China Threatens Taiwan: “Independence Means War”
China’s similar warnings about Hong Kong and the Uyghur went unheeded. Will the world listen this time before it’s too late?
“One China”
Once again, China is proving itself near impervious to international pressure.
World outcry over the Chinese Communist Party’s treatment of indigenous Uyghur Muslims was sufficient to drive Chinese authorities to the rare step of actually allowing BBC journalists to report on the Uyghur interment camps.
International pressure wasn’t enough, however, for Chinese officials to actually close the labor camps.
The interment camps, Chinese Communist Party officials insist, are merely “vocational training centers” and are the answer to a radical Islamist ideology that threatens Muslim co-religionists and members of other religions alike with religious jihad.
Human-rights watchdogs, of course, say otherwise.
Between razing mosques to the ground, classifying a broad range of traditional Muslim religious practices as extremist, and interring the Uyghur in reeducation labor camps; the Chinese Communist Party is having more and more trouble justifying these practices to international authorities concerned about human rights.
Nor is China able to keep the camps a secret.
The harder Chinese censors and the Great Firewall of China work to keep any CCP-damaging information away from prying eyes, the more leaks there are. For every leak party officials manage to plug, three more spring forth. There is also no shortage of satellite surveillance with which Beijing must contend.
Beijing is having other problems keeping the camps under wraps as well.
When a massive, highly unusual influx of expensive wigs made from real human hair hit the global marketplace recently from China, human rights organizations sounded the alarm. The wigs, they insist, were made of hair taken from Uyghur Muslims, who have their heads forcibly shaven when they are interred.
Even more troubling, a similar situation has developed in the medical field of organ transplants. With a demand that always vastly exceeds an extremely limited supply of vital organs healthy enough…