Australian Polity, Volume 10 Number 1 & 2

The direct reference to the role of Xi Jinping is significant.
Leaked documents reveal that the Chinese President
tied economic prosperity, including his Belt and Road
Initiative, and national security directly to punishing the
Uyghurs. In another of the documents, many marked ‘top
secret’, the CCP Secretary of Xinjiang, Chen Quanguo,
commands officials to ‘round up all who should be
rounded up’ and stressed that the detention camps
would operate for a very long time. Xi ordered changes
to family planning policies that the Tribunal found to have
involved a genocidal intent.
It is no longer credible for nations - and international
organisations such as the IOC - to ignore what is happening
in China under the direction of Xi Jinping.
Fortunately, the CCP is being called out for its behaviour,
despite its laughable claims to being a rules-based
democracy. Indeed, the Chinese regime has become
increasingly twitchy about President Biden’s democracy
summit, not having understood that the propaganda that
it can force feed the people of China is contested – often
ridiculed – in the outside world.
Complaints have been filed in Europe against a number
of clothing and footwear manufacturers alleging the use
of slave labor. Magnitsky-style legislation to sanction
human rights abusers has been passed in a number of
countries, including Australia recently. The US House of
Representatives passed by a vote of 428-1 the Uyghur
Forced Labor Prevention Act. A similar measure had
already been approved by the Senate.
TUNING OUT OF CHINA
Despite all the hype in Beijing, millions of
people tuned out of the Winter Olympics.
Just 16 million viewers in the US watched
the opening ceremony, down from the next
lowest of 20.1 million for Calgary in 1988,
and a 43% decline from the 2018 Games in
South Korea.
The ceremony, watched by dictators Xi
Jingping and Vladimir Putin, was designed
to showcase China’s technological progress.
The CCP even had an ethnic Uighur as one
of the final touch bearers, presumably to
counter the widespread claims about the
‘genocide games’.
With so much of the presentation as artificial
as the snow and ice, the Games were a costly
outlay for the many television advertisers
which expected significantly more viewers.
The latest iteration of ‘Xi’s Thought’ on everything is the
publication in many Chinese newspapers recently of
‘Selected Statements from Xi Jinping on the Respect
and Protection of Human Rights.’ Irony has never been
the strength of totalitarians, but the anthology could be a
useful tool for continuing to document the CCP’s record
of doing the opposite to what it proclaims.
This article was first published in the Spectator Australia.
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