On Monday, the United States, Britain, Canada and the European Union announced sanctions against multiple Chinese officials for “serious human rights abuses” against Muslim minority Uighurs in the far-west region of Xinjiang. This is a blow to the genocide as Beijing bets on juggling it against powers it doesn’t like.
Well, the European Union joined the Western allies for China’s sanctions, the first such action since the Tiananmen Square massacre. But addressing a few Chinese officials is not beginning to match the scale of these atrocities: torture, rape, brainwashing and trapping of more than a million civilians in concentration camps.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken rightly says that the Chinese Communist Party engaged in “genocide” then makes noises about the “permanent commitment of the Allies to work multilaterally to advance respect for human rights and give birth to” few officials “responsible for these atrocities.” Eh? They are doing what their government wants, without being a scoundrel.
Meanwhile, Beijing has imposed tariffs and bans on $ 50 billion a year on Australian seafood, wine, coal and barley in retaliation by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who is simply calling for independent researchers to be allowed in Wuhan to investigate the origins of a pandemic that it has killed millions and decimated the world economy.
China is also imprisoning innocent Canadians on fraudulent charges and secretly prosecuting them for attempting to blackmail Ottawa into releasing a detained Huawei executive at the request of the United States, in full compliance with international law.
Not to mention the CCP’s relentless cold war against the free nation of Taiwan, which has lasted for decades. On Friday, at least 20 Chinese military planes entered Taiwan airspace, Beijing’s largest foray into months of bullying exercises.
Now, Beijing is canceling H&M and Nike within its borders to issue statements denouncing the use of forced labor to produce cotton in Xinjiang. H&M has been withdrawn from China’s major e-commerce stores and blocked by several major navigation, review, and classification applications; Chinese celebrities have cut ties with Nike.
The West does its best not to offend the architects of atrocity excessively; the PCC seeks to crush those who believe it. It’s not uncommon for them to call us “decadent”.