Canadian PM says China sanctions over Xinjiang 'unacceptable'
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday said China’s sanctions against two American religious-rights officials and one Canadian lawmaker were unacceptable and vowed to continue to defend human rights.
Beijing’s sanctions followed those imposed by the United States, European Union, Britain and Canada earlier this week for what they say are violations of the rights of Uighur Muslims and other Turkic minorities in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang.
Trudeau called the Chinese sanctions “unacceptable actions.”
“We will continue to defend human rights around the world with our international partners,” Trudeau said on Twitter.
China sanctioned Canadian opposition lawmaker Michael Chong, vice-chair of parliament’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development (FAAE), as well as the FAAE’s Subcommittee on International Human Rights, which has eight members and this month presented a report concluding that atrocities had been committed in Xinjiang that constitute crimes against humanity and genocide.
Beijing also said it will take measures against the chair and vice-chair of the US government’s advisory Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), Gayle Manchin and Tony Perkins, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
“The Chinese government is firmly determined to safeguard its national sovereignty, security and development interests, and urges the relevant parties to clearly understand the situation and redress their mistakes,” the ministry said.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday said China’s sanctions against two American religious-rights officials and one Canadian lawmaker were unacceptable and vowed to continue to defend human rights.
Beijing’s sanctions followed those imposed by the United States, European Union, Britain and Canada earlier this week for what they say are violations of the rights of Uighur Muslims and other Turkic minorities in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang.
Trudeau called the Chinese sanctions “unacceptable actions.”
“We will continue to defend human rights around the world with our international partners,” Trudeau said on Twitter.
China sanctioned Canadian opposition lawmaker Michael Chong, vice-chair of parliament’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development (FAAE), as well as the FAAE’s Subcommittee on International Human Rights, which has eight members and this month presented a report concluding that atrocities had been committed in Xinjiang that constitute crimes against humanity and genocide.
Beijing also said it will take measures against the chair and vice-chair of the US government’s advisory Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), Gayle Manchin and Tony Perkins, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
“The Chinese government is firmly determined to safeguard its national sovereignty, security and development interests, and urges the relevant parties to clearly understand the situation and redress their mistakes,” the ministry said.
A vocational camp in Xinjiang.
“They must stop political manipulation on Xinjiang-related issues, stop interfering in China’s internal affairs in any form and refrain from going farther down the wrong path.
"Otherwise, they will get their fingers burnt.”
The individuals are banned from entering the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Macau, the ministry said, and Chinese citizens and institutions are prohibited from doing business with the three individuals or having any exchanges with the subcommittee.
China’s previous sanctions on US individuals whom it says have seriously undermined China’s sovereignty and interests on Xinjiang-related issues remain in effect, according to the statement.
Chong, who is a member of the opposition Conservative Party, said he would “wear (the sanctions) as a badge of honour”.
“This demonstrates that parliamentarians are being effective in drawing attention to the genocide of the Uighur people that is taking place in western China,” Chong said in a telephone interview.
Chong urged the Trudeau government to “officially recognize the Uighur genocide,” and said the sanctions would have no practical effect because he had no plans to travel to China.
Activists and UN rights experts say at least a million Muslims have been detained in camps in Xinjiang. The activists and some Western politicians accuse China of using torture, forced labour and sterilisations.
China has repeatedly denied all accusations of abuse and says its camps offer vocational training and are needed to fight extremism.
"Otherwise, they will get their fingers burnt.”
The individuals are banned from entering the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Macau, the ministry said, and Chinese citizens and institutions are prohibited from doing business with the three individuals or having any exchanges with the subcommittee.
China’s previous sanctions on US individuals whom it says have seriously undermined China’s sovereignty and interests on Xinjiang-related issues remain in effect, according to the statement.
Chong, who is a member of the opposition Conservative Party, said he would “wear (the sanctions) as a badge of honour”.
“This demonstrates that parliamentarians are being effective in drawing attention to the genocide of the Uighur people that is taking place in western China,” Chong said in a telephone interview.
Chong urged the Trudeau government to “officially recognize the Uighur genocide,” and said the sanctions would have no practical effect because he had no plans to travel to China.
Activists and UN rights experts say at least a million Muslims have been detained in camps in Xinjiang. The activists and some Western politicians accuse China of using torture, forced labour and sterilisations.
China has repeatedly denied all accusations of abuse and says its camps offer vocational training and are needed to fight extremism.
That picture of the Xinjiang “vocational camp” with electrified high fence, pokey spikes and barbed wire says it all doesn’t it? Freudian slip? What do they teach here? Prison escape techniques? Ha ha ha...
ReplyDeleteDid u do the photoshopped piece?
DeleteFreudian slip for a blurred moron.
Lol.
DeleteSomehow, I agree with TS comments. Very logic arguments.
Lolol
Literally every report from the Western media on China carries only jaundiced views and negative spins, which now have reached a hysterical crescendo. These Western MSM is on a massive concerted campaign to smear, to blacken, to demonize China, with nary A SINGLE WORD printed or broadcasted on any successful policy or achievement by the Chinese people or government in China. Bad news in China is Good news in these Western Corporate MSM. And they use visual photos and videos to "good" effect, with a liberal use of gray filter to give an ominous cast to the pictures putting a dismal image on anything Chinese.
DeleteActual prisons with barbed wires in China were slyly captioned as vocational schools. But there are kindergartens and schools in Xinjiang having barbed wires all round the schools too. Why is this so ? Because in the aftermath of the horrendous terrorist attacks carried out by the Uyghurs terrorists there a few years back, the schools for the little tots and young students necessitate barb wires barricades to KEEP OUT any future attacks. Of coursed these inconvenient facts would be kept out of the Western media reports.
Haters like TipuTS will immediately latched on such stuff to vent on his hatred for the Chinese. Typical. Be careful of too much sucking up on them white cocks, hehe...your tongue will fall out, LOL
For those who have visited any US penitentiaries, those electrified high fence, pokey spikes and barbed wire r common sights.
DeleteThe U.S. Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois has long driveway with those fences, completed with the necessary apparatus. The buildings r set far far away from the perimeter fence.
If u care to look closely with the BBC/CNN footages of the Xinjiang "vocational camp” u WOULD be seeing the US Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois.
One more thingie for the blurred mfers who have never been to China, Xinjiang & Tibet included, u would see motivational slogans everywhere, especially within the compounds of schools, vocational camps, jails etc etc. Call them communist propaganda or just pure Chinese motivational habit.
Then, where r those motivational slogans appeared within those vocational camps in those BBC/CNN news footages?
Ooop… no motivational slogan in these CCP China lockups!
Mfers, u have been misled with c&p news footages par excellent, courtesy of these two mfering demoNcratic mouthpieces.
So easy too with backgroubd running commentary to tell u a bleeding heartish story of oppression, detention & forced sterilization & labour camp!
Boycott unethical Cotton from Xinjiang
ReplyDeleteWhen did u ever having a chance to wear a cloth made with Xinjiang cotton?
DeleteMfer, most likely u r wearing one from india, picked by child labours & made in Bangladesh by slave labours. The most ironic part is it's contracted by yr demoNcratic brand owners!
Boycott indeed!
We ain't gonna see BCI coming down hard on India for forced child labour in cotton picking in India, hehe.
Deletetrainee at msia vocational camp plug and play computer during free time, trainee at xinjiang vocational camp pluck and pick cotton during free time.
ReplyDelete“unacceptable actions.”
ReplyDeleteComing out from a 'world leader' who doesn't know where Xinjiang is located!
Chip of the old block? Old Trudeau would be turning many times on his grave for having a son like this!
5,000 yo Bullyland is building new Bully-Walls against ROW. No way they can win.
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China is building border walls with Vietnam and Myanmar to keep people out, but also in
By Iris Zhao ABC News Australia
Monday 25 January 2021
Border closures have become a key feature of the COVID-19 era, but China's decision to reinforce border walls with its South-East Asian neighbours has stirred up fresh controversy.
Key points:
China strengthens borders with Vietnam and Myanmar
Beijing says the aim is to target smuggling and control COVID-19
Experts say the walls are there to curb the outflow of migrants and dissidents
Then-US president Donald Trump gained world-wide attention when he announced his plan in 2015 to build a 1,609-kilometre long "beautiful border wall" in an effort to keep Mexican migrants out of the US.
But on the other side of the Pacific, China is working on its own lesser-known projects along the borders of Vietnam and Myanmar.
"It looks like a national program," South-East Asia expert and emeritus professor Carl Thayer of UNSW Canberra told the ABC.
The project in Vietnam, according to Chinese state media Xinhua, involves a 4.5-metre-high iron fence, topped with barbed wire, along the Beilun River.
Built between 2012 and 2017, the $29 million project reportedly stretches 12 kilometres, and is there to curb the smuggling of goods, drugs and people.
It continues to be extended as additional phases are rolled out.
Meanwhile, a 659-kilometre-long fence has reportedly been completed along China's 2,000-kilometre border with Myanmar in December, in between China's Yunnan province and Myanmar's northern Shan State, according to Radio Free Asia and Myanmar's The Irrawaddy.
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Recycled old news with a new cloth as initiated by trump!
DeleteFirst check who built those border walls first. Then double cross with the locations where the border wall stands.
Then u c&p lah!
But ain't u just doing this c&p like monkey playing Lego set?
Ooop… easier, no need brain mah.