Who gives US the right to lecture China about rights?

By Andre Vltchek

December 11, 2019 "Information Clearing House" -  A long analysis I wrote about "the Uygur issue" earlier this year will be soon published as a book. For some time now, I have been warning that the West, the United States in particular, is helping radicalize the Uygurs both in and outside China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

I have also mapped the movement of the Uygur radicals through countries in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, from where they are injected into brutal war zones such as Idlib in Syria. I have worked with Syrian commanders in the Idlib area, and spoke at length with the internally displaced Syrian people－victims of brutal terrorist attacks, and got my information from them.

The Uygur people have their own religious beliefs and culture, and most of them are very decent people. The "problem" is that the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi is located on the main arm of the Belt and Road Initiative, an optimistic global project aimed at connecting billions of people along the route. The Belt and Road projects aim to improve connectivity and thus boost trade and economic exchanges along the two routes, which will help pull hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.

But Washington wants to maintain the status quo so it can continue to dominate the world. And to achieve that, it has been provoking and smearing China using all means, including the Hong Kong, South China Sea and Uygur issues, and the Taiwan question. To fulfill its goal, the US has also been encouraging some Uygurs to turn into "rebels", or more precisely, terrorists.

Some Western, especially US politicians, hope that the hardened, well-trained "Uyghur jihadi fighters" will eventually return home to Xinjiang and fight for the "independence" of the region from China, and therefore sabotage the Belt and Road Initiative.