Category:China

Uyghurs / Xinjiang

 * No, the UN Did Not Report China Has ‘Massive Internment Camps’ for Uighur Muslims- Ben Norton and Ajit Singh, The Grayzone, August 23, 2018


 * [...] A spokesperson from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) confirmed in a statement to the Grayzone that the allegation of Chinese “camps” was not made by the United Nations, but rather by a member of an independent committee that does not speak for the UN as a whole. That member happened to be the only American on the committee, and one with no background of scholarship or research on China. Moreover, this accusation is based on the thinly sourced reports of a Chinese opposition group that receives funding from foreign governments and is closely tied to exiled pro-US activists. [...]


 * Interview with Xinjiang government chief on counterterrorism, vocational education and training in Xinjiang, Xinhuanet, October 16, 2018


 * Official position of the Xinjiang government.


 * A Week In Xinjiang’s Absolute Surveillance State, Vadim Mikhailov, Palladium Magazine, Nov 29, 2018


 * [...] we left with mixed feelings. We saw life under a complete, multi-layered surveillance system that has basically no blind spots at all. A system which has dialed back the clock in most non-urban areas, bringing back old-school Soviet practices of social control. It is jarring and oppressive in many ways; and as foreigners we surely didn’t get to experience most of it.


 * Yet again, the Chinese government congratulates itself in having solved terrorism without war, and credit where it’s due, it has. Xinjiang appears to have no criminality whatsoever, and the police in the streets are unarmed. Meanwhile France has soldiers, not police, patrolling the streets of Paris. [...]


 * The Truth Behind China’s ‘Uyghur Problem’, F. William Engdahl, December 14, 2018
 * The East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) today is headed by Anwar Yusuf Turani, self-proclaimed Prime Minister of a government in exile which notably is based in Washington DC. ETIM moved to Washington at a time the US State Department listed it as a terrorist organization, curiously enough. According to a report in a Turkish investigative magazine, Turk Pulse, Turani’s organization’s “activities for the government in exile are based on a report entitled ‘The Xinjiang Project.’ That was written by former senior CIA officer Graham E. Fuller in 1998 for the Rand Corporation and revised in 2003 under the title ‘The Xinjiang Problem.’”


 * Is China Building a “Police State” or Countering Western-sponsored Terrorism?, Joseph Thomas, January 30, 2019
 * The "World Uyghur Congress" (WUC) is among the groups the US NED is funding. It openly promotes separatism. WUC is omnipresent in Western news reports, promoting allegations against Beijing regarding Xinjiang, yet WUC is actually based in Munich, Germany and Washington D.C. WUC representatives such as Dilxat Raxit and Rebiya Kadeer are cited, making various unsubstantiated claims regarding China's treatment of Uighurs with Western news agencies often failing to mention their WUC affiliation or that the WUC is funded by the US government in articles.


 * BBC Says China Building Schools is "Bad", Tony Cartalucci, July 14, 2019
 * That the BBC claims China building schools teaching Mandarin and Chinese culture in China is "cultural re-engineering" while overlooking Saudi Arabia building Salafist networks thousands of miles away from its borders fuelling very real extremism in western China to begin with - helps fully reveal recent BBC reports on Xinjiang and China's Muslim community as pure propaganda.


 * March of the Uyghurs, Andre Vltchek, July 21, 2019
 * For several years, I investigated this ‘issue’; in China and Syria, in Turkey, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Indonesia. It is because I consider it to be one of the most important, and one of the most dangerous issue our planet is now facing. I was able to trace patterns, and to find roots. What I discovered is disturbing and threatening. For China and for the world. The “March of Uyghurs” is backed by “useful idiots”, all over the Western world, but also in Turkey, and elsewhere. They want to “defend victims”, but in this case, the ‘victims’ are actually ‘victimizers’ and usurpers. Here I am putting my findings (and the findings of other colleagues and comrades) on the record. I do it so no one who is searching for truth would be able to say now or in ten years: “I did not know”, or “The information has not been available.”


 * NYT’s “Leaked” Chinese Files Story Covers For Terrorism - Tony Cartalucci, New Eastern Outlook, November 20, 2019

Tiananmen Square, 1989

 * Videos
 * Tank man
 * Excerpt from BBC News Archives: June 4th Clearing Report
 * Photographs
 * (Soldiers killed)
 * Sources
 * Zhao Ziyang, Chinese Leader Purged for Supporting Tiananmen Protesters, Dies at 85 - The New York Times, January 17, 2005
 * ''In what would be his last public appearance, Mr. Zhao visited students at Tiananmen on May 19, 1989. He pleaded with them to leave, apologized for having arrived "too late," and warned that the authorities were planning to remove them. It is now clear that Mr. Zhao made the visit directly after being fired by China's Politburo.
 * The Quiet American - The New York Times, September 3, 2012
 * ''In 1989, he (Gene Sharp) went to Tiananmen Square during the uprising and talked to protesters. In the 1990s he sneaked into rebel camps in Burma.

Hong Kong, 2019

 * Бойня в аэропорту Гонконга — протестующие взяли заложников, спецназ готовит штурм, Hong Kong airport 'massacre' (fighting) - protesters take hostages, special forces prepare assault - Rusvesna report and two videos, the first appears to show police officer firing his handgun; it has some effect on attacking man but he then runs away, August 13, 2019.
 * ''As former opolchenie doing business in the former British colony told the "Russian Spring" from the scene, the "peaceful opposition" that seized the airport took two hostages - a state-owned media journalist and a person whose particulars are not yet known. One of the hostages was rescued with the help of the police, the rescue of the second is being prepared by the Chinese special forces.
 * Hong Kong airport chaos: Protesters tie up, interrogate man accused of being undercover police -Global News, YouTube, August 13, 2019.
 * ''Protesters at the paralyzed international Hong Kong airport on Tuesday evening (Aug 13) tied up and interrogated a man they believed to be an undercover police, detaining him until medics dispersed the crowd to tend to his injuries from the ordeal, carrying him out on a stretcher.
 * Hong Kong protesters found that Telegram (can be exploited to) show phone number regardless of privacy settings, Alizar on habr.com, via Cassad, Augusut 24, 2019
 * Hong Kong Crisis: Made in America, Tony Cartalucci, August 24, 2019
 * Claims that Western interests are driving unrest in Hong Kong to undermine China have been decried across the Western media as "fake news," "disinformation," and even grounds for censorship from platforms like Facebook and Twitter. Yet a look at the organizations directly involved in leading the unrest and those supporting it reveals unequivocally that it originates in Washington DC - not organically from within Hong Kong itself.
 * Why Hong Kong is protesting: Their five demands listed - CNN, August 30, 2019
 * ''five main demands have emerged: withdraw the bill, for leader Carrie Lam to step down, an inquiry into police brutality, for those who have been arrested to be released, and greater democratic freedoms.
 * Hong Kong leader formally withdraws controversial extradition bill - Reuters, September 4, 2019
 * Hong Kong leader to withdraw China extradition bill, but will it stop the protests? -CBS, September 4, 2019
 * ''"I'm glad it's finally done, but it's not sufficient," protest organizer Bonnie Leung told CBS News on Wednesday. "Five demands, not one less," she said.