adminElliot Ziwira
Senior Reporter
A former United States chief of staff to the ex-secretary of State Colin Powell explicitly admitted to US’ intention to foment unrest in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China as a way of upsetting the economic powerhouse’s Belt and Road Initiative that runs across central Asia.
The revelation comes as a Canadian panel speaker revealed that the US has been lavishing millions of dollars on overseas projects, particularly in China, aimed at fuelling discontent along ethnic lines through the Uygur minority group in Xinjiang, saying sanctions imposed on products from the region were making ordinary people suffer.
Speaking in a 2018 video recently re-tweeted by the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ms Hua Chunying, the former high-ranking American, Mr Lawrence Wilkerson, bared the US’ warmongering and bullying inclinations designed to contain China’s influence on the global economic landscape by playing the minority “genocidal” and religious card pitting Uygurs against the majority Han Chinese.
“We are in Afghanistan as we were in Germany post-World War Two, because it is the only hard power the United States has that sits proximate to the central Belt and Road Initiative of China that runs across central Asia.
“If we had to impact that with military power, we are in position to do so in Afghanistan,” Mr Wilkerson said.
He indicated that the other reason for the US’ presence in Afghanistan was that Americans were “cheek and jaw with the potentially most unstable nuclear stockpile on the face of the earth in Pakistan.”
The US’ quest was to leap on the stockpile and stabilise it if push came to shove, the former chief of staff revealed.
Of essence in the Afghan expedition was the attraction of 20 million Uygurs resident in Afghanistan, who could be used as fodder in the destabilisation of China.
Said Mr Wilkerson: “If the CIA has to mount an operation using those Uygurs as Erdogan has done in Turkey against Assad . . .“Well the CIA would want to destabilise China, and that would be the best way to do it to form an unrest. And join with those Uygurs in pushing the Han Chinese in Beijing from internal places rather than external.”
China has always maintained that the Xinjiang-related matters that Western countries at the behest of the US, fed to the global audience through the media, were falsehoods meant to project human rights violations, as well as ethnicity and religious intolerance with the minority Uygurs said to be facing “genocide”.
Beijing insists on combating violent terrorism and separatism through launching anti-terrorism and de-radicalisation endeavours in Xinjiang, which is home to about 12 million mainly Muslim Uygurs, among other 56 ethnic groups, in harmony with statutes to protect citizens’ lives regardless of ethnicity or religious background.
In a video conference recently retweeted by Ms Hua, Mr Daniel Dumbrill, a Canadian, rubbished the Western projected view that the Uygur population was singled out for eradication, adding that such an accusation was ridiculous.
“I am not going to get into the problematic nature of the evidence. Almost none of it stands up to even the most basic logical and critical questions.
“Whether it be ridiculous formulas used to make the multimillion estimates, or the testimonies like that of Tursunay, a supposed concentration camp survivor who was propped up in a major way by CNN and BBC recently,” said Mr Dumbrill.
He pointed out that Tursunay’s story had a “giant hole” that the CNN report blurred: her passport renewal date.
Mr Dumbrill questioned the oddity of the Chinese government’s granting of a passport to an individual marked for genocide, and renewing it at a time she was supposedly under arrest.
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“This obvious deceit and hole-filled narrative doesn’t remotely resemble honest journalism.
“We are expected to believe that a population in China that has been growing faster than the majority Han Chinese; where they have 20 000 mosques built for them; where their script is written on all the national currency (something we don’t even do for our indigenous populations in Canada); where Uygur kids can get into top universities easier than Han Chinese and have specific Halal foods prepared for them in the canteen and prayer areas on campus; we’re expected to believe that this population is being eradicated.”
He maintained that such an accusation was ridiculous, either in a literal sense or cultural one. If it were about human rights and care for Muslims, why was Australia not being held responsible for the death of an innocent farmer who was shot dead in his fields with prayer beads in his hand?
Even suspect was “the fact that the US sanctioned, not only the International Criminal Court members looking into US war crimes in Afghanistan, but also their family members.”
Blaming slave labour, without evidence, for sanctioning products from Xinjiang, which produces about a fifth of the world’s cotton, and shaming international firms operating in the province, was hurting Uygurs’ livelihoods. The West, therefore, was compounding the problem, instead of mitigating it.
“I think the sanctions are doing exactly what sanctions are designed to do, which is to make ordinary people suffer,” Mr Dumbrill averred.
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