(The Archive: Article) The events in Xinjiang are mostly just propaganda devoid of any real evidence or facts.
It is my opinion that what we are being told about what is happening in Xinjiang is mostly propaganda aimed at shifting public opinion against China, thus harming their trade advantages and also aimed at dividing China. Multiple accusations have been levied at China in the past few years regarding Xinjiang and I will do my best to explore those ideas below. What follows is my opinion, my ideas and some quotes, references, excerpts from books. I do not pretend to have the truth. Finding out what is happening is difficult. I have not been in Xinjiang to see by myself. I can only listen to both sides of the argument and make up my mind about it. As I just stated above, after looking at both sides of the argument, I am not convinced at all that those allegations are true. I also presume innocence. Here I will tell you why.
Please, follow me along this reasoning, see what you think
To examine the subject, it is thus important to look at most of the evidence that is available from both sides of the argument. I say most of the evidence because honestly, I am just a human and content gets produced faster than I can consume it. Also, this is not a book but just an essay, intended at making people think about those issues and possibly to help people reach a better consensus or just get a clearer picture. Things are rarely all black and white as I discussed recently in another article. It would be very sad to blame an entire nation for something that is false. If more suffering is to ensue, we should try to prevent that from happening. As such, I will first expose my arguments as to why I think there has not been a genocide in Xinjiang. I will then follow by looking at the counter arguments which says the opposite. To do that correctly, it is also necessary to bring notions of history, geography, and military science. Finally, I will attempt to synthesise both ideas to see what conclusions we can draw out of this.
The 'Barbarians'
The main reason why I do not think those allegations are true is because I have read Zbigniew Brzezinski's The Grand Chess Board: American Primacy. This book outlines the course of action that the United States must take in order to maintain a military hegemony. The idea is fairly crude; Africa is the continent that contains the mineral and oil riches that many nations will strive to control. As such, controlling the access to Africa is of utmost importance. In order to maintain that control, it is necessary to assert control over the Eurasian continent (link to read.cash article about the geography of the region), itself, again, full of resources. Or more precisely, the inhabitants of the Eurasia, must not control Africa also. The book then points to the inhabitants of Eurasia and even refers to them as "the Barbarians", i.e. The Chinese and the Russians, descendants of Mongolian origins like Genghis Khan. Brzezinski goes on to tell America that in order to secure the resources for themselves in Eurasiafrica, they must contain and divide the so-called barbarians.
The region is today controlled like this, going clockwise: Japan, South-Korea, Senkaku islands, Okinawa islands, Taiwan, Australia (QUAD), South China Sea, Malaysia, Vietnam. Then we can move on to India which is being courted to join the QUAD alliance, intent on the same purpose (containment). Then Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Israel/Palestine, Egypt, Lybia, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan. Then in eastern Europe, Ukraine, Georgia and more recently Belarus.
All the countries I have just enumerated, form a belt around the so-called barbarians. In each of those countries, you will find either a US military intervention or occupying troops or some form of a coup, often called colour revolutions. Japan was not a wilful ally of the USA and was forced into an alliance. So was Germany. And I am sticking to the belt here, I am not touching on the South American continent or other ex-USSR nations because it is besides the main topic. This article is already too long... I am sorry for that. It's just that there's a lot to say.
In 2012, I started to doubt the official narrative about Syria. If Bashar al-Assad was so bad, why the hesitancy, globally, at an intervention? Didn't everybody agree to get rid of him? Well, in retrospect, I was naive. I then learned a lot more about Bashar al-Assad's father, about the history of the middle east, and about global geo-politics that have gripped this world since the end of WWII. I read Marin Katusa's excellent Colder War. I started getting interested in global macro, global geo-politics. I read Currency Wars by Jim Rickards. I read The Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed. I saw the Ukrainian conflict in a different light. Mostly what I saw was a conflict of Superpowers. Things were not so simple as black and white. As guilty or innocent. This is the real world.
Never forget that Russia asked to be a part of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) and was refused entry. Why is that? Why refuse to have a global cooperation between superpowers? China would love to cooperate with the US militarily. China has repeated multiple times that cooperation benefits both sides. It is the United States that refuses to live in a multi-polar world. If the United State's intents were really aimed at providing security on a global scale, it would welcome aid from others. Rejecting a climate of military cooperation leads to two certain things: Conflicts and military budget increases. And that pleases the weapons manufacturers. They welcome conflict on a global scale - as long as it is not MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction).
In 2014, some terrorism started to come to my attention in Xinjiang. Hundreds of innocents were killed in the streets by cars that rammed crowds. Those are Muslim extremists fighting for jihad. Many were apprehended and now languish in prison. Some at least recognise that what they did is wrong. Their religion is not wrong. Killing people is wrong. According to the China Highlights website:
Muslim ethnic groups live mainly along the borders of modern China in Yunnan, Tibet, Xinjiang, Gansu, and Henan Province. Of the 55 or so Chinese minority groups, about ten are classified as Muslim.
Many mosques are present in many cities. The prosperous trade between China and Indonesia, which is 90% Muslim is another testament to old roots of Islamic culture that China has. If you hear that Uyghurs are repressed because of their religion, it is just false. Uyghurs were not even subject to the one child policy. Their population has risen considerably. Compare that with allegations talking of mass sterilisation. The numbers don't lie; It makes no sense. People are free to worship who they want in Xinjiang and elsewhere in China. Some are Buddhists, some are Muslim and some are Christians. I have personally met Chinese Christians.
And in 2014, China's GDP (PPP) overtook that of the USA to become number one. And to quote Biden himself, the USA will not tolerate a number 2 position.
Let me get that straight, the USA had planned a "complete exit" by 2014? That did not age well:
In preparation for a complete exit from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, the U.S. military has destroyed more than 170 million pounds' worth of military equipment, The Washington Post reported.
In this context we are now hearing of Uyghur mistreatment, genocide, terrorism and that we should now side with pro-democratic forces against the authoritarian regime. Yeah, yeah, yeah... impose sanctions.... tariffs. We've seen all this before.
I saw it coming... I knew that environmental blame would come back in the news to blame China. When all of a sudden, all the news I read start to be China-negative, I recognise the pattern because I have seen it before. Its not that the Chinese civilisation has changed all of a sudden, it is the attitude of the West towards it that changed.
Again, what is to be seen here, is a global geo-political game involving many players taking stabs at each other.
Again I make my point: The intent is not to promote human rights or the environment. The intent is to hurt and divide China. And if you ask why divide? It's simple: Divide to conquer.
You're wondering why you're hearing of "semiconductor shortages"? Look no further, it's the same intent, focused on China, through Taiwan.
If the intent was really to promote human rights, remember the long and prosperous relationship between the USA and multiple dictatorships around the world. Some of which they installed themselves. Also the Saudi Royal family and the fate of Jamal Kashogi made the news but is still tolerated. Atrocious killings are taking place in Africa but that's not where the game takes place. Not yet, at least.
What has been called "...the world's most destructive oil operation" in Canada is also tolerated. So what about Musk's beef with coal in Xinjiang? Should Canada ban using cars because they are using gas that comes from dirty tar sands? Again, I'm telling you my conviction: The environment and ESG concerns surrounding Bitcoin and the need to mine "responsibly" is hypocritical. It's all about blaming China in this case. And it's all about the fact that the US is seriously lagging when it comes to mining power. It's losing the competition on many levels and this is the response!
I could go on and on and on... I'm not going to talk about Covid-19. Nor about information warfare, economic warfare or more details about the conflict. But I urge you to document yourself. Keeping a perspective on what the US is saying, what Russia is saying and what China is saying is critical to establish some sense of what is really going on in this world. I mean, the conflict is now in space and even soon heading to the moon with Lockheed's new project. See below for more details on that. So if the conflict has now reached space, it is reasonable to assume that it has also reached all forms of information warfare: Media wars and control of public opinion.
So it is in this context that I regard today's newest accusations that "the Chinese CCP regime did a genocide in Xinjiang" as a distortion of facts mostly intent at blaming China for whatever might convince people. Human rights and environmental concerns are the alibi, not the motive. Sure they detain prisoners. All nations do that and some have even made it a lucrative business. Do not let empty accusations in the name of "bringing humanitarian aid and democracy to the poor people of country x" convince you. Nobody wants humanitarian atrocities. Nobody should want war or confrontation. We have seen countless calls to act in the name of humanitarian causes. Many were misleading and led us to wars that only cause suffering. Further information:
Must watch: Hopium Diaries by RektTV (same as inserted above)
Kishore Mahbubhani: Has China Won?
Read Matthew J. L. Ethret: It's just propaganda...
Musk Forks China+BTC: Max Keiser: We are in the hash wars.
Look at The 5 Eyes alliance: US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, soon the 6 eyes
Times Mag: The QUAD: US, Japan, India, Australia - Just FYI.
Inciting hatred: https://journal-neo.org/2021/06/22/the-uyghur-tribunal-inciting-hatred-against-china/
The ever excellent Abby Martin @Empire Files: https://odysee.com/@EmpireFiles:0/9-11-and-the-belligerent-empire:4
The Case for the Genocide in Xinjiang
The amount of evidence that goes against what I have said above is astounding. Listing it here would be too long. Articles and google searches abound with decisive: "The Genocide in China, Xinjiang". In fact, it was a fellow Read.cash article that led me to write this one. The author clearly exposes only one side of the picture declaring China as guilty without doing proper analysis. His article is about the mining situation in China. His words: "[...] human rights violations by the Chinese authoritarian regime." To call the Chinese government illegitimate as a "Regime" and to apparently presume guilt before it has been investigated is wrong. After I commented on his article by saying it was propaganda, entirely one sided, he blocked me. He may have wanted to provide context however it was entirely one sided, quoting the BBC and Wikipedia, with no apparent link between human rights, to Bitcoin mining itself. I hope he reads this article. Again, to quote the author (@Pantera):
There is a tense situation with human rights violations of the Uighur minority where China has detained 1million Uighurs so far on re-habilitation facilities. There are widespread allegations of torture, forced sterilization, and international condemnation that has led many multinationals to pull off factories and busineses from this particular region.
Also you have probably heard not to buy cotton from Xinjiang as it is made with forced slave Uyghur labour. As a quick counter argument I heard that it's all machines that harvest cotton now. But for the benefit of the doubt maybe they were enslaved up until now. But the concern is also about the genocide that has taken place and how oppressed the Uyghurs are. I think I broadly summed up what multiple articles are saying: There have been multiple human rights violations in Xinjiang about internment camps, genocide and repression.
Also, the official statement by the Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Alaska back in April was categorical: China had violated the human rights, coerced its neighbours, was oppressing Taiwan and was endangering the safety of the South China sea.
A book has been published: "THE UYGHUR GENOCIDE: An Examination of China’s Breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention". I obtained a copy because it is freely available. I wonder why? That book was authored by Adrian Zenz.
Also the BBC has a documentary detailing the human rights violations. It is one of the only evidence supporting the allegations of human rights violation that the other article reported here on Read.cash. But you can look up the BBC on Youtube. The BBC has an extensive coverage of everything in Xinjiang. Everything negative I should add. Not one single positive video or article and they are all recent (<2 years). They seem to take a particular interest there all of a sudden. It SCREAMS propaganda. You should contrast that with what Xinjiang officials are saying. Here is the page of the BBC:
As you can see in the article from the BBC, there is a clear journalistic bias. Not a single positive thing is being said here. The defence China is giving is ignored. To me, the articles of the BBC on the subject reek of propaganda aimed at building a file on the subject. They have 5 years of satellite imagery put together showing buildings being built. They even have an architectural firm that made assessments as to the buildings. They have 3d visualisations embedded in the webpage showing the growth of detention facilities! How much budget do they have to research all of this? There is nothing more pressing during the global pandemic? They have a few witnesses who are in the US who have all fled the alleged inhuman oppression. Xi Jinping is directly associated and blamed for all of this, with direct associations to Sexual violence as can be seen in the BBC article. Again, I hope people question the journalistic integrity when they see that no anti-thesis has been provided. It is all black according to the BBC. And the USA agrees. They agreed on Iraq right?
Canada's parliament has voted 266 vs. 0 in favour to recognise China's actions as a genocide. But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau refused to vote. Ask yourself why. I think he said it publicly.
Australia has also accused China of human rights violations in Xinjiang. But New-Zealand did not follow the same move. Again what we are seeing here, is that the influence of the CCP? I think so, possibly.
Also, just as I expected, Wikipedia has copious amounts of information documenting every aspect of the said genocide and repression and puts significant blame on Xi Xingping himself and the Han CCP. Everything is quoted with a source. The sources are such as: Adrian Zenz, The Economist, The Atlantic, CNN, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, The Australian Strategic Policy Institute, BBC, The Global and Mail, Financial Times, The East Turkistan National Awakening Movement, The Independant, The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, World Bank, Reuters and the non-profit Alliance of Democracies Foundation. An astounding number of foundations, institutes, think-tanks and others have taken interest.
Here is one such reference from Wikipedia:
Greitens, Lee & Yazici 2020, pp. 22–28: "Three common explanations for increased repression in Xinjiang appear in scholarly literature and policy analysis: (1) increased levels of contention in Xinjiang beginning around 2009; (2) resulting shifts in the CCP’s ethnic minority policies; and (3) the individual leadership of Xinjiang Party Secretary Chen Quanguo."
It sums up pretty much what initiated the entire crisis. But after 2009, as time went on, especially in the last two years (2019-2020), multiple other publications and NGOs have denounced the genocide and human rights violations. So many have done that in fact that the Wikipedia page for "Xinjiang Internment Camps" has 407 references! Compare that to a Proton which has just 51 references! Gold? Only 192. The page for Ireland has only 237 references. Bitcoin? Only 304... But Donald Trump has 847 references to make the case beyond any doubt. What case? I will let you guess.
Wikipedia now prevents editing of certain articles. Just as certain videos are being removed from YouTube and certain relevant search results are not shown by google. People are being banned, blocked, shadow-banned, demonetised, etc. I think the Plandemic video is one of the best example. The video is removed from YouTube but hundreds of debunking videos are there. They all "debunk" the Wuhan lab theory as pure falsification. If that content was so obviously false, why remove it? There's plenty of crazy false stuff left anyway. It seems that certain falsehoods are less welcome than others.
As Snowden has shown to Glenn Greenwald for the world to see, the NSA was indeed spying on USA citizens, even if James Clapper lied about it earlier when asked directly. He says he didn't lie; It was just a big mistake. Also Wikileaks showed the world that the USA had used torture and had violated human rights on multiple occasions. We all know of the fate of Assange. So to say outright that the USA welcomes discussion and is acting for humanitarian reasons and that USA citizens are free from repression or from Big Brother is not exactly true. The UK has massive video surveillance programs and so does China. Canada was under a 6 months mandatory curfew until very recently. Authoritarian surveillance state regimes? Nothing is ever all black or white.
Has China Won? Have the Travails of Empire failed?
All the publications above more or less publish articles that construct a narrative to reference itself. As I have just shown, a lot of time was spent on documenting this particular subject. A lot of Non-profits and NGOs are involved. A lot of money and efforts in spent to push a narrative. We've seen this before. But as you should know, the number of references can be misleading and is not necessarily indicative of the quality of the subject at hand. The phrase: “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth” is attributed to Nazi Joseph Goebbels. It's not because you reference the lie a thousand times and that it gets up voted on social media that it is the truth.
Notice that the vast majority of the references are to US, UK, Canada, Australia news publications. Or their NATO allies. But of note, the Wikipedia article referenced above mentions that Syria called the actions of the US a "blatant interference by the US in the internal affairs of (China)". Also of note, Erdoğan also said that some people were seeking to "abuse" the Xinjiang crisis to jeopardise the "Turkish–Chinese relationship". Palestine voiced support for China's "legitimate position on Hong Kong, Xinjiang and other matters concerning China's core interests." Russia also sees this as a blatant interference by Washington just as it did with regards to Ukraine and Syria. In his excellent talk, Lawrence Wilkerson, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William Mary, and former Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, tells you how it is in The Travails of Empire.
I do trust Wikipedia and the vast majority of what the Mainstream media says in the West is true, I think. But certain aspects are misleading or outright falsehoods. They retract themselves, sometimes, but even then the public opinion has been affected by the outrageous title.
This is all part of splitting the world so the US can stay on top. Because otherwise, on its current trend, the USA will rapidly sink down.
(Image: Visual Capitalist)
I cannot realistically, in this article, examine all aspects of the world. But I look at many other metrics. I could have written paragraphs about metals, rare-earths, semiconductors, gold, etc. The energy consumption is there FYI. Interpret it as you will (efficient, inefficient, clean, dirty...) In fact, here is where the US is lagging behind:
Semiconductors (Taiwan is 66% of the world's production)
Supercomputers (BTC being the most powerful)
AI (machine learning)
Hyper-sonic missiles and ICBMs
Navy size
Manufacturing (robotics)
5G and CMDBs
Space (station, moon, mars)
Economy (US is only deficits and debts)
Energy consumption (40000 TWh)
Here is where the US leads:
Air superiority
Power projection
Geo-politics, global information control
Global military intelligence
Navy weight
Military experience and budget (The US has been at war for 222/239 years or 93% of it's existence)
Energy consumption (25000 TWh)
Go look at the list of the 100 tallest skyscrapers being built at the moment. I'll break it down to you because I did the work (spot the odd one out!):
USA: 4
UAE: 7
Thailand: 1
Saudi Arabia: 2
Russia: 1
Poland: 1
Japan: 1
China: 72
Israel: 1
Indonesia: 5
India: 1
Egypt: 1
Canada: 2
Malaysia: 1
So as of today, China alone accounts for 72% of the tallest skyscrapers being built in the world and the USA accounts for 4%. That doesn't prove anything but I always find it an interesting metric to look at. Some might argue that those buildings in China will be empty and I would counter that it would still be better and still a more productive gain for their society and general utility than dropping bombs in the middle east or replacing Humvees with MRAPs in Afghanistan. What is China doing with their money? Building! Consider the following image showing the Belt and Road (BRI). Notice how members of the QUAD or the five eyes are absent.
And that is specifically true for Africa. Consider the perspectives: China makes deals with Africa, they build roads, ports, airports, rails, etc. They finance debt and refinance debt and over and over again... But in the end the port is built. The railroad is built. Hospitals, schools. Everybody benefits.
The USA makes deals with Iraq to enlighten them to democracy and secure the world from assured destruction. What does Iraq have now? What does Syria have now? What does Afghanistan have now? Ukraine is supposedly better now? Is the world free of terrorists after the 20+ war on terror led by Washington? So when Washington comes in and says: "Look at the human rights violation there. The US and its allies must take action..." I just don't believe the lies anymore.
And I'm not saying that the USA only does bad things, far from it. I love the USA, this is why it's so sad. Many wonderful accomplishments in the world are thanks to the Americans and their innovation and cooperation. World War II was won thanks to both the Americans and the Russians, amongst others. But international institutions established since then have gotten corrupted and the USA has devolved today in a global empire which imposes its views through economic sanctions or else menaces full spectrum dominance warfare. Terrorism is also a new option since 9/11 thus providing a motivation for military intervention and democratisation efforts. Go read the works of Aaron Maté at the Grayzone.
But for now, the USA is intent on aggressive competition with China. Imposing tariffs on Chinese goods and preventing Taiwan from accessing Chinese vaccines are two examples on how the USA behaves on the global scene in an irresponsible manner that only causes harm. Tariffs raise the cost of American citizens to buy Chinese goods. The public pays, not the banks or the military. This is not good. This is not a symbol of American led free open trade that benefits everybody.
Just look at the manners how the USA recently handled their strategic meeting with China. The reception was in Alaska and was even extolled by Blinken as "fitting for this meeting". I.e. relations are cold. Blinken then went on to accuse China of you know what... Hong Kong, Taiwan, South China Sea, Economic Coercion of neighbours and Human Rights violations in Xinjiang. As well as cyber attacks on the United States. Jake Sullivan agreed and they reiterated that the USA had just met with a new formed military alliance (QUAD). Also new sanctions were to be imposed. Just to tell China that a new military alliance is being formed with Japan to surround them is not a welcome introduction to a meeting where both sides should cooperate for the benefit of humanity. If you don't know your history, go look at the atrocious war between them.
Kishore Mahbubani and I agree that this is not how you welcome another country to have a productive dialogue and to seek common grounds. The common interests of both nations should be put forward to act responsibly as global superpowers. As Yang Jiechi said it himself: "Cooperation benefits both sides". So to start a high level diplomatic meeting in such a cold and condescending manner is certainly not seeking to improve relations and work together. This goes along with what I am saying. The human rights violation are just made up by Washington.
People have noticed worldwide the change of tone. Biden's ad-hominem attack on Putin calling him a "Soulless Murderer" was answered brilliantly by Putin: "It takes one to know one". Putin followed by saying that he would welcome dialogue with Biden. Such high level diplomatic blunders (by Biden or Blinken) are emblematic of 21st century geo-politics. Comparing the diplomatic stance that the USA has put forwards with Mike Pompeo, John Bolton and now Anthony Blinken to the diplomatic skill shown by Yang Jiechi is like watching adults and children. Nation leaders of the world have noticed. Kishore has a ton of experience in diplomacy and says the following in a 2018 article:
"And I can tell you, you’ll be quite amazed how good some of these Chinese diplomats are today."
The live interpreter of the summit for the Chinese delegation became an instant sensation, I am told by my friends in China. I could see why. She spoke with proper English, after taking live notes for 15 minutes straight. Later, she translated live what was being said. And the words she spoke were those of her nation. As a single interpreter, she was standing firm in the wake of accusations levied at her country. Whether the accusations are true or not, they are of a very serious nature. The video is a must watch. It is better than many movies. The emotion in her voice at the words that she had to say out loud. She was telling Blinken: "China will not accept to be spoken to in a condescending manner... Cooperation benefits both sides." I watched the entire discussion, on YouTube. Apparently the US side wanted all cameras turned off at some point but China insisted to keep them on for the world to see. This is why the video is hard to find. All 1h and 8 minutes of it. Not just the short clips or the summary. Watch the whole thing! When Blinken told the Chinese that they wanted a Rules based Order and that the Chinese delegation replied that they did not recognise this rules based order but instead recognised the United Nations and International Law, the difference in terms of understanding of global geo-politics became apparent. Or was it just a bad strategy from the US side?
Also, while we compare both, notice that there has been a military revolution around aircraft carriers. China is still building some but increasingly, they are becoming a liability more than an asset, as was the case historically speaking with Battleships and Dreadnoughts. We don't see those anymore because they've become obsolete.
Well today, USA aircraft carriers and their battle groups, that used to be invincible in the Pacific Ocean are increasingly susceptible to saturation attacks by hyper sonic weapons. It is well known. Point defence systems and the Aegis system are not invincible. Hyper sonic weapons are even harder to detect and defend against. Besides, the cost of such weapons even if ten of them must be used simultaneously, is still a tiny fraction of the cost of the aircraft carrier, it's contents in terms of lives and in terms of everything else, F35s included. So the cost analysis of war is different nowadays. Much of it and increasingly so, is now geared towards the defence of satellites. AI and battlefield integration. Processing power. Hence also the split in space between the Russians and the Americans. This is also why China is now building its own space station. Skynet is close to a reality nowadays. Putting the world on opposites sides only accelerates its development. Lockheed is already working on militarising the moon. Maybe the vehicle you see below is what the F35s will be recycled into. No, it was just a joke. The image is real but there are no weapons systems yet announced. And I am not sure if the F35s CAN be recycled.
Let us look at supercomputers and why I say that China is leading the way. Obviously, we all agree that BTC is primarily mined in China. They have the biggest share of the market. As for the supercomputers outside of cryptos, I look to top500.org. The data dates back from November 2020 and is interesting. On first account, we notice that the USA has 33% of the top 100 while China has only 3% of that segment. The USA is outclassing China in terms of the top of the list by a factor of eleven to one. Japan has 22% of that top 100 list.
But the data gets different as we look further down the list, at what are still extremely powerful computers. In the list of the 100 to 200 most powerful supercomputers, we find that China accounts for 57% of those. In the list from 200 to 300, China accounts for 77%! Here are the overall numbers, because I did the work:
China: 217 of the top 500 supercomputers.
USA: 113 of the top 500 supercomputers.
Japan: 45 of the top 500 supercomputers.
So here is my counter argument to the above multiple references that would seek to bring to our attention the urgent need to deal with Xinjiang and the human rights violation there: Those are misrepresentations of what is really happening and the intent is aimed at dividing China and causing chaos. All of which to then impose sanctions and possibly to intervene militarily or to send proxy terrorists in the region.
Because this is the only thing the US has left. Chronic deficits, an insurmountable debt load, a bloated military which will devour itself as Ouroboros and a financial system that is kept artificially alive by currency debasement. Recessions are not allowed in the US anymore as that would sink the pension funds and as such, zombie corporations persist and this, in turn, does not allow a healthy redistribution of labour to the most productive needs of their economy.
The only thing the US has left is to split the world in mostly two camps: With US or against US. Sure on the diplomatic theatre, Anthony Blinken assures the world that the USA does not seek to contain China... but it is taking all steps that it could for that purpose. The US was not supporting Israel's recent bombings in Gaza but it provided the bombs that should not be used. The US did not support the war in Yemen but it provided refuelling for the unsupported aircrafts.
Hypocrisy is at 11 on a scale of 1-10. The world is being split in two camps. US-dollar-English centric and the rest. The 5 Eyes nations includes the UK that finances the BBC. They also include Australia that funds its national news programs. Canada does the same. Go read the article from former journalist Roger Hardy (quoted below.) Again I make my point by urging you to read actual honest accounts of what is happening:
For the media, Iraq in 2003 posed two very different sets of challenges: there was the war itself, and, back home, there was the war of words, the war about the war. -Roger Hardy
Consider that Biden has told journalists publicly that the weapons the US provided to Saudi Arabia fell in terrorist's hands in Syria. Find the video, it is one of his gaffes. Consider the recently public admission, not that they are hiding from the fact, that reconstruction efforts and humanitarian efforts are blocked in Syria. I mean the USA voluntarily blocks it. To prevent help and thus damage what it calls the "Syrian Regime". Do you still believe their motives to be in the name of human rights?
Do you just doubt my claims? Check and verify what Dana Stroul, the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense said it herself (emphasis mine):
"[...] So we argued that absent behavioural changes by the Assad regime, we should hold a line on preventing reconstruction aid and technical expertise from going back into Syria. [...]
So if we’re going to hold the line on the diplomatic isolation, on moving forward with the economic sanctions architecture, and holding the line on reconstruction aid, perhaps those things could still be compelling, because in our view, what our assessment was was that the conflict has not changed; the conflict is not over; it’s entering a new phase."
It is the modus operandi in 2021 global geopolitics; Proxy wars. We have seen it just a few weeks ago, yet again: The US declares that Turkey committed a genocide. The point of this article is not to establish that fact about Turkey but about Xinjiang. But notice that this new declaration towards Turkey comes at a point where Turkey has refused to back down on their purchase of the Russian S-400 anti-air missile defence systems. I mean, Turkey is a NATO ally and nothing had to be said about the genocide before now... So what changed? Well the purchase of Russian military gear is what changed! Do you see the motivation? It's not about human rights! The US could not care less about human rights! Look at their military budget and compare that to how many people die of hunger in Africa. 750B$ to build war weapons? During the pandemic? Yes, this is the hypocrisy you should see for what it is.
It is fine to divert an airplane to catch Snowden or Assange but if Belarus does it, then it is human rights violations?
Looking at the Aghan conflict, you can only marvel at the fact that after 20 years, I don't know how many trillions, nothing apparently is better and the first superpower has not been able to win the war against poor Afghanistan? It makes no sense. Unless their desire was mostly just to occupy the country. In that case, it would have made perfect sense to delay the return back home as much as possible. In that case, Haliburton could get lucrative contracts. And so many others. Nowadays, contractors and mercenaries can do the job without congress approval.
Consider that Canada has detained Meng Wangzhou, a CFO, daughter of the founder of Huawei because - I summarize - the company engaged in trade with Iran while Washington had imposed sanctions. She has been detained for 3 years while the dossier languishes in court to extradite her to the USA. Now for the sake of completeness, I will add that China has detained two Canadians following this, which it claims are spies. Are they? I am not sure.
Look at Google's censorship and the modification of search results. What about Project Dragonfly? Sounds like code name for a shadow operation! Which it partially was. When you consider how aggressive the Western press has become in the past ten years towards China, all of a Sudden, it makes sense for them to block Google. Besides my friends in China can VPN wherever they want! It's not really blocked. But they honestly don't care about Google. Or Facebook.
And increasingly as the world gets divided like the US wishes, you will have the Wikipedia, Google, Facebook and Twitter truths, and the opposing views of the non English Western civilisation that the rest of the world will recognise as truth.
As to Adrian Zenz's credibility, you can look him up. I heard from reliable sources, you be the judge, that his entire research on the Uyghurs genocide is basically financed to say that. It is more propaganda than real international independent journalistic investigation. I prefer Glenn Greenwald's views over those of Adrian Zenz.
Conclusion
With all of the information I have stated above, you should draw your own conclusions, as uncomfortable as they may seem. Taking the red pill for Neo was never going to be an easy experience. Seeing reality for what it is and being able to see through the fog or the FUD when it comes to crypto is similar. Both require to have a long term perspective and a curious mind to seek information everywhere. And no, I am not saying that everything your local newspaper is saying is false. It is mostly all true. But here and there, on important issues, the information is not there, not properly discussed or the motivations are adjusted to fit the official narrative.
In summary, while there is abundant publications that point to the apparent evidence of a genocide or of human rights violations in Xinjiang, I refuse to believe them at face value. It is public knowledge that they did counter-terrorism and de-radicalisation efforts, they're not hiding the fact. But the slavery, torture and genocide parts are exaggerations. And I have seen too many such accusations in the past plus, I have the benefit of a contextual view. Believe me, there are places on Earth with a lot more suffering than Xinjiang. Your attention is drawn there voluntarily. This is just another piece in the puzzle of containing China in order to stay on top. It is just another move of a piece on the Grand Chessboard. Do not be a pawn in this game. Wake up! See the world as it is and don't let the dividers divide you because that is the only way they have to control us. Remember 1984: The Ministry of Truth and the division of the world for a permanent war effort. Bitcoin is decentralised across the world and the current object of a hash-war. In this new age of DeFi, tokenisation, CMDBs and DAOs, it only makes sense that the US would blame China for their "dirty bitcoin mining". We must do all we can to identify this Thucydides Trap and disarm it.
I can also predict that the USA will next move to blame China for Covid-19, then impose sanctions or reparations of some kind and then move to cancel the Beijing Olympics 2022 over "human rights and environmental concerns"... So I can anticipate what will come next and time will tell if I was right or not. I hope I am wrong with those predictions and that the world can coexist, peacefully.
Thanks for reading
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