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© Thomson Reuters 2021.West sanctions China over Xinjiang abuses; Beijing hits back at EU
By Robin Emmott and David Brunnstrom BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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GdTokyo
Good first step in the largest mass incarceration since the Holocaust.
Next, boycott the winter Olympics.
Ah_so
Now it humiliates itself by locking up its citizens en masse in a form of ethnic cleansing we haven't seen for a generation. It is a stain that will affect the image of China for many years.
I would be so embarrassed to be Chinese with my government doing this.
Peter Wright
Good to see that also EU starts to recognize what is happening and stays firm with US. This is something we miss before. Thank you EU.
starpunk
China can't take the criticism and has to sass off to Europe. Wah.
Aly Rustom
Absolutely, and we shouldn't stop there- the 5 eyes and the EU really need to politically and economically isolate China and Russia and send a message to the rest of the world- pick a side.
ulysses
About time!!!
What is happening in Xinjiang is nothing short of a genocide. Take action now.
Let’s not repeat the 1930s again!!!
ulysses
PRC propaganda is like their ideology, idiotic.
xi probably should learn from Germany of the 1930s and 40s. there is only so far people will tolerate you. When they come down, they come down hard.....
Laguna
I spent a month in Xinjiang a few decades ago. The Uighurs are the most gentle, generous of people.
Cogito Ergo Sum, what China is doing is similar to what America did to the native Americans in the 19th C. The difference is that that was in the 19th C. and this is now. Xinjiang, Tibet, and various other regions in the southeast which were forcefully integrated into China relatively recently do not want to be part of China or at least want real autonomy. https://search.yahoo.co.jp/image/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=mcafeess1&p=autonomous%20tibet%20and%20xinjiang#3639efb9759b84ef6faec55fbacff4d2
viking68
Very childish to use humiliation to justify committing atrocities and abuse of its citizens and its international obligations.
Would have thought China was an adult by now.
William77
As a citizen of the European Union and a supporter of human rights and democracy I’m proud that we took initiative together with the U.S. and the U.K. against the many violations of human rights of the Chinese government.
If China wants to strike back with such sneaky tactics so be it.
The west must stay compact and firm against their bullying and their violations of human rights.
stormcrow
Well, it’s a start. It’s hard to tell how effective this move will be, but at least they’re taking a stand together as one.
ulysses
Sometimes it helps to actually read something.
kyushubill
I would hardly call Beijing's usual wolf wanker talk as "hitting back".
Fighto!
Communist PRC apologist alert ^^
Fighto!
Good on these nations. It is to be hoped the Suga Cabinet will soon follow suit and announce strong trade restrictions on Communist PRC.
The ethnic/religious cleansing of the Muslim Uighurs, locking them up in concentration camps and executing many, can no longer be ignored, no matter what the China apologists say. Worst since the Nazi holocaust.
International companies doing business in/with China - TESLA, Toyota, Apple etc etc - should be targeted and boycotted until they pull out.
OssanAmerica
The wumaos are out in force defending the Chinese dictatorship with false information as the entire world unites to stop it. Territorial expansion by force, genocide of an entire people, cybertheft, linking economics to strategic goals with the goal of geopolitical domination by a country lead by people not voted in by it's citizens, is not accetable in the 21st century. The bevior of other nations in the 20th century does not justify it today.
China's rapid growth for the last two decades had the support of the world. 2020 has changed all that.
Boku Dayo
It's about time that the west stood up to the arrogance of Communist China.
Sam Watters
Love it! Time to stop handling the CCP with kid gloves. The CCP deserves every bad thing that happens to them.
kanki Asada
How can China even bring up the subject of human rights and target nations that are more powerful than it? Whereas China is the only nation that does not even allow its citizens to enjoy basic human rights, and now that the CCP has created issues in Myanmar, Xinjiang, and many other nations, the world is looking to China as an anti-human rights nation.
PTownsend
Uh... ok. Must have CNN on IV drip.
Don't watch it, nor do I follow your Breitbart and RT. Reality: China needs little old agrarian Russia's wheat - and more importantly its oil and gas.
sf2k
Block access of China to US Dollars and then you'll see it implode
mrtinjp
Its Chinas own business to take care about own domestic issues
So there is a issue in Xinjiang, now that's revelation.. so what other domestic issues are you talking about.
OssanAmerica
We're all OK with that.
ulysses
Revisionist history doesn't change actual history. China has occupied Tibet, forcibly, and is still there marginalizing the local population. The genocide in Xinjiang was a step too far, and like a German leader in the 1930s and 40s, xi's delusions of invincibility will be shattered.
OssanAmerica
Alliances are created when a nation threatens others all at the same time. China has failed to learn from history. China is only humiliating itself.
Chucky138
If the west care so much about human right, do the right thing and DECLARE Taiwan INDEPENDENCE.
PTownsend
China still has its partner Russia.
bo
And yet business as usual carries on in the world, got to think of the economy and profit for our business leaders before anything else
sdf_crew_member
After reading comments I must say - Vivant M.A.D.! Vivant professores who made Nuclear Weapon real! If Russia and China haven't had it Third World War would be already started.
Cogito Ergo Sum
I share that basic fundamental need for freedom to every single person. In our different but powerless perches, I see China's position as a reaction to historic traumas, and it's determination not to have those repeated.
In 1962 China fought with India and despite advancing many kms Inside, China returned back to the status quo. Same with Vietnam in 1979, unlike others who would have set military bases there, China did otherwise. So "expansionist" doesn't hold water, at least to me.
The UN was set up ostensibly to arbitrate these kind of cases too, and, it's a credible, inclusive, civil and cheap way of problem solving, but I'd think addressing the fundamental fears of China is a good place to start.
Chucky138
To save everyone, sanction do nothing, just decouple with China, since you can't contain China.
Just decouple everyone happy.
China will survive without 5 eyes or EU so does the rest of the world.
commanteer
Uh... ok. Must have CNN on IV drip.
Ken
Isn't it possible for the US to deal with China one on one?
Goodlucktoyou
No mention of over 2 million Americans incarcerated, many in private prisons, practically forced to work for 10 cents an hour.
Cogito Ergo Sum
The US, is still on its march Westwards with its Cowboy imperialism that's embedded and embodied in the galloping horse that delivers messages of freedom and redemption throughout the dark world. And like Iraq, Syria, Lybia ( muslim populations) etc, the Uighurs, too, are in need of the Cowboy's silver bullet from the US' machinery that bring " freedom"..but we can't deny the fact that it has unfailingly left a message of death and terror in the aftermath.
As for the " expansionist" China, I wanna ask, what's the US ? Ok to most, the US is the real estate north of mexico and South of Canada, ok, Alaska , ok Hawaii, ok Puerto Rico. A few more would think Samoa, Marianas, Guam but I guess you get the picture.
China expansionist ? Convince me, by reason.
Hiro S Nobumasa
This da-kine ‘dramatic ’ move by the EU , Canada and the USA and maybe NZ and OZ is a charade.
I’ll be impressed if all these ’human rights’ loving countries give Taiwan diplomatic recognition asap no matter what the PROC says .
If they can blah blah for Xinjiang then why not for democratic TW that is now being threatened by PLA invasion?
i@n
Lol hypocrites
Mr Kipling
So the US government is now the sole arbiter of truth on JT?
Seems to be so. Iraqi WMDs anyone?
elephant200
China can sanctions European or other countries with "Covid19 Vaccines"! No exports of Chinese made or formulated Covid19 Vaccines to those countries who sanctions China first!
Chucky138
This is not 1901 where the west alliance humiliate China with Opium war Boxer Protocol, The day of extortion are over, never ever again will China be humiliated again.