The Coming War on China 2027 Part 3/5
A Man's Home Is His Castle
This is Part 3 of a 5 part series on the coming US war against China. For the other parts:
Color Revolution, Insurgency, and Covert Aggression
During the Spanish Civil War, a Nationalist general proclaimed that his army outside Madrid was 4 columns of troops, but that there was a fifth column of infiltrators waiting inside the city preparing to rise and assist the fascist forces. That is the essence of western “democracy promotion” and “human rights concerns”. The US has attempted to cultivate such a fifth column within China. The most famous historical example took the form of the protests in China in 1989 generally referred to with the sobriquet Tiananmen Square protests. The protests were ultimately taken over by pro-Western students aided by the CIA demanding economic and political liberalization, and after weeks of protests and sometimes violent unrest (PLA soldiers were killed by armed hooligans of unknown origin) which paralyzed significant parts of the country including the capital, the army was sent to clear them out, while the ringleaders escaped to the US.[1] The contrast between the fruits of the collapse of the Soviet Union and continued Communist rule in China serve as a valuable indicator of the stakes. Since then, attempts by the US to foment unrest among the Han majority in China’s core have been smothered by a mix of state repression and dizzying economic growth and rising living standards. Anti-China dissidents from the Chinese core now mostly consist of utterly irrelevant right-wing liberals who are completely servile dogs to the West, to the point where they demand the colonization of China by the West to “civilize” it, along with a healthy pile of outright scammers.[2] The other faction of pro-US dissidents from China are around the Falun Gong cult who are also a bunch of right wing nutters. The cult is opposed to race mixing and thinks you can turn your organs into super organs by doing their exercises and was banned in China in the 1990s, but maintains a substantial presence abroad bankrolled by the Taipei administration and the US.[3] (On a personal note, I knew a person who died because of his belief in this cult as he did not go to the doctor for cancer) Falun Gong runs the pro Trump conspiracy theory propaganda rag Epoch Times[4], and the Chinese dancing show Shen Yun for which they threaten and starve child performers.[5] They are also under indictment in the US for money laundering.[6]
With efforts among the Han majority in China’s core a failure the US has generally turned to creating unrest on China’s internal periphery. The most “successful” of these efforts was in Hong Kong. Hong Kong was previously a British colony, run for over a century by a dictatorial governor general dispatched from London. In the final years before the restoration of the city to China, the British partially democratized governance in the city as a way of leaving Beijing a live grenade it would have to deal with.[7] This grenade exploded in the late 2010s with the Hong Kong protest movement. Using opposition to an extradition bill as pretext, western funded activists (such sedition was not illegal at the time given the absence of a basic national security law in the city) organized massive protests.[8] Despite the government withdrawing the bill, the protests continued and escalated into general anti Beijing and violently racist anti mainlander actions, with protestors beating and in at least one case killing suspected mainlanders.[9] The Chinese govt was ultimately content to have the police avoid taking the bait of protestor provocations, letting things die out for a bit before passing a national security law and rounding up all the NED bankrolled seditionists and putting them on trial.[10]
In China’s western provinces, the problem has proven somewhat more difficult to handle. Both Xizang and Xinjiang have a locally dominant ethnic minority group that has had mixed relations with Beijing, though both provinces have been part of China for several centuries. In Xizang the feudal torturer theocrats around the Dalai Lama proved unhappy with policies of economic and social reform and launched a rebellion which was swiftly crushed.[11] The survivors, including the Dalai Lama, fled to India and have continued to wage a US backed struggle against the Chinese govt ever since, with plenty of western media sob stories and toadying column inches to promote the enterprise.[12] The latest round of nonsense from the “Tibetan govt in exile” has been to reincarnate the Dalai Lama while he is still alive, against all the religious laws and customs, into a literal US national.[13] The province has faced some occasional bouts of unrest for decades now, but the situation has been basically stable and is improving given substantial economic and social development efforts funded by Beijing as the area becomes more important for economic development.[14] Xizang is considered important as the ultimate source for much of China’s water, as well as its strategic location abutting multiple countries and therefore being an area to build possible trade connections.
Xinjiang has been a much more serious issue in the past few decades. In earlier years, the govt and party had limited control and insight into the region, especially the rural areas, and as the region was considered a backwater the worst cadres were often sent there. Saudi money and Wahhabi religious doctrine flowed into the region, and allowed for the building up of anticommunist sentiment and unrest among some of the local Uyghur population. Terror attacks such as bus bombings followed, while the most radical crossed over into Afghanistan to begin training and fighting alongside the other Islamists there.[15] These radicals began plotting to secede from China and establish an ISIS style caliphate in the region that would purge the other ethnic groups and religions in the area, that was appropriately modeled after Israel.[16] In the early 2000s, China succeeded in having the radical Islamist East Turkestan Islamic Movement listed as a terrorist organization by the UN and the US. In 2009, uncontrolled social media rumormongering led to days of rioting and violence in Urumqi that was not adequately stanched until the PLA was sent in and martial law was declared. In 2012 an attempted plane hijacking by Uyghur terrorists was thwarted. The watershed moment was a series of violent terror attacks throughout China in 2014. The imam of China’s biggest mosque, located in Xinjiang, was hacked to death by extremists, the Kunming railroad station was attacked by knife wielding Uyghurs killing 31, while a truck bomb attack in Urumqi killed 49. In the aftermath, President Xi toured the province and signaled that the Xinjiang issue was now a prominent concern of the central government. During the next personnel shuffle in the CPC, a hardline security man Chen Quanguo was reassigned from Xizang to the party secretary post in Xinjiang, and swiftly began a massive campaign of ramped up law enforcement, surveillance, arrests, reinvigoration of the party apparatus, and economic development. Xinjiang has become a high priority area for national development as the area contains some of China’s largest oil fields and it is China’s gateway to Central Asia for trade and the Belt and Road Initiative.
Throughout this time the situation in Xinjiang was of immense interest to the Western bloc.[17] Turkey in particular took an active interest as part of its Pan Turkic influence efforts (Uyghurs are considered a Turkic people). Turkish intelligence exfiltrated many of the most radical and violent Uyghurs from China using a ratline that ran through several southeast Asian countries and sent them to fight in the NATO regime change war in Syria with such groups as Jabhat al Nusra.[18] These Uyghurs now have a new terror organization which they swear allegiance to, the Turkistan Islamic Party, and are known for using child soldiers in Syria. After the recent fall of the Assad govt these Uyghur terrorists were seen filming themselves in front of captured weapons stockpiles and pledging to use them to attack China.[19] The official US response to such terrorism is to deny that it exists at all, as it delisted the ETIM as a terrorist group in 2020 despite having bombed the group in Afghanistan less than 2 years before. The US has also been bankrolling anti-China Uyghur diaspora groups run by CIA agents and those with known ties to radical terrorists.[20] The US is also constantly accusing China of human rights abuses up to and including genocide in Xinjiang. This is despite having little to no evidence besides the invented stories and falsified statistics compiled by Adrian Zenz, an evangelical fundamentalist liar “led by god” on a “mission” against China employed at the US govt Victims of Communism Foundation, which among other things claims that Adolf Hitler is a “Victim of Communism”.[21] Speaking out against these genocide allegations includes the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which sent a delegation to Xinjiang and praised the Chinese govts commitment to both counterterrorism and development, the overwhelming majority of Muslim countries on an individual basis, the millions of tourists that go to Xinjiang every year from both outside and within China, as well as Uyghurs throughout China on social media.[22] These falsified allegations have provided pretexts for further aggression against China, ranging from more support to terrorist linked groups to further economic sanctions.[23] China is not a society without internal contradictions, nor is it above reproach. What is clear however, is that the West is engaged in a comprehensive campaign to try and fracture China internally and institute regime change, or failing that further demonize the country.
[1] “Chas Freeman’s View of the Dominant View on June 4th in China.” Hidden Harmonies China Blog, March 7, 2009. https://blog.hiddenharmonies.org/2009/03/07/chas-freemans-view-of-the-dominant-view-on-june-4th-in-china/.
[2] “文壇「黑馬」劉曉波.” Open Magazine, December 1988. http://www.open.com.hk/old_version/1011p68.html.
Langfitt, Frank. “Is a High-Profile Critic of the Chinese Communist Party a Con Man?” NPR, August 4, 2024. https://www.npr.org/2024/08/03/g-s1-14361/china-communist-party-con-netherlands.
[3] Lewis, James R, and Qin Junhui. “Is Li Hongzhi a CIA Agent? Tracing the Funding Trail ...” JSTOR, 2020. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27212328.
[4] Zadrozny, Brandy. “How the Conspiracy-Fueled Epoch Times Went Mainstream and Made Millions.” NBCNews.com, July 6, 2024. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/epoch-times-falun-gong-growth-rcna111373.
[5] Rabey, Steve. “Falun Gong’s Shen Yun Sued and Investigated for Child Labor Violations.” Baptist News Global, December 3, 2024. https://baptistnews.com/article/falun-gongs-shen-yun-sued-and-investigated-for-child-labor-violations/.
[6] Joffe-Block, Jude. “Money Laundering Charges Raise Questions about the Direction of the Epoch Times.” NPR, June 15, 2024. https://www.npr.org/2024/06/13/nx-s1-5005297/epoch-times-turmoil-money-laundering.
[7] Gargan, Edward A. “Pro-China Party Appears Big Loser in Hong Kong Election.” The New York Times, September 18, 1995. https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/18/world/pro-china-party-appears-big-loser-in-hong-kong-election.html.
[8] “Hong Kong: Article 23 Legislation a ‘dangerous’ Moment for Human Rights .” Amnesty International, February 2, 2024. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/01/hong-kong-article-23-legislation-a-dangerous-moment-for-human-rights/.
Mascaro, Lisa. “Pelosi Welcomes Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activists to Capitol.” AP News, April 27, 2023. https://apnews.com/article/f6fdf129a9ad4d32824992c8e7278176.
[9] “Hong Kong Protests: Man Dies after Being Hit ‘by Hard Object’ during Protests.” BBC News, November 15, 2019. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50428704.
[10] Vittachi, Nury. “WHITE HOUSE’S SECRET MESSAGE TO JIMMY LAI.” Twitter, November 24, 2024. https://x.com/nuryvittachi/status/1860865657409249629?t=XcTQEAmVq56cJu9IKvdPKg.
[11] Jie, Shan, Cao Siqi, and Fan Wei. “Story of a Serf-Born Tibetan Shows How Xizang Experienced Earth-Shaking Progress on Democracy, Human Rights.” Global Times, May 27, 2023. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202303/1288059.shtml.
[12] Mann, Jim. “CIA Gave Aid to Tibetan Exiles in ’60s, Files Show.” Los Angeles Times, September 15, 1998. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-sep-15-mn-22993-story.html.
[13] Sengupta, Arjun. “The Question of the Dalai Lama’s Succession: What Tradition Says and Chinese Interference.” The Indian Express, March 30, 2023. https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/dalai-lama-reincarnation-succession-china-8525467/.
[14] Krishnan, Ananth. “China Begins Work on Railway up to Arunachal Border.” The Hindu, November 12, 2020. https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/china-begins-work-on-railway-up-to-arunachal-border/article33087125.ece.
[15] Zha, Carl. “ Silk and Steel Podcast: Root of Xinjiang Issues .” YouTube, June 21, 2021.
[16] Keinon, Herb. “What Can the Uyghurs Learn from Israel?” The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com, December 23, 2022. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-725614.
[17] Lee, Peter. “The Case against ‘Uyghur Genocide.’” The Libertarian Institute, February 15, 2022. https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-case-against-uyghur-genocide/.
“Gross Domestic Product (GDP): Per Capita: Xinjiang.” CEIC. https://www.ceicdata.com/en/china/gross-domestic-product-per-capita/gross-domestic-product-per-capita-xinjiang.
[18] King, Shikima. “So Let’s Talk about One of These International Orgs, The World Uyghur Congress.” Twitter, October 31, 2021. https://x.com/Shikima_King_/status/1454838738220044299.
[19] “China Is next, Says Militant Group That Helped Topple Syria’s Bashar al-Assad.” Mathrubhumi, December 15, 2024. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/china-next-turkistan-islamic-party-syria-bashar-al-assad-1.10166660.
[20] Kashgarian, Asim. “Uighur Diaspora Hails Removal of ETIM from US Terror List.” Voice of America, December 26, 2020. https://www.voanews.com/a/extremism-watch_uighur-diaspora-hails-removal-etim-us-terror-list/6200004.html.
McIntyre, Jamie. “Meet Etim, the Terrorist Group the US Just Bombed in Afghanistan.” Washington Examiner , February 10, 2018. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/1411167/meet-etim-the-terrorist-group-the-us-just-bombed-in-afghanistan/.
[21] Singh, Ajit, and Max Blumenthal. “China Detaining Millions of Uyghurs? Serious Problems with Claims by US-Backed NGO and Far-Right Researcher ‘led by God’ against Beijing - the Grayzone.” The Grayzone - News and investigative journalism on empire, March 27, 2021. https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/21/china-detaining-millions-uyghurs-problems-claims-us-ngo-researcher/.
[22] “Delegates from Islamic Body Hail Xinjiang’s Stability, Development.” China.org.cn, October 19, 2024. http://www.china.org.cn/china/2024-10/19/content_117495989.htm.
“Xinjiang Sees Record Number of Tourist Visits in 2023.” Xinhua, January 9, 2024. https://english.news.cn/20240109/5f18d0e79b9b4208ac7e95d9fbfa2d28/c.html.
[23] Hughes, Clyde. “Homeland Security Blacklists 29 New Companies over Uyghur Forced Labor.” Yahoo! News, November 22, 2024. https://www.yahoo.com/news/homeland-security-blacklists-29-companies-174310048.html.
Here's a link to Jaq James who wrote extensively debunking ASPI's hit pieces on Xianjiang, see here: https://www.cowestpro.co/papers.html
I think this would be a useful source material. Regards.