On Monday, the United States, Britain, Canada and the European Union announced sanctions against several Chinese officials for “serious human rights violations” against the Uighurs of the Muslim minority in the remote Xinjiang region. It’s about slapping genocide, while Beijing is heading for the jugular against the powers it doesn’t like.
Well, the European Union has joined Western allies on China’s sanctions, its first action since the Tiananmen Square massacre. But targeting several Chinese officials is not starting to match the scale of these atrocities – torture, rape, brainwashing and the trapping of more than 1 million civilians in concentration camps.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken rightly says that the Chinese Communist Party 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” few officials “responsible for these atrocities”. Huh? They do what the government wants, they can’t do it.
Meanwhile, Beijing has imposed tariffs and bans on $ 50 billion a year on seafood, wine, coal and barley in Australia in retaliation for Prime Minister Scott Morrison, simply demanding that independent investigators be allowed to leave. Wuhan to investigate the origins of a pandemic that killed millions and decimated the world economy.
China is also incarcerating innocent Canadians on false charges and secretly trying to try to blackmail Ottawa into releasing a Huawei executive arrested at the request of the United States, in full compliance with international law.
Not to mention the CCP’s ongoing war against the free nation of Taiwan, which has continued for decades. On Friday, at least 20 Chinese military planes entered Taiwan’s airspace, Beijing’s largest incursion in months of intimidation.
Now, Beijing is canceling H&M and Nike within its borders for issuing statements denouncing the use of forced labor to produce cotton in Xinjiang. H&M has been taken out of China’s major e-commerce stores and blocked by several major browsing, review and evaluation applications; Chinese stars have severed ties with Nike.
The West is doing its best not to overly offend the architects of atrocity; The CCP aims to crush those who cross it. No wonder they call us “decadents.”