On December 10, World Human Rights Day, the United Nations set this year’s theme as “A Better Way to Rebuild: Stand Up for Human Rights”. Taiwan civil society groups held a press conference to call the world’s attention to the human rights situation in Hong Kong, Tibet, and Xinjiang, which are being maimed and killed by the Chinese Communist Party’s totalitarian government, and warned that more than one hundred countries have signed memorandums of understanding with the CCP on Belt and Road cooperation, which is tantamount to 60% of the world’s people being attacked by the Chinese Communist Party’s totalitarian expansion.
Recently, the Communist Party’s Taiwan Affairs Office confirmed that it was developing a list of “Taiwan independence stubborn elements” and said it would crack down on them in accordance with the law. On the eve of World Human Rights Day, 18 groups in Taiwan held a press conference on September 9, holding a banner that reads “Human Rights Hardliners, United Against China” and protesting against the Beijing regime through a sarcastic “self-labeling” campaign.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is trying to justify its own human rights abuses by using sarcastic self-labeling.
In the past, when China indiscriminately arrested dissidents and human rights lawyers in their own country, they never had to publish any list,” said Changzuo Lin. He arrested Tibetans, sent Uighurs to concentration camps, or arrested students in Hong Kong, but did he ever publish a list of names from which he arrested them? Never. So is it a given that people outside the list of Taiwan’s stubborn isolationists will not be arrested?”
“The People’s Power in the Belt and Road Partner Countries is a Red Light
According to Minjian Jiang, a researcher at the Economic Democracy Link, “China has signed the so-called ‘One Belt, One Road’ memorandum of cooperation with 138 countries, which means that more than 60 percent of the world’s people may actually be being affected by the ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative. The impact of the Chinese government’s policies on the fishing industry. For example, the construction of the Malacca Island in Malaysia, which made it impossible for the local fishermen to continue fishing for a living; for example, the discharge of toxic effluent from the mines into the seabed in Indonesia; for example, the corporate parks in Myanmar, where China has displaced the local residents.
According to Jiang Minjian, the content of “One Belt, One Road” cooperation is not transparent, the timeline of the cooperation plan is not public, and even “One Belt, One Road” is not defined in detail, the only thing that is certain is that China’s “One Belt, One Road” is violating human rights, destroying the environment, exploiting workers, and persecuting minority groups.
Min-Chin Jiang also mentioned that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses direct infiltration or indirect agents, through the United Front Work Department at all levels, marketing companies, content farms, online armies, and spontaneous fans, to create false messages through all kinds of speeches and information that are favorable to the CCP’s rule, as well as big propaganda. A large number of foreign websites or Internet services have been banned or restricted, many keywords have been blocked on search engines, and many people have been arrested or sentenced for expressing dissenting opinions on the Internet.
Speaking about the situation in Tibet, Tashi Tsering, director of the Tibet-Taiwan Human Rights Link, noted, “More than 150 Tibetans have set themselves on fire, but very brave and influential Tibetans in Tibet are in prison with the Chinese Communist Party. The CCP hung a black label on him, and then the Chinese government would say in the world that there are no political prisoners in Tibet.”
Human Rights Abuses in Xinjiang
He Chaodong, president of the East Turkestan Association of Taiwan, said that in Xinjiang, one in six people is in a concentration camp. “His DNA, his fingerprints are all monitored, including his cell phone, which has surveillance software implanted in it, and even the way you walk is monitored. It’s estimated that 1.69 million Chinese civil servants have entered Uighur’s home.”
Hong Kong Youth Sends a SOS: Hong Kong is Facing a Terrorist Purge
Hong Shenhan, a member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), said that many human rights abuses are occurring in the course of China’s totalitarian expansion of its borders, from Tibet and East Turkestan to Hong Kong. In the past few years, participants in the “anti-sending” democracy movement in Hong Kong have also faced imprisonment or other human rights persecution; from Tibetans and East Turkestan to Hong Kong, many young people are part of the “generation in exile” that the Chinese Communist regime continues to create.
Justine, Secretary General of Taiwan-Hong Kong Border City Youth Organization, pointed out that the charges in the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law, including “splitting the country,” “subverting state power,” and “colluding with foreign countries or forces to endanger national security,” are often punishments for opposing the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party’s rule, and that for Taiwanese people, even raising a “Taiwan flag” or even the “Republic of China flag” may violate the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law.
Justine said that Taiwan has experienced decades of white terror in the past, and that what is happening in Hong Kong now is a recurrence of white terror and totalitarianism, and hopes that World Human Rights Day will send an appeal for help to civilized societies around the world.
The 18 civil society groups put forward four major demands, including calling on the Chinese government to abide by the principles and standards of the international community on human rights, Taiwan should strengthen its overall democratic defense system to counter Chinese Communist infiltration, APEC should have a human rights mechanism, and Taiwan should establish a refugee mechanism as soon as possible.
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