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Thousands Held in Inner Mongolia As Crackdown on Language Protesters
Continues
WTF does this have to do with Canadian politics?
Canuckistan would be a good place for millions of Mongolians
to come flooding in after Turdeau rolls out the red carpet...
I guess China is still taking vengance for what the Khans
did way back when ......
Also, OUTER Mongolia has been steadily moving up in
the world and I suspect China does not want the inner
half to see there is a better plan right next door, run by
their literal cousins, and become "uppity". They are
having enough trouble genociding their Moslem
enclaves.
In any case, Canada would be an excellent location for
a de-facto new Mongolian homeland. Almost nobody
lives in the northern half, yet the climate is not so
different from Mongolia - short summers, long cold
winters. More trees though.
China is committing crimes and abuses in Canada , Hong Kong, Tibet the Uiyghur region and Inner Mongolia and India. Of course the Liberal party doesn't want anyone to talk about that. Trudeau is a lightweight and sunny ways fool.
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Protesters hold banners and wave the Mongolian flag in Ulaanbaataar, capital of Mongolia, to oppose Chinese policies in Inner Mongolia, Oct. 1, 2020.
Protesters hold banners and wave the Mongolian flag in Ulaanbaataar, capital of Mongolia, to oppose Chinese policies in Inner Mongolia, Oct. 1, 2020.
AFP
Chinese authorities in the northern region of Inner Mongolia have detained at least 8,000 ethnic Mongolians amid regionwide resistance to plans to phase out the use of the Mongolian language in schools.
"An estimated 8,000–10,000 [ethnic] Mongolians have been placed under some form of police custody since late August," the New York-based Southern Mongolia Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC) said in a statement on its website.
The ruling Chinese Communist Party has carried out mass arrests, arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, house arrests, and "intensive training" across the region, which borders the independent country of Mongolia, after parents and students organized a region-wide class boycott and took to the streets in protest at changes to the curriculum, sources in the region and overseas rights activists have said.
Khubis, an ethnic Mongolian activist living in Japan, told RFA that rights lawyer Hu Baolong and activist Yang Jindulima remain in custody.
He said some detainees have refused officially appointed lawyers, in the hope of appointing a defense attorney of their own.
Hu was detained by police in his home city of Tongliao along with at least eight others on suspicion of "picking quarrels and stirring up trouble," a charge often used to target peaceful critics of the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
U.S.-based ethnic Mongolian Nomin, a former colleague of Hu's, said she had been unable to get in touch directly with anyone connected with Hu or Yang.
Yang hails from Abag Banner in Shilingol League, which borders Mongolia.
"I talked to Yang [before the protests], and she told me she wouldn't be taking part because she had just gotten married," Nomin said. "She had opened a restaurant in Xilinhot, but the police still had her under constant surveillance."
"A couple of police officers would just go and sit in her restaurant every day without saying anything," she said.
The authorities have also fired ethnic Mongolian parents, blacklisted and expelled their children, confiscated assets, and denied bank loans to protesting parents, SMHRIC said.
Local governments, party committees, Communist Youth Leagues, state prosecutors, and courts have issued wanted notices across the region for anyone engaging in protest activity, it said.
"The Chinese regime has really shown its weakness, ineffectiveness, and arbitrariness before this massive nonviolent civil disobedience," group director Enghebatu Togochog said.
"It is laughable that five different authorities including the court and procuratorates, who really have no business in this matter, piled up their rubber stamps on a single document to intimidate Mongolians," he said.
Prominent dissidents detained
Among the thousands placed in some form of detention are prominent ethnic Mongolian dissidents and their families, rights activists, writers, lawyers, and leaders of traditional herding communities.
Ethnic Mongolian dissident writer Hada, who remains under house arrest following a 15-year jail term for "espionage" and "separatism," is now completely incommunicado, while the whereabouts of his activist wife Xinna and the couple's grown son Uiles are currently unknown, SMHRIC said.
Dissident writer Lhamjab Borjigin, author of China’s Cultural Revolution, and dissident writer Sechenbaater are also incommunicado and under house arrest, it said.
In Shuluun-tsagaan Banner, a county-like administrative division, writer and poet Nasanulzei Hangin is under criminal detention after rallying 500 Mongolians in a protest against the new language policy in schools.
In Ordos, musician Ashidaa is under criminal detention for taking part in protests, and has been denied visits from family members, while rights attorney Huhbulag remains in detention without charge, SMHRIC said.
Herding community leaders Yanjindulam, Bao Guuniang, Manliang, Yingeer, Urgumal, Davharbayar, and Zhao Baahuu remain incommunicado, whereabouts unknown, it said.
The group said it was concerned about the growing number of references to "intensive training" in official documents during the crackdown, indicating that a "re-education" program is already under way across the region.
It cited a Sept. 14 official document as saying that "parents and guardians who fail to send their children back to school on time will be given legal education training."
One school issued a notice to parents declaring "war" on organized resistance to the language policy.
"Special task forces from the government, party, law enforcement, and judiciary branches are already stationed in our school," the notice issued by Chavag No. 2 High School said. "This is a war."
According to SMHRIC, first-graders in elementary schools are now required to undergo military training similar to that undergone by first-year college and university students across China.
Resistance to the loss of mother-tongue teaching in schools continued, even on China's Oct. 1 National Day celebration, despite the crackdown, SMHRIC said.
Secondary school students in Bayanhushuu held up a large poster with a portrait of Ghengis Khan, inscribed with a slogan supporting Mongolian as their ancestral language, while hundreds of ethnic Mongolian sports competitors near Ordos sang the new anthem of the resistance movement, titled "My Mongolia, an eternal flame that should never be extinguished."
Ethnic Mongolians in China have migrated to other available social media platforms after their group chats were shut down by WeChat.
This picture taken on July 16 , 2016 shows the Genghis Khan equestrian statue (the world's largest equestrian statue) in Tsonjin Boldog near Ulan Baator and Erdenet in Tov province.
Protests in the US, France
In California, ethnic Mongolians have held six protest rallies one after another in the past month.
Protest organizer Tuya Bliss, a volunteer teacher of the Mongolian script in the Bay Area, said they had protested outside the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco, at San Francisco City Hall, and in Oakland, with dozens of people taking part throughout September and October.
"The Mongolian language is now under threat in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region," Tuya stated at recent protests. "This new policy from the Chinese authorities will force the Mongolian language and culture into extinction."
Some non-Mongolian residents of California also took part.
"We have seen terrible human rights violations against Uyghurs and Tibetans, so when we know that Mongolians have become another target, we are not very surprised," a protester who gave only the name Anna told RFA at a recent protest. "So Americans need to be told what happened."
On Oct. 13, a French museum announced it was shelving an exhibit about Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan, citing interference by the Chinese government, which it accused of trying to rewrite history. (Greg: Nice they notified us of their objection to Beijing interference but why did they kow-tow and obey?)
The Château des ducs de Bretagne history museum in the western city of Nantes said it had decided to put the show on hold after the Chinese authorities demanded that certain words, including “Genghis Khan,” “Empire,” and “Mongol” be taken out of the show. Subsequently, it said that they asked for editing power over exhibition brochures, legends, and maps.
Reported by Qiao Long and Sun Cheng for RFA's Mandarin Service. Translated and edited by Luisetta Mudie.
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/crackdown-10202020092816.html
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China is building bases in the South China Sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_South_China_Sea which our Sinophile ambassador to Beijing Dominic Barton former employer of 9 years profited from. China recently killed 20 Indian troops along their mutual border. They are propping up the chaotically evil despot of North Korea Kim Il Jung. The bat eating freek govt. of China is our number one foreign enemy and adversary.
Why is the land of bat eating freeks allowed to have 3 consulates in Vancouver to spy and coerce the Chinese diaspora in Canada and subvert CDN society and govt.? The USA our neighbour to the south and largest trading partner only has one consulate in Vancouver.
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China's consulates do a lot more than spy
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, author of China
Illustration of two small flags crossed at their respective poles, one is a Chinese flag and the other is a spy mask made to look like a flag.
Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios
Every country spies. And many countries — including the U.S. — use their diplomatic outposts to do it. But for years, China has used its embassies and consulates to do far more than that. (Greg: Evil China has three consulates in Vancouver yet America our next door neighbour with 320 million citizens and our biggest trading partner and in non-pandemic times a favourite tourist destination has only one consulate in Vancouver. 3380 Granville St, Vancouver · 604-734-7492 and 250-999 W Broadway, Vancouver · 604-336-8866
2215 Eddington Dr, Vancouver · 604-732-6723. are where the Chinese consulates are located here. I know the Chinese govt paid traitors something like $50 to demonstrate at one of Meng's extradition hearings who were recruited via a social app. I laughed when I saw on TV that some of them got stiffed by the bat eating freeks.)
Why it matters: The Trump administration's recent hardline stance against China's illicit consular activities is a public acknowledgment of real problems, but it comes at a time when U.S.-China relations are already dangerously tense.
Driving the news: Last week, the U.S. demanded that China close its Houston consulate in order to "protect American intellectual property and Americans' private information," White House National Security Council spokesperson John Ullyot said in a statement.
In response, the Chinese government ordered the closure of the U.S. consulate in Chengdu, a facility nestled in China's more remote inland region that served primarily as a visa-issuing office for Chinese hoping to visit the U.S., and was not a major hub for U.S. intelligence activity.
Yes, but: The Houston consulate wasn't China's most important espionage hub.
"San Francisco is the real gem but the U.S. won’t close it," a former U.S. intelligence official told Axios.
It indicates the Trump administration is likely making an example of the Houston consulate in a bid to achieve its goal of a reduction in Chinese espionage activities without taking an even harsher measure, such as closing the San Francisco or New York consulates.
The Chinese government has long used its embassy and consulates in the U.S. to exert control over student groups, collect information on Uighurs and Chinese dissident groups, and coordinate local and state level political influence activities.
Surveilling Uighurs: Leaked classified Chinese government documents have revealed that Chinese embassies and consulates are complicit in the ongoing cultural and demographic genocide against Uighurs.
The CCP has sought to track down Uighurs who have left China and force them to return, with orders to place them in mass internment camps “the moment they cross the border."
China's embassies and consulates have also collected information on Uighurs abroad and submitted that information to Xinjiang police.
Consular officials have frequently refused to renew Uighur passports, telling them they must return to China in order to obtain new documents — only to be disappeared into camps as soon as they do.
Controlling Chinese students: The Chinese embassy and consulates keep close tabs on Chinese students in the U.S., occasionally sending them political directives and quietly organizing demonstrations.
The Chinese embassy and consulates have paid students to demonstrate in support of visiting Chinese leaders, instructing them to crowd out anti-CCP protesters. They have also asked Chinese Students and Scholars Associations (CSSA) presidents to hold study sessions on party thought and to send back photos of the sessions to ensure compliance.
“I feel like the tendency is that the consulate tries to control CSSAs more and more,” one CSSA president told me in 2018.
Supporting United Front organizations: Chinese diplomatic officials regularly meet with leaders of U.S.-based organizations tied to the United Front Work Department, the political influence arm of the CCP, and preside over the ceremonies and banquets held by these organizations.
One such organization, the National Association for China’s Peaceful Unification, has branches in more than 30 U.S. cities. Its members issue statements in support of China's official foreign policy positions, and the Chinese embassy and consular officials encourage them to engage in local U.S. politics.
The bottom line: Dealing with bad behavior by diplomats is a highly sensitive geopolitical issue that can easily result in damaged relations.
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Scammer, liar Justin Trudeau and his Liberal team are total ass kissing syncophants to the the dictatorship of Premier Xi. John McCallum the former CDN Ambassador to Beijing was quoted on the front page of the Globe And Mail today as saying that the China-Canada relationship will eventually return to normal. Like who wants that? McCallum has stated many times that Meng should be allowed to avoid lawful extradition. What a lowlife. Huawei has been banned from 5G networks in many countries including America, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand you know our allies so why hasn't the Liberal govt done like wise? Are they bought and paid for by Beijing? Trudeau like his Dad has openly admired the dictatorship of China on many occassions so ingrained was their anti-Americanism and hatred of democracy.
Fight the good fight. Expose, prosecute when possible, fine and imprison then deport the Fifth Columnists.