What was really new was not what most media reported. Xi mentioned “security” and “Marxism” more often than economy, and promised to make the rich less rich.
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China’s “Rural Anti-Cult Poverty Alleviation”: Why It Does Not Work
The CCP’s mammoth plan to eradicate banned religious organizations from rural areas is based on false Marxist premises and an outmoded sociology.
The United Nations Vote on Xinjiang, A Uyghur View: What We Have Learned
The UNHRC’s 19 negative and 11 neutral votes reflect global problems. The Uyghurs were not surprised, and their fight will continue.
The Uyghurs After the Shameful UN Vote: “We Will Continue to Fight”
19 countries saved China from a debate at the Human Rights Council on its “crimes against humanity” in Xinjiang—a shame, but Beijing is not off the hook.
The UN Xinjiang Report, One Month Later: Where Do We Go from There?
What will the world do now, in the face of irrefutable evidence of human rights atrocities in Xinjiang?
Will the Dalai Lama Reincarnate?
The father of Tibet, 87, reiterates he will live up to his 113th year. Then, he may announce he will not reincarnate, to save Tibetan Buddhism from the CCP’s attempt to control reincarnations.
Why Xi Jinping’s Re-Election Is Bad for Tibet
The Chinese President’s attitude to Tibetan Buddhism can be read in his actions before the 20th Congress: monks, nuns, and activists arrested, monasteries destroyed, surveillance intensified.
China’s Crimes Against Humanity: Pakistan to the Rescue
Meanwhile, the UN has a new human rights chief and a Chinese wolf warrior diplomat denounced by FOREF for his lack of civility as under-secretary-general.
The UN Uyghur Report, One Week Later: Three Lessons China May Learn
The report itself is one lesson, the inability to block it is another, and the ineffectiveness of propaganda is the third.
Goodbye, Ms. Bachelet: The Uyghurs Will Not Miss You
The UN High Commissioner of Human Rights will leave office on August 31, without seeking a second mandate. She failed spectacularly the first one.