Can China buy an end to any jihad against it? The Islamic doctrines will remain, but the Muslim countries have 1.3 trillion reasons to ignore them for now.
“$1.3 trillion And Counting: The Cost That Keeps Muslim Countries Mum on China’s Uyghur Genocide,” by Santosh Chaubey, News18, July 8, 2021:
Recently, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan said he “accepted” China’s version regarding the treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province. Khan, a fierce critic of Islamophobia, said China’s version of bringing “improvement in the society” was much better than the model followed by the western democracies. He, in fact, hailed the Chinese Communist Party for it.
China has been calling the mass detention camps where Uyghur and other ethnic minorities are transferred as “vocational education and training centers”. However, the US, the European Union and the United Nations have called these centres as detention camps, which has almost two million Uyghur Muslims, according to different research reports, and accuse China of committing genocide and forcefully assimilating Uyghurs by banning its religious practices and restricting its population growth.
China is also accused of using forced sterilisation techniques on Uyghur women and separating Uyghur children from their families. They are forced to learn Mandarin and are kept away from practicing religious practices. Many investigative reports using satellite imagery have also found that China is destroying Uygur mosques.
Also, as detailed in many reports, China has been using Uyghurs Muslims as forced labour. Yet, the Pakistani PM and other Muslim countries laud this model.
In 2019, nearly 37 nations, in a letter sent to the UN Human Rights Council and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, defended the China’s Xinjiang policy. The letter charged the Uyghur Muslims with spreading terror and extremism and justified China’s actions as counter-terrorism measures aimed at deracializing Uyghur Muslims.
Notably, 16 of the 37 countries have large Muslim population, including Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Turkmenistan, Oman, Qatar, Syria, Kuwait, Somalia and Sudan. The countries are also the members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), representing 1.9 billion Muslim people. That explains why even OIC is silent on the Uyghur genocide.
Malaysia in the past has defied requests to extradite Uyghurs back to China and promises to continue with the policy but the government there has seldom been vocal about the Uyghur genocide happening in China. Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad, again a ‘fierce’ Islamophobia critic, has avoided criticising China on the issue.
Turkey, that has around 50,000 Uyghurs from China has over the years, has changed its Uyghur policy to become pro-China. According to the Stockholm Center for Freedom, Turkey was a safe haven for Uyghur refugees in the past but not anymore. Though Turkey’s extradition treaty signed with China is awaiting a final approval, it has already started detaining Uyghurs and putting them under strict surveillance. It has allegedly started deporting Uyghur refugees to China via third countries like Tajikistan — a Muslim majority nation.
But why are these Islamic nations silent on China’s repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang? It is perhaps due to Chinese investments and loans into those countries.
China has roughly invested $1.3 trillion in Muslim majority countries if we add up the investments done in the last 15 years and the current and future economic deals. Also, the calculation here does not include secret loans given by China which borrowers are forced not to reveal, obviously by a confidentiality clause, as shown in a study from Georgetown University….
Jillian says
These Islamic countries will never keep their promises. They just want the money. Doesn’t anyone remember how the British sought out and found the oil in then Persia, built the machines to get it (paid for everything and used their expertise) and the agreement was that they would get a small amount of oil from this? After everything was done, the Islamic government as well as the Islamic people didn’t want to give the British anything. They used it as a victimization tool and threw out the Brits. These countries never keep their side of an agreement.
Rarely says
Would you be more specific please and cite your sources?
gravenimage says
Rarely, this is about the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which Iranian Communist Mohammed Mossadegh seized and nationalized in 1951. Here’s a general overview:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Persian_Oil_Company
Terry Gain says
+1
gravenimage says
Thank you, Terry.
tim gallagher says
China is certainly rolling in money. I’d change that word “invests” to buys. China is buying countries and will treat them all as underlings to be kicked around since the Chinese regime is nothing but a massive bully. Muslims have no integrity whatsoever, so they won’t give a damn about the Muslims in China. I think the Chinese regime owes the entire world zillions of dollars (if such an amount even exists) for the damage that this Covid virus has done to all countries. I heard that Trump had said something along those lines a few weeks ago and I thought, spot on, not a doubt in the world about that. From what I have heard, China was quite happy to let the virus out of that country to infest the rest of the world.
Infidel says
Tim
You’re right. However, what China doesn’t know is something Hugh has noted here in the past: muslim loyalties can never be earned nor bought, only rented. Essentially, a huge percentage of China’s potential cash (I’m no finance person, but I’m pretty sure assets or capital is not the term used for somebody owing you money) is in the form of debt from third world countries stupid enough to buy into their belt/road scams. The day the bulk of those countries decide to either simply default on those loans, or maybe refuse to pay citing the Chinavirus costs to themselves, China will be high and dry. And once it’s no longer in a position to pay off those countries, it’ll find the OIC members only too happy to jump on the western bandwagon condemning Beijing for the treatment of Uyghurs
I dunno whether you followed this, but yesterday, Jennifer Zeng, a Chinese-born human rights activist, China has threatened the first use of nukes and to nuke Japan non-stop if it lands a single soldier in Taiwan. It’s high time Quad members – Australia, India, US and Japan – all terminate diplomatic relations w/ China, abrogate any outstanding payments to them, and formally recognize Taiwan however the latter sees itself – be it as the Republic of China or an independent country, as Taiwan’s ruling party campaigned on. And start moves to remove China off the world’s financial markets in the same way that Iran has been. Let’s see how much money China then has to toss around
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comment, Infidel. I have always known that this regime in China is disgusting and completely repressive and treats its own citizens (and I don’t mean the Muslims but anyone who doesn’t toe the line) like shit, However, apparently many people in the western world have thought that China is evolving into a more mellow, less thuggish style of country. This is what I have heard from some commentators here in Australia. Anyway, Australia makes bucket loads of money from selling iron ore and coal to China, and food and wine as well. Now, since Australia brought up the issue of how this Covid virus escaped from China, China has been into full on bullying mode, with Australia in its sights. Most commentators, and most people, in Australia believe that Australia has to break away from being so economically dependent on China. We have to develop more trade with India, and other more friendly countries. Australia has just signed a free trade agreement with the UK. Breaking free of China will take time. On the belt and road deals, where China lends money to various countries, what I mostly hear from commentators is that China wants these countries to be unable to pay back the loans, then China owns them to some degree and can put in military bases and ports, etc, in those countries. And China does loan to countries that are hopeless economically and often corrupt. I think they lent money to Papua New Guinea, which is a basket case economically. So this belt and road garbage is totally political and a way for China to more or less own countries and use the countries in military ways. I can imagine that Japan, being so close to China, would be a very concerned country. China is such a monstrous power that probably only the USA can stand up to it, but if enough countries do get together (India, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, etc) maybe China might have to pull its head in a bit. I don’t know much about the world of finance either, and when I said that China owes the world huge amounts of money for the damage they have caused through Covid, I guess that I don’t think that regime will actually pay anything, but, from a moral point of view, that regime owes plenty for the deaths and the economic wreckage they have caused. I didn’t hear about Jennifer Zeng or her comment. But China is a massive threat to world peace. I suspect that it won’t be long before they gobble up Taiwan and then move on to whatever their next target might be. I do sense that most of the world is waking up to what a complete shit of a regime is in charge in China, which is a good development..
gravenimage says
Yes, very troubling, Infidel.
Terry Gain says
Infidel
It wasn’t long ago that I referred to Jennifer Zeng as my muse, however although China is certainly godless and ruthless I do not believe it is irrational enough to use nuclear weapons.
The United States under Biden is bought and paid for and fully supports Chinese hegemony. So it will do nothing. Which is perhaps just as well given its demented and irrational leadership.
Infidel says
Terry
Typically Gordon Chang is my go-to guy for anything about Chinese issues – be it the CPC, Hong Kong, Uyghurs, Taiwan, belt/road et al. I did see a couple of Jennifer Zeng’s videos a while back, but I happen to think that she’s too far ahead of events. Even if Gordon Chang predicted the collapse of Communism in 2001 by 2011, which didn’t happen
I do think that Beijing sees a window of opportunity to do whatever it likes while Biden is there, and if it suspects Trump returning to power in 2024, it will probably try and do as much damage before then. The right solution as far as this threat to Japan goes is for the US to terminate the WWII agreement that Japan is constrained under, and start loading up Japan w/ nukes, including on Senkaku island if needed (an island just NE of Taiwan which is claimed by both Taipei and Beijing, w/ the latter claiming it as a part of their Taiwan province). This was something that the late Dr Charles Krauthammer occasionally suggested, since there were no other cards to play vis a vis China. There is nothing China fears more than a resurgent Japan, and that’s what we should encourage to start defanging them. While at it, load up both Australia and India as well: right now, India has 150 nukes as opposed to China’s 320 and Pakistan’s 160, so it would be a good idea to bring that to par
Rarely says
I don’t know how happy China is about the Covid pandemic but it’s not very productive to pursue a claim you could never collect.
Infidel says
Rarely
Merely declaring that any part of our national debt that’s owed to China (dunno the situation b/w Canada and China here) would be automatically abrogated and credited to what China owes us is a good first step. The moment China sees all its US treasury bond holdings instantly evaporate, and sees other nations follow, it will be in a panic mode. Since it’s not a first world country in terms of a solid buying power of its citizenry
James Lincoln says
Food for thought, Infidel…
gravenimage says
China invests $1.3 trillion in Muslim countries, they remain silent about Uighur genocide
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No surprise there. Besides the money, Muslim countries know that unlike the west that China doesn’t care what the rest of the world thinks about them.
Infidel says
True, but that hasn’t stopped them from condemning, say Burma, who doesn’t care what they think either. Truth is that China has, for the time being, successfully rented their silence
gravenimage says
True.
peace says
This is going to be as big an issue for the world as the Democrats removing democracy from the USA ..
As we all know money & power is the biggest religion and the Chinese have plenty of both, it could be argued the Chinese way of dealing with the Uyghers is the only way muslims should be treated, but that would be “Islamaphobic” ,, watching this play out is going to be so interesting ..
I expect the Chinese will move into Afghanistan, get them indebted beyond escape at all levels, then just bleed the country of everything useful, minerals, location, workers, etc.. etc… They will be all buddy buds for ?? years until all of a sudden it will be way too late, China has “flowed”, flowed into Pakistan. (surrounding India), up into the “Stans” and beyond.
If Australia continues to kick China out, they are going to have to get energy from somewhere and oil is the cheapest way of generating electricity after burning coal, so it’s the obvious path really ..
No doubt they’ll stay out of the Tailban’s 7th century mentality, they won’t get involved with the subjugation of women. although, I do wonder what they’ll do when the Taliban start killing the Shia, I expect China will get the Iranians over indebted as well so they’ll be bleading both sides of the soldiers of god…..
The Arabs (OIC etc..) have enough money and are smart enough to maintain control of their countries but I have a feeling so long as the power lords think they are in charge they’ll be happy, the Chinese will just indebt everyone at a lower level (indebt everyone includes selling them their cheap quality junk) ..
There are so many twists and turns, sideways threads to this it’s bigger than a library of murder mysteries …
Infidel says
As far as energy goes, China won’t have a problem. They are one of the few customers of Iran, and can dictate their price outside OPEC guidelines. Then too, 2 of the -stans – Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan – China is their only outlet to the rest of the world, aside from the Caspian/Azerbaijan/Turkey to Europe. Not just that, as other OPEC members get more indebted to China, oil will be one way they have of paying them off. China won’t have to worry much even if Australia cuts them off
Incidentally, how are you guys still selling coal? Didn’t y’all get John F’ing Kerry’s memos on climate change?
Naildriver says
Not just about silence of their treatment of the Uighur. China is fine with lumping all Islam upon the West while purging it ruthlessly from its own land.
China knows Islam will drag the West down, while China ascends to be the powerhouse of the world. It has zero interest in globalization. Eventually all not Chinese will be expendable.
Terry Gain says
China has very limited power without globalization. China is all in favour of globalization – under Chinese hegemony.
Naildriver says
The Han hardly plan to allow global immigration into their country, of other races, to fuel the factories labor or prop up the growth engine.
Communisism in China is a racist variety.
All this global business is all out sourced.
Yes it’ll influence, buy, and control the rest of the world, just not globalize as West thinks of it.
Islam is a tool for Chinese to impoverish, weaken the US and Europe while they get set up in South China Sea.
roberta says
We live in a small town that is pretty much surrounded by Walmarts. The big box killed off lots of local businesses years ago. $1.3 trillion is about what I feel like is the amount of Chinese products I purchased from Walmart last year.
Long way of saying, $1.3 trillion just isnt that much to lose for China. They have their own long history with islam and know that its just a bribe not a purchase.
No matter how screwed up a plan China has, it is at least a plan. Our leaders cant even muster a reaction to China’s plan. A good example of this ineptitude is the amount of Chinese drugs flooding through the Mex./USA border.
peter says
We should stop worrying about Uighurs . A snake in any form is a snake . Afghanistan is a prime example
Infidel says
peter
We’re mainly pointing out the hypocrisy of the muslim countries. They point fingers at countries like Israel and India, both countries where the muslim populations have been increasing, and accusing them of genocide. In the meantime, they are silent on Xinjiang, where the muslim population indeed has been decreasing!
Underlying, I agree w/ you: I don’t wanna see Uyghur refugees in non-muslim countries, like the US, Canada, India, et al. Only problem: as noted in the article above, China has extradition agreements w/ almost all muslim countries so that the Uyghurs don’t even find a home there. My own solution – fair to both China and Uyghurs – would be for Uyghurs to be expelled to Kazakhstan, which has plenty of real estate (like Russia) and could use them as a culturally compatible added workforce