On Monday, the United States, Britain, Canada and the European Union announced sanctions against several Chinese officials for “serious human rights abuses” against Muslim minority Uighurs in the far west of Xinjiang. This is a stab because of the genocide, while Beijing goes to the jugular against the powers that displease it.
Okay, the European Union has joined Western allies in sanctions against China, its first such action since the Tiananmen Square massacre. But targeting some Chinese officials is no match for the scale of these atrocities – torture, rape, brainwashing and imprisonment of more than 1 million civilians in concentration camps.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken rightly says that the Chinese Communist Party was involved in “genocide” and then made noise about the “continued commitment of the allies to work multilaterally to promote respect for human rights and enlighten” the some officials “responsible for these atrocities”. Huh? They are doing what their government wants, not becoming dishonest.
Beijing, meanwhile, has imposed tariffs and bans on $ 50 billion a year of Australian seafood, wine, coal and barley in retaliation for Prime Minister Scott Morrison, simply asking independent investigators to be allowed to enter Wuhan to investigate the origins of a pandemic that killed millions and decimated the world economy.
China is also arresting innocent Canadians on counterfeit charges and prosecuting them in secret in an attempt to blackmail Ottawa to release a Huawei executive arrested at the request of the United States, in full compliance with international law.
Not to mention the CCP’s uninterrupted cold war against the decades-old free nation of Taiwan. On Friday, at least 20 Chinese military aircraft entered Taiwan’s airspace, Beijing’s biggest foray in months of bullying exercises.
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 removed from China’s main e-commerce stores and blocked by several important applications for navigation, evaluation and evaluation; Chinese celebrities have cut ties with Nike.
The West does its best not to openly offend the architects of atrocity; the CCP aims to crush those who cross it. It is not for nothing that they call us “decadent”.