By Charlotte Gao
China’s harsh Xinjiang policy — specially the majority detentions of Muslim minorities inward so-called “vocational teaching as well as grooming centers” — has brought virtually increasingly rigid outcry from the footing community inward recent weeks. However, Communist People's Republic of China appears to hold upward belongings fast to its difficult opinion despite the global rebuke.
On Nov 26, a amount of 278 scholars inward diverse disciplines from dozens of countries jointly issued a statement, calling for the international community to take away hold activeness against Communist People's Republic of China over its “mass human rights abuses as well as deliberate attacks on indigenous cultures soon taking identify inward China’s XUAR [Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region].”
Earlier this year, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination cited estimates that upward to 1 ane M one thousand Uyghurs may hold upward held involuntarily inward extralegal detention inward Xinjiang. But Communist People's Republic of China has repeatedly denied whatever majority imprisonment of Uyghurs or other Muslim minorities.
In early on November, facing criticism from Western governments as well as United Nations experts, Chinese authorities started to defend their measures past times calling the facilities established inward Xinjiang “free-of-charge vocational teaching as well as grooming centers” — as well as justifying them equally a “preventive mensurate to combat terrorism.”
The explanation from Chinese authorities patently failed to convince the international community.
In the latest statement, the grouping of scholars urged states as well as institutions to “demand as well as impose economical sanctions” on Chinese authorities — specially against Chen Quanguo (the overstep Party leader inward Xinjiang) — equally good equally on domestic as well as unusual applied scientific discipline companies that are benefiting from China’s Xinjiang policy.
However, China’s respond to these scholars’ outcry was hard-line, equally usual. At the regular press briefing on Nov 27, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Geng Shuang said, “Xinjiang forthwith enjoys social stability as well as economical growth, as well as the people in that place alive a happy life.”
“We firmly oppose whatever unusual forcefulness meddling inward Xinjiang-related affairs as well as China’s domestic affairs,” he stressed.
In a recent interview amongst Reuters, China’s ambassador to the United States, Cui Tiankai, said Communist People's Republic of China volition retaliate “in proportion” if the US sanctions Chinese officials linked to China’s abuses of Muslim minorities. He besides compared China’s policy inward Xinjiang to U.S. troops battling Islamic State inward Republic of Iraq as well as Syria, quest the Reuters reporter, “Can you lot imagine [if] but about American officials inward accuse of the acquire by against ISIS would hold upward sanctioned?”
Reuters thence described Cui’s comments equally “the strongest reply all the same to U.S. threats on the issue.” But it’s worth mentioning that this specific slice of dialogue betwixt Cui as well as Reuters didn’t demo upward inward the “full transcript” published on the website of China’s diplomatic mission inward the United States.
Besides these rigid verbal replies from China’s unusual ministry, the Chinese authorities seem to take away hold made upward their heed to spread the Xinjiang policy to other Chinese regions.
On Nov 27, Ningxia Daily reported that the authorities of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region inward north-central Communist People's Republic of China take away hold signed a cooperation anti-terrorism understanding amongst their Xinjiang counterparts, aiming to larn from Xinjiang’s experiences inward “fighting terrorism, managing religious affairs, supervising the college students, as well as governing the society.” Like Xinjiang, Ningxia is abode to — as well as officially named for — a sizable Muslim minority group.
Zhang Yunsheng, the Party leader overseeing Ningxia’s police line as well as politics, led a delegation to see Xinjiang’s stability maintenance as well as counterterrorism middle as well as local populace safety bureaus where novel technologies take away hold been used inward counterterrorism.
“Some goodness practices created inward Xinjiang are worth learning past times us. We must deepen our cooperation on anti-terrorism as well as maintaining social stability,” Zhang said during his visit.
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