French Foreign Minister Le Drian.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been relying on its foreign propaganda to whitewash the Xinjiang issue, and has been hit by a series of international blows. After the U.S. and Canada launched sanctions, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian denounced the Communist Party’s mass surveillance and “institutional oppression” of Uighurs, a minority group in the country, on the 24th, and the significant regression of human rights.
The Communist Party’s imprisonment and forced labor of Uyghurs in Xinjiang under the guise of re-Education and vocational training has drawn international condemnation. The U.S. House of Representatives recently reauthorized the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, and the U.S. State Department has called the CCP’s actions in Xinjiang tantamount to genocide.
In addition, 12 Japanese companies have also formulated policies to stop working with Chinese companies involved in forced labor of Uyghurs; Canada’s parliament has defined the Xinjiang genocide as “266 to 0”; and Lithuania’s parliament plans to prepare a draft resolution condemning the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights violations in Xinjiang.
As the world rallies around the issue of Xinjiang, the Chinese Communist Party has once again stepped up its efforts to glorify Xinjiang’s political achievements, with Foreign Minister Wang Yi publicly praising Xinjiang and Tibet and other minority regions as “a model of human rights progress in China.
However, French Foreign Minister Jean-Claude Le Drian pointed out via video message to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on 24 December that eyewitness testimony and documents from China’s Xinjiang region show that the Chinese Communist Party has adopted “unjustifiable practices of mass surveillance and institutional repression against the Uighurs” and that Xinjiang is the site of “significant human rights regression” in 2020. Xinjiang is one of several examples of a “significant regression in human rights” by 2020.
“Human Rights Watch has also stated that the CCP has significantly increased its use of the formal court system to prosecute the Muslim minority in Xinjiang on vague charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” and sending gifts to relatives overseas. An estimated 1 million Uighurs and other Turkic-speaking Muslim minorities are being held in “political education” camps in Xinjiang, and more than 250,000 people have been formally sentenced and imprisoned since 2016.
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