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The U.S. State Department released its annual human rights report for 2020 on March 30, and the section on China includes a focus on the persecution of Falun Gong in China and the crackdown on human rights lawyers, Xinjiang Uighurs and other religious believers, and human rights activists.
The State Department says it has joined Britain and Canada in imposing economic and visa sanctions on Chinese Communist Party officials and their families, and that the United States will continue to work with the international community to speak out for human rights.
Secretary of State Blinken said one way is to work with the U.S. Congress to use legislative tools such as the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act and the Hong Kong Bill of Rights and Democracy to impose sanctions on human rights abusers; another way is to impose economic and visa sanctions.
A Canal Disruption Shows the World the “New Cold War” Between the U.S. and China
The “Chang Chi” ship ran aground in the Suez Canal, causing a major ship jam. A few days ago, Bloomberg columnists Ficklin and Wendy Chui wrote that the Suez Canal, a global maritime choke point, has always been a focus of international conflict and power struggle, and now the U.S.-China confrontation is intensifying, the canal chaos can give the world a taste of the “new Cold War.
The article, quoted by World News, said that in retrospect, the Persian-Greek War of the fifth century B.C. was partly over control of the Black Sea trade route. When the Portuguese traveler Pierce visited Malacca, on the west coast of Malaysia, in 1512, he wrote: “Whoever controls Malacca has a stranglehold on Venice.”
About two-thirds of international Crude Oil and 80 percent of petroleum products are currently transported by sea. By the numbers, the Suez Canal remains one of the most important trade routes, especially between Asia and Europe. And sea lanes are a unique weakness for China. Unlike the United States, which is already a net exporter of crude oil, China imports nearly three-quarters of its crude oil needs and about four-fifths of its iron ore, and a large number of its export commodities also travel by sea.
To overcome these weaknesses, the Chinese Communist Party has been aggressive over the past decade, with Chinese companies holding nearly 65 percent of the world’s busiest ports and the “Belt and Road” policy aiming, among other things, to reduce China’s dependence on the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, including an infrastructure corridor through Pakistan, an oil pipeline through Myanmar, and a rail link through the Malay Peninsula. a rail link through the Malay Peninsula. Similarly, the Chinese Communist Party’s sovereignty claims over the South China Sea are motivated by the same strategic considerations.
Tougher on Beijing! Britain is taking the lead this time
British International Trade Secretary Liz Truss said in a 30-day statement that she will urge allies of the Group of Seven (G7) to take more measures to ban trade “abuses” such as forced labor and theft of intellectual property rights at a meeting with them on the 31st. The move apparently calls for a tougher stance against the Chinese Communist Party at the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Citing Reuters, the Free Times reported that Truss will meet with finance ministers of G7 allies and the new secretary general of the WTO, and that she will use Britain’s role as the current chair of the G7 to push for the UK to become a major proponent of free trade in the post-Brexit era.
Although Truss did not directly mention the Chinese Communist Party in her statement, the topics she described are all matters that the UK has mentioned in the past in relation to the Chinese Communist Party.
Diplomatic war wolves scared away? A novel scene at the Chinese Foreign Ministry press conference
The Chinese Foreign Ministry and the Xinjiang government held a press conference on March 29 on Xinjiang-related issues, with the aim of whitewashing the boycott of Xinjiang cotton by major Western brands as a result of human rights issues in Xinjiang. But there was no one to translate for the Xinjiang government spokesman, making the scene unusually awkward.
The Free Times reported that according to a live video released by CCTV’s CGTN, a Reuters reporter asked a question in English about 44 minutes into the press conference, but Xinjiang government spokesman Xu Guixiang could not understand it and asked directly for “an interpreter, an interpreter”, but no one answered.
Another official said to the reporter: “Please repeat the question, our translator ……”, when the reporter repeated the question, but the scene fell into a silence, still no translator to put out the fire, the scene is unusually awkward. The scene came to laughter, but no interpreter appeared to rescue, and finally had no choice but to repeat the question in Chinese, Reuters reporters to solve each other’s embarrassment.
The Reuters reporter asked the question “if other companies take a stand on the Xinjiang controversy, will they run into trouble like H&M”, while Xu Guixiang, after understanding, told the companies that they should not corporate their economic behavior, but should keep their eyes open and know right from wrong.
The Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo meeting is an unusual situation
The Chinese Communist Party basically holds a Politburo meeting once a month just to consider a “guiding opinion on promoting high-quality development in the central region in the new era”. The tone of the CCP’s incitement to boycott foreign companies has begun to lower, and the CCP Foreign Ministry has begun to moderate its rhetoric toward the United States.
On March 30, the CCP’s Politburo held a meeting with only three paragraphs of coverage in the party media, mentioning only the consideration of the “Guiding Opinions on Promoting High-Quality Development in the Central Region in a New Era”.
Yang Wei’s commentary in the Epoch Times says that the top echelon of the CCP is facing another round of international viciousness of its own making, and it is difficult to avoid the meeting of the CCP Politburo, which is not reported by the CCP party media at all, most likely because the CCP Politburo is unable to unify its internal views and cannot come up with corresponding countermeasures. At the same time, the tone of the CCP’s incitement to boycott foreign companies has begun to lower, and the rhetoric of the CCP’s Foreign Ministry toward the United States has begun to moderate.
In order to cover up the dilemma of foreign missteps, the CCP party media has started to serve up red history propaganda again, but the CCP’s red dynasty is facing an unprecedented decline, and it looks like the red gene can no longer sustain the Life of the CCP.
On March 30, Xinhua News Agency reported, “Red resources, Xi Jinping attaches great importance”, once again talking about the history of the Party, and said “to remember where the red regime came from”, to “pass on the red gene. to pass on the red gene”.
The Chinese Communist Party imagines that the “red gene” will be spread from Hong Kong to Taiwan, Asia, Europe, the United States and the whole world, which will predetermine the confrontation pattern between the Chinese Communist Party and the international community.
In fact, if we cannot maintain normal relations with the United States, Europe and other developed countries, the CCP’s so-called “internal circulation”, “high-quality development” and “technological innovation” are all word games.
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