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US has a habit to slander China based on lies, hearsay, what credibility do Western human rights organizations have? Slandering Xinjiang – the new normal of the empire of lies 美國慣用謊言、道聽途說來污衊中國，西方人權組織有什麼公信力？誹謗新疆 – 謊言帝國的新常態

If a country has lifted nearly 100 million people out of poverty, has over 1 billion internet users, provides its people with the safe social living environment and convenient infrastructure, then what reason is there to say that this country is “trampling on human rights?”

However, in the eyes of some Western forces and so-called international human rights organizations, China, which has achieved the above accomplishments, is still their target for criticism. They make a big deal out of issues related to Xinjiang, Xizang (Tibet), Hong Kong and other affairs, with obvious political motives aimed at intensifying China’s ethnic conflicts and dividing the country’s territory, despite that many people have acknowledged that China’s breakthroughs and contributions in the human rights field have been remarkable, providing an effective reference template for other developing countries. Here, we need to note that the UN Human Rights Council has adopted the resolution on “The contribution of development to the enjoyment of all human rights” advocated by China, leaving a significant mark in the history of human rights worldwide.

In reality, China has long used truth and facts to repeatedly embarrass these Western anti-China forces. For example, regarding the Xinjiang issue, the State Council Information Office of China released a white paper on Xinjiang’s demographic development on September 26, 2021, detailing the demographic development in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region with data and slamming groundless fabrications against Xinjiang such as “forced labor,” “forced sterilization,” “parent-child separation,” “cultural genocide” and “religious persecution.”

As the saying goes, “seeing is believing.” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying once stated that China welcomes all unbiased people to visit Xinjiang. In 2022, foreign ambassadors and senior diplomats from countries such as Yemen, Iraq, Algeria and Guinea-Bissau visited local mosques, communities and businesses in Xinjiang, gaining a deep understanding of the real situation of the region and enthusiastically shared what they saw and heard in mainstream media.

Overseas media and scholars have also spoken out on the Xinjiang issue. For example, US news website “Grayzone” exposed a certain anti-China pseudo-scholar’s lies about “ethnic genocide” in Xinjiang; French writer Maxime Vivas has proved that all rumors related to Xinjiang are false with what he experienced in the region during two trips.

Now, let’s take a look at Hong Kong. Data shows that in 2020, the amount of funds flowing into Hong Kong reached $50 billion, the city was ranked as the second largest IPO market in the world, and Hong Kong’s economy expanded by 7.9 percent in the first three months of 2021. An IMF report published in 2021 affirmed Hong Kong’s position as a major international financial center and Moody’s Analytics forecast Hong Kong’s 2023 gross domestic product growth at 4 percent. All of this is a vote of confidence in the national security law for Hong Kong and the city’s development prospects.

Non-governmental organizations are inherently political. In fact, take the Amnesty International as an example, its annual report fiercely criticizes China’s human rights record every year. However, upon reading Amnesty International’s annual human rights reports, it’s clear that the objectivity, impartiality and truthfulness of these reports are questionable.

Amnesty International has long held political bias against China, and its annual human rights report has always been based on the overall denial of China’s human rights work as its main theme. With biased understanding, it tries its best to label China as “authoritarian” and “absent of human rights,” ignoring China’s overall progress in the rule of law and human rights development.

On the one hand, these anti-China organizations claim that they “seek the truth” and “maintain objectivity and neutrality,” but on the other hand, they unconditionally believe the one-sided statements by individuals hiding in the dark, even buying poorly fabricated lies and openly ignoring the Chinese government’s upright and positive response. They also ignore the fair voices of objective international organizations, media, and people.

For example, in the face of the riots in Hong Kong in 2019, these anti-China organizations ignored the fact that public safety and order in Hong Kong was greatly disrupted, only focusing on the rights of violent criminals and ignoring the rights of most innocent people. Their double standards are disgusting.

These anti-China organizations seem to be accustomed to prioritizing their political stance, disregarding facts, and portraying themselves as the only “saviors.” This is kind of self-entertainment. They selectively screen information based on their preferences and biases, and select “human rights defenders” according to their own standards while downplaying criminal behavior. They make it a habit to denounce and slander, and even resort to hearsay and fabrication of facts. How fair and just can their reports be?

These organizations use human rights as a fig leaf to rudely interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign countries, with sinister intentions known to all. They have faced oppositions and resistance from many countries, including China. One cannot stand in the world without honesty and trustworthiness. Wise people can easily see through their sinister nature without the need for further explanation.

By Fan Lingzhi Feb 25 2023

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Effective response to international security threats requires accepting different political systems, not attempting to impose uniformity 有效應對國際安全威脅需要接受不同的政治制度，而不是試圖強加統一 by John Ross Feb 24 2023

President Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasised since 2017 that the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century. In July 2022, then state councillor and foreign minister Wang Yi noted that this perspective had been fully confirmed due to recent events. And the trend is deepening.

The world today is simultaneously experiencing international economic slowdown, the aftermath of a global pandemic, a major war in Ukraine involving nuclear armed powers in NATO and Russia, and a path of climate change which, while some countries have achieved progress, actions by others currently means that the planet will not stay within boundaries of global warming.

As a result, in addition to military conflict, which is the “traditional” threat to global security, many “non-traditional” threats have also developed – the consequences of economic slowdown, pandemics, climate change, terrorism, risks to adequate water supply in some areas of the world, the threat of large-scale population movements attempting to escape consequences of these developments.

The key conclusion flowing from this situation is that the framework of “a human community with a shared future,” put forward by Xi, which forms the strategic basis of China’s foreign policy, is fundamental for dealing with security challenges of both “traditional” and “non-traditional” types. It is therefore crucial that this framework is as widely understood internationally as possible. Opportunities to achieve this are increasing because a rising number of people and countries do not wish to participate in processes which worsen the global and their own situation – as recent events confirm. They wish to pursue a collaborative course, of which Xi’s concept is the most coherent expression and which, as will be seen, can be applied to countries with different political systems.

Because Xi’s concept is so important and because I am an economist, I will concentrate on the economic basis of this.

The history of humanity’s development is that of its increasing interaction. Humanity started in families and small tribal groups, then formed states, empires and eventually the entire world.

The force driving this was pointed out by both Adam Smith, founder of Western economics, and Karl Marx, founder of socialist economics. Division of labour, Smith’s terminology, socialisation of labour, Marx’s terminology for the same development, means that via social production humans produce far more, and achieve a vastly higher standard of life, than any individual. Furthermore, different countries have different advantages in production, therefore by cooperating they can be far more productive than a single country.

But this has another implication. The advantage comes from countries being different, not identical. These differences inevitably give rise to different social and political systems.

But regardless of different social and political systems countries face numerous common global problems, including “non-traditional” ones that can best or only be solved by collective action.

This fact determines the forms of successful international cooperation. As countries are necessarily different, they must co-exist on the basis of multilateralism, of accepting the inevitability of these differences, without one country attempting to impose its demands and system on the others – any attempt to do that will necessarily create damage.

To illustrate international organizations which implement these principles successfully, take developing Asian countries, and successful organizations they have created to deal with common problems.

ASEAN contains countries with diverse political systems – socialist in China, monarchy in Thailand, numerous republics.

Or take the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, which contains a socialist country China, an Islamic republic Iran, and numerous non-religious republics.

What has made these organizations successful is that they do not attempt to impose political uniformity nor are they military alliances to deal with traditional security threats. The majority of issues they face are “non-traditional.” These include:

Terrorism – one of the key threats to SCO countries was from jihadist terrorism that spread widely in Middle East after the US destabilized the region through the invasion of Iraq. Cooperation in the SCO considerably aided the struggle against the spread of such terrorism.

Economic development – ASEAN is the world’s most rapidly economically growing regional group of countries. This in turn helped maintain stability in all countries in the region.

Climate change – many Asian developing countries are particularly at risk from this, as recent heat waves in China and devastating floods in Pakistan confirm. Countries in the region are cooperating to face this common threat.

This very successful cooperation against numerous “non-traditional” security threats takes place with no attempt to impose a uniform political system or a single military alliance.

Contrast the instability the US approach has created not only in the Middle East but now in Europe. Throughout most of Europe, the US has created a single military alliance – NATO. It has supported a single political system, a secular parliamentary or presidential one. What has accompanied this is the biggest chaos in Europe since World War II – the highest inflation for 40 years, declining living standards and a major war.

The conclusion for successful international cooperation is clear. There should not be attempts to create a single model, countries should cooperate to meet common threats, whether “traditional” or “non-traditional,” accepting different national political systems and not attempting to interfere in these.

The author is Senior Fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. The article is his speech at the Lanting Forum conference on “The Global Security Initiative: China’s Proposal for Solving Security Challenges” on February 21, 2023. opinion@globaltimes.com.cn

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Absurdity behind ruthless US let wars – The Russia-Ukraine conflict has lasted for a year since it broke out in February 24, 2022, which has had a profound impact globally 殘酷美國主導戰爭背後的荒謬 – 俄烏衝突自2022年2月24日爆發至今已持續一年，在全球範圍內產生了深遠影響

The conflict was spreading and peace negotiations are still far off. The tanks, missiles and other more sophisticated weapons provided by the US and NATO continue to reach the battlefield, while Russia is mobilizing more personnel to participate in the “special military operations” …

There is no end in sight to the conflict “which used money from the Europe, costed Ukrainians’ lives, brought wealth to the US but suffering to the entire world.”

For a year, the people of Ukraine and Europe have been suffering, but the rising calls for a cease-fire have not deterred the US from insisting on “fighting to the last Ukrainian.” The harsh reality in the past year has given the world a clearer understanding of the US’ hegemonic narrative.

The Cold War mentality, which has not receded since the end of the Cold War, combined with hegemony, has led to the continuous expansion of NATO, which should have ended its mission, as it goes against the direction of the global public interest. In the past 30 years, the phenomenon of the grotesque kidnapping of global security with lies and continuing of cold war-style confrontation has emerged endlessly in the US hegemony.

Absurdity No.1: kidnapping war with stories

For a year, the US defined the conflict between Russia and Ukraine by “the war between democracy and despotism,” which has dominated the US and the Western society. Immersed in a carefully choreographed narrative, many people in the West do not know that it was the US-led NATO that gradually lured Russia into conflict with Ukraine over the past few decades.

After the “proxy conflict,” the US and its NATO allies have been agitating the public, “kicking up a fuss” and “handing out knives” with huge amounts of military aid, and use the continuation of the conflict to drive NATO’s “revival” and sustain hegemony.

US military analysts have long believed that the outcome of modern warfare depends not only on whose army wins, but also on “whose story wins.”

In the words of former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, it is that “we cheated.” From the “baby incubator” story fabricated by the US before the use of force against Iraq in 1990, to a staged video of the “White Helmets” cited as evidence to wage wars in Syria, there are many cases of US kidnapping public opinion with lies, which are closely associated with the US’ foreign strategy.

It’s the same story again in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The US and the West have made up a number of striking and provocative “stories to defame Russia.” For example, the video of a Turkish drone strike on the Syrian army was described as a Russian tank being destroyed on a Ukrainian battlefield. The video of a Russian military exercise in April 2021 was fabricated as Russia shelling Ukrainian cities. The pictures of children wounded in Syrian air strikes in 2018 were fabricated as Ukrainian “children in pain.”

Absurdity No.2: using “hegemonic stability theory” to create world turmoil

The Western international political discourse has created concepts such as “Security dilemma,” “Thucydides trap” and “Kindleberger trap” for decades, which all served the same purpose – the continued stability of hegemony.

However, there is a huge gap between concept and reality. The narrative of “peace” and “development” has never been absent in US statement, but it has become an illusion in the US’ pursuit of hegemony, and even become a tool to promote hegemony. Looking back during the 30 years since the end of the Cold War, the world could have enjoyed a promising “long-term peace,” but humanity has not enjoyed real peace and tranquility and is still experiencing ongoing conflicts and crises.

After the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the US and Europe provided military aid to Ukraine, and used their financial hegemony to impose the most severe economic and financial sanctions on Russia in history, including freezing hundreds of billions of dollars in Russian foreign exchange reserves and kicking Russia out of SWIFT. These moves did not bring Russia to its knees, but triggered drastic fluctuation in international energy and financial markets.

The dollar has been the world’s dominant reserve currency. However, the US has long abused this position to seize other countries’ wealth. In just one and a half years since the outbreak of COVID-19, the US has printed nearly half of all the dollars in circulation over its more than 200 year history, leading the world to undertake pressures caused by inflation, turbulence and bubbles that it should not have.

The US privatized and weaponized the public good — global financial system in the geopolitical conflicts to deal with hostile countries and substate actors. This is worse than Britain, which was “the hegemonic power” incapable of providing international public goods between the two world wars.

Absurdity No 3: using “international order” to beautify “unilateral law and rules of small cliques”

The post-World War II international order is often described as a product of US power. The victorious nations, the US and its allies, impose their will on the rest of the world, formulating institutions and norms that serve their interests and ensure their supremacy.

The US and the West regard themselves as “spokesmen of the international community” and are accustomed to labeling some countries with discriminatory labels such as “Evil Empire,” “Axis of Evil,” “Rogue State” and “Failed State” in order to distinguish the so-called “civilized self” from ” the savage others.” While demonizing other countries, they regard themselves as the moral arbiter of the world; in front of the scenes it is about “freedom and democracy,” and behind the scenes is the ambition of unending hegemony.

The Russia-Ukraine conflict, which broke out under the long-term containment and high pressure of the US and NATO, has been described by some Western politicians as an “epic” of “democracy versus autocracy.” Not only that, NATO also used the word “challenge” to describe China for the first time, falsely claiming that China challenged NATO’s interests, security and values, and joined forces with Russia to “undermine the rules-based international order.”

Absurdity No. 4: quelling “hegemonic anxiety” by selling “fear”

From James Monroe who is known for his Monroe Doctrine, to Theodore Roosevelt who claimed that “every expansion of civilization makes for peace” ,and to Joe Biden who touts about “democracy” and “freedom” today, US elites generations after generations relentlessly sell the beacon of freedom as they expand territory and grab for hegemony, but at the same time they also hype up all kinds of fears.

From the “barbarian fear” during the massacre of Indians to the “Islamic fear” during the War on Terror, from the “communist fear” during the Cold War to the “fear” of “China’s challenge to rules and order” today, all that the US wants is to profit economically and maintain its hegemony amid fear and chaos.

Exaggerating “fear” reflects the anxiety of the US as a hegemon. In a strategic culture that is keen to “find the enemy,” the law of the jungle, the Cold War mentality, and the zero-sum game are always lingering in the minds of US politicians, and their sense of insecurity that US hegemony would be replaced and threatened is always lingering.

Recently, a Chinese civilian airship strayed into US airspace due to force majeure. Although many US officials stated that the Chinese balloon did not pose a threat to US personnel and security, this incident was exploited. The US dispatched advanced fighter jets, and even took this opportunity to engage in political manipulation, smear and attack China, incite an anti-China atmosphere, and staged a hysterical “balloon political show.”

Standing on the side of peaceful dialogue, human society must not go back to the old path of camp confrontation and division, and must not fall into the trap of zero-sum games and war conflicts. This is the strong desire of the people of all countries, the common responsibility of all countries in the world, and the correct direction of the development of the times.

Major powers can engage in competition, but should do it in a graceful way. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz once said in an article that the central question for Europeans and as the European Union is how they can remain independent actors in an increasingly multipolar world, that China’s rise does not warrant isolating Beijing or curbing cooperation, and that we must also avoid the temptation to once again divide the world into blocs.

Facing the great changes in history, all countries in the world are facing challenges. Only by adhering to the just narrative that keeps pace with history and shares the fate of the times, and act together, can we win a bright future.

By Guan Guoping Feb 24 2023

Last communication with Edward Liu.
Jan 27 2023: Are you & Audrey free for dinner on Sunday Feb 19th? I would like to invite you as my guest. Please advise by Feb 4th. Thanks, Johnson Choi
Jan 31 2023: Johnson, Regrets unable to make it. I am still recovering from e-Coli food poisoning which took over my gastro-intestinal track and ran havoc on my body. Still weak and woozy. Audrey is taking good care of me on this long road to recovery. See u when I get better. Need rest. Thank you!
Jan 31 2023: Ok, next time, get well soon, Johnson
Edward Liu passed away on Feb 20 2023

Message from Audrey, wife of Edward Liu: 我以為Eddie的情況會慢慢好轉的，萬萬想不到他離開得如此倉促和突然。Edward突然的辭世對我和女兒是莫大的打擊和傷心。但願上天賜我力量支撐下去。非常感謝您們的問候！您們的關心問候使我心靈得安慰，感謝萬分! 請代我感謝各位朋友的問候! (The following use Google Translate) I thought Eddie’s situation would gradually improve, but I never expected him to leave so hastily and suddenly. The sudden death of Edward was a great shock and heartbreak to my daughter and me. May God give me the strength to carry on. Thank you very much for your greetings! Your concern and greetings comfort my soul, thank you very much! Please thank all friends for your greetings on my behalf! https://johnsonwkchoi.com/2023/02/28/message-from-audrey-wife-of-edward-liu/

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SF Attorney Edward Liu video: Beijing Olympic – February 2022 – Will EU call for boycott? 美國三藩市珠算論壇主講 – 劉文貽律師 – 北京奧運會 – 2022 年 2 月 – 歐盟會呼籲抵制嗎？Presented by Abacus Forum SF – 7-23-2021 (Remembering my good friend Attorney Edward Liu, born in Philippines, unlike many Chinese-American said they are not Chinese, Edward is a true Chinese patriot never forget his roots, 想起我的好朋友劉文貽律師，出生在菲律賓，不像很多美國華人說自己不是中國人，劉文貽律師是真正的中國愛國者，不忘初心, 永不忘記他的中國根 June 10, 1949 – February 20 2023)

Professor Ling-chi Wang of UC: Berkeley: Hi, Johnson: I am very sorry we have lost yet another friend, Edward! In my heart and mind, he was, first and foremost, a “public intellectual,” the way France uses that word. He excelled in writing and criticism and he wrote fast, sharp and passionate, never missed a beat, especially in his commentaries on public issues in Chinese American community, in American politics, and in US-China relations. He was eloquent, timely, and always insightful. He was never gun-shy and he minced no word when he was on to something, an issue or a person. He was also an idealist, unhappy with all the wrongs he saw in the society. He jumped in and fought easily, but he also get tired, impatient, frustrated and discouraged. That was why he went through periods of rapid firing and periods of silence. That is why I sometimes thought of him as a Don Quixote.

I told him and wrote him many times that he was in the wrong calling: he should have been a political journalist and commentator rather than a lawyer wasting his time and talent. When he attacked, he was relentless and even without mercy. He was quick on his feet, ever ready to shoot. I know he can produce a well-written column everyday because he read a lot, knowledgeable about many issues and always had something to say about virtually every public issue under the sun. I used to receive his comments in emails everyday when he was hot on an issue, like the case of Dr. Wen Ho Lee. The internet is full of his commentaries. I frequently characterized him as “a loose cannon,” in the good sense of the word. He was prolific. I sometime jokingly asked how he was making a living as a lawyer when he seemed to spend all his time writing commentaries in cyber-space.

He was also fearless, a very important attribute for anyone aspires to be a public intellectual and newspaper commentators. Every community needs someone like him, always ready to write against injustice.

When you sent me the email about his untimely death, I was shocked and sad. The Chinese American community has just lost a very important voice.

He was not a well-known public figure, even in the Chinese American community. But, among his circles of friends who know and appreciate him, he will also be a hero and a voice of consign. When I read your email announcing his death, the popular song from Josh Groban’s “Man of La Mancha” came to my mind immediately. I like to end this email with that song because the lyric captures the essence of Ed and I like to share that lyric with you as my tribute to him.

To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
And to run where the brave dare not go
To right the unrightable wrong
And to love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star

This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far

To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march, march into Hell
For that heavenly cause

And I know if I’ll only be truе
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie pеaceful and calm
When I’m laid to my rest

And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable, the unreachable, the unreachable star

And I always dream the impossible dream
Yes, when I’ll reach the unreachable star

George Koo: I have known Ed for decades. When Commonwealth Club invited me to debate Harry Wu and I had a serious conflict, I got Ed to take my place and I spent some time briefing him on various issues. We had a good time then and thereafter. Ling-chi knew him even longer. Ed was noisy, deliberately provocative and entertaining. I’ll miss him. My condolences to his wife, Audrey.

SF Superior Court Judge Lillian Sing: Johnson, I am truly saddened to receive this news! I didn’t even know he was ill. He was my classmate at Hastings & was as fiery then as he was about a year ago when I saw him again in his home. It was an afternoon tea organised by you & I remember it was attended by the usual suspects including George and May, Lingchi, Julie & even my partner, Roland Duhn. I remember well his passion to fight for justice and to promote for AAPI issues. It’s a great loss to the community. Please give my condolences to his wife.

SF Superior Court Judge Julie Tang: I’m very very sad. He was my classmate, a few years ahead of me at Hastings. He was feisty and took on the school even back then. He loved China. And was the first to appear on Singtao TV to comment on US China issues. He was my mentor. I followed him on Singtao. He was supposed to help Singtao do the English version. This is very bad day for me.

Professor John Walsh MD in SF: Oh, that is so sad. He seemed so energetic. He was always passionate, smart and very entertaining. I always read his posts.
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