The first meeting between top U.S. and Chinese officials in Alaska ended on March 19 with each side talking its own way. In his opening remarks on March 18, Chinese representative Yang Jiechi unexpectedly put on a show of war-wolf diplomacy, claiming that the U.S. was not qualified to speak to the CCP from above and that the Chinese “don’t eat this kind of stuff”.
Obviously, Yang Jiechi is intentionally confusing the concept of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese people. The Trump administration has long made it clear that the CCP is separate from the Chinese people and has called on the world to help the 1.4 billion Chinese people to overthrow the tyranny of the CCP that oppresses them. It is the Chinese Communist Party, not the Chinese people, that is afraid of U.S. sanctions, and the world sees this very clearly.
Although the world’s second-in-command (the Chinese Communist Party) “doesn’t eat this,” the world still has certain rules. The next question is: Who in the U.S. and Europe will eat the Chinese Communist Party’s “this way”?
Just after the U.S.-China talks, the United States, the European Union, Canada and the United Kingdom have imposed sanctions on the Chinese Communist Party for persecuting human rights in Xinjiang.
In a statement issued before his trip to Europe, Secretary of State John Blinken announced the imposition of “Global Magnitsky sanctions” on Wang Junzheng, Party Secretary of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and Chen Mingguo, Director of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Public Security Bureau.
All assets and property interests of Wang Junzheng and Chen Mingguo in the United States, as well as any corporate entities owned directly or indirectly by more than 50 percent of them, will be frozen and must be reported to the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
In his statement, Blinken said that the Chinese Communist Party continues to commit “genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity” in Xinjiang. The United States again urged Beijing to stop oppressing the predominantly Muslim Uighurs and other minority groups and to immediately release all those arbitrarily detained in concentration camps and detention centers.
As early as July of last year, the Trump Administration imposed sanctions on Wang Mingshan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region (XAR), Zhu Hailun, former deputy head of the XAR Standing Committee, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
During his four-day visit to Europe, Blinken sought to join the European Union in continuing to promote human rights through multilateral cooperation.
Following Blinken’s announcement of sanctions against Xinjiang officials involved in human rights persecution, the EU also adopted a rare resolution to sanction Xinjiang officials Chen Mingguo, Wang Junzheng, Wang Mingshan, Zhu Hailun and the Public Security Bureau of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. The sanctions include travel bans and asset freezes.
This is the first Time since the June 4 massacre in 1989 that the European Union has taken significant sanctions against the Chinese Communist Party for persecuting human rights. Canada and the United Kingdom followed suit, imposing sanctions on Xinjiang officials and entities on the same day.
In a rare response to the EU sanctions, the Chinese authorities retaliated against 10 EU individuals and four entities for allegedly interfering in the so-called “internal affairs of the Chinese Communist Party.
However, the EU does not take kindly to rogue retaliation from the Chinese Communist Party. The President of the European Parliament’s largest caucus, the People’s Party (PP), strongly criticized the CCP’s contempt for democracy, stressed that Europe will not be cowed, and called on the EU to take counter-measures against the CCP.
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