Blind to real crimes in Gaza, crazy for fake crimes in Xinjiang
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Palestinians arrive to the Kuwaiti Hospital in the city of Rafah to receive treatment, December 15, 2023. /CFP Palestinians arrive to the Kuwaiti Hospital in the city of Rafah to receive treatment, December 15, 2023. /CFP
Editor's note: Xin Ping is a commentator on international affairs, writing regularly for Xinhua News Agency, CGTN, Global Times, China Daily, etc. The article reflects the author's views and not necessarily those of CGTN.
Gunfire rang out again in Gaza. The seven-day truce was too brief to change anything. Israeli bullets and shells continue to fall ruthlessly on Palestinian unarmed civilians. Innocent women and children keep dying. Hospitals and schools are reduced to rubble. Displaced people are struggling for basic necessities. No water, no food, no medicine, no electricity, no fuel, no guarantee of the fundamental right of survival. Nothing. Human rights are beyond reach.
As Gaza is becoming the purgatory on earth, has the United States, the self-proclaimed "human rights defender," come to check out the indiscriminate attacks and violation of humanitarian law by Israel, as it did in Iraq and Syria? Not yet. In fact, the U.S. is busy vetoing the UN Security Council's draft resolution calling for a long-term humanitarian ceasefire and passing billions of military aid packages for Israel, repeating its cliches that a ceasefire at the moment will only satisfy Hamas terrorists. Following the same logic as it launched the war in Afghanistan in the name of combating terrorism after 9/11, the U.S. gave Israel the green light to kill innocent civilians in Gaza, defending this massacre as a "right of self-defense." It seems that in the eyes of many American politicians, the growing number of casualties in Gaza day by day, 67500 as it is when this article was written, is nothing but an indispensable sacrifice for its "noble cause" of standing with its allies and combating its opponents.
Judged by this double standard, those people never regard the great many slaughtered in Gaza as victims of crimes against humanity. But interestingly enough, they think the fabricated numbers of so-called "detainees" could be used as excuses to accuse China of "genocide." Adrian Zenz is one of this kind. A bogus expert on Xinjiang and an anti-China scholar who has never been to the region, Zenz cobbled up a falsehood of the miserable life of the Uygur people, merely based on misrepresentation of people who left Xinjiang decades ago, or contradicting figures that don't have a credible source. Many names quoted as "victims" in Zenz's research are actually names of Chinese celebrities. More ridiculously, some people like to buy these fake "theories" – the U.S. Congress passed bills such as the "Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act," trying to accuse China of enslaving Muslims.
A resident asks about the price of goods in Kashgar, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, April 12, 2019. /VCG A resident asks about the price of goods in Kashgar, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, April 12, 2019. /VCG
Reality should speak louder. Statistics show that since the establishment of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in 1955, the Uygur population has increased from 5.55 million to nearly 12 million. From 2010 to 2018, the ethnic minority population in Xinjiang increased by 22.14 percent, the Uygur population increased by 25.04 percent, while the Han population increased by only 2 percent. The average life expectancy in Xinjiang has increased from 30 years in 1955 to 74.7 years in 2021. Apart from the truth-telling data, anyone who travels to Xinjiang today can witness the peaceful and happy life of the local people. The merry and bright dance by Dilireba Dilmurat, a Uygur celebrity who grew up in Xinjiang, going viral on Chinese social media is not a singular case. Tourists to this vast region in western China could see and join the local people everywhere in their natural expression of their optimism and happiness. Hard to imagine that people undergoing "misery" depicted by Zenz and others as worse than the tragedies in Gaza could smile and dance happily like that.
There are no words other than "double standard" that could better explain the confusing behavior of certain U.S. politicians, turning their back on the truth when people are actually killed in Gaza while blaming China by fabricating fake news about Xinjiang. It is so obvious that what the U.S. cares about is not human rights protection at all. Human rights is nothing but a tool of international politics, with the U.S. own interest at the center. Its allies can do nothing wrong –even the mass killing of innocent civilians could be allowed. Its rivals can do nothing right –if there is no solid evidence to dig up, then trump up some.
The malicious double standard that the U.S. is practicing on human rights must be exposed. If the voices of justice and fairness do not prevail, then lies and distortions will take the floor. Only when the veneer of American hypocrisy is ripped off will there be genuine protection of human right.
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