On January 27th, Holocaust Memorial Day, the situation of the Xinjiang Uighurs, who were genocided by the Chinese Communist Party, was again in the international spotlight. However, former Hong Kong security chief and legislator Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee made a shocking statement on Twitter and brought down the popular Chinese actress Dilraba Dilmurat, drawing criticism from foreign journalists for her brigandish logic.
On his last day in office, the 45th U.S. President Donald Trump declared that the Chinese Communist Party had committed “genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity” in Xinjiang. Then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemned the CCP’s forced assimilation and extermination of vulnerable ethnic and religious groups, imprisoning more than one million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, and imposing surveillance and brainwashing. This characterization has also been confirmed and perpetuated by the new Biden administration.
On Jan. 28, The Stand reports that NPP Chairwoman Regina Ip, who is also a member of the Executive Council, tweeted in English that the U.S. accused China of genocide in Xinjiang, but that one of China’s hottest stars is now Dilraba Dilmurat, adding that she is not “the only success story in Xinjiang. success story,” asking rhetorically, “What genocide? (What genocide?)”
Foreign journalist blasts “the most vile tweet in the world”
As soon as her post was published, it drew the attention of foreign journalists, who were all over the place. The Economist’s China correspondent Don Weinland described her comments as “probably the most despicable tweet in the world. Jerome Taylor, editor-in-chief of AFP’s Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan division, wrote: “Just because there’s a star in Xinjiang, does that mean there’s no humane crime going on?” Debi Edward, Asia news correspondent for Britain’s Independent Television News (ITV), bluntly denounced Yeh Liu’s view that “there are only celebrities and success stories, not genocide.”
Gerry Doyl, Asia News Editor for Reuters, took the example of African-American musician Jimi Hendrix’s popularity in the 1960s, “Because Jimi Hendrix was one of the most popular musicians of the 60s, does that prove that there was no racism in the 60s? “
People also left comments under Yeh’s tweets creating analogies: “The Holocaust didn’t exist when there were Jewish movie stars during World War II.” “People say dinosaurs are extinct, but Jurassic Park is the hottest movie series, so why is it extinct?” Some people also angrily blasted her “Chinese Communist logic”, which “reflects the intelligence of the Hong Kong pro-establishment and officials”. Some Hong Kong people also asked her if she was “crazy to be the Chief Executive because she is so eager to pander to the Chinese Communist Party?”
After graduating from the acting department of the Shanghai Theatre Academy, she made her debut in 2013 with the TV series “Anarhan” and became the youngest “Queen of View” at the Chinese TV Golden Eagle Awards in 2018 with the episode “Pretty Li Hui Zhen”.
Hong Kong’s “Xinjiangization” of Hong Kong people’s identity is systematically suppressed
Writer “Shuisheng Baiyu” wrote an article on his Facebook page analyzing the incident, arguing that Ye Liu’s shoe-shining loyalty story stemmed from the U.S. State Department’s official declaration that China had committed “genocide” against the Uighur people, a rare characterization and a major U.S. diplomatic event. More importantly, “genocide” has a strict definition and is binding in international law, so the foreign media generally consider this to be the harshest condemnation of China in U.S. history, which also sets up a more heated tug-of-war between the U.S. and China.
The article starts with the definition of “genocide” in the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide – “the intentional destruction, in whole or in part, of a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”. It emphasizes that “genocide” is not necessarily a massacre, but also includes the use of outrageous means of coercion (e.g., institutionalization, collective brainwashing, separation of families) to destroy a people’s cultural thought and identity and force them to accept an alternative way of Life.
These conditions are reminiscent of the current situation in Hong Kong, as signs of the “Xinjiangization of Hong Kong” are beginning to emerge, including the systematic suppression of the identity of “Hong Kong people” by the regime, so that even the phrase “Go Hong Kong people! Even the phrase “Hong Kong people go for it” can become a crime under the National Security Law, not to mention the linguistic, ideological, and cultural cleansing; more and more Hong Kong people go into exile or are forced to emigrate; Hong Kong people’s personal freedom begins to be arbitrarily restricted, including arbitrary blockade of “districts”, surveillance by plainclothes police at the airport, and arbitrary stop-and-search on the street; the violent crackdown after the anti-Sino The violent suppression of the war led to serious damage to the mental health of a wide range of Hong Kong people, who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, forcing the population rate of war zones.
According to the article, Mrs. Ip thought that the entire nation was dead before it was called “genocide” and became an international joke. But her logic also shows in advance what is “today’s Xinjiang, tomorrow’s Hong Kong”, perhaps one day, Hong Kong becomes and Xinjiang exactly the same, “the government will make use of Alat (Chen Baixiang) as an example to prove that Hong Kong people are still quite successful, life is good.”
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