Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) researcher Xu Xiuzhong. (Screenshot from ASPI website)
As the Chinese Communist Party incites a boycott of Western clothing brands, it has begun attacking Xu Xiuzhong, a “90-year-old traitor” who reports on human rights in Xinjiang. The Australian journalist said that the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown would only make her put aside her desire to protect herself and continue reporting. She also revealed that she used to be a hardcore pinko, and only after she went abroad to learn the truth did her thinking begin to change.
A few days ago, the mainland media and social networks pointed the finger at Xu Xiuzhong, abusing her for “treason, drug use and sex trafficking” and criticizing her as a “female traitor” and “the originator of the Western boycott of Xinjiang cotton ” and so on.
In response, Xu Xiuzhong responded on Twitter on January 1, saying that since she reported on human rights in Xinjiang in 2017, her friends and relatives in China have been harassed, intimidated and even interrogated, and now she has been vilified as a “traitor”, so she is quite helpless.
Xu Xiuzhong is a researcher at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) and has written numerous reports on human rights in Xinjiang for Western media.
Xu previously told the Australian media that she was a standard “patriotic youth” a few years ago, but only changed after moving to Australia to teach Chinese in 2014. A former colleague recalled that she was a “100% loyal nationalist” who would fight with classmates and boyfriends over the Chinese Communist government, and had a tattoo of a five-star blood flag on her ankle.
During her media studies at the University of Melbourne, she interviewed many Chinese people to complete her studies and learned more about the truth than she could ever know on the mainland, including the June 4 massacre in Tiananmen Square and the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown on dissidents. She wanted to document the facts, but felt the fear of speaking out under totalitarian rule.
Xu Xiuzhong said she began to be interviewed by CCP agents when she was in college and was stopped on the road and threatened to her face. 2019, her family and friends in China began to be harassed and intimidated, her father stopped talking to her, and her mother warned her not to return to China in the future. Her father stopped talking to her, and her mother reminded her not to return to China in the future. Further, her family and friends were “detained, interrogated, harassed, and isolated,” and she was almost cut off from her relatives in China. The Communist Party’s state security forces also had an online army spread rumors describing her as a “slut” who loved group sex and only loved white people.
But she tweeted that the Communist Party’s crackdown only made her stop trying to defend herself and keep writing.
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