On Monday, the United States, Britain, Canada and the European Union announced sanctions against multiple Chinese officials for “serious human rights violations” against the Muslim Uyghur minority in the far west of Xinjiang. Those are pulses about genocide, while Beijing goes for the jugular vein against powers that displease it.
Well, the European Union joined Western allies in the sanctions in China, the first such action since the Tiananmen Square massacre. But targeting a few Chinese officials isn’t starting to match the magnitude of these atrocities – torture, rape, brainwashing and the imprisonment of more than 1 million civilians in concentration camps.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken rightly says that the Chinese Communist Party is engaged in “genocide”, then makes noises about the “continued commitment of the allies to work multilaterally to promote respect for human rights and shed light on” a little officials “responsible for these atrocities.” Huh? They do what their government wants, not rogue states.
Beijing, meanwhile, has imposed tariffs and bans on $ 50 billion a year on Australian seafood, wine, coal and barley in retaliation for Prime Minister Scott Morrison, simply to call for independent investigators to enter Wuhan to uncover the origins of a deadly pandemic. millions and decimated the world economy.
China is also jailing innocent Canadians on trumped-up charges and secretly trying them in an attempt to blackmail Ottawa to release a Huawei exec who has been arrested at the request of the US, in full accordance with international law.
Not to mention the CCP’s nonstop cold war against the free nation of Taiwan, which has been going on for decades. On Friday, at least 20 Chinese military planes entered Taiwan’s skies, the largest attack in Beijing in months of bullying.
Now Beijing is canceling H&M and Nike within its borders for issuing statements condemning the use of forced labor to produce cotton in Xinjiang. H&M has been pulled from major e-commerce stores in China and blocked by several major navigation, review, and rating apps; Chinese celebrities have cut ties with Nike.
The West is doing its best not to overly insult the architects of atrocities; the CCP strives to crush those who cross it. No wonder they call us ‘decadent’.