De Biden
administratie heeft de zo ongeveer laatste actie overgenomen van
oorlogsmisdadiger Pompeo, onder Trump minister van buitenlandse
zaken: China pleegt een genocide op de Oeigoeren…… Niet
gebaseerd op feiten maar op basis van de religieuze fundamentalist
(en fascist, Ap) Adrian Zens, een ultrarechtse Duitse ‘onderzoeker’,
die nauwe banden onderhoudt met de neoconservatieve groepen Victims
of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC VS) en de Jamestown Foundation in
Washington D.C. (de VOC is een organisatie die voortkwam uit een groep die werd opgericht door een Oekraïense fascist, die o.a. samenwerkte met ene Stetsko, die op zijn beurt tijdens WOII zij aan zij streed met de de nazi-Duitsers in Oekraïne…..)
Deze
Zens heeft moedwillig geknoeid met cijfers om zo aan te tonen dat
China de Oeigoeren een geboortebeperking heeft opgelegd, echter
uit de cijfers blijkt dat de Oeigoeren juist een groei in het aantal
geboorten hebben gezien en zien, terwijl de ‘import Han-Chinezen’
juist de geboorten in aantallen hebben zien teruglopen…….
Pompeo
heeft een paar dagen nadat Zens met zijn beschuldigingen kwam,
voorts gezegd dat China Oeigoeren gedwongen steriliseert, gedwongen
abortussen uitvoert op zwangere Oeigoeren en aan gedwongen
geboortebeperking doet, waarbij hij inderdaad verwees naar ‘de
bevindingen’ van Zens…..
Kortom deze
Zens is een uiterst onfrisse extreme christen fundamentalist (beter gezegd: fascist), die zich
tegen homoseksualiteit heeft uitgesproken en die tegen gelijkheid is van
man en vrouw…. (uiteraard is deze ploert ook tegen
anticonceptie, abortus en euthanasie)
Ook
deze zaak geeft eens te meer aan dat er amper verschil is tussen de Biden administratie en die van Trump
als het om buiten- en binnenlandbeleid gaat…… Biden zou wel goed
zijn als het om het klimaat gaat, echter dat is maar zeer de vraag,
daar hij in de zakken zit van de oliemaatschappijen en de financiële
maffia……
Overigens is het in ons land niet veel beter, een Kamermeerderheid heeft gesteld dat China een genocide uitvoert op de Oeigoeren, terwijl de ‘feiten’ waarop men zich beroept uit de smerige, valse koker van Zens komen……
Lees
het uitgebreide schrijven van Gareth Porter en Max Blumenthal, eerder
gepubliceerd op The Grayzone, ik nam het over van Information
Clearing House. (onder het artikel kan je klikken voor een
‘Dutch vertaling’):
US accusation of
“genocide” by China based on claims by far-right ideologue
By
Gareth Porter and Max Blumenthal
The Trump and Biden
administrations have relied on the work of a right-wing religious
extremist, Adrian Zenz, for their “genocide” accusation against
China. A close review of Zenz’s research reveals flagrant data
abuse and outright falsehoods.
February 23, 2021
“Information
Clearing House”
– – “Grey
Zone“
– Both
President Joe Biden and his Secretary of State Anthony Blinken have
endorsed former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s last-minute
accusation of “genocide”
against the Muslim Uyghur population in China’s Xinjiang province.
But
an investigation of published work by the researcher Pompeo relied on
to level his genocide allegation reveals a pattern of data abuse and
fraudulent assertions that substantially undermines the incendiary
charge.
The
U.S. government’s accusation of genocide against China stems from a
single source: a June 2020 paper
by Adrian Zenz,
a right-wing German researcher affiliated with the Victims of
Communism Memorial Foundation and neoconservative Jamestown
Foundation in Washington, D.C.
Articles
by the Associated Press, CNN, and BBC also relied on Zenz’s article
to claim that plunging Uyghur birth rates and the application of
birth control measures in Uyghur counties of the Xinjiang region were
proof of a policy of “demographic genocide.”
Just
days after the publication of Zenz’s paper, Pompeo issued
a statement denouncing China’s alleged policy of “forced
sterilization, forced abortion, and coercive family planning,”
personally crediting “Adrian Zenz’s shocking revelations.”
Biden
backed the the genocide charge last August when it first appeared in
a flurry of media reports. His campaign spokesman told
Politico,
“The unspeakable oppression that Uyghurs and other ethnic
minorities have suffered at the hands of China’s authoritarian
government is genocide and Joe Biden stands against it in the
strongest terms.” Blinken,
for his part, declared at his first press conference as
secretary of state that he agreed genocide has been committed against
the Uyghurs.
While
Zenz’s employers describe him as “one of the world’s leading
scholars on People’s Republic of China government policies towards
the country’s western regions of Tibet and Xinjiang,” he is, in
fact, a far-right
Christian fundamentalist who has said he is “led by God” against
China’s government,
deplores homosexuality and gender equality, and has taught
exclusively in evangelical theological institutions.
Lyle
Goldstein, a China specialist and research professor in the Strategic
and Operational Research Department of the Naval War College (SORD), told
The
Grayzone
that Zenz’s labeling of the Chinese approach to the Uyghurs as
“demographic genocide” is “ridiculous to the point of being
insulting to those who lost relatives in the Holocaust.”
Goldstein
said the Chinese approach to Xinjiang “is a more repressive posture
than we would like, but it sure isn’t genocide.”
Moreover,
a careful review of Zenz’s research shows that his assertion of
genocide is contradicted by flagrant data abuse, fraudulent claims,
cherry-picking of source material, and propagandistic
misrepresentations.
Adrian Zenz testifying before Congress on December 10, 2019
Genocide
or Family Planning Policy?
In
Adrian Zenz’s 2020 paper for the Jamestown Foundation, he boasted
that his findings “provide the strongest evidence yet that
Beijing’s policies in Xinjiang meet one of the genocide criteria
cited in the U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the
Crime of Genocide.”
Zenz
was referring Article 2 (d) of that Convention: “Imposing measures
intended to prevent births within the group.” But Article II
qualifies the relevant acts as those “committed with intent to
destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or
religious group, as such.”
But
“preventing births” by itself cannot be evidence of alleged
genocide without evidence of intent to destroy the group in
question. Otherwise,
any birth control program provided to an ethnic group
would be prima facie evidence of a policy of genocide against the
group.
Zenz
argued that population control measures applied to Uyghurs could
be branded as “genocidal” because population growth rates fell by
84 percent in the two largest Uyghur prefectures between 2015 and
2018, and declined further in several minority regions in 2019. But
more complete statistics that Zenz cited in his report, and data that
he conveniently omitted, contradicted his conclusion.
Zenz
provided statistics revealing that between 2005 and 2015, Uyghur
population growth in Xinjiang was 2.6 times higher than that of Han
Chinese in the Xinjiang region. (The chart displayed in his report is
below).
Both official
Chinese figures and
Zenz agree that the Uyghur population in Xinjiang increased
significantly between 2010 and 2018.
Left:
Zenz’s graph on population changes in Xinjiang. Right: Official
Chinese statistics on the same issue.
Zenz’s
figures shows an increase in Uyghur population from 10.1 million to
11.8 million during the 2010 and 2018, while Chinese government
figures demonstrate an even larger increase from 10.1 to 12.7
million. That means the Uyghur population in Xinjiang grew by a
staggering 25.04 percent.
Zenz
shows the Han Chinese population rising from 8.5 to 9.8 million
during the eight-year period, while Chinese government figures show a
smaller increase in Han population from 8.8 million to 9 million.
Both
the rapid surge in Uyghur population growth rates and the increased
margin of the Uyghur majority over the Han population of Xinjiang in
recent years are the result of the one-child policy imposed on Han
Chinese couples by the Chinese government in 1979.
According
to China specialist Martin King Whyte, the one-child policy was
accompanied by a long-term pattern
of abuses in
its implementation, including “intrusive menstrual monitoring,
coerced sterilizations and abortions, staggering monetary fines for
‘over-quota’ births, smashing of furniture and housing of those
who resist and withholding registration for babies born outside the
plan.”
Uyghur
families, however, were exempted from the one child policy. Urban
Uyghur couples were allowed to have two children, and rural Uyghur
couples three. In practice, moreover, rural Uyghurs often had large
families, with as many as nine or ten children in some cases, as even
Zenz acknowledged.
In
2015, the Chinese government announced
a relaxation of
the decades-long one-child limit on urban Han couples, allowing urban
couples to have two children and rural families to have three. In
Xinjiang, where birthrates routinely exceeded previously
established limits, local officials urged the equal application of
family planning policy between Han and Uyghur couples.
In
July 2017, Xinjiang’s regional government ended
the exemption on the old child limits for Uyghurs.
Uyghur couples were thus expected to follow the same limitations
recently imposed on Han couples: two children in urban areas and
three in rural regions.
As
the Chinese government has freely
acknowledged,
a 5 percent decrease in the birth rate in Xinjiang between 2017 and
2018 was the result of the equal enforcement of family planning
policy across ethnic lines.
While
eliding this point, Zenz also overlooked the fact that
China’s overall
birthrate has fallen precipitously
in recent years across the demographic spectrum as the population
ages and contraceptives become more widely available through programs
like the government’s
annual free distribution of one billion condoms.
For example, in the city of Guangzhou, which is far from Xinjiang,
the rate of newborn babies has plunged
to its lowest point in a decade.
Cherry
Picking & Distortion
Also
in 2017, China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission
announced a $5.2 billion healthcare investment in Xinjiang, stating
its intention to strengthen a brittle health infrastructure in
impoverished, rural areas of the region.
According
to Chinese government statistics, maternal and infant mortality rates
in Xinjiang were nearly
halved by 2018,
while average life expectancy rose as a result of increased public
health investments. A 2019 study by Lancet described
China’s improvement of maternal health and infant mortality
reduction as a “remarkable success story.” Another study that
year by the Chinese
Academy of Medical Sciences arrived
at a similar conclusion. How these positive health indicators could
serve as proof of genocide was left unexplained by Zenz, who simply
omitted the numbers from his report.
Throughout
his paper, Zenz framed the expansion of public healthcare services in
Xinjiang as evidence of a genocide in the making. For example, Zenz
pointed to a photograph of Uyghur residents of rural regions of
Xinjiang receiving medical consultation at a free health clinic as
part of an “effort to enforce the thorough implementation of
increasing intrusive birth control efforts.”
However,
the photograph depicted an elderly couple who were far too old to
have children, and was dated May 2017 – months before the Chinese
government announced an end to the child limit exemption for Uyghurs.
Left:
Adrian Zenz’s creative interpretation of a photo showing an elderly
couple receiving a free health check-up. Right: The original source
of the photo.
According
to the original source of the photograph, an
article in China News,
it depicted a regiment from the Xinjiang Production and Construction
Corps deploying to a rural province as part of the government’s
poverty eradication program. There, the doctors “measured blood
pressure, electrocardiogram, blood sugar, height and weight for poor
villagers who came to see the doctor for free… More than 200 poor
people were diagnosed and treated, and more than 100 common drugs
were distributed on the spot.”
At
another point in his paper, Zenz cited an August
2019 document from
Xinjiang’s Wenquan County government office as evidence of “greater
pressure to implement intrusive birth control methods.” He referred
to a single mention of 468 “birth control surgeries,” which could
alternately be translated as “family planning operations,” but
provided no evidence that the operations were coercive. Revealingly,
Zenz omitted the next line, which expressed satisfaction with a birth
rate of 8.11 percent.
Zenz
proceeded to ignore the rest of the document, which touted the
increased provision of free mental health services, polio
vaccinations and AIDS prevention treatment as well as poverty
alleviation measures and the construction of new hospitals and
medical clinics for the population of Xinjiang.
How
did a massive investment to improve the health of previously
neglected rural communities fit within the framework of a policy of
genocide? Once again, Zenz avoided the issue entirely.
Inventing
Statistics & Spinning Tales
Among
Zenz’s “major findings” was the claim that “80 percent of all
net added IUD placements in China… were performed in Xinjiang,
despite the fact that the region only makes up 1.8 percent of the
nation’s population.”
According
to the 2019 China Health Statistics Yearbook published by
the National
Health Commission –
the original source of Zenz’s claim – the number of new IUD
insertion procedures in Xinjiang in 2018 accounted for only 8.7
percent of China’s total. So Zenz’s “major finding” was off
by a factor of 10, a staggering error that undermined the entire
substance of his argument.
Zenz
also omitted mention of the 89,018 IUDs that were removed in Xinjiang
in 2018, perhaps because those numbers further undercut his claims of
genocide.
The
Chinese government has published the
statistical yearbook chart that Zenz relied on to concoct his “major
finding.” The relevant sections were translated by a native Chinese
speaker and are displayed below. A full translation of the chart can
be viewed here.
When Zenz attempted to defend
himself against accusations of cooking statistics on birth control
surgeries in Xinjiang, he ultimately cast further doubt on the
quality of his research. Responding
to a Chinese academic critic, he claimed that he had calculated
Xinjiang’s 239,457 new net IUD insertions (devices added minus
those removed) as 80% of the national total in 2018.
However, Henan province registered
206,281 new net IUD insertions, or 69%, in 2018. Hebei, meanwhile,
registered 61%, amounting to a total of 210% of national net
insertions. These numbers only make sense when calculated alongside
provinces like Jiangsu and Yunnan that had more removals (-60% and
-54%, respectively) than total national net insertions. By relying on
such a bizarre metric, Zenz appeared to have attempted a cynical
statistical sleight of hand to paint Xinjiang as a hotbed of birth
control surgery.
In perhaps the most unintentionally
absurd assertion in an article filled with them, Zenz asserted that
the Chinese government inserted between 800 and 1400 IUDs per
capita each year in
Xinjiang. Which meant that each woman in the province would have had
to have undergone anywhere from 4 to 8 IUD surgeries every day. With
so much time spent on the operating table every day, it’s a wonder
that anyone in Xinjiang could find time to work, or eat.
MonkeyKing
@abovetheclouds
Wait what? Zenz claims 800+ IUDs placed *per capita* per year, which must be about 1,600 IUDs per female per year, and even more per females at birth age per year?
Zenz’s
questionable claims did not stop there. Elsewhere in his paper, the
daffy data diver asserted that 73.5 percent of married women of
childbearing age in Xinjiang’s Kuqa County had IUDs fitted between
2017 and 2018. In his footnote, Zenz claimed, “This data comes from
a cache of over 25,000 local government files obtained by the author
in 2019.” The article
he provided as
accompaniment, however, was written by himself for the Jamestown
Foundation and contained no data on IUD operations in Kuqa County.
Zenz
attempted to pad his shaky statistics with dramatic testimony from
U.S.-based Uyghur exiles who have been cultivated
by the U.S. State Department. The
narratives of these exiles have been vehemently challengedby
family members in Xinjiang,
as well as by vocational
center graduates and local
doctors,
who produced official hospital documents purporting to disprove their
allegations.
In
his paper, Zenz cited a September
2019 article in
the U.S. government-run outlet, Radio Free Asia, containing testimony
by a U.S.-based exile, Tursunay Ziyawudun, who claimed she was
forcibly sterilized and physically tortured in a Chinese internment
center.
However,
in February 2020, Ziyawudun changed
her story entirely,
telling Buzzfeed: “I wasn’t beaten or abused. The hardest part
was mental. It’s something I can’t explain — you suffer
mentally. Being kept someplace and forced to stay there for no
reason.”
Ziyawudun
changed her story again after being relocated to the U.S.
and cultivated by
the U.S.
government-funded Uyghur
Human Rights Project. This February, she told
the BBC and CNN that
she was gang raped by guards in an internment camp. The BBC report
relied on none other than Zenz as its expert voice on China’s
supposed policy of “systematic rape.”
Zenz’s
propagandistic framing, cherry-picking of original source materials,
and cooking of statistics fit a pattern of misrepresentation on
display in a December 2019 paper he authored for a NATO-linked
publicationalleging
a Chinese policy to force members of the Uyghur minority into “slave
labor.”
As
Ajit Singh reported
for The
Grayzone,
Zenz painted an article about a government program providing Uyghur
women with free childcare as evidence of forced family separation –
a “shocking example of this ‘liberation’ of women from their
children,” he called it. Zenz conveniently omitted a quote in the
article from a Uyghur woman who said the free childcare “solved
[her] problem, now there are people who take care of my children, I
can in peace go to work… very convenient.”
A
look at Zenz’s political background helps explain his hostility
toward China’s socialist system, and raises questions about his
views on the use of birth control. Indeed, Zenz is an anti-abortion,
anti-feminist Christian fundamentalist captivated by End Times
theology, and has said that god has led him on a mission against the
Chinese government.
Adrian
Zenz’s first book, co-authored with Marlon Sias, condemns gender
equality, homosexuality and socialism as works of the Antichrist.
‘Led
by God’ Against China
The
BBC based its June
2020 report alleging
“forc[ed] birth control to suppress population” on Zenz’s work,
referring to him as a “China scholar” without mentioning his
employment by right-wing institutions in Washington or his own
hyper-ideological views.
Like
the BBC, an AP
report relied
entirely on an advance copy of Zenz’s paper, but provided no
background and whitewashed his right-wing politics or institutional
affiliations. A CNN
story published
a month later and a CNN follow-up
in September 2020
on alleged Chinese forced sterilizations in Xinjiang also relied on
Zenz without mentioning his political background.
As
The
Grayzone
has reported, Zenz is a far right Christian fundamentalist who
claims to have been “led by god’ to
defeat the Communist Party of China. While he is almost invariably
touted in Western media as a leading scholar on China, he described
himself in
2015 as “a lecturer in empirical research methods at a Christian
university.” As late as 2018, in fact, Zenz was listed as
a faculty member of the European School of Culture and Theology at
Columbia International University in Korntal, Germany.
Zenz’s
first published book, “Worthy
to Escape:
Why all believers will not be raptured before the Tribulation,” he
and his co-author, Marlos Sias, urged Christian believers to subject
unruly children to “scriptural
spanking,” condemned
homosexuality as “one of the four empires of the beast,” and
argued that Jews who refuse to convert to evangelical Christianity
during the End Times would either be “wipe[d]
out” or
“refined” in a “fiery furnace.”
@dancohen3000
Adrian Zenz, the primary source of western media reports on Uyghur “concentration camps”, is a German anti-Semite who believes Jews that refuse to convert to Christianity will be “wiped out” and put into a “fiery furnace”.
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In
the End Times tome, Zenz predicted that the coming fall of capitalism
would bring to power the Antichrist within a “few decades.” He
identified the force that “will usher the Antichrist into power”
as “the economic and financial fall of ‘Babylon,’ with
‘Babylon’ symbolically representing the world’s global economic
system (capitalism).”
Like
other born-again evangelicals, Zenz is also fiercely anti-abortion
and opposed to gender equality. “Another important God-given
authority structure that Satan is attacking through the postmodern
spirit is that of gender authority structures,” Zenz wrote.
“Through notions of gender equality […] the enemy is undermining
God’s unique but different role assignments for men and women.”
Zenz
currently serves as a fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial
Foundation, a Washington DC-based right-wing lobbying front born out
of the National Captive Nations Committee (NCNC). The latter group was
founded by Ukrainian nationalist Lev Dobriansky to stifle any efforts
at diplomacy with the Soviet Union. Its co-chairman, Yaroslav
Stetsko, was a leader
of the OUN-B militia that
fought alongside Nazi Germany during its occupation of Ukraine in
World War II.
In
April 2020, Zenz’s employer listed all global deaths from Covid-19
as “victims of communism,” blaming each of them on the Chinese
government.
@VoCommunism
Victims Of Communism Memorial Foundation Adds Global Coronavirus Deaths To Its Tally Of Historical Victims Of Communism #CCPCoverupvictimsofcommunism.org/sb/chinese-com
Anders Hagstrom
@Hagstrom_Anders
NEW: The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation says all coronavirus deaths “must” count toward global tally of victims of communism due to “coverup” from Chinese govt:
“Their deceit and their predatory behavior shocks the conscience.”
dailycaller.com/2020/04/10/com
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Zenz
is also employed by the Jamestown Foundation, a neoconservative think
tank in Washington DC founded
as the outcome of efforts by
Ronald Reagan’s CIA Director, William J. Casey, to establish an
extra-governmental channel to pay Soviet dissidents. In the past,
Jamestown leadership has spearheaded
lobbying efforts to
support separatism in Chechnya.
In
their apparent zeal for escalation with China, mainstream Western
outlets like the AP, BBC and CNN have accepted Zenz’s dubious
research as absolute fact, while ignoring his background as a
religious extremist who is ideologically committed to regime change
in Beijing. If Biden and Blinken formally adopt the Trump
administration’s “genocide” designation, they will have
effectively endorsed Zenz’s shoddy and propagandistic research as
well.
The
genocide accusation may appeal to the Biden administration as a
useful geopolitical cudgel, as well as a defense against right-wing
Republic attacks painting the new president as “soft
on China.” But
it will only strengthen the hand of hardliners determined to provoke
a dangerous and potentially catastrophic confrontation with a fellow
nuclear-armed power.
“The
United States has set out to vilify China,” former U.S. Deputy
Chief of Mission in Beijing and Assistant Secretary of Defense Chas
Freeman told The
Grayzone,
and the accusation of Uyghur genocide “is the perfect issue with
which to do so.”
Freeman
opined that the Chinese “seem to be doing many cruel and
counterproductive things in Xinjiang.” However, he cautioned
against taking the genocide accusation at face value: “In the
current atmosphere, we should be especially skeptical about any and
all assertions by people who have become part of the current
anti-China campaign in the West. Before we condemn, we should be sure
of our facts.”
The
Jamestown Foundation did not respond to a request for comment on
Zenz’s research.
Gareth Porter is an
independent investigative journalist who has covered national
security policy since 2005 and was the recipient of Gellhorn Prize
for Journalism in 2012. His most recent book is The CIA Insider’s
Guide to the Iran Crisis co-authored with John Kiriakou, just
published in February.
Max Blumenthal is the editor-in-chief
of The Grayzone, Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and
the author of several books, including best-selling Republican
Gomorrah, Goliath, The Fifty One Day War, and The Management of
Savagery. He has produced print articles for an array of
publications, many video reports, and several documentaries,
including Killing Gaza. Blumenthal founded The Grayzone in 2015 to
shine a journalistic light on America’s state of perpetual war and
its dangerous domestic repercussions.
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‘Dalai
Lama in Nederland, Timmermans benadrukt, dat zijn gesprek met de Dalai
Lama alleen een religieuze dialoog zal zijn……… Teken de petitie
a.u.b.!‘ (ja ja deze zogenaamde duurzame en maatschappelijk
bewuste clown van de PvdA vond destijds dat China niet voor de voeten
moest worden gelopen, de smerige hypocriet!!)
Ik heb geprobeerd de belangrijkste namen en begrippen op te nemen in de labels, direct onder dit bericht, echter de ruimte is beperkt dus er zijn volgens anderen wellicht belangrijkere zaken niet opgenomen tussen die labels, alvast mijn excuus.
Zie hoe Nanninga waarschuwt voor het gevaar dat Joodse Amsterdammers lopen en wat ze daarvoor aan puur antisemitische ‘grappen’ durfde te maken op Twitter…….. (en geloof mij maar dat meende ze van A tot Z >> zo was ze een tijdlang te gast bij het Humanistische Verbond, waar de extreem rechtse hufter Theodor Holman het programma Oba Live presenteerde: wat Nanninga daar uit durfde te braken was ronduit fascistisch (vooral ook als ze het had over Marokkanen en vluchtelingen….)…..