources among [Tiananmen Square] protesters” … and “For months before [the protests], the CIA had been helping student activists form the anti-government movement.”

To help the US intelligence, there were two important people: George Soros and Zhao Ziyang. Soros is legendary for organizing grassroots movements around the world. In 1986, he had donated $1 million – which was a lot of money in China in those days – to the Fund for the Reform and Opening of China. Over the next three years, Soros’ group had cultivated and trained many pro-democracy student leaders, who would spring into action in 1989. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) also opened offices in China in 1988. NED is also another regime-change organization.

And who would allow all these western fake NGOs? Zhao Ziyang, who was the Premier of China and the General Secretary of the Communist Party. He was a big fan of privatization and Milton Friedman. His close advisor, Chen Yizi, headed China’s Institute for Economic and Structural Reform, an influential neoliberal think tank. By the way, after the protests, Soros and his NGO were banned in China; Zhao Ziyang was purged and placed under house arrest for the rest of his life; and Chen Yizi escaped to America.

Another westerner who played a significant role in the Tiananmen Square agitations is Gene Sharp, who’s the author of Color Revolution manuals and the subject of an acclaimed documentary called “How to Start a Revolution.” He was in Beijing for nine days during the protests and wrote about it. Of course, he didn’t reveal his role, but it’s not hard to imagine. Gene Sharp worked closely with the Pentagon, the CIA, NED etc. for decades and fomented uprisings all over the world — here’s an in-depth article on him.

The influence of westerners in Tiananmen Square is obvious, looking at all the large signs in English, expressing American ideals:

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Two more facts to be noted are that the Chinese government did not impose a martial law until May 20, and there were no major clashes between the military and the people until the very end. Here’s a picture of protesters giving food to the Chinese soldiers:

Tiananmen peace
As for the students, they were not a monolithic group. They fell under a few different categories:

Those who came to mourn Hu Yaobang, the beloved communist leader. In the beginning, these entirely comprised the group at Tiananmen Square. These students and workers were communists who loved Mao. They were not looking to be rescued by America.

Then there those who just came out to hang out, socialize and have fun.

Those who suffered from economic malaise. Inflation was going through the roof in China in the 1980s. In 1988, prices of consumer goods and food went up 26%. College tuition was also going up, and many graduates couldn’t find good jobs. Ironically, all these were the result of liberalization and rapid transition to western-style economy.

Idealistic young people who really wanted democracy, free speech, free press etc.
Student leaders who were unscrupulous. Most top student leaders escaped from China – the CIA called it “Operation YellowBird” – right after the protests, came to the US, and went to Yale, Harvard, Princeton etc., thanks to generous help from the US government.

Provocateurs and thugs who were in the minority, but could significantly escalate tension. This strategy based on mob-rule psychology works very effectively all over the world. Very few people, for example, realize that some of these provocateurs also had guns.

One of the student leaders of Tiananmen protests, Chai Ling, said during an interview, “I wanted to tell them [students] that we were expecting bloodshed, that it would take a massacre, which would spill blood like a river through Tiananmen Square, to awaken the people. But how could I tell them this? How could I tell them that their lives would have to be sacrificed in order to win?” She escaped from China a couple of days before June 4, 1989. Listen to her — it’s quite ruthless and psychotic:

A massacre was needed to bring down the communist party. When it didn’t happen, the narrative of massacre was created. Because perception is reality. History is written by winners. And the people with the best narratives are winners. It’s a feedback loop.

China’s leaders may not be very good in the art of soft-power, but they understand that the Chinese history in the last two hundred years is filled with devastation from colonialism and civil wars. Stability and unity are not only core Confucian principles, but are paramount to China’s economic progress now. Furthermore, the geopolitical reality is that the US is trying to stop the rise of China. The endless American propaganda about Tiananmen “massacre” only reinforces the Chinese government’s fear about the West’s intentions.

Will China be better off with more free speech, more free press and more transparent government? Absolutely. However, that’s a journey that the Chinese society has to take in its own terms. Only China can decide the speed and direction of its reforms. While the Tiananmen events are tragic, there’s no doubt that the Chinese people appreciate the incredible progress the country has made since 1989.

[Updates from June 2020]

While Americans ritually cry crocodile tears for the victims of Tiananmen Square protest every June, compare how the American government is violently attacking its own people using heavily armed police and even the military, during the protests of 2020. No tanks in the US yet, but Humvees, Predator drones, military helicopters, National Guard, active US military, privatized military like Blackwater, FBI, tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets and guns are all being deployed against Americans.

As seen before, nothing happened to the “tank man,” because the tanks stopped. Guess what happens in the USA, the land of freedom, when a person stands before a police vehicle? Watch the clip below:

Here is a quick slideshow on how heavily-armed US police and military are occupying American cities to crush the Black Lives Matter protests:

One thing is for sure: if Americans became violent as it happened in the last few days of Tiananmen Square protests, the US police and the military will ruthlessly kill thousands of people.

下面再举几个西方记者曾经说过1989年6月在天安门广场发生的事情的例子：

哥伦比亚广播公司新闻记者理查德·罗斯写道：“我们没有看到尸体、受伤的人、救护车或医务人员——简而言之，甚至没有任何东西可以暗示，更不用说证明[天安门]发生了“大屠杀”了。”

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英国广播公司新闻：“我是那天晚上目睹这些事件的外国记者之一。天安门广场没有大屠杀”——英国广播公司记者詹姆斯·迈尔斯在2009年写道。

《纽约时报》：1989年6月13日，当时在北京的《纽约时报》记者尼古拉斯·克里斯托夫写道：“国家电视台甚至放映了学生黎明后不久和平离开（天安门）广场的电影，以证明他们（抗议者）没有被屠杀。”在这篇文章中，他还揭穿了一名身份不明的学生抗议者，他在一篇耸人听闻的文章中声称，中国士兵持机枪只是在天安门广场镇压了和平抗议者。

路透社：6月3日晚，格雷厄姆·恩肖在天安门广场。直到6月4日上午，他才离开广场。他在回忆录中写道，军队来了，与学生谈判，让每个人（包括他自己）都和平离开；广场上没有人死。

但中国有人死亡吗？是的，大约在6月4日，北京各地的冲突中，大约有200-300人死亡——大约一半的死者是士兵和警察。

维基解密：美国驻北京大使馆的维基解密电报（1989年7月发送）还披露了一名拉丁美洲外交官和他的妻子的目击者陈述：“他们能够多次进出[天安门]广场，没有受到军队的骚扰。这位外交官一直和学生在一起……直到最后撤离，他说广场或纪念碑没有大规模枪击事件。”

但标志性的“坦克人”又如何呢？嗯，如果你看完整视频，你可以看到坦克停了下来，甚至让坦克人跳上坦克。他最终安然无恙地离开了。事实上，几乎没有士兵实际开枪或杀人的照片或视频（这并不意味着它没有发生，但这是需要记住的一点）。

宣传不仅涉及夸大其词，还包括遗漏。西方媒体很少展示坦克和军用车辆被烧毁的照片，因为这将表明军队是多么克制。

以下是被“和平”抗议者烧毁的军用巴士、卡车、装甲车和坦克的幻灯片：

有时士兵被允许逃跑，有时被抗议者残忍地杀害。许多抗议者都配备了燃烧瓶甚至枪支。

在1989年6月5日的一篇文章中，《华尔街日报》描述了其中一些暴力：“数十名士兵从卡车上被拉出来，遭到毒打，然后被遗弃等死。在广场以西的一个十字路口，一名被殴打致死的年轻士兵的尸体被剥光衣服，悬挂在公共汽车旁边。”

等等，抗议者怎么能杀死这么多士兵？因为，直到最后，中国士兵都没有携带武器。大多数时候，他们甚至没有头盔或警棍。

手无寸铁的士兵和抗议者
这里又拍了一张手无寸铁的中国警察和军队与公众闲逛的照片。将这些照片与黑人生命问题抗议期间在美国发生的事情进行比较。

这是一段中国军方和抗议者在友好决斗中互相唱歌的视频。这是几周的气候。中国政府和大多数抗议者从未预料到局势会升级。

那么，1989年北京到底发生了什么？

要了解这场混乱，让我们从这个故事中最重要的两个人开始：胡耀邦和詹姆斯·莉莉。

胡耀邦任中共中央主席兼秘书长。他是个“改革者”，深受年轻人的喜爱。他于1989年4月15日去世。如果没有他的死，那一年中国恐怕就没有戏了！大学生最初聚集在天安门广场，只是为了哀悼他的去世。

耀邦去世后的一两天内，美国意识到将有数十万年轻人聚集在北京。这是发动政变的完美时机，因为那一年世界其他国家正在废除共产主义！因此，1989年4月20日——姚邦去世五天后——詹姆斯·利利被任命为美国驻华大使。他是中央情报局的30年老兵。

《温哥华太阳报》（1992 年 9 月 17 日）的一篇文章描述了中央情报局的作用：“中央情报局在[天安门广场] 抗议者中拥有消息来源”……和“在 [抗议] 之前的几个月里，中央情报局一直在帮助学生活动家组织反政府运动。”

为了帮助美国情报部门，有两个重要人物：乔治·索罗斯和赵紫阳。索罗斯以在世界各地组织基层运动而闻名。1986年，他向中国改革开放基金捐赠了100万美元——这在当时在中国是一笔不小的钱。在接下来的三年里，索罗斯的团队培养和培训了许多支持民主的学生领袖，他们将于1989年采取行动。国家民主基金会（NED）也于1988年在中国开设了办事处。NED也是另一个政权更迭的组织。

谁会允许所有这些西方的假非政府组织？赵紫阳，曾任总理、中共总书记。他是私有化和米尔顿·弗里德曼的忠实粉丝。他的亲密顾问陈毅子领导了中国经济和结构改革研究所，这是一个有影响力的新自由主义智库。顺便说一下，抗议活动结束后，索罗斯和他的非政府组织在中国被禁止；赵紫阳被清洗并软禁终身；陈毅子逃往美国。

另一位在天安门广场煽动中扮演重要角色的西方人是吉恩·夏普，他是色彩革命手册的作者，也是一部广受好评的纪录片《如何开始一场革命》的主题。抗议期间，他在北京呆了九天，并写了关于它的文章。当然，他并没有透露自己的角色，但不难想象。吉恩·夏普与五角大楼、中央情报局、NED等密切合作了几十年，在世界各地煽动了起义——这是一篇关于他的深入文章。

西人在天安门广场的影响是显而易见的，看看英语里所有的大星座，表达了美国的理想：

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还有两个值得注意的事实是，中国政府直到5月20日才实施戒严令，直到最后，军民之间也没有发生重大冲突。这是一张抗议者给中国士兵送食物的照片：

天安门和平
至于学生，他们不是一个铁板一块的团体。它们属于几个不同的类别：

那些前来悼念敬爱的共产党领导人胡耀邦的人。起初，这些完全由天安门广场的团体组成。这些学生和工人是热爱毛泽东的共产主义者。他们不希望被美国拯救。

然后是那些刚出来闲逛、社交和玩得开心的人。

那些遭受经济不适的人。20世纪80年代，中国的通货膨胀正在发生。1988年，消费品和食品价格上涨了26%。大学学费也在上涨，许多毕业生找不到好工作。具有讽刺意味的是，所有这些都是自由化和向西方经济快速过渡的结果。

真正想要民主、言论自由、新闻自由等的理想主义年轻人。

肆无忌惮的学生领袖。由于美国政府的慷慨帮助，大多数顶尖学生领袖在抗议活动后逃离了中国——中央情报局称之为“黄鸟行动”——来到美国，并去了耶鲁大学、哈佛大学、普林斯顿大学等。

少数派的挑衅者和暴徒，但可能会显著加剧紧张局势。这种基于暴民统治心理的策略在世界各地都非常有效。例如，很少有人意识到其中一些挑衅者也有枪支。

天安门抗议的学生领袖柴玲在接受采访时说：“我想告诉他们（学生）我们正在期待流血，需要一场大屠杀，就像一条河一样流过天安门广场的鲜血，才能唤醒人们。但我怎么能告诉他们这个？我怎么能告诉他们，为了获胜，他们必须牺牲生命呢？”1989年6月4日之前几天，她逃离了中国。听她说话——相当无情和精神病：

需要大屠杀来推翻共产党。当它没有发生时，大屠杀的叙事就被创造了。因为感知是现实。历史是由获奖者书写的。故事最好的人就是赢家。这是一个反馈循环。

中国领导人在软实力艺术方面可能不太好，但他们明白，过去两百年的中国历史充满了殖民主义和内战的破坏。稳定和统一不仅是儒家的核心原则，也是当今中国经济进步的首要原则。此外，地缘政治现实是，美国正试图阻止中国的崛起。美国关于天安门“大屠杀”的无休止的宣传只会加剧中国政府对西方意图的恐惧。

中国有更多言论自由、更多新闻自由和更透明的政府会变得更好吗？当然。然而，这是中国社会必须以自己的方式走的旅程。只有中国才能决定其改革的速度和方向。虽然天安门事件是悲惨的，但毫无疑问，中国人民赞赏自1989年以来国家取得的令人难以置信的进展。

[更新于2020年6月]

每年6月，美国人都会为天安门广场抗议活动的受害者流下鳄鱼眼泪，但比较一下，在2020年的抗议活动中，美国政府如何使用全副武装的警察甚至军队暴力攻击本国人民。美国还没有坦克，但悍马、铁血战士无人机、军用直升机、国民警卫队、现役美军、黑水号等私有化军队、联邦调查局、催泪瓦斯、胡椒喷雾、橡皮子弹和枪支都在针对美国人部署。

如前所述，“坦克人”没有发生任何事情，因为坦克停止了。猜猜在自由之地的美国，当一个人站在警车前会发生什么？观看以下剪辑：

这里有一个快速幻灯片，讲述了美国警察和军队如何占领美国城市镇压黑人生命攸关的抗议活动：

有一点是肯定的：如果美国人像天安门广场抗议活动的最后几天那样变得暴力，美国警察和军队将无情地杀死数千人。

Nazi Propaganda Chief Joseph Goebbels tactics being adopted by US to stop China’s rise: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” “It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” 納粹宣傳部負責人約瑟夫·戈培爾（Joseph Goebbels）被美國採用阻止中國崛起的策略：“如果撒謊的程度足夠大並不斷重複，人們最終會相信它.” “因此，對於國家來說，運用其所有力量來壓制異議就變得至關重要，因為事實是謊言的致命敵人，因此，事實是，事實是國家的最大敵人.”

World Affair Video:
Uyghur-Xinjiang Explained –
The extremely complex and controversial topic of Uyghurs in China is quickly demystified below. Basically, it’s about three things: separatism, terrorism, and geopolitics.
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維吾爾族-新疆解釋-
中國維吾爾族這個極其複雜和有爭議的話題在下面迅速變得神秘。 基本上，它涉及三件事：分離主義，恐怖主義和地緣政治。
The crux of the matter is about separatism
A tiny fraction of Uyghurs demand their own country. They call it “Turkistan” and want it to be created out of China’s Xinjiang province. No country in world history has tolerated separatism and secession. Separatist demands are not reasonable. Uyghurs are 0.7% of China’s population. And the separatists want Xinjiang, which is four times the size of Germany or 16% of China’s land area! Not gonna happen.
Uyghurs in urban areas like Urumqi are secular and they definitely don’t want to live in an Islamic state run by religious extremists.
問題的癥結在於分離主義
一小部分維吾爾人要求他們自己的國家。 他們稱其為“突厥斯坦”，並希望在中國的新疆省以外創建它。 世界歷史上沒有哪個國家容忍分裂主義和分裂國家。 分離主義的要求是不合理的。 維吾爾族佔中國人口的0.7％。 分離主義者想要新疆，新疆的面積是德國的四倍，佔中國國土面積的16％！ 不會發生。烏魯木齊等城市地區的維吾爾人是世俗的，他們絕對不希望生活在由宗教極端主義者經營的伊斯蘭國家。
Finally, Uyghurs aren’t even half the population of Xinjiang. The US bombs Uyghurs and other Muslims, while demonizing China.
其實(最後)，維吾爾族人甚至不到新疆人口的一半。 美國轟炸維吾爾人和其他穆斯林，同時妖魔化了中國。
There are thousands of Uyghur terrorists in Afghanistan. And guess what? The U.S. bombs and kills them! Oh, the US also captures Uyghurs and sends them to Guantanamo to be tortured. Are those actions better than China sending the jihadists to education and job-training programs.
阿富汗有成千上萬的維吾爾族恐怖分子。 你知道嗎(猜怎麼著)？ 美國轟炸並殺死它們！ 哦，美國還抓捕了維吾爾族，並將其送往關塔那摩進行酷刑。 這些行動是否比中國更好地將聖戰分子送入教育和職業培訓計劃？
The U.S. spent $6 trillion bombing numerous Muslim countries and created 50 million Muslim refugees over the last 20 years. And the U.S. is crying about Uyghur human rights? Good Jihadists, Bad Jihadists.
在過去的20年中，美國花費了6萬億美元轟炸了許多穆斯林國家，並造就了5000萬穆斯林難民。 美國竟說要爭取維吾爾人的人權？ 好聖戰分子，壞聖戰分子。
Uyghur jihadists in Afghanistan or Syria are bad when they threaten NATO/U.S. military. However, when these jihadists go back to China, they are portrayed by the West as freedom fighters or innocent victims. Sheer hypocrisy.
當阿富汗或敘利亞的維吾爾聖戰分子威脅北約/美國時，他們就是壞人。 但是，當這些聖戰分子回到中國時，西方將他們描繪成自由戰士或無辜的受害者。多麼( 純粹)的偽善!
U.S. role in creating Uyghur jihadists
In the 1980s, the U.S. recruited, funded, trained, and armed Islamic militants (“Mujahedeens”) from all over the world to fight the USSR in Afghanistan. Not surprisingly, thousands of Uyghurs joined this jihad, since Afghanistan shares a border with Xinjiang.
美國在創建維吾爾聖戰分子中的作用
在1980年代，美國從世界各地招募，資助，訓練和武裝了伊斯蘭激進分子（Mujahedeens），以與阿富汗的蘇聯作戰。 毫不奇怪，由於阿富汗與新疆接壤，成千上萬的維吾爾人加入了聖戰。
Uyghur militants colluded with Bin Laden and created a group called “East Turkistan Islamic Movement” or ETIM, which is designated as a terrorist group by the U.N
Uyghur terrorism in China and outside gets whitewashed by western media. Uyghur Mujahideens have carried out hundreds of terrorist attacks in China since 1990. These vary from knife attacks and car attacks to massive riots and terrifying suicide bombings.
維吾爾激進分子與本·拉登合謀，成立了一個名為“東突厥斯坦伊斯蘭運動”或ETIM的組織，該組織被聯合國指定為恐怖組織。西方媒體卻粉飾了中國境內外的維吾爾恐怖主義。 自1990年以來，維吾爾聖戰者組織在中國發動了數百次恐怖襲擊。這些襲擊的範圍從用刀砍人﹑汽車襲擊﹑到大規模騷亂和可怕的自殺炸彈襲擊。
Tens of thousands of Uyghurs went to Syria and joined ISIS and Al Qaeda. They want to come back to China and destabilize the country.
成千上萬的維吾爾族人前往敘利亞，加入了ISIS和基地組織。 他們想回到中國並破壞國家穩定。
However, the only current narrative in the West is that China, the big bad wolf, oppresses Uyghurs for no reason.
然而，西方目前唯一的敘述是，中國這頭大灰狼無緣無故地壓迫維吾爾人。
China’s anti-terrorism methods are working
After 25 years of struggling, China cracked down on Uyghur separatists and terrorists. The result is that there hasn’t been a terrorist attack since 2017.
中國的反恐方法正在奏效
經過25年的努力(奮鬥)，中國成功化解了維吾爾族的分離主義分子和恐怖分子。 結果是，自2017年以來沒有發生過恐怖襲擊。
BTW, the World Bank and 50+ Muslim countries sent representatives to evaluate these rehabilitation camps and praised China’s efforts.
BTW，世界銀行和50多個穆斯林國家派遣代表評估了這些“再教育營地”，並對中國的努力表示讚賞。
Combating jihadism is not easy
No country has found an easy solution to combat jihadism or change the minds of radicalized jihadists. 打擊聖戰不容易
沒有哪個國家找到與聖戰主義鬥爭或改變激進聖戰分子思想的簡便解決方案。
While China could do a better job with due process and transparency, the overall efforts are reasonable. Muslims and Islam are not oppressed in China
中國可以通過適當的程序和透明度來做得更好，但總體努力是合理的。 穆斯林和伊斯蘭教在中國沒有受到壓迫。
Xinjiang alone has 20,000+ mosques; and all major cities in China have large mosques, some built one thousand years ago. There are also 20 million Hui Muslims in China, but they don’t feel oppressed.
僅新疆就有20,000多個清真寺。 中國的所有主要城市都有大型清真寺，其中一些建於一千年前。 中國也有2000萬回族穆斯林，但他們並沒有感到被壓迫。
Uyghurs are moderate Muslims –
Uyghurs have traditionally followed Sufism, a very moderate version of Islam that’s totally different from Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabism.
Uyghur women wear beautiful colorful clothes, love dancing and singing, and don’t wear burqas. Uyghur tradition even includes mild alcoholic drinks (called Museles).
維吾爾族是溫和的穆斯林-
維吾爾族傳統上遵循蘇非派，蘇非派是一種非常溫和的伊斯蘭教版本，與沙特阿拉伯的瓦哈比教派完全不同。維吾爾族婦女穿著漂亮的色彩鮮豔的衣服，熱愛跳舞和唱歌，並且不穿睡袍。 維吾爾族的傳統甚至包括溫和的酒精飲料（稱為Museles）。
But if you watch the Uyghur separatist women, they are always covered up like the ultra-orthodox sects. That tells you who’s funding these radicals.
但是，如果您看到的維吾爾分離主義婦女，她們總是像超正統教派那樣被掩蓋。 這可以告訴您是誰資助這些極端分子。
China has helped Uyghurs prosper –
Uyghur population has doubled in the last 40 years. Xinjiang’s GDP has grown 10 times in the last 20 years.
中國幫助維吾爾人繁榮發展-
在過去40年中，維吾爾族人口增加了一倍。 在過去的20年中，新疆的GDP增長了10倍。
There are many popular Uyghur actors, dancers, singers, athletes, politicians etc.
China wants Uyghurs to be happy, prosperous, and loyal citizens.
維吾爾族有很多出名的演員，舞蹈家，歌手，運動員，政客等。中國希望維吾爾族成為快樂，繁榮和忠誠的公民。
This is all about geopolitics –
Xinjiang is a crucial part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Every month, more than 1,000 freight trains go through Xinjiang while transferring goods between China and Europe. Disrupting Xinjiang means disrupting Chinese economy.
地緣政治因素-
新疆是中國“一帶一路”倡議的重要組成部分。 每個月有1000多列貨運火車經過新疆，同時在中歐之間轉運貨物。 破壞新疆意味著破壞中國經濟。
The U.S. just wants to contain the rise of China and thus is waging hybrid wars. From stirring up internal chaos in Hong Kong and Xinjiang to external chaos via Taiwan and India and to stifling Chinese tech companies like Huawei and TikTok, America’s playbook is just ruthless geopolitics.
美國祇是想遏制中國的崛起，因此發動了混合戰爭。 從煽動香港和新疆內部的混亂到台灣和印度的外部混亂，以及扼殺華為和TikTok等中國科技公司，美國的劇本簡直就是殘酷的地緣政治。
https://worldaffairs.blog/2020/09/20/uyghur-xinjiang-explained-in-four-minutes/
https://youtu.be/1sCZ8osXk7g
https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/341909880365677/?extid=Pb6esPaBROdYWwiz&d=n

Reporting from Australia: Debunk the western Nazi style repeating the same fake news 100s of times by the 5-eyes anti-China alliance and the vassal states to turn fake news into real news. 來自澳大利亞的報導: 揭穿西方的假新聞通過五眼反華聯盟和其附庸國用二戰納粹手段不断重复同一个假新闻向全世界妖魔化中国ASPI: forced labour hypocrites and academic fraudsters. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) published its dramatic allegations of Uyghur Muslim forced labour in a much-lauded 1 March 2020 report, Uyghurs for Sale. The report alleged “a new phase in China’s social re-engineering campaign targeting minority citizens”, claiming it had exposed “new evidence” that a number of factories were “using forced Uyghur labour under a state-sponsored labour transfer scheme that is tainting the global supply chain”. A 26 March 2020 Grayzone report nailed the agenda behind ASPI’s claims in its headline that charged forced labour allegations about Chinese Uyghurs are “brought to you by US, NATO, arms industry to drive Cold War PR blitz”. 強迫勞動偽君子和學術造假者。 澳大利亞戰略政策研究所（ASPI）在備受讚譽的2020年3月1日的報告《維吾爾人出售》中發表了有關維吾爾族穆斯林強迫勞動的戲劇性指控。 該報告稱“針對少數族裔的中國社會再造運動進入了一個新階段”，稱它已經暴露了“新證據”，表明許多工廠“在國家資助的勞動力轉移計劃下使用維吾爾族強迫勞動，這正在污染著維吾爾族。 全球供應鏈”。 2020年3月26日的Grayzone報告在ASPI的標題中提到了議程的議程，該指控稱關於中國維吾爾人的強迫勞動指控“是由美國，北約，軍火工業帶給您的，以推動冷戰公關熱潮”。By Melissa Harrison, Australian Alert Service, 14 October 2020

為什麼不懈地努力為製裁特別在新疆地區辯護？ 作為中國政府“一帶一路”倡議的重要樞紐，以製裁破壞新疆的工業和貿易，進一步加劇了英美兩國在經濟上損害其戰略競爭對手中國和俄羅斯的議程。 維吾爾族出售的誤導性質，以及ASPI自己從美國和英國的強迫監獄工作中獲利的捐助者的資金，揭示了ASPI對人權的虛假關注以及其作為政府資助的宣傳渠道的作用-強迫勞動偽造者發布了學術造假 。

Uyghurs for Sale lead author, ASPI researcher Vicky Xu, told the ABC on 2 March: “Officials and private brokers receive money for every Uyghur person they manage to transfer. The recipient companies receive a cash inducement for every Uyghur they take. … Everyone involved in this transfer scheme benefits except for Uyghur workers.”

Xu’s claims are repeated in ASPI’s report, which essentially alleges a bounty program to incentivise industrialscale forced labour. However, ASPI’s supporting reference doesn’t back up the allegations. In fact, it reveals the subsidy is paid primarily to cover expenses incurred by labour hire companies and job placement agencies, while Xu’s “cash inducement” is part of a regulated labour hire program, incentivised to significantly increase the workers’ income and achieve successful long-term employment.

This is a pattern. Tracing back ASPI’s references reveals that relevant information is ignored, and sources are interpreted in extreme bad faith, or are misrepresented in a manner so misleading it can only be described as academic fraud. References for some of ASPI’s most egregious allegations against the Chinese government come from dubious sources: the discredited far-right evangelical Adrian Zenz, a frequent ASPI source, who believes he is “led by God” on a “mission” against China; the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, an ASPI-like militaristic institution which is funded by the US and UK governments and arms manufacturers; or, conveniently, ASPI’s own staff, who are paid by Mike Pompeo’s US State Department to demonise China.

Uyghurs for Sale: academic fraud – ASPI claims that “[in] the name of combating ‘religious extremism’, Chinese authorities have been actively remoulding the Muslim population in the image of China’s Han ethnic majority”. The article referenced includes key information that ASPI completely ignores: no terrorist incidents have occurred in Xinjiang in three years due to the counter-terrorism and deradicalisation efforts (after 800 deaths from dozens of terrorist attacks in the ten years to 2017); and foreign officials, diplomats, journalists and religious officials have visited and commended the program, saying it met the United Nations’ purposes and principles on defeating terrorism and protecting basic human rights.

Contradicting ASPI’s claims that the Xinjiang Muslim population is being “actively [remoulded]”, the article describes education subsidies for poor families; universal free health check-ups; improved government social security systems including medical insurance and pension schemes; and subsidised housing built for 212,700 rural families in that year alone. The article also reports Xinjiang’s GDP was up 6.1 per cent year on year, and was the highest in its history; since 2014, more than 2.38 million Xinjiang residents have been lifted out of poverty.

According to ASPI, “Uyghur workers who have been able to leave China and speak out describe the constant fear of being sent back to a detention camp in Xinjiang or even a traditional prison while working at the factories”. ASPI claims that all workers of a Uyghur labour transfer program in Fujian were former “re-education camp” detainees and were “threatened with further detention if they disobeyed the government’s work assignments”; and that “police regularly search their dormitories and check their phones for any religious content. If a Quran is found, the owner will be sent back to the ‘re-education camp’ for 3-5 years”.

The source for these claims is an article published in Bitter Winter, an online publication of CESNUR, a high-profile lobbying group for controversial religions, which has defended groups including the Church of Scientology, Falun Gong, the Order of the Solar Temple (which was responsible for the mass murder-suicide of 75 members in 1994-97), and Aum Shinrikyo (responsible for the 1995 Tokyo sarin gas attack). Bitter Winter has defended Eastern Lightning (a.k.a. Church of Almighty God), an apocalyptic group regarded as a cult in China, which believes the Chinese Communist Party is Satan incarnate. Eastern Lightning members have been convicted of multiple counts of cult-motivated murder, and once kidnapped 34 members of a Christian group, holding them for two months in attempted forced conversion. Bitter Winter has published reams of articles alleging the Chinese government’s persecution of Uyghurs. On 24 June 2019 Bitter Winter co-hosted a conference campaigning for asylum rights of the Uyghur diaspora and Eastern Lightning, where representatives testified to the alleged torture and murder of their members by the Chinese government.

ASPI says, “Uyghur workers are often transported across China in special segregated trains, and in most cases are returned home by the same method after their contracts end a year or more later”; according to ASPI, this is isolation and a “relevant indicator” of forced labour. Yet ASPI’s referenced articles describe a poverty-alleviation program, where successful job applicants were travelling by train to a pre-job training course, with board, lodging and transportation expenses paid for. The apparent reference for ASPI’s “segregated trains” allegation is an article describing how, to accommodate peak travel periods, a railway company organised special additional trains for “returning workers to their hometowns” which had “also been upgraded from normal speed trains to fast trains, and they are replaced by green leather [upholstered] cars. It is an air-conditioned car. Migrant workers can go home faster and have a more comfortable travel experience.”

Determined to present an impression of misery, ASPI says that “[in] factories far away from home” Uyghur workers “typically live in segregated dormitories”. This claim is cherry-picked from an article which describes a poverty alleviation program. In one example, in a program aimed at “employment for one person and poverty alleviation for the whole family”, there is a description of migrant employees’ study rooms, halal canteens and air-conditioned dormitories. ASPI ignores the reference’s description of government funded health programs—a new local hospital and comprehensive screening for 40,000 children, which found a prevalence of congenital hand and foot disabilities, in response to which the government funded free surgery and rehabilitation for these children.

ASPI’s second reference documents a migrant vocational program where 1,300 graduates were accepted into new jobs at a company which manufactures high-tech hardware and semiconductors. Interviewees spoke of overcoming homesickness, adapting to their new environment and learning new skills. There are photos of birthday parties, social activities, company-organised excursions, and a new company-built canteen for Xinjiang migrant workers, where Xinjiang chefs were invited to cook. There is a photo of young female employees in their colourfully decorated dormitory, apparently ASPI’s evidence of “segregated dormitories”. (Does ASPI expect men and women, especially Muslims, to share dorm rooms?)

ASPI says that in these factories, migrant workers “undergo organised Mandarin and ideological training outside working hours”. Again ASPI misrepresents its references, which document poverty alleviation programs and the growing prosperity of local residents; applaud the achievements of factory workers-turned female entrepreneurs; profile mentorship programs; and describe a company which hired full-time language teachers to overcome communication barriers and hold language courses for their employees, which grew to be the largest national language training class in southern Xinjiang.

UK MPs press for punitive sanctions
ASPI claims its research is “rigorously peer reviewed—internally and externally”. Uyghurs for Sale was peer-reviewed by unnamed “labour specialists”, “anonymous reviewers”, and Darren Byler, a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado, who is a member of the Washington DC-based Uighur Scholars Working Group, alongside Adrian Zenz and ASPI Senior Fellow James Leibold, a co-author of the report.

The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office funded ASPI with £10,000 for Uyghurs for Sale. The report featured as supporting material, along with reports from Adrian Zenz, a highly publicised petition which was debated in the UK Parliament on 12 October 2020. On 9 September 2020, UK MPs debated “Detention of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang”, overwhelmingly demanding stronger action against the Chinese government and for sanctions to be levelled against Chinese individuals and companies in retaliation for alleged human rights abuses and forced labour of Uyghurs.

Why the relentless push to justify sanctions specifically in the Xinjiang region? As a critical hub of the Chinese government’s “One Belt, One Road Initiative”, destroying Xinjiang’s industry and trade with sanctions furthers the Anglo-American agenda of economically damaging its strategic competitors: China and Russia. The misleading nature of Uyghurs for Sale, and ASPI’s own funding by benefactors that profit from forced prison labour in the USA and UK, reveals ASPI’s faux concern for human rights and its role as a government-funded propaganda outlet—forced labour hypocrites publishing academic fraud.

https://citizensparty.org.au/aspi-forced-labour-hypocrites-and-academic-fraudsters

AngloSaxon hypocrisy – The French have just put forth a plan for de-radicatlization and to prevent separatism with Muslim minorities in France. 盎格魯撒克遜人(白人)的偽善 Professor Kiji Noh in San Francisco: It entails re-engineering and intervening in education, funding, indoctrination, for example 舊金山的Kiji Noh教授：法國人剛剛提出了一項消除穆斯林文化的計劃，並防止與法國的穆斯林少數群體分離。 例如，穆斯林需要對教育，資金，灌輸進行重新設計和洗腦如下: https://apnews.com/article/religion-paris-france-emmanuel-macron-islam-40615a00b39123ff8bcbd5ce705b88f5

Forcing attendance from 3 yrs onwards at French-only schools 從3年起強制在法語學校上課
Surveillance and control of funding of mosques and Islamic organizations 監督和控制清真寺和伊斯蘭組織的資金
Banning imams from other countries to enter France 禁止其他國家帶領清真寺祈禱的人進入法國
Installing an “anti-putsch” system (whatever that means) to monitor Muslim in France安裝“防偽”系統監視法國的穆斯林(你用你的想像力吧）
Intervening in certain cultural practices around marriage 介入婚姻中的某些文化習俗

If China were doing this, esp “French only schools”, the West would be screaming “cultural genocide”! 如果中國這樣做，特別是“僅法國的學校”，西方就會大喊“文化大屠殺”！

But it’s even more hypocritical than that. Starting 1994 and codified in 2004, the French banned the hijab/headscarf at all schools and government employment. Since 2011, it is also illegal to wear any face covering or veil in any public spaces, punishable by a fine and re-education.

If someone imposes a face covering on another, 1-2 yrs in prison and a fine of $30-60,000. [The only exception to a face covering veil is 1) travelling in a private car or 2) in a place of worship. 但是，比這還要虛偽。 從1994年開始，到2004年編纂，法國人在所有學校和政府機構中都禁止戴頭巾/頭巾。 自2011年以來，在任何公共場所佩戴任何面部遮蓋物或面紗都是違法的，應處以罰款和再教育。

Repression of muslims, and cultural genocide, no? 鎮壓穆斯林和種族滅絕，不是嗎？

Can you say hypocrisie？你能說偽善嗎？

The same group of Uyghurs, when they are in Afghanistan, US called terrorists, but when they are in Xinjiang, US called freedom fighters. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-targets-chinese-uighur-militants-well-taliban-fighters-afghanistan-n845876 同一群維吾爾人在阿富汗時美國稱他们為恐怖分子，在新疆時美國稱他们爲自由戰士。

Professor Kiji Noh of San Francisco: Johnson, the fact is the Han Chinese were established in Xinjiang long before the Turkik Uighurs came into the region. Also these Uighurs were later converted to Islam, so your colleague Charlie is mistaken twice over–he has his facts very wrong.

Were there other tribes that preceded the Han in that region? Of course. And now they are all part of China and Chinese civilization and belong to individual ethnic groups with legal standing in the PRC. Note, many are non-Muslim. Uighurs do not have a monopoly over Xinjiang; other ethnic groups preceded them–and still live with them, and they have no interest in being part of a fundamentalist Shariah-ruled Islamic state.

It’s a small minority of separatist Salafist radicals that have been weaponized by the US, that China is trying to deal with, and clearly in a more respectful and culturally sensitive manner than France, and certainly more humanely than the US.

Professor Kenneth Hammond: The situation in Xinjiang is very multi-layered. There was a Uighur empire there 1000 years ago, which was overrun and destroyed by the Mongols in the 13th century. Uighur, Kazakh, Kirgiz & other Turkic speaking ethnic communities existed, along with the then-dominant Uzbeks, in Central Asia for many centuries. Some adopted Islam. Some remained Buddhist. Some followed traditional Mongol sky worship (Tengri).

The Manchus conquered China in the mid-17th century. They built a multi-ethnic state, with strong links to the Mongols. In the 1750s-70s they destroyed the Dzunghar state in what is now Xinjiang. The Dzunghars were speakers of a Mongol dialect, but followers of Tibetan Buddhism. The Manchu Qing dynasty, with some help from expanding Czarist Russian forces, defeated the Dzunghars, then systematically eliminated them as an ethnic population, dispersing families and individuals to other parts of China and erasing Dzunghar as a recognized entity.

The Uighers then moved into the political space which had been emptied by the destruction of the Dzunghars. Some Uighurs identified with Central Asian Islamic traditions. Others were happy to integrate with the Qing empire. In the 19th century, in the context of rising anti-modernist schools within the Islamic world, some Uighurs elements sought to create an Islamic state, East Turkistan, but these efforts were suppressed by Qing forces. After the collapse of the imperial order in 1912, Xinjiang drifted on its own for decades. The Bolshevik Revolution led to attempts to incorporate Xinjiang into Soviet Central Asia, but this did not succeed. In the 1930s there was another attempt to create a Republic of East Turkistan, but this too collapsed because it was not broadly supported by the mass of the population.

After Liberation in 1949 Xinjiang was part of the PRC. There was a high degree of local autonomy, in part because of a Chinese strongman, Wang Enmao. Wang was purged during the Cultural Revolution, and Xinjiang began to be more fully integrated into the PRC. Uighurs, Kazakhs, Kirgiz, and others, including the Iranian speaking Tajiks, all came to have autonomous territories, with local language education and the protection of traditional cultural practices.

This remained the basic situation, with Xinjiang more or less marginal to the PRC, until the 21st century got underway. Then a combination of small separatist movements, affiliated with the broader Islamic fundamentalism of the era, and new economic initiatives based on new energy developments, either oil & gas or solar, began to transform the dynamic in Xinjiang. The present situation sees the PRC trying to bring the Turkic and Iranian speaking population into the main current of economic development, so that local people can have jobs and a significant place in the life of the region, while trying to preserve as much autonomy and tradition as possible.

Compared to American treatment of indigenous peoples, this is a remarkable effort of inclusion and cultural respect. This is obviously anathema to the dominant political powers in the US and Europe, who can only project on to the Chinese their own experiences of cultural genocide and ethnic cleansing. From New Mexico to Hawaii to Alaska and the rest of America, we live on stolen land in a wasteland of human destruction and dispossession. Just some thoughts.

Alvin Ja in San Francisco: It’s important that opinions and conclusions be based on facts and evidence, as opposed to simplistic talking points based on faulty “knowledge.”

Chronicle of Higher Education (CHE) just published a piece about how China suppresses free speech among Chinese foreign students enrolled at American colleges. The piece was entitled “Instruction Under Surveillance: Chinese students stuck overseas bring censorship concerns into newly global online classrooms.”

This was my response to the piece which has some bearing on how you see China and Xinjiang:

CHE: Karin Fischer’s piece “Instruction Under Surveillance” https://www.chronicle.com/article/instruction-under-surveillance is not based on fact.

Instead, it is fear-mongering based on the inaccurate American/European stereotype of an oppressive and authoritarian China. People in the Western world ardently believe this stereotype to be true. Yet this firmly-believed stereotype is not corroborated by the lived experience of the vast majority of the people in China. A recent Harvard Ash Center survey showed a 95.5% satisfaction rate (cf. recent Harvard Ash Center Survey https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-survey-reveals-chinese-government-satisfaction/ )

Contrary to Western stereotype, in real life, people in China have lots of freedom to express dissatisfaction with the government.

Karin Fischer’s piece actually reverses the real-life source of surveillance and suppression of Chinese students. If you’re paying any attention at all, it’s the State Dept and Dept of Justice that has been targeting Chinese students and academics in a manner reminiscent of the McCarthy Red Scare era.

Both foreign students from China as well as Chinese-Americans are being targeted. On 9/24/2020 FBI Director Christopher Wray boasted to the Senate Homeland Security Committee: “The FBI is opening a new China-related counterintelligence case approximately every ten hours.”

Chinese students are being targeted, not by China, but by American authorities!

Regarding the Perry Link reference to “Anaconda in the Chandelier”: Perry Link himself is a big contributor to the atmosphere of American self-censorship wherein it is de rigueur to portray China negatively; yet, on the other hand, positive takes on China are less than socially acceptable in mainstream discourse.

The ability to Manufacture Consent against China is unparalleled. How many people will have the integrity and fortitude to oppose a resurgent Yellow Peril narrative?

If an objective and blind survey were to be performed right now, I would wager that most students from China would be much more fearful of American authorities than the Chinese government.

Professor Kenneth Hammond: I totally agree with Alvin Ja’s analysis here. Chinese students who I have had in classes on Asian and Chinese history have expressed a wide range of opinions, but are generally united in their support for their own government. They don’t see it as perfect or flawless, but they trust that the leadership is trying to find workable solutions to serous challenges. Meanwhile the State Department is putting ever more pressure on Americans, from university endowment managers to state legislators and now even members of local PTAs to toe the line on China and get in lockstep with the Trump agenda. Naturally Chinese students and scholars feel intimidated and monitored by this powerful apparatus of state surveillance by the American government.

World Affairs: From Terrified to Triumphant — How China Flipped 2020 世界事務：從恐懼到勝利—中國如何在2020年擺脫困境

It was the worst way to start a year for China. On the New Year’s eve of 2020, Chinese social media were full of rumors about re-emergence of SARS virus from 2003. Chinese New Year was about to begin in three weeks, which would involve hundreds of millions of people traveling all over the country. Xi Jinping had already warned Chinese officials a month earlier that the US-China trade war and sanctions would make 2020 a very challenging year. Now an unknown virus was about to decimate the economy and shred the China dream into pieces. 對於中國來說，這是最糟糕的一年開始。 在2020年的除夕夜，中國社交媒體充斥著關於2003年以後再次出現SARS病毒的傳言。農曆新年將在三週內開始，屆時將有成千上萬的人在全國各地旅行。 習近平一個月前已經警告中國官員，中美貿易戰和製裁將使2020年成為充滿挑戰的一年。 現在，一種未知的病毒即將摧毀經濟，將中國夢粉碎成碎片。

Worse, as time went on, China was not only left alone to fend for itself, but the anti-China forces piled on with Psy-ops. Social media attacked the Chinese people and blamed them for “eating bats” — a popular video of a Chinese blogger eating a bat soup went viral, although it turned out that she had the soup three years earlier in an island (Palau) thousands of miles away from China. Pundits and politicians gloated on TV that the pandemic would help the US and bring China to its knees. Trump bragged that the U.S. was the best prepared country in the world to face a pandemic. 更糟糕的是，隨著時間的流逝，中國不僅獨自一人自生自滅，而且反華勢力也充斥著Psy-ops。 社交媒體攻擊了中國人民，並指責他們為“吃蝙蝠”-一位中國博主吃蝙蝠湯的流行視頻廣為傳播，儘管事實證明，她三年前在數千英里的島嶼（帕勞）擁有湯 遠離中國。 權威人士和政界人士在電視上大張旗鼓地表示，這種流行病將幫助美國並使中國屈服。 特朗普吹牛說美國是世界上準備最充分的大流行國家。

https://worldaffairs.blog/2020/12/31/from-terrified-to-triumphant-how-china-flipped-2020/

US media, filled with Shadenfreude, kept saying “deadly coronavirus” (until it spread to Europe and the US) and shouted out malevolent things to mock and frighten China:

“CCP has lost its heavenly mandate”

“Novel coronavirus is China’s Chernobyl“

“China is Asia’s sick man (referring to a racist trope from the Century of Humiliation)“

“Coronavirus will end China’s role as global manufacturing hub“

China was accused of lying and hiding everything — origins and nature of the virus, how prevalent the virus was, how many were dying and so on. Even though China had warned the WHO on Dec 31, 2019 and released the full genome of the novel coronavirus by Jan 11, western media keeps repeating that China hid some truths about the virus. (Never mind that the SARS-Cov-2 virus was spreading in the U.S., as well as in France, Italy, Spain etc. all through December).

Twitter and Facebook in January and February were full of fake videos showing Chinese people collapsing and dying on Wuhan streets. When Chinese mobile companies lost 21 million customers in March, Americans shouted that all those people had died from COVID. Western journalists who were allowed to visit Wuhan wrote only gloom-and-doom stories. Later, even US politicians were spreading conspiracy theories about the virus escaping from a Wuhan lab. Chinese people living in the West were being physically assaulted by xenophobic and ignorant idiots.

It was a lonely, heart-wrenching, and an incredibly frightening moment for China. But the country ignored the judgmental, cruel world and came together as a family. That’s what Confucianism and collectivism (a core principle of socialism/communism) are all about.

China’s Incredible Response

China did the only rational and scientific thing possible: completely shut down Wuhan and even Hubei province (with 57 million people). Tens of thousands of doctors, nurses, volunteers, and even PLA soldiers were sent to Wuhan. People were restricted from leaving their homes; and communist party members volunteered to deliver food for millions of people. Doctors wore diapers and worked 14 hours a day, while sweating inside the suffocating PPE. Hi-tech corporations came to the rescue with drones to deliver food, robots to deliver medicines, big data to detect clusters, and AI to read CAT scans. The inimitable construction workers of China built two new hospitals in two weeks. People with mild symptoms were put in stadiums and college dormitories to stop the spread of the virus.

Everyone in China did their part. Corporations built mask and PPE factories in a week; and workers slept in those factories for weeks to ramp up production. Within a couple of weeks, Chinese scientists built huge labs that could do hundreds of thousands of COVID tests per day. Doctors worked meticulously, exploring different drugs — including Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) — to treat the new virus; and scientists were racing to develop vaccines. When big cities like Shanghai and Beijing had to shut down for 2-3 weeks, everybody cooperated and followed the guidelines. Later, when there mini outbreaks — like in Qingdao and Xinjiang, China would test millions of people in under a week. Test, trace, treat — China followed the basic principles.

After 76 days of incredible human drama, Wuhan came out of lockdown. Thanks to China’s “authoritarian”, “draconian” and “human rights-violating” measures, China had contained the pandemic and was ready to roar.

Meanwhile, the world was just coming out of its delusion. Having wasted precious three months gloating about China’s suffering, America started plunging into COVID19 lockdowns in April. The rest is history. By the end of the year, the USA had 20 million confirmed cases and 350,000 deaths.

Looking at COVID-19 deaths per million, China was 3 and the U.S. was more than 1,000.

This is how China ended 2020 — with celebrations and large parties of Merry Christmas and Happy New Year:

China’s other impressive achievements in 2020

Xi Jinping and Beijing officials must have spines made of steel. In spite of the horrifying events of the year, Chinese officials kept working on their individual objectives. Here are some commendable and unbelievable achievements of China in other areas:

Economy

China is the only major economy to have GDP growth in 2020 and the biggest growth in the next two years.

Opened up the financial services industry to Wall Street’s delight. Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, BlackRock, you-name-it all eagerly opened up numerous ventures in China.

Signed two landmark trade deals — RCEP and CAI.

RCEP is the world’s largest free trade agreement (FTA) and is Asia-focused. First time that Japan and South Korea have FTA with China.

CAI is a China-EU investment deal. While the incoming Biden team tried to stop the deal, Germany quickly wrapped it up just before the year end.

In both these treaties, notice that the U.S. is left out. Now, China is even ready to join TPP, which Trump quit.

Eradicated extreme poverty for the first time in China’s history! Zero percent, including Xinjiang and Tibet. That’s real human rights.

Donated countless number of masks, PPE, ventilators and diagnostic test kits to countries all over the world. Chinese experts traveled all over the world to train doctors and nurses. China donated and exported about 40 billion masks and 12,000 ventilators to the U.S.
Had record exports and trade surplus.
Stock market (CSI 300 Index) up 48%
Yuan up almost 10% from pandemic lows (from ¥7.18 to ¥6.52 per $1)
Record Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
World’s #1 in IPO’s
Surpassed the U.S. in global Fortune 500 list (124 v. 121). (link)

Surpassed the U.S. as the European Union’s largest trading partner. And also surpassed the EU in GDP (not counting UK’s GDP).

China became the #1 automobile market in the world (for total number of cars)
Surpassed the U.S. to become the #1 box office in the world

Technology

Installed more than 700,000 5G base stations, accounting for 80% of the world’s market share.

Went to the moon and came back with lunar samples in just 23 days! (Chang’e-5)
Sent a spacecraft to Mars (Tianwen-1)
Had the most number of vaccines in Phase 3 trial; successfully tested in many countries like Brazil, Turkey, UAE etc.

Approved Sinopharm vaccine for use; and have promised cheap vaccines for developing nations (while the US and Europe have refused to do the same).

Announced that China will reach carbon neutrality by 2060.

Tested digital Yuan/RMB (DCEP) in many cities. This lays the groundwork for internationalization of Yuan in 2022.

Infrastructure

Controlled the massive floods that ravaged vast regions of China for many weeks. (Predictably, western media and many social media citizens drooled about the possibility of the Three Gorges Dam crumbling and destroying China).

Increased the high-speed rail (HSR) network to about 39,000 Km.

Xiongan Smart City made tremendous progress, including a new bullet train station

Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) kept advancing. Turkey is now linked to Xian, China. More than 1,200 freight trains per month link 92 European cities to China.

Here are are some photos of driverless (a.k.a self-driving or autonomous) subway trains, new metro stations/lines, battery-powered trams, highways, and bridges that China built in 2020. (Ask yourself why America can’t afford such luxuries anymore).

Geopolitics

China quietly stopped Hong Kong’s insurgents and put an end to U.S. shenanigans. Beijing called out Washington’s bluff about sanctions and passed the National Security Law, which also kicked out American spies and the fake NGO’s like NED, which specialize in brainwashing and color revolutions.

In the midst of all these problems, America’s vassal states — India and Australia — saber rattled in ominous ways. However, the border conflict with India was de-escalated, while letting both sides save face. Australia was spanked very hard as a warning to other vassals. If Australia slips into a recession, the next Prime Minister will be a lot less racist and uncouth. And perhaps Australia will be more careful about committing war crimes in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

China also made a momentous and long-term deal with Iran, cementing China’s influence in the Middle East.

Reasonable success in thwarting the persistent atrocity propaganda about Uyghurs in Xinjiang. China’s new extradition treaty with Turkey in 2020 should help capture some Uyghur terrorists who are fighting in Syria alongside of ISIS and Al Qaeda.

Trade deals RCEP and CAI have strengthened China’s inclusion and ties with Europe and Asia, thus diminishing America’s chances for proxy wars. The vision of Eurasia became much clearer in 2020.

Military drills and more strategic alliance with Russia in 2020 should improve china’s security posture.

Conclusion

If your neighbor’s house is on fire, you should help them. In Jan/Feb, the U.S. gleefully watched China burn and bragged about American exceptionalism. That’s when the US and the EU should have given generous aid to China to contain the pandemic. Then, from April on, western societies refused to learn anything from China. Filled with hubris and undeserved overconfidence, the West kept fumbling for months. Incompetent governments and irrational public couldn’t agree upon simple things like wearing masks or even if COVID-19 is real.

As the West imploded, China soared to the skies.

To put it succinctly, China had a stellar year. And with Trump’s loss, the U.S. is more polarized than ever before. By the time Biden’s administration gets its geopolitical strategy together, everyone from Asia to Europe would see the writing on the wall — that China will inevitably be the #1 economy soon. 2020 started out as a terrifying year, but ended up as the most pivotal year that sealed China’s unique status in the 21st century.

World Affairs: Xinjiang and Uyghurs — What You’re Not Being Told “1 million Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps!” Lies! … “Ethnic Cleansing and Cultural Genocide!” … the western media is very effective at using emotional phrases. But what’s the real story? Let’s go beyond exaggeration, distortion and sensationalism. 世界事務：新疆和維吾爾人-沒被告知“集中營中有100萬維吾爾族穆斯林！” ……“種族清洗和種族滅絕！” ……西方媒體在使用情感用語方面非常有效。 但是真正的故事是什麼？ 讓我們超越誇張，歪曲和煽情。

First of all, the media will never show the peaceful, prosperous parts of Xinjiang:

https://worldaffairs.blog/2019/07/05/xinjiang-and-uyghurs-what-youre-not-being-told/

And Western media won’t talk about the billions of dollars that China has invested in Xinjiang, modernizing the cities, building 21 airports, linking the region with bullet trains etc.

In 2018, the 21 airports in Xinjiang handled 33 million passengers.

The Chinese government’s efforts are reflected in the exponential GDP growth of the Xinjiang region. In 2020, extreme poverty in Xinjiang was completely eliminated!

Regarding the Muslim minority, there are thousands of mosques in Xinjiang, a region whose recorded history goes back more than 2000 years when the ancient Silk Road linked China to Italy and Greece. In China, there are mosques that were built in the 10th century, which demonstrates the tolerance and respect for religious rights in Chinese society.

There are about 20,000 mosques in Xinjiang – Many westerners don’t understand that Uyghurs are not the only Muslims in China. There are also 20+ million “Hui” Muslims, who are different from Uyghurs and are living peacefully throughout China. Then there are other Chinese Muslim ethnic groups such as Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tatars, Uzbeks, Salars and so on. who also have no problems with the government.

As for religious freedom, there are thousands of Imams who lead the mosques in Xinjiang; and here is Abudulrickv Tumyazi, President of Xinjiang Islamic Association, giving an interview:

Like a few other provinces, Xinjiang is an “autonomous” region, which means it is run by Uyghurs for the most part. For example, the current governor is Shohrat Zakir, an Uyghur man who’s been in charge since 2014.

Also to remember are two nuggets of information: Xinjiang is a really vast region — it’s four times as large as California (!); and Uyghurs make up only about 40% of Xinjiang’s population. Overall, Uyghurs account for only 0.7% of China’s population. That’s about the same percentage as the Native American population in the U.S. now.

Does this sound like genocide?

Consider the following facts and ask yourself if they sound like genocide of Uyghurs:

Uyghurs were exempted from the one-child policy that China initiated in 1978.
Uyghur population in Xinjiang has doubled in the last forty years. Between 2010 and 2018, the Uyghur population in Xinjiang grew by 25% (while Han population in that region grew by 2%).

Also, life expectancy in Xinjiang has increased from just 30 to more than 74 since 1949.

Uyghurs (and other minorities in China) also get many preferential treatments — Chinese affirmative action — in colleges and other areas.

Xinjiang’s GDP has grown 1000% in the last 20 years; and absolute poverty in the region has been totally eradicated.

Uyghurs are living longer, growing in population, and becoming wealthier. What a strange way for China to eliminate Uyghurs!

Not all Uyghurs are the same

Now, let’s break down the facts. There are four types of Uyghur Muslims:

Well-educated Uyghurs who are moderate/secular Muslims

Poor and lower middle-class Uyghurs
Nomads

Separatists and terrorists
Moderate/Secular Uyghurs

These are middle or upper middle-class Muslims who enjoy normal lives, have good jobs, and integrate easily with the mainstream Chinese culture. There are even popular Uyghur musicians, rappers (here’s an example), TV hosts, politicians etc. in China. Here are two famous Uyghur actresses — Guli Nazha and Dilraba Dilmurat. There are also male Uyghur actors like Merxat Yalkun.

Uyghur kids from educated families go to schools, live normal lives and have a lot of fun on social media like Tik Tok (“Douyin” in China):

And here is an upper class Uyghur wedding, for which obviously the family must have spent a lot of money!

Politically, there are also powerful Uyghur people. One such example is Arken Imirbaki, who has been the Vice Chairman of the National People’s Congress since 2013. More importantly he’s a member of the powerful Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

Then there is An Waer, the Uyghur man who is the Chinese ambassador to Bahrain, the Islamic country in the Middle East! Below are the pictures of Imirbaki and Waer.

And Uyghurs serve in the Chinese military as well. Here are some Uyghur women in the PLA (People’s Liberation Army):

Working Class Uyghurs

There are also many working class Uyghurs who may own restaurants and gift shops or work as artists and craftsmen in touristy places. Their lives aren’t bad and most of them don’t get into trouble with the government. here’s a quick slideshow :

Really Poor Uyghurs

Then there are really poor Uyghurs who live in slums. These are prime targets for recruitment by jihadists. Many of these Uyghur kids work on the streets and shine shoes or help their families with menial jobs like taking care of donkeys, camels etc.

When the Chinese government mandates that these children go to school, the Western media scream bloody murder. What hypocrisy! If these Uyghurs come to the US, the children will be forced to attend schools as well. Here is a school that the “evil CCP” forces the Uyghur kids to attend:

Most of these kids don’t even speak Chinese, which greatly limits their abilities to find jobs later on as adults. So when they learn Chinese in school, the western propaganda screams, “cultural genocide.” Sheer idiocy!

The BBC admits that the “communist” (gasp!) government has spent $1.2 billion in the last five years on upgrading and building new schools for children in Xinjiang. This should be applauded, not demonized!

The Chinese government has done a phenomenal job by lifting 3 million Uyghur Muslims out of poverty between 2014 and 2019. Of course, the western media will never talk about it.

Whining about relocations

China watchers endlessly whine about relocation of Uyghurs. For example, in this article, the propaganda outlet Radio Free Asia (RFA) cries about how about 400 Uyghur families in a remote village were relocated by the Chinese government. However, the article admits that these people used to live in houses made of mud and reed [grass]; and they didn’t have TV, phones, electricity or even running water. This is not “Uyghur culture”; this is simply extreme poverty. If living like this is so great, why don’t we all go back to the 18th century?

Here’s a 30-second clip on how a desert town called Aktash in Xinjiang was modernized and helped relocate 14,000 ultra-poor Uyghurs. Anyone who has lived in a developing nation and seen harsh poverty and slums … will appreciate the virtue of such programs.

Watch this quick video about how the Chinese government helped a rural Uyghur family in Xinjiang move into modern housing and helped everyone in the family get jobs. This is a true humanitarian approach that focuses on poverty alleviation/reduction.

By the way, if these Uyghurs continued living in extreme poverty, the western talking heads will cry, “Oh, look, the Hans in Shanghai have skyscrapers, while neglecting the poor Uyghurs living in mud houses.” You can’t please these Sinophobic spin-doctors.

Nomadic Uighurs

Then there are Uyghurs who are herders and nomads in the vast Xinjiang region. Here’s a quick slideshow:

Although it seems romantic, their lives are not compatible with modern days. Most of them are stuck in extreme poverty and their kids also grow up completely illiterate. Sometimes the Chinese government relocates tens of thousands of these people into the cities and gives them jobs, free housing, health care etc. Of course, US media will spin this as “ethnic cleansing.” (The government has helped millions of Chinese people in other areas get out of extreme poverty by similar relocation projects as well).

Many of these nomads appreciate the new life: “With central heating, gas, running water, Internet and cable TV, we no longer need to worry about things that troubled us in the past.”

Sometimes, if the parents don’t want to give up their nomadic lives, the government may move the children to boarding schools, where they get free lodging, meals and education.

Separatists and Terrorists

China has struggled with terrorism since 1990 when Uyghur Mujahideens returned from Afghanistan. However, China failed in explaining the terrorist problem to the rest of the world. So, of course, western media took control of the narrative. Now CGTN has released a few documentaries (like this one), which is a good start. Here’s a 1-min excerpt:

History of Western Subversion

What is not mentioned in the mainstream media is that the West has been stroking separatism in Xinjiang since the 1950s! When the Chinese communists won in 1949 (by defeating the US-supported faction, which went on to establish Taiwan as the new fake China), the US started arming/funding separatists in Tibet and Xinjiang.

Intelligence documents declassified in the 1990s show how the US gave millions of dollars every year to Tibetan dissidents, including Dalai Lama. Then the US also trained Tibetan guerillas in Nepal as well as in Colorado.

As for Xinjiang separatists, the US brought in a lot of these extremists into Germany in the 1970s and helped them foment a movement for “East Turkestan.” Currently, the so-called “World Uyghur Congress” (WUC) is funded and glorified by the US government through NGOs such as National Endowment of Democracy (NED) — which also played a major role in the Tiananmen Square clashes in 1989 (see my article) and Hong Kong riots (see my blog post). NED is just a front for regime change operations by the USA. Allen Weinstein was the man who played a key role in the creation of NED in the early 1980s. Many years later, he openly admitted that, “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.”

In Dec 2020, NED tweeted that it had been funding Uyghur separatism since 2004. To really rub it in, the tweet showed Xinjiang with the blue “Turkestan” flag. Incredible hubris and chutzpah.

As British politician, writer and journalist George Galloway revealed, the U.S. was trying to use Bin Laden in a proxy war against China in the early 1990s.

Much of the recent atrocity propaganda stories come merely from hearsay testimonies of WUC members and separatists. There are also horror stories about organ harvesting spread by Falun Gong members in the so-called China Tribunal.

WUC is led by a woman named Rebiya Kadeer, who used to be … the richest woman in all of China! That’s how much discrimination she faced as an Uyghur. While she’s spreading all kinds of lies now, her granddaughters back in Xinjiang made her a video that shows how Uyghurs are enjoying modern subway/metro systems and upscale malls that feature stores like Gucci and Versace.

Fake News and Atrocity Propaganda

As for the allegations, it’s worthwhile to point to a 2014 NY Times article that called the refugee/asylum process an “Industry of Lies.” It talks about how refugees from China and elsewhere were taught to make up horror stories which were, of course, impossible to verify. Later, US federal officials secretly recorded conversations of lawyers coaching their clients to lie. The article concluded that, “most asylum applications were at least partly false, from fabricated narratives of persecution to counterfeit supporting documents and invented witness testimony.” However, now that China is officially a geopolitical enemy, every allegation from anti-China separatists must be totally believed!

Radio Free Asia (RFA) — run by the US government — publishes and broadcasts endless amount of fake news about China and Uyghurs. Most of the RFA stories are purely wild claims that are completely unsubstantiated. For example, a recent sensational story was “Xinjiang’s mosque was replaced a toilet.” Where is the picture of the old mosque? Where is the picture of the toilet? None shows. The photo in the article is completely unrelated and undated. If this kind of tabloid journalism is sad, what’s sadder is that dozens of other websites and even some mainstream media republish stories from the RFA.

Another source for crazy propaganda is the social media, where people post sensational fake photos and videos that quickly go viral (revealing the average IQ of people on social media).

For example, Uyghur separatists/activists posted a picture of a man with eyes and lips stitched, and claimed that China was doing this to Uighurs. However, it was a picture from 17 years ago of an Iranian refugee in the UK.

In another instant, a video of Indonesian police beating up a thief was posted as “Chinese beating up a Muslim for reading the Quran.” And that stupid video got millions of views.

The President of Uyghurs Projects Foundation tweeted a picture of children in the trunk of a car and claimed that Uyghurs were being forced into homelessness by cruel China. Well, it turned out to be a picture of Romanians going on a holiday more than a decade ago in Germany!

In another case, a photo from a sex/BDSM club in Taiwan was used to claim that Uyghurs were being tortured in China.
A viral video in 2020 claimed to show handcuffed and blindfolded Uyghurs being led by the police. It was actually an old video from another province (Guizhou) where some non-Uyghur (Han) people got caught in a massive financial fraud (pyramid scheme).

Some more examples mentioned in the video below.

Fake News in Mainstream Media

Mainstream US media is no better. For example, Forbes wanted to write an article about “forced labor” in Xinjiang. When they couldn’t find any real photo, they just went to Getty image and bought an old picture — from ten years ago — of a shoe factory in Chile and used it instead! No journalistic ethics.

Here are two more laughable propaganda from mainstream people. First, an NPR reporter, Emily Feng, tweeted that China put communist hammer, sickle and star on a mosque. This ignorant person doesn’t even know that a crescent moon and star is a very Islamic symbol that is found in mosques as well as flags of many Muslim countries (like on Pakistan and Turkey flags). BTW, here’s the hammer and sickle symbol. Then there is Timothy Grose, a professor from Indiana, who says that a Chinese dentist teaching a Uyghur child how to brush teeth properly is … a symbol of colonization! American propaganda really destroys human brain cells.

In late August 2020, BuzzFeed News published a sensational article that claimed that Baidu — China’s Google-like app — hides and blanks out “concentration camps” on maps! Well, guess what? Baidu didn’t hide anything; and, more importantly, the ominous looking buildings turned out to be nice suburban apartment buildings, some of which are rated five stars. This is utterly despicable and unethical journalism that callously spreads malicious lies.

Concentration camps or luxury apartment complexes?

Then there is ASPI (Australian Strategic Policy Institute) — a fake think tank from Australia — that is funded by western governments (US, UK, Australia etc.) and also weapons manufacturers such as Lockheed Martin. ASPI constantly spreads Sinophobia. Like Buzzfeed, it also uses satellite images to claim that any building in Xinjiang with a fence or a wall is a “detention center” or “re-education camp” or “concentration camp”. It’s a full-time job to debunk these wild and crazy claims. China’s Global Times went through several coordinates and published the details of actual buildings, which ranged from schools to nursing homes. Here’s an example of a scary looking satellite image that turns out to be an elementary school:

And how about the iconic photo that has been constantly used by western media for the last two years? This allegedly secret photo is often the first (and the only) proof that people bring up for the existence of concentration camps:

Photo from 2014 misleadingly used for sensational western propaganda
First of all, the above photo is not a secret asset that brave western journalists or spies obtained heroically. It’s from a Chinese government’s website — here’s the link! This was a big event that the local Xinjiang government proudly shared to show how it’s fighting extremism. Second, this was just a 3-day de-radicalization program. Western propaganda shamelessly turned this into a Nazi-like concentration camp.

1 million, 3 million, who cares?

There’s an echo chamber of fake news, where the US/western governments, think tanks, NGO’s and media repeat evidence-free claims, conspiracy theories, and lies. This incestuous relationship is revealed in this quick interview with Omer Kanat, Chairman of World Uyghur Congress (WUC). He tells Max Blumenthal, “We think there are 1 million people in education camps. We don’t know for sure. It’s an estimate from the media.”

The big 1,000,000 claim

The “concentration camps” story first came out in 2018 during the intense US-China trade negotiations. Coincidence? Not! In early 2018, Radio Free Asia (RFA) first came out with the bombshell story, claiming that 120,000 Uyghurs were being detained. (RFA is funded by the US government and was blatantly operated by the CIA during the Cold War against the USSR).

As the trade deal stalled, the US upped the ante and increased the number to 1 million! This was based on a fake study by another US government’s NED-funded group called China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), which worked with a German guy named Adrian Zenz — an absolute, far-right, Christian, religious zealot — and came up with the 1 million number.

Adrian Zenz

Whatever Adrian Zenz writes about China gets widely published western media and taken as unimpeachable truth. This conspiracy theorist doesn’t speak Chinese, has visited China only once (13 years ago), and was never a “China scholar.” However, he is a religious extremist who co-authored one book about “rapture” — the time when Jesus will allegedly come back and all the non-Christians — Muslim Uyghurs included — will burn in fire. This unhinged guy is just a propaganda tool for western intelligence.

Now, let’s look at how Zenz came up with his “1 million” number. He came to this dubious conclusion after (allegedly) interviewing EIGHT people! Basically, the strategy is to talk to some separatists from some remote villages in Xinjiang, get nice round estimates (250, 500 etc.), and extrapolate/multiply for the entire Uyghur population! Also, notice how they don’t even reveal the name of the villages! How can Chinese officials verify or refute this hatchet job? This is preposterous, without an iota of logic or objectivity! Here’s the link to the actual study and a screenshot of the “stats”:

Childish Statistics Behind the “1 Million” Number

Then an American – Gay McDougall – went to a UN group meeting and repeated the 1 million claim. Soon, all the mainstream media shouted that the “UN says there are 1 million Uyghurs in camps.” Later, a famous Uyghur “activist” – Rushan Abbas – went on Reddit and pumped up the number to 3 million! Insane propaganda that has no limit.

Muslim Countries Support China

However, to the dismay of propagandists, no Muslim country is buying the “concentration camps” narrative. Turkey is the closest to Uyghurs, who are of Turkic origin. Turkish leader Erdogan was in China in 2019 and said that the Uyghur re-education centers won’t affect China-Turkey relations.

Erdogan Xi July 2019

Indonesia — the largest Muslim country in the world —has also said that it understands China’s predicament of dealing with separatists. Similarly Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia and even Saudi Arabia have dismissed the sensational stories. Many diplomats and reporters have visited these Xinjiang camps and have come out reassured. Even the World Bank went to Xinjiang in 2019 and looked at the vocational programs and came back fully satisfied!

Here’s a video of journalists and diplomats visiting a classroom in a re-education camp in Xinjiang:

Oh, on the other hand, the US and the EU even refused to visit these camps. It’s a lot easier to sit back and spread fake news.

In 2019, 57 Muslim countries from the Organization of Islamic Council expressed support for China’s Xinjiang strategy. In 2020, 46 countries told the Human Rights Council at the UN that they support China’s handling of Muslims and other minorities.

Other countries have de-radicalization programs too! And Europe fights radical Islam, closes down mosques, regulates Islamic teaching etc.

One surprising but little mentioned fact is that other countries have similar programs! Malaysia, for example, has its own de-radicalization programs for ISIS fighters returning from Syria! When Kazakhstan has a rehab programs for radicalized people, the New York Times writes a sympathetic article and makes the program look like Disneyland!

France tried its own de-radicalization programs for Islamic extremists and has now said it won’t allow “political Islam”, will crack down on separatists, and ban foreign funding of French mosques & Imams (preachers). Macron wants only state-certified Imams to teach in mosques; and says that radicalized Islamists are the biggest threats since Hitler! French Prime Minister said that “radical Islam” is the enemy. France and many other European countries have also shut down mosques, banned home-schooling, banned burqas, niqabs, and even hijabs in schools and government. France even arrests 10-year-old children under a law called “apology for terrorism,” if the children express the wrong opinions!

Hmmm … what about freedom of speech, freedom of religion, human rights, blah blah ….?

Screenshot of an article about French re-education camps for terrorists:

Germany also has de-radicalization programs and even a judge in the US has sentenced some jihadists to a program affiliated with the German one! But the “China Bad” people are obsessed with one country. In 2020, Germany declared that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization and shut down many mosques. In 2016, Germany banned another Islamic group and raided whopping 190 mosques.

By the way, China said in late 2019 that it has shut down all these rehab/vocational training centers. But the western smear campaign continues…

One last important note …

One more historical perspective: In the 1980s, many Uygurs went to Afghanistan and joined the Mujahideen war against the Soviet Union. When the war ended in 1989, these radicalized fighters returned to Xinjiang and brought the diseases of Wahhabism and jihadism. In 1990, they launched a major terrorist attack in the township of Baren. When China started cracking down on the jihadists, many went back to Afghanistan, got funded by Bin Laden (and Saudi Arabia?), and started a terrorist group called East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) around 1998.

In 2002 (and a few times since then), the UN officially labeled ETIM as a terrorist organization linked to Al Qaeda. Later, this group changed its name to Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP), but it’s the same terrorist organization. In an utterly disgusting move, the Trump administration de-listed ETIM from the terrorist list after losing the re-election in Nov 2020. Now, the U.S. can openly fund, arm and train Uyghur terrorists. Think about that.

Ironically or hypocritically, the US periodically bombs Uyghur ETIM terrorists in Afghanistan and even keeps some Uyghur terrorists in Guantanamo!

From 2008 to 2015, there were a lot of terrorist attacks — suicide bombings, explosives, knife attacks, car attacls etc. — by the Uyghur jihadists (here’s an example) within China. Even during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Uyghur terrorists launched suicide bombings in Xinjiang. That’s when China decided to really crack down. By the way, this is also the reason why China banned Twitter, Facebook and Google, which were all operating in China until 2009. When China requested data on the rioters and jihadists, the American social media companies refused. Yes, US media and social media are all tools of color revolutions and the military-spy complex.

Furthermore, during the peak of the Syrian war, about 18,000 radicalized Uyghur Muslims went to Syria and joined ISIS to fight Assad.

Below is a slideshow of Uyghur terrorists (members of ETIM, TIP, Al Qaeda and ISIS) and their radicalized children in Syria.

Uyghur terrorists’ children camp
Uyghur rebels in Syria
Flag of “Turkestan”
Uyghur radicals and their school for girls
Uyghur jihadists with ISIS
Uyghur Refugees in Istanbul, Turkey
Uyghur kids in Syria-Turkey border
Hundreds of Chinese have been caught in recent months trying to sneak out of China without passports, and into southeast Asian countries including Vietnam.

Uyghur terrorists’ children camp

Uyghur terrorists’ children camp
Conclusion

Xinjiang also has a lot of economic implications. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has 1000s of freight trains and trucks carrying goods between China and Europe every year; and most of these trains and trucks go through Xinjiang. There are also many oil/gas pipelines from Central Asia that go through Xinjiang to power China’s industrial economy. An unstable Xinjiang will wreak havoc on the Chinese economy.

Belt and Road
The Chinese government is trying to help the poor people and fight the jihadists at the same time. While the West cries crocodile tears, Uyghurs are dancing and singing on “Uyghur Got Talent”:

On a similar note, if you go to YouTube, you can find numerous Uyghur channels, where they have songs and dances — traditional and modern, soap operas, talk shows, games, and more. Here are some I found through casual browsing: Yurtum TV, Diyarim Media, Uyghur Telewiziyesi, Uyghur Songs, Uyghur Beauty, and Uyghur Song.

There are also Pinterest boards like this one that shows thriving, beautiful Uyghur culture.

A really good vlogger is “Anni from Xinjiang.” She travels all over Xinjiang and visits shops, restaurants, and even homes of regular people. Although she speaks in Chinese and Uyghur languages, her videos on the YouTube channel are wonderful resources.

In conclusion, the US really needs to fix its foreign policy, which is now based on chaos, confrontation, proxy wars, Machiavellian divide-and-conquer strategies, lies, hypocrisy, disinformation, and endless propaganda. The US needs a positive approach that’s based on cooperation, friendly competition and ethical policies.

Debunking fake news and lies on China and Xinjiang 揭穿中國和新疆的假新聞

China Daily: Pompeo, 27 more banned from China By LIA ZHU in San Francisco | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-01-21

https://link.medium.com/u7y3bcSLedb

China on Wednesday imposed sanctions on 28 American individuals, including former secretary of state Mike Pompeo, former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro and other ex-senior officials.

The sanctions were imposed because they “have seriously violated China’s sovereignty and who have been mainly responsible for such US moves on China-related issues”, said China’s Foreign Ministry in a statement.

The list also includes former Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar, former national security adviser Robert O’Brien, former US ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft, former deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger, former national security adviser John Bolton, and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.

The sanctions prohibit those individuals and their immediate family members from entering the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Macao. They and companies and institutions associated with them also are restricted from doing business with China.

👉 “The Americans on the sanction list are well deserved. They are among those most responsible for promulgating the worst lies about China for the purpose of China bashing,” said George Koo, a member of the Committee of 100 and a retired international business adviser in Silicon Valley.

“Their action and words have poisoned the bilateral relations between China and the US and will require a concerted effort by both countries over a period of time to undo the damage,” he said. 👈

Since former president Donald Trump took office in 2016, his administration took a more confrontational stance toward China. Pompeo was the most prominent among those China hawks.

In his final day in office, Pompeo declared that China “committed genocide” in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Over Xinjiang, the Trump administration sanctioned several Chinese officials in July.

👉 “Pompeo has zero credibility. He admitted that as CIA director, he lied, cheated and stole,” said Julie Tang, co-founder of Pivot to Peace, an organization dedicated to advocating US-China peace.

“The definition of genocide is the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular ethnic group to destroy that group. He presented zero evidence to back up the lie that China is deliberating killing all the Uygurs in Xinjiang,” said Tang.

“Before World War II in Europe, there were 9.5 million Jews. The Nazis killed 6 million of them, leaving 3 million behind after the war. Now that is genocide,” she said, adding that Xinjiang’s population data proves the opposite. 👈

From 2010 to 2018, the population of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang grew by 2.87 million or 22.14 percent, and the Uyghur population there rose from 10.17 million to 12.72 million, up by 2.55 million or 25 percent, higher than the 14 percent growth for the whole population in Xinjiang, according to a statement by the spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in the US in response to Pompeo’s remarks.

👉 “Is that evidence of genocide? What Pompeo said was dangerous and misleading. And he did no service to our country, fanning hate towards China based on lies,” said Tang. “We hear he is looking at a run for president in 2024. And lies will not get him there.” 👈

👉 On the international arena, Pompeo’s “approach and personal style” has “alienated every nation and its leaders and diminished their respect for him”, said Koo, who also writes about US-China relations.

“Pompeo does not know the meaning of diplomacy. As the worst excuse for being the US secretary of state, he blunders around the world, making lies and outrageous statements and hopes to accomplish his objectives by intimidation,” said Koo. 👈

Prior to Wednesday’s sanctions, China had sanctioned other Republican officials in August, including senators Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas, over their interference in China’s internal affairs.

👉 “The effects (of sanctions) could be economically devastating for these ex-officials who are now looking for jobs in private corporations as consultants.” Tang said. 👈

http://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202101/21/WS6009057ba31024ad0baa429c.html

👉 By Members of the Bay Area (San Francisco) China Group:
George Koo recently retired from a global advisory services firm where he advised clients on their China strategies and business operations. Educated at MIT, Stevens Institute and Santa Clara University, he is the founder and former managing director of International Strategic Alliances. He is currently a board member of Freschfield’s, a novel green building platform.
Julie Tang is a former judge from San Francisco who retired to help build the San Francisco Comfort Women Memorial. She has co-chaired the Comfort Women Justice Coalition since 2015. Tang was born and raised in Hong Kong. 👈

Seasonal workers in Xinjiang labeled by Western media as ‘forced labor’: Exclusive with French writer Maxime Vivas. US is world champion in propaganda: French writer 西方媒體將新疆的季節性工人稱為“強迫勞動”：法國作家馬克西姆·維瓦斯（Maxime Vivas）獨有。 美國是宣傳活動的世界冠軍：法國作家 By Liu Xin , Fan Lingzhi and Chen Qingqing Published: Feb 03, 2021

Editor’s Note:

Maxime Vivas is a French writer and journalist. Based on his two visits to Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in 2016 and 2018, he wrote a book titled Ouïghours, pour en finir avec les fake news (Uygurs, to put an end to the fake news), in which he described his observations regarding Xinjiang’s anti-terrorism efforts and the region’s development, and analyzed the relations that the US National Endowment for Democracy has with the separatist World Uyghur Congress (WUC) and some nongovernmental organizations like Human Rights Watch (HRW). He shone light on how these organizations colluded in concocting and spreading “genocide” accusations against China’s Xinjiang. The book was published late last year in French.

https://link.medium.com/yGzHn3j5Rdb

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202102/1214858.shtml

“The End of Uyghur Fake News” French writer launches new book on “Real Xinjiang” | Blog Post

His work on Tibet
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2015-03/09/content_19767307.htm

Global Times (GT) reporters Liu Xin, Fan Lingzhi and Chen Qingqing interviewed the French writer to understand why he spent four years writing this book and his visits to Xinjiang.

GT: Could you introduce your new book? Aside from the French version, will the book be published in English, Chinese or Uygur?

Vivas: This book was born out of an observation of disinformation used by many French media outlets when reporting about China’s Xinjiang. In this book, I want to demonstrate that the Uygur “genocide” claim is a lie. I revealed the individuals who are the enthusiasts of the lies and their links with the CIA.

I give examples of a large variety of fake news, lies, doctored photos and false testimonies. I don’t give untenable conclusions, and I can prove that these are fake. For example, when Raphaël Glucksmann, a member of the European parliament made the assertion that “any Uygur who wears a beard has been sent to a ‘concentration camp’ in Xinjiang,” I presented photos I took in Xinjiang to refute his lies.

In France, among the elected officials, writers or journalists who speak about Xinjiang, none of them has gone there. I say what I saw. Maybe I haven’t seen the whole picture about Xinjiang, but I am not making it up. I am not hiding anything that I have seen.

Our journalists don’t know what they are talking about when they talk about China’s Xinjiang. Like parrots, they only repeat lies made by Adrian Zenz, an evangelist “guided” by his faith – he once said that God ordered him to fight against China. He is also an active figure in a far-right anti-Communist organization.

Zenz is hailed an “expert” on Xinjiang, but he actually created tons of lies that need months to debunk. He has no morals. For an honest man, it is humiliating to argue with such despicable person.

The campaign against China’s Xinjiang region is global. In my book, I unveiled precisely where and when it started, and for whose interests. I hope my book would be published in many countries, like my book on the Dalai Lama, which was published in the US. My new book has been translated into Putonghua and I have been contacted by publishers in China. I hope it will be published in Putonghua, Uygur, Arabic, English and so on.

GT: When did you get the idea of writing a book like this? What prompted you to complete it in four years?

Vivas: Since 2016, I had written numerous articles which circulated on the internet on what I had seen in Xinjiang. In 2018, when I went to visit the region again, I witnessed the enormous progress that had been made within two years.

But I also noticed the outburst of reports on Xinjiang made by French media and how they could lie with impunity, without ever having their claims debunked.

In debates on the radio or on TV, the guests who spoke about Xinjiang were all “journalists, political scientists, experts, sinologists, high-school teachers, and so on who had something in common – they had all read Adrian Zenz’ lies but none of them had been to Xinjiang. The absence of the slightest challenge to their words gave them a veneer of truth. It seems that in the radio or TV studios, they were stronger than the whole of China. A proverb says that “Every dog is a lion in his own house.”

At first, I was very hesitant to write this book. I have already written an investigative book on an anti-China “NGO” – Reporters Without Borders. This has seen four threats of trials against me. I also wrote an investigative book on the Dalai Lama.

In both cases, I wrote against public opinion and the media, but I’m proud for what I did. I was hesitant about the Uygur book, because I knew I was going to be pretty much alone in France, in Europe, in telling the truth about this region of China in a book.

In my city (Toulouse) there is a bookstore which is one of the four largest ones in France. The China section is quite small, and all of the books there are anti-China books. Mine has been there ever since I asked the manager to buy it. Toulouse, please allow me to remind you, manufactures planes for Airbus, and China is a client country. A whole part of the city depends on aeronautics. In short, we could have hoped for a little empathy.

So, for this book on Uygurs, I play the role as a “suicide bomber.” I told myself that I was going to spend a lot of time writing it, especially because I didn’t have the right to make the slightest mistake which would serve as a pretext for others to do a “Vivas-bashing.”

As the mood in the media was “China-bashing,” I was unlikely to find a publisher for such a book afterwards. And this fear was premonitory. I got no response from many publishers. Fortunately, a French intellectual, Sonia Bressler, a professor of philosophy and epistemology who knew Xinjiang, appeared. She was appalled when she saw how Xinjiang was talked about in France. She therefore established a publishing house: La route de la Soie. She did this so that there was a space of truth about China. When I offered her my manuscript, she accepted it before even reading it. For more than two months, we worked together to proofread and correct the manuscript in its smallest details.

GT: Could you share your stories of visiting Xinjiang? How long were you there? Where did you go? Had you been invited by the local government or made the decision yourself for the trips?

Vivas: I stayed in Xinjiang for two weeks each time. The first time, in 2016, I was contacted by the Chinese Embassy in France. I was there with 40 journalists from 20 countries. The second time was in 2018. At the invitation of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, I went to Xinjiang with my partner. On both trips, we traveled across Xinjiang by bus and plane. We visited big cities like Urumqi, Shihezi, Kashi, and we also went to villages. During the two trips I saw farms, lots of factories and schools. I also saw mosques, theaters, museums, cultural and artistic centers. I attended grandiose shows, including one in the new theater about 50 kilometers from Urumqi, a magnificent construction of Arab-Andalusian inspiration.

I have observed incredible dynamism in the Xinjiang region. I have also seen a certain delay in its development. I have seen citizens who do not know the language of their country (Putonghua) – I sometimes needed two interpreters when talking to them.

And I have also seen, like I wrote in my book, how the Chinese government is preventing more deadly terrorist attacks with strict measures. Unlike our media, I am not hiding what I have seen, neither did I make things up.

My partner and I wrote a book about this trip, about what we saw and felt. We hope it could be published because, in an aspect of a tourist travel story, it shows the extraordinary dynamism of this region.

We did not visit any training center. The Western media hyped “concentration camps, extermination camps” and “genocide.” We know that China is setting up vocational education and training centers. All countries of the world have places for common criminals and also for citizens who have been engaged in terrorist activities or who threaten to do so. I tell in my book how ferociously France once fought terrorism and separatism, and how harshly it fights today against political Islamists. I also tell, without hiding anything from what I know, the methods used in China to fight against “the three evil forces.”

GT: Some Western media are also talking about “forced labor” in Xinjiang. Have you seen forced labor in Xinjiang? What are the reasons the West makes up “forced labor” lies there?

Vivas: Forced labor? Our media have gone too far. They said that in Xinjiang, there are “500,000 Uygur slaves in the cotton fields.” Unfortunately, they could never show us satellite photos by which we would see these “unfortunate” people, probably guarded by hundreds of thousands of armed police! In France, in my region, when the time for the harvest arrives, our wine growers call on grape pickers from Spain, Morocco, etc. They are not called “slaves,” but “seasonal workers.”

I explained these at length and precisely in my book: the “NGOs” like HRW and the WUC are funded by the US, through the CIA. I am not telling you what I believe, but what I know. Of course, they are in contact. It’s the National Endowment for Democracy that gives them the dollars.

GT: In your opinion, do Western politicians, media and people have a clear understanding of Xinjiang? Why? How many people around you went to Xinjiang? Why are they drawing conclusions about a place they had never been to? Why does the West continue to criticize Xinjiang when the security situation in the region is at the best in recent years?

Vivas: I know a lot of people who talk about Xinjiang, but I only know three who have been there: Sonia Bressler (my editor), my working partner and me. Everyone else who speaks or writes about Xinjiang is just repeating what people like Adrian Zenz and CIA-paid “NGOs” said.

The French media are self-intoxicating and politicians get information from these media. Not all: Jean-Luc Mélenchon, candidate for the 2022 presidential elections, refuses to bark with the pack. Twice he has let me know he is supportive of me.

GT: Did you receive threats for writing the book?

Vivas: For this book, I received insults and slander. No more, it’s too early. I know how it’s going to turn out: the anti-Chinese clique, unable to find a lie in my book, will engage in ad hominem attacks and create a diversion by criticizing Beijing on every possible subject.

GT: Someone may question why you wrote the book and whether you were funded by the Chinese government. What’s your response to this?

Vivas: These criticisms have been made. They used to say that I was paid by Radio La Havana (Cuba). For my book on the Dalai Lama, they said, I wrote “at the dictation of Beijing.” You know liars mess up everything. The word “ethics” is unknown to them. I have a family and I would rather die than shame them with lies.

For my book on the Uygurs, I would find it normal that I get copyright for its sales in France and abroad. The readers will pay, not the Chinese government. Those who make it up offend me.

China is a great economic and military power. But for propaganda, the US is the world champion. Thanks to the US, the French know the names of the 50 states of the USA and only four Chinese regions – Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet and Xinjiang.

The French feel sorry for the people of Xinjiang in their imagination, but they never realize that the US and its allies are actually worried about the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) project that starts in China’s Xinjiang.

Videos: 627 videos by Citizens of Xinjiang exposed the fake news, US and her allies engaged in Nazi Germany propaganda tactics by repeating the fake news 100s of time to make it sound real to demonize Chinese and China. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkbOIKUddMBtp0_xEFqn4zey48kkgJq5w https://link.medium.com/5nomylcNaeb 627個視頻 – 新疆市民揭穿西方假新聞，美國和她的盟友從事納粹德國的宣傳策略, 通過重複假新聞數百次使之聽起來真實來妖魔化中國和中國人. This is another good set of resources for debunking the Genocide fabricators by the Western Empire. https://www.reddit.com/r/Sino/comments/lsaph9/masterpost_of_sources_for_debunking_xinjiang/ 這是揭穿種族滅絕製造者(西方帝國)的另一套很好的資源