The Trump administration's latest action blacklisting 33
Chinese companies and firms on the allegation of pursuing military spy and
surveillance technology and helping Beijing to crackdown on Uyghur Muslims, was
part of a plan already disclosed in the leaked contents from "Corona Big Book."
The May 22 action is part of the American's smear campaign against China leaked
last month in the 57-page memorandum prepared for the US National Republican
Senatorial Committee pertaining to the November 2020 presidential election.
"America should impose sanctions on China and treat China like the 'pariah
state' as it is," - says one-liner important leak in the "Corona Big Book" — the
brainchild of Brett O’Donnell, a strategic advisor to Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo. The Book, which has been in circulations since late last month, suggests
that the Republicans will launch an aggressive messaging campaign to attack
China for America's Coronavirus crisis and to vow to make China pay for the
Covid-19 pandemic.
As per "Corona Big Book" the Republicans are suggested to keep saying: "The
Coronavirus is likely the result of an accidentally released by a Chinese
research facility - decades of haphazard experimentation with viruses and
negligence in biosafety."
"And China fabricated a story about the Wuhan Seafood Market to cover it up."
The scientists who analyzed the genome sequencing of the virus have outrightly
rejected the Lab theory. Besides, there is little evidence that China fabricated
a seafood market narrative since most of the first cases did have contact with
the market.
The anti-China views echoing from the ruling Republican Party leadership further
ossified by a bipartisan bill passed in Congress on May 15, urging President
Trump to take a tougher stance against China’s crackdown on the Uyghur Muslim
minority.
The multi-faced international policies of the US in different regions have
already been out in the open and blacklisting Chinese companies is a fresh
attempt to tarnish China's reputation globally and this time using the Uyghur
Muslim name.
"If we look at the case of Iran, there have been reports that the US sponsored
some violent protests against the Islamic regime in 2019," said Dr ZubairGhauri,
Islamabad-based writer and geopolitical analyst. The US has been supporting
different groups working against the Islamic regime in Iran since the 1979
revolutions.
Dr Ghauri says, "There have been confirmed reports that the US is supporting
different militant groups in the Middle East and particularly in Syria including
ethnic Kurds fighting against Turkish government, which is US' Nato ally."
There is a chance that this US action might support the separatists' militant
group Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), which is an internationally
designated terrorist organization, not the ordinary Uyghur Muslim.
Uyghurs are one of the major Muslim ethnic groups in China, besides Hui,
Khalkhas, Kazak and Uzbek. The majority of them are living in different
southwestern provinces, but in Xinjiang, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai their
population is more than none-Muslims. The Chinese Muslims population is
currently over 28.1 million, constituting 1.6 percent of the overall population
of China - 16th in the world after Saudi Arabia.
But a small group within ethnic Uyghur, which initially had less than 100
members, got inspiration from the Taliban rule over Afghanistan, JumaNamangani's
separatist movement in Uzbekistan and Hizb-ut-Tahrir's ideology of setting up
Islamic Khilafah. It started a resistance movement against the Chinese
government under the banner of Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement. However, it
got prominence after 9/11 when the entire world decided to work jointly against
terrorism.
Since its establishment, the ETIM established and maintained close ties with the
Taliban, al-Qaida and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU). And after 9/11
incident and the subsequent fall of Taliban regime in Afghanistan, like other
members of al-Qaeda and IMU, the ETIM members also entered the tribal region of
Pakistan.
As Pakistan continue to play its frontline role in the war on terror, the
Pakistan troops killed the ETIM founder Hasan Mahsum in October 2003 besides
several Pakistani Taliban leaders, Uzbek militants head JumaNamangani and Tahir
Yo'ldosh. Since then ETIM is led by Abdul Haq, a close associate al-Qaida and
once a member of the international terror group's advisory council.
With the support of western media, America has been campaigning against China
since Donald Trump election as president. The US has already decided to play
tough on China for economic gains and passed several bills in Congress to put
many sanctions on China.
"I don't think the US administration and US Senate have some problems with human
rights in China. All this seems to have economic and political aims," Dr Ghauri
opined. "This is not about the Uyghur Muslims."
This shows the hypocrisy of American policy. They have different policies in
different regions. Muslims are currently facing persecution in India and
particularly in Kashmir. What has the US done so far against India? Rohingya
Muslims in Burma were tortured, killed and even burnt alive in their houses and
what the US has done against the Myanmar government? It could have passed laws
to penalize them.
The US cannot see the lynching of Muslims in India in the name of Cow
Protection. Kashmiris are in the lockdown since the illegal removal of the
special status of the state by the Delhi government on August 5 last year. The
US human rights wings are sleeping on these issues.
Can't they see, massive rallies in several major cities of India against the
anti-Muslims Citizenship Amendment Act and National Registration of Citizens and
the detention camp set up by right-wing ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Assam?
But the western media only uses the word "concentration camps" and "Nazi
concentration camps" in the southwestern provinces of China.
China, on the other, has called these centers as re-education camps where the
Uyghur Muslims learn skills to add to the Chinese economy........which
apparently will take over the US as the leading economy of the world.