很明显，西方正千方百计要打垮中国。在与美国参议员召开有关基础设施投资问题会议之前，美国总统拜登就指出：“如果我们不采取行动，他们（中国）就会吃掉我们的午餐”，显然的，拜登并不是简单地告诉美国民众，美国需要加紧努力投入基础设施建设。
拜登还说：“他们（中国）投资了数十亿美元解决交通、环境和其他一系列相关的问题。我们不能落后。”
但鉴于美国的种族和阶级分化严重，加上经济疲软，美国要奋起直追并非易事。
反之，把中国拉下来要容易得多。只要在中国的政治和社会经济课题上寻找借口并制造谎言，如：中国如何夺走了美国人的工作；中国的技术是如何从美国窃来的；中国学者和留学生如何成为中共的间谍；中国对外的发展援助是债务陷阱，旨在使小国破产和被中国奴役；还有华为构成的安全威胁等。
中国的“罪行”清单不断增加。甚至中国在体育领域和太空计划的成就也可被扭曲为反华的宣传。
一场偏执和仇外的运动，似乎是美国政客和盟友的新冷战战略一部分，以应对自日本之后，第一个非西方、非盎格鲁撒克逊国家在世界舞台上的崛起。这种新冷战的种族主义维度是非西方人民应该关注的问题。
西方拖垮中国战略
从特朗普开始，到现在的拜登，我们可看到西方在军事上的挑衅愈演愈烈；通过四方安全对话（QUAD）在印太地区包围中国，联手欧盟和亚洲盟友施加经贸压力；并大幅提升打击中共和习近平主席的政策行动。
因此，中国新疆课题，成了不管是美国共和党或民主党的西方“扩音器外交”重点，即利用舆论造势的外交手段，妖魔化中国政府并使人质疑中国政权合法性。美国高官迈克蓬佩奥（前国务卿）和安东尼布林肯（现任国务卿）等，就如鹦鹉学舌地说，中国正在犯下“反人类罪”，并对维吾尔族进行“种族灭绝”。这一毫无根据的指控一再遭到联合国里伊斯兰国家的反驳，他们派出了调查小组和观察员实地了解情况；最近的一次，就是联合国人权专员。
也许中国在新疆推行的再教育营和对待异议份子的惩罚措施是错误和应受谴责的。但套用于中国的相同人权标准和国际准则，也需要世界所有国家共同遵守。
比较美国、加拿大、澳洲、纽西兰和其他欧洲国家——也包括亚洲国家——在过去和当下是如何对待本土的土著少数民族，特别是他们的原住民和其他土著，文化少数群体，就能更好看出是哪一些国家才是犯下种族灭绝和侵犯人权行为。
不可否认的事实是，在备受指责执行“种族灭绝”政策的中国政权下，维吾尔族取得了长足进步。中国人口和经济数据显示，从1953年第一次全国人口普查到2020年第七次全国人口普查，新疆人口从478万增加到2585万，维吾尔族人口从360万增加到1162万。维吾尔族人口增长率高于中国其他少数民族和汉族。如果使用更全面的联合国人类发展指数来看待，新疆省2019年的人类发展指数为0.732（指数越高代表发展越好）。
反之，中国新疆的发展与印度的阿萨姆邦相比毫不逊色，阿萨姆邦也有著不同民族间的冲突和少数民族文化课题。阿萨姆邦2018年的人类发展指数为0.614。去年新疆经济增长7%，而阿萨姆邦的国内生产总值在2021-22年比上一年增长4%。
中印不同待遇
印度虽面对著不同族群和宗教的冲突，却被西方称赞为良好治理和民主的国度典范，与中国的共产主义和威权政府形成鲜明对比。在印度的克什米尔和其他地区，穆斯林和印度教教徒偶有零星宗派冲突，同时，印度总理莫迪领导的人民党政府也被指对伊斯兰充满偏见和敌视。近日，《洛杉矶时报》就有一篇罕见的西方媒体报导，对印度的局势发出了警告。
在印度教民族主义推动下，加上当局的放任，对穆斯林的压迫在印度日益严重，以至于一些专家表示，这正在破坏印度作为世界上最大民主国地位，并引发人们质疑其未来还能保著世俗国处境。
印度总理莫迪和其右翼印度人民党长期以来一直煽动反穆斯林情绪，作为赢得印度教徒支持的战略。印度教徒占印度14亿人口的八成。
实际上，美国及盟友为何关注新疆（以及西藏和香港）而不是世界其他地区，并不是因为他们对民主和人权的承诺或对文化和政治少数群体福祉的关注。同样，美国及盟友炒作维吾尔族异议份子遭对付事件，不是出于对穆斯林族群的热爱，他们在利比亚、叙利亚、伊朗、伊拉克、阿富汗和其他地方，就对穆斯林发动了残酷的战争，杀害了数十万平民。
西方列强敲响战鼓的主要目标——西方媒体没有披露或讨论的一点——就是要在新疆煽动起恐怖主义，在中国境内播下动乱和不稳定的种子。如果成功，结果将对中国在国际上和国内产生不利影响。对于西方好战份子来说，尽管这作法会对区域和全球和平造成附带伤害，但利用伊斯兰作为“特洛伊木马”来打倒中国是可以接受的策略。
在新冷战上，其中一个关键部分就是依靠媒体、非政府机构和组织来挑剔和诋毁中国。这可从BBC、CNN、雅虎、Sky和Fox网络以及其他西方媒体的报导中反映出来，这些媒体宣称“独立、诚实和公平”，以及他们的报导如何拥抱“多样性和包容性”。
可是，从这些媒体日常报导中可以验证，他们执著于对中国的负面报导，以至于排除了对世界其他地区，包括本身国家的重要课题和发展的报导。与西方媒体同谋污蔑中国政府的——也许是无意的——是非西方大众媒体，他们一般依赖西方媒体提供每日新闻报导。
华人需要觉醒
反华报导的影响不仅仅是在国际关系中。炫耀或隐瞒式的种族主义报导会影响受众的国家和社区。这可以从社交媒体上涌现种族仇恨叙事和种族仇恨犯罪率急增中看出。在美国一些城市，如果你看似中国人或亚洲人，你需要应对随机而来的种族主义行为——包括暴力。不管这些受害者是香港人、亲中共的大陆人、亲民进党的台湾人，还是非华裔，对肇事者来说并不重要。
随著华人和其他亚洲族群越来越多地成为西方反华运动的受害者，是时候人们为自己的权利和利益站起来，大声疾呼。特别是华人，无论他们定居于——马来西亚、新加坡、印尼、越南、寮国、柬埔寨、菲律宾、泰国、斐济、巴布亚新几内亚、所罗门群岛，或者美国、英国、澳洲、加拿大、纽西兰和其他地方——需要与西方反华运动划清界限。
中国大陆以外的近5000万海外华人普遍不关心政治，他们更专注于所在国的未来。他们对新疆、台湾和中共会有不同甚至对立的看法。然而现在是时候，尤其是对于那些不太了解中国历史、容易受到西方宣传影响的年轻一代来说，他们要走出非政治圈子，反击那些企图挑起新冷战的种族主义并拖垮中国者。
林德宜《反击反华运动》原文：Fighting Back Against the Anti China Campaign
It is clear that there will be no let up in the western campaign to bring China down by every means possible. When Biden announced to his US senators audience that “If we don’t get moving, they are going to eat our lunch,” he was not simply telling his American audience that the United States needed to step up its efforts to build US infrastructure.
He said - “They’re [China] investing billions of dollars dealing with a whole range of issues that relate to transportation, the environment and a whole range of other things. We just have to step up.”
But stepping up is not so easy for the US given its deep racial and class divisions and weakened economy.
Much easier is pulling China down. And finding excuses and telling lies about China’s politics and socio economy How China is robbing Americans of their jobs. How China’s technology is pirated from the US. How Chinese academics and students are espionage agents for the Chinese Communist Party. How China’s development assistance are debt traps and intended to bankrupt and enslave small countries? How Huawei is a security threat.
The list of China’s ‘crimes’ keeps multiplying. Even China’s sports and space programme success are twisted to provide anti-China propaganda.
A paranoid and xenophobic campaign appears to be part of the new cold war strategy of US politicians and supporting allies to counter the rise of the first non-western, non-Anglo Saxon nation since Japan on the world stage. The new racist dimension of the cold war is one which the world should be concerned with.
Western Strategy To Pull Down China
Beginning with Trump and now with Biden we see an intensification of military provocations; encirclement of China by QUAD in the Indo Pacific region; recruitment of European Union and Asian allies to apply economic and trade pressure; and a step up of policy actions to bring down the CCP and President Xi.
In Xinjiang, the focus of western megaphone diplomacy by Republican and Democrat parties is to demonise and delegitimize China’s government. The highest ranking US officials such as Mike Pompeo and Anthony Blinken parrot that China is committing ‘crimes against humanity’ and engaging in ‘genocide’ against the Uyghur community. This charge has been refuted time and again by the United Nation’s Islamic member countries who have sent study teams and observers to investigate the situation in the region; and most recently by the UN Human Rights Commissioner.
Perhaps what China is doing in Xinjiang with the reeducation camps and punitive measures against dissidents is wrong and reprehensible. But the same standards of human rights and international norms applied to China need to be applied and held up for all countries in the world.
A comparison of how the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other European nations - and this includes Asian countries - have treated their own indigenous minority groups, and in particular what has happened to their aboriginal and other native populations, and cultural minorities, provides a better picture of which nations have engaged in genocide and human rights abuses.
It is undeniable that under China’s ‘genocidal’ regime, the Uygur community has made much progress. China’s population and economic data reveal that from the first national census in 1953 to the seventh one in 2020, Xinjiang's population increased from 4.78 million to 25.85 million with the Uygur population growing from 3.6 million to 11.62 million. The Uygur population growth rate is higher than that of other ethnic minorities and the Han majority population. Using the more holistic United Nation’s human development index, the province’s HDI in 2019 was 0.732.
Xinjiang’s human development compares favourably with that of Assam state in India which has not dissimilar ethnic conflict and cultural minority problems. Assam had a HDI of 0.614 in 2018. Last year Xinjiang’s economy grew 7% compared to Assam’s Gross State Domestic Product which for 2021-22 recorded an increase of 4% over the previous year.
Ehnic and religious conflicts have long taken place in India which is praised by the West as a model of good governance and democracy in contrast to China’s communist and repressive authoritarian government. Unresolved in Kashmir and other parts of the country, Muslim and Hindu communities continue to be in sectarian conflict which has led to allegations that Islamophobia is the norm in Prime Minister Modi’s BJP government. An uncommon western media report in the Los AngelesTimes had this recently to warn on the situation in India
Fueled by Hindu nationalism, encouraged by authorities and carried out with impunity, oppression of Muslims has become so pervasive in India that experts said it is undermining the country’s standing as the world’s largest democracy and raising doubts about its future as a secular state.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, have long fanned anti-Muslim sentiment as part of a winning strategy to galvanize support from Hindus, who make up 80% of India’s 1.4 billion people.
Why the US and its allies are targeting Xinjiang (and Tibet and Hong Kong) and not other parts of the world is not because of their commitment to democracy and human rights or concern for the well-being of cultural and political minority groups. They are sensationalizing the cases of Ugyhur dissidents not for love of the Muslim community, the members of which they have waged brutal wars against and killed several hundred thousands of civilians in Libya, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
A primary objective of Western powers beating the drums of war - one not disclosed or discussed by western media - is to incite terrorism in Xinjiang, and plant the seeds of unrest and instability in China. If successful, the outcome would adversely affect China domestically and internationally. For western war hawks, exploiting the Islamic cause and using it as a trojan horse to bring down China is an acceptable strategy, despite the collateral damage to the region and global peace.
A key part of the new cold war is the reliance on the media and other non-political agencies and organisations to pick on and bad mouth China. This is evident from the coverage of BBC, CNN, Yahoo, Sky and Fox networks, and other western media which loudly proclaim their ‘independence, honesty and fairness’ and how their reporting embraces ‘diversity and inclusivity’.
An examination of their daily coverage shows how obsessed they are with providing negative coverage of China to the extent of excluding reporting on important issues and developments in the rest of the world, including their own home countries. Also complicit in tarnishing the Chinese government - but perhaps inadvertently - is the non-western mass media which relies on western media organisations and networks for their daily news fare.
The impact of the anti China coverage is not simply in international relations. Flaunted or well concealed racist reporting affects nations and communities that are on the receiving end. This can be seen in the dramatic increase in the racial hate narratives spewed over social media and incidence in ethnic hate crimes. The situation in some US cities is that if you look Chinese or Asian, you have to be prepared for random acts of racism - including violence. Whether the victim is from Hong Kong, a pro-CCP mainlander or a pro-DPP Taiwanese or is not ethnically Chinese does not matter to the perpetrators.
The Chinese and Asian Diaspora Need to Wake Up
As Chinese and other Asian communities increasingly become victims of the West’s anti-China campaign, it is time that they stand up for their rights and concerns, and speak out. In particular, ethnic Chinese wherever they are settled - in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Philippines, Thailand, Fiji, PNG, Solomon Islands and those in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and elsewhere - need to draw a line against the western anti-China campaign when it descends into lies, disinformation, outright propaganda and sinophobic, racist and orientalist tropes.
The close to 50 million overseas Chinese outside mainland China have generally been apolitical, preferring to concentrate on their future in their adopted countries. They will have different and even opposed views on Xinjiang, Taiwan and the CCP. However now is the time, especially for the younger generation less aware of Chinese history and susceptible to propaganda from the west to close ranks, step out of their non-political bubble and fight back against those intent on instigating a new racist cold war and bringing down China.
