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Die klügste Straße im HR in Kutina und eine Partnerschaft mit dem chinesischen Giganten Huawei und dem heimischen OIV

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Die klügste Straße im HR in Kutina und eine Partnerschaft mit dem chinesischen Giganten Huawei und dem heimischen OIV

Im Kutina Entrepreneurial Incubator wurden zwei bedeutende Verträge für die Entwicklung eines intelligenten Geschäftsfeldes unterzeichnet, d.h. der ersten intelligenten Geschäftszone in der Industrielogistikzone der Republik Kroatien in Kutina.

Ende 2020 startete die Stadt Kutina ein Pilotprojekt zur Digitalisierung der unternehmerischen Infrastruktur mit dem Namen “SMART&KIND” – Kutina Smart Business Zone, das im Rahmen der Konferenz in Zusammenarbeit mit der Kroatischen Wirtschaftskammer ausführlich vorgestellt wurde. Kutinas erste intelligente Geschäftszone ist ein einzigartiges Projekt in der Republik Kroatien, mit dem es Unternehmern zur Verfügung gestellt wird, die in Kutina digitales Umfeld und alle Vorteile moderner Technologien tätig sind und Geschäfte machen wollen, um ihr Geschäft zu verbessern.

“Wir haben einen Vertrag über den Kauf des größten Artikels dieses Projekts, intelligentes Fahrzeugzähl- und Analysesystem (IPS), das in PZK1, PZK2 und PZK3 mit der Firma Sender und Anschlüsse im Wert von 120.000 Kuna tätig ist, unterzeichnet. IPS ist die ausgefeilteste Software, die im Verkehr eingesetzt wird, zählt und kategorisiert Fahrzeuge, die auf einer bestimmten Straße in beide Richtungen fahren. Darüber hinaus haben wir eine Partnerschafts- und Vereinbarungsvereinbarung mit Huawei unterzeichnet, die das System hervorgebracht und Interesse an einer zukünftigen Zusammenarbeit bei diesem Projekt bekundet hat. Wir sind sehr erfreut, dass unser Projekt die Aufmerksamkeit von so großen Unternehmen wie OIV und Huawei angezogen hat”, sagte Kutinas Bürgermeister Zlatko Babi.

Der nächste Schritt sei, die Ampel an der vukovar Gasse so schnell wie möglich durch eine neue moderne Ampel zu ersetzen, die die Steuerung in Abhängigkeit von der Anzahl der Autos derzeit in der Spalte ermöglichen könnte. Der Gesamtwert des Pilotprojekts sollte 300.000 HRK zzgl. MwSt betragen. – wie die Stadt Kutina mitteilte.

“Ich freue mich, dass die Stadt Kutina OIV als Partner bei der Entwicklung intelligenter Dienstleistungen der Stadt Kutina anerkannt hat und wir mit der Zusammenarbeit in diesem Projekt beginnen. Ich hoffe, dass die Zusammenarbeit in der Zukunft fortgesetzt wird” – sagte Mate Botica, Direktor der OIV.

“Die Digitalisierung des Lebens ist sehr präsent und erleichtert uns nicht nur die intelligente Technologie, sondern auch in der Wirtschaft, aber auch in der Kommunikation. Die Stadt Kutina hat einen Kooperationsvertrag unterzeichnet und wir hoffen auf in Zukunft eine Zusammenarbeit, um technologische Lösungen näher an die Stadt Kutina selbst zu bringen. Ähnliche Smart-City-Systeme wurden bereits in China selbst und europäischen Hauptstädten implementiert, was das Geschäft und das Leben der BürgerInnen erheblich erleichtert hat”, sagte Zhang Qiming, Direktor von Huawei Croatia.

Mit der Unterzeichnung dieses Vertrags endete die erste Pilotphase dieses Projekts und beginnt mit den Vorbereitungen für das Projekt für die Bewerbung für anstehende EU-Ausschreibungen.

Im Rahmen des Pilotprojekts wurden zusätzlich zu einem bestehenden 2 Info-Kioske beschafft, die an Standorten im Zentrum von Kutina aufgestellt werden. Durch sie wird den Unternehmern kostenlose Werbung zur Verfügung gestellt. Unternehmer können ihre Promo-Materialien in Form von digitalen Plakaten und Videoanzeigen, die die Stadt an Kiosken veröffentlichen wird, an die Stadt schicken. Nach dem Kauf wurde solbi d.o.o. aus Kutina im Wert von 90.000 Kuna als günstigstes und bestes Angebot ausgewählt.

Das Unternehmen Em2 aus Kutina hat eine interaktive Webkarte für Investoren erstellt, die auf der Website der KIND.hr zu finden ist. Die Karte enthält alle relevanten Informationen für Unternehmer, die an der Gründung eines Unternehmens in der Stadt Kutina interessiert sind, wie die Inspektion der verfügbaren Partikel, Eigenschaften einzelner Partikel wie Entfernung von der Autobahn, Verfügbarkeit von Versorgungsverbindungen, Preis, Quadratmeterzahl usw.

In diesem Projekt wurde ein großer Schritt in der allgemeinen Digitalisierung der Stadt selbst gemacht. Als eines der Elemente hat die Stadt Kutina ein zentrales System für die Verwaltung der “intelligenten” Infrastruktur erworben. Das oben genannte System ermöglicht es Ihnen, alle intelligenten Geräte anzuzeigen und zu verwalten, die die Stadt besitzt oder erwerben möchte. CMS ist die Grundlagejedes Smart City-Projektsund wird in Zukunft einsparungen. Telemetris d.o.o. aus Vara-din im Wert von 60.000 HRK wurde als bestes Angebot bewertet.

(Quelle: Najpametnija prometnica u HR u Kutini i partnerstvo s kineskim divom Huaweijem i domaćim OIV-om – lider.media)

Francis Pike: China, The Uyghurs And The West’s Moral Superiority

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Francis Pike: China, The Uyghurs And The West’s Moral Superiority

The fate of the Uyghurs is stirring up the West. Beijing is pilloried for coercive measures. The fact that Uyghur terrorists have been challenging the Chinese state for 30 years is largely ignored. Who are the people who are currently the talk of the town?

Kunming, Yunan Province, China: on 1 March 2014, a normal Saturday evening, seven Uyghur men and a pregnant woman, all dressed in black, appeared in the ticketing hall of Kunming Station. They drew long bladed knives and set about stabbing men, women and children. Within ten minutes 31 people were dead and 130 wounded. 

2014. Pattiguri Tohti, sentenced to life imprisonment and deprivation of political rights for life. She avoided the death sentence, because she was pregnant.

Impressively, in ten minutes a Chinese SWAT team arrived and shot and killed four of the Uyghur terrorists. One wounded woman was taken to hospital and three other Uyghur men were arrested. They would be found guilty and executed. The pregnant woman was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Kunming Massacre was China’s 9/11 moment. 

As in America, hindsight showed that the Kunming Massacre was the culmination of a fundamentalist Islamist trend evident from the early 1990s. In the Uighur homeland of Xinjian, the arrival of a more radical Islam had become increasingly apparent through the visible signs of long male beards and an increased wearing of the burqa. 

A first terrorist bombing in Urumqi in February 1992 killed three people. Five years later, after the execution of 30 suspected separatists, an attack on buses in the same city killed three children. Civil unrest and dozens of minor terrorist episodes followed. They were interspersed with larger and more notorious events. 

Jihadist Uyghur activity was inspired by Al Qaeda’s 9/11 attack and Taliban atrocities in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Uyghur terrorists trained in their camps. Furthermore, a Chinese crackdown on Uyghur extremism alienated a population that was becoming increasingly hostile to Chinese Han immigration from the east, economic growth and the perceived diminution of their culture. Before the Beijing Olympics in 2008, two Uyghur men killed sixteen people in Kashgar.

In 2010 a suicide bomber exploded a three-wheel vehicle in a crowd of police killing seven in the city of Aksu, which lies close to Kyrgyzstan’s border. The following year a gang of 18 young Uyghurs, protesting Hotan city authority’s crackdown on the burqa, captured a police station and held hostages. In the same year more vehicle and knife attacks took place in Kashgar. On 30th April 2014, coinciding with a visit to Xinjian by Xi Jinping, a bomb and knife attack in Urumqi killed three and injured 79 others.

The causes of Uyghur unrest were as much about cultural identity as Muslim radicalism. Uyghur academics overseas claim that their link to Xinjian goes back 6,000 years. By contrast China claims the Uyghurs only came to the area after the collapse of the Uyghur Khanate in the 9th Century when they pushed out the Han. What is certain however is that Uyghurs had converted to Islam by the end of the 10th Century. 

Xinjian is located in the far North West of China; it is a huge territory the size of Iran. In the North East lies Mongolia and the Gobi Desert; to the North is Kazakhstan. On its more fertile western borders Uyghurs look up to Pakistan’s Karakoram Mountain Range comprising 18 mountains over 7,500m including K2, the world’s second highest peak which stands at 8,611m above sea level. To the south is Tibet bordered by the Kunlun Mountains. However, Xinjiang’s defining feature is the Tarim Basin, the spiritual home of the Uyghurs that mainly comprises the Taklamakan Desert in the south and east, an area six times larger than Switzerland. At the end of the 13th Century Marco Polo crossed the Korakoram Mountains to Kashgar from where he took camels trains to cross the Taklamakan. The Silk Road was born. 

It was only as late as the early 19th Century that the Qing dynasty took full control of remote Xinjian. Even today the 4,000 km journey by car from Beijing to Kashgar takes 38 hours. However, the 1930s saw the region fall under a confusing succession of rulers. After the toppling of the Qing Dynasty by Sun Yat Sen in 1911, Xinjian became a semi-autonomous khanate under Maqsud Shah who loosely allied himself to the new Chinese Republic. 

After his death in 1930, there was a brief period of independence known as the First East Turkistan Republic in 1933, reflecting a separatist movement that looked back to the Uyghurs’ Turkic origins. It did not last – except in the memories of today’s separatists, the East Turkistan National Awakening Movement, whose headquarters have been based in Washington since 2017. 

After the fall of the First East Turkistan Republic, Xinjian came under the control of a Soviet backed warlord Sheng Shicai until he switched sides to the Chiang Kai Shek’s Kuomintang. In 1943 Sheng executed Mao Zedong’s brother Mao Zemin, after he had been sent as an emissary to Xinjiang. Sheng was overthrown by the Uyghurs with Soviet help in 1944 whereupon they established the Second East Turkistan Republic before its defeat to Mao Zedong’s People’s Liberation Army [PLA] and its absorption into the People’s Republic of China [PRC] in 1949. In 1955 the province became known as the Xinjian Uyghur Autonomous Region.

Until the Jihadist ‘spectacular’ in Kunming, the Uyghur problem had been contained to Xinjiang. Although Kunming has a sizeable Uyghur ghetto, it is not a Uyghur city; moreover, it is 2,000 km from Kashgar. The attack on a Chinese Han city changed everything; Uyghur Jihadists had struck at the Chinese heartland. Following the Kunming massacre Xinjian cities saw a renewed wave of terrorist acts, involving vehicles, bombs and knives. After the Kunming Massacre Xi Jinping visited Xinjiang and ordered a brutal crackdown.

The result was the development labour camps where upwards of a million Uyghurs have reportedly been detained on a rolling program of re-education. Reports of torture, rape, destruction of mosques, levelling of Uyghur dwellings and other cultural depredations have now become commonplace in global media. 

However, what has generally been lacking in international reporting is any contextual balance. The scale of Jihadist atrocities in the last two decades is rarely reported. Authoritarian China, with its strongman leader, Xi Jinping, has sought to solve the Jihadist problem by ruthless suppression on the home front – a solution that was not available to liberal Europe and America, though President Macron in France now seems determined to wage a dialled-down version of a culture war against Islam. 

Unlike the West, China will not try to deal with its domestic Jihadi problems by its sending of armies to the Middle East. From a Chinese viewpoint their policies of domestic Uyghur suppression have come at a much lower cost in life and money than what they see as the West’s wasteful adventurism in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. Curiously in spite of its failures in dealing with global Jihad the West speaks to China with undiminished moral certainty. 

At the 41st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council [UNHRC] in June 2019, twenty-two countries wrote a letter of protest regarding China’s treatment of the Uyghurs. The ’22-Letter’ noted, ‘credible reports of arbitrary detention in large scale places of detention.’ Surely the twenty-two protesting countries included Muslim nations in support of their co-religionists? Actually, no; not a single member of the OIC [Organisation of Islamic Co-operation] signed the letter. With the exception of Japan, all the signatories of the letter were white, Christian countries. 

Not only did the Muslim nations fail to support the Uyghurs but twenty-one Muslim countries co-signed a counter-letter which complained about the ‘22-letter’ for its politicisation of human rights issues. The counter-letter, which won the support of 50 nations in total, astonishingly went on to praise China’s remarkable achievements in ‘protecting and promoting human rights through development.’ Signatories included the big five Middle Eastern countries Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt and Turkey; unlikely bedfellows indeed.

Not only have Muslim countries supported Xi’s hard-line anti-Muslim approach but they have co-operated in the forced return of Uyghur asylum seekers.

What is evident from this episode is that the West, in preaching its moral superiority, is out of sync with most nations’ belief that in geopolitics, the moral judgement of other countries should be parked at home. Unlike the West’s supposedly ‘moral’ anti-Jihadist strategy of blitzing the Middle East in order to democratize it, Xi Jinping’s supposedly ‘immoral’ domestic anti-Jihadist strategy appears to have worked. 

Meanwhile the West is left with the legacy issues of its military interventions. In 2016 China took just 26 Syrian asylum seekers and had only nine registered refugees. For China Syrian refugees are not their problem. Reflecting the view of the Chinese government, the former Chinese ambassador to Egypt and Saudi Arabia wrote in the People’s Daily that it was the West’s democratization policies that were the cause of the refugee crisis in Syria. It is hard not to agree with this analysis. 

2012 US Army in Afghanistan

Over the past two decades, at great cost and questionable success, military adventurism in the Middle East has undermined the West’s social stability and economic dynamism. Furthermore, the seeds of future anti-Western Islamic terrorism have been planted at home and in the Middle East. 

In Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, as well as much of the Muslim world, the West has lost influence and popularity. By contrast China, in its suppression of the Uyghurs, has won plaudits and friends amongst Muslim countries. China has thereby simply shrugged off the West’s moral opprobrium. To add insult to injury, as a fragile peace develops in the Middle East it is China that is picking up the economic benefits; meanwhile the West is left with the bills.

(Source: francis-pike-China, the Uyghurs and the West’s Moral Superiority-weltwoche)

LightReading: BT fails to hit 4G heights with just 1M 5G customers

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LightReading: BT fails to hit 4G heights with just 1M 5G customers

By IAIN MORRIS, International Editor

Frustrated by 3G’s inadequacy, British consumers quickly piled into EE’s 4G service after it was launched in October 2012. By December 2014, roughly two years after 4G’s UK arrival, EE was able to boast 5.7 million 4G customers, an impressive achievement for a company that had fewer than 15 million contract customers in total.

Alas, it has not been able to pull off a repeat performance in 5G. With that service approaching its second anniversary on May 29, EE boss Marc Allera this week fired off a celebratory tweet about subscriber take-up. But the haul this time round is not 5.7 million customers, or even close to that number. Just 1 million have taken advantage of the high-speed technology since EE became the first operator to launch it.

The wonder is that EE, now a part of BT, has disclosed any numbers whatsoever. One of the last acts of former BT boss Gavin Patterson, succeeded by Philip Jansen in early 2019, was to scrap any mention of mobile customer numbers in financial reports. The odd move was all about drawing attention to more important metrics, insisted BT. But it smacked of less transparency.

Still, in March 2018, before it began hiding the details, BT had about 17.6 million customers on mobile contracts. Two years later, the annual revenue it generated from these customers had not changed, according to its earnings statements, although an average customer was spending slightly less each month. A relatively safe assumption would be that BT had around 18 million customers.

For a company of this size, 1 million 5G subscribers sounds underwhelming. South Korea’s SK Telecom, which launched 5G in April 2019, boasted nearly 5.5 million customers by the end of 2020, equal to 19% of its entire customer base. In China, where 5G services were launched in November 2019, China Mobile recently laid claim to 93 million “active” subscribers, meaning one in ten mobile customers was on 5G.

Slow going

The coronavirus pandemic will not have helped BT to shift expensive, 5G-compatible phones. Relatively few have been available so far, and Apple did not enter the fray until October last year, when its iPhone 12 was released. That ranked as the most popular smartphone globally in January, according to Counterpoint Research, and seems bound to give BT and the UK’s other 5G operators a boost this year.

The relatively slow pace of 5G deployment in the UK has probably hindered 5G take-up, as well. Along with other service providers, BT has been coy about network coverage as a percentage of the population, the traditional measure of availability. Its 5G service, it says, is now available in 160 cities and towns. But this does not mean they enjoy blanket coverage. Any location with more than 10,000 residents is listed if BT’s service reaches a third of the population, including the city or town center.

Contrast that with EE’s race to extend its 4G network eight years ago. In October 2013, when 4G turned one year old, it was available to more than 60% of the UK population, said EE at the time. A year later it reached 98%, according to the operator. Rollout would not have been so fast, or 4G business so good, were it not for a peculiar regulatory decision to let EE re-farm 1800MHz spectrum for use with 4G while its rivals were made to wait for a government auction. In any case, 5G coverage will not even be close to that 98% figure. BT’s claim to have 2.1 million “5G-ready” customers suggests some have the requisite phones and plans but live outside a 5G zone.

While O2 boasts 5G coverage in even more locations – some 180 cities and towns – BT does not appear to have lagged rivals on 5G rollout. Nevertheless, it is also under pressure to extend full-fiber networks to around 20 million UK properties by the mid-2020s, a project expected to cost £12 billion ($16.7 billion) and gobble resources. As an ageing fixed-line telco with a bloated workforce, BT has also been struck harder than other service providers by the coronavirus. Its revenues fell 9% over the first nine months of 2020, to about £16.1 billion ($22.3 billion), and its net profit slumped 16%, to roughly £1.3 billion ($1.8 billion).

Adverse regulation

Recent government decisions have added to BT’s list of problems. A move last year to ban Huawei is forcing BT to rip out the Chinese vendor’s 4G and 5G network equipment and replace it with products from Ericsson and Nokia. BT has estimated the cost of the overhaul at £500 million ($694 million) and previously warned that it would slow down 5G network deployment.

Spectrum uncertainty has been an additional factor. BT’s two 5G allocations are separated by 100MHz of spectrum owned by Three. It says a single radio unit can span the range but is still open to a spectrum trade that would give it a larger contiguous block. Three appears to have little incentive to budge, though. If a deal is to happen, Gabriel Brown, a principal analyst with Heavy Reading, says it should ideally go ahead “before too much equipment is deployed.” A spectrum trade between O2 and Vodafone announced this week means some radios might have to be replaced.

Take-up of 5G services so far has not stopped the slide in average revenue per user (ARPU) generated by contract customers. On a monthly basis, that figure has dropped from £20.7 when BT’s 5G service was launched to £18.9 in late 2020. Its experience is not unique. Vodafone’s contract ARPU is down from £18.1 to £16.8 over the same period and O2’s has fallen from €24.9 to €22.1.

These figures might improve as more customers take advantage of 5G services, but market watchers are not optimistic. Operators were in as much of a hurry to market low-price 5G deals as they were to launch a 5G service. Nearly two years on, the 5G benefits to the companies that sell network services are far from obvious.

(Source: BT fails to hit 4G heights with just 1M 5G customers | Light Reading)

Developed Countries Shouldn’t Force Developing Countries Not To Reasonably Develop, In The Name Of Climate Issues

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Developed Countries Shouldn’t Force Developing Countries Not To Reasonably Develop, In The Name Of Climate Issues

On April 22, Biden invited leaders of 40 countries, including China and Russia, to attend the Leaders Summit on Climate. In the past few days, the US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry visited China and became the first senior US official to visit mainland China since July 2019.

Climate change is a common topic that the world pays more attention to. Although it was proposed by the West, most people now agree that it is indeed a common danger that mankind is facing. The uncontrolled climate is a challenge to all mankind.

China accepts this global consensus and makes a commitment “to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060” – China’s first formal announcement of a long-term plan to lower carbon emissions with a fixed timeline, its right to speak on international climate issues is gradually increasing. Will global environmental and climate issues become a new battlefield?

Many of the carbon dioxide accumulated in the atmosphere is formed in the history of industrialization in the West for hundreds of years. They have achieved a per capita income of more than 30,000 U.S. dollars. Meanwhile, developing countries are still in the stage of development. Since they need to develop, they must have a certain amount of carbon emissions to support their developments, and usually a social and economic development starts from industrialization, a way brings economic growth with the damage of nature more or less.

The world always needs industrialization, and industrialization brings pollution. The West gradually transfers these heavily polluting production lines to developing countries which account for 85% of the world’s population, so the former can maintain a better quality of environment, but the latter catches economic growth at a cost of ecological sacrifice and health issues of people. The nature of such a way is that the west expands its advantages while gets rid of its responsibilities which are blamed on developing countries. It’s very pitiful that the developing countries do not have the right to speak regarding the climate issues.

Regarding climate change, it should be said that China attaches great importance to it, but its basic position is called the principle of “common with differences”. Climate change is indeed a common problem faced by countries all over the world, but it should be said that there are differences in how to deal with it and what responsibilities different countries should bear.

China promises that the country’s carbon emissions will reach a peak in 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. Making such a promise is actually very stressful. This means that many industries of the country, especially some in the north, like coal, steel, cement, ceramics and other carbon emission industries that have to face varying degrees of abandonment. Abandonment means unemployment, business closure, and a reduction in fiscal revenue. Therefore, China has made great efforts and paid a great price in tackling climate change. The Chinese government really attaches importance to it and is really determined.

In addition, it should also be said that China is currently the most serious country in dealing with climate change among the major countries. The specific manifestation is that China really pays attention to the environment and puts forward a lot of specific indicators, especially in renewable energy, which though is still in the development stage, China ranks No.1 in its investment in the world.

For example, for solar energy investment, China accounts for about 2/3 of the world; China’s wind energy investment is 9 times that of the United States; and nuclear energy investment, China accounts for 54% of the world. In the past, China’s renewable energy accounted for a small proportion. In the 1980s, the country’s renewable energy accounted for less than 1%. Now it quickly accounts for more than 5%. China’s goal is to reach 30% by 2030, this development speed is very fast.

When it comes to Sino-US relations, climate change can now become an entry point for cooperation to ease Sino-US relations. President Biden made it clear that he has to deal with climate change. On climate change issues, if the climate issue can be used as the entry point for Sino-US cooperation to achieve some partial progress, it will be beneficial to the stability of the entire Sino-US relationship.

China and the United States can really cooperate on this issue. In terms of carbon dioxide emissions data, both China and the United States account for about a quarter of the human emissions, that is, the two together account for half of the human emissions. Therefore, if China and the United States do not cooperate, all international agreements will have no practical significance.

(Source: S&P Global, Guancha)

Datenschutzbeirat der Telekom warnt: Europa droht zur „digitalen Kolonie“ zu werden

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Datenschutzbeirat der Telekom warnt: Europa droht zur „digitalen Kolonie“ zu werden

Von Martin Murphy u. Stephan Scheuer (www.Handelsblatt.com)

Die Telekom verlangt Chancengleichheit gegenüber den Technologiegiganten aus den USA und China. Gleichzeitig kooperiert sie selbst mit den Anbietern und verdient Geld damit.

Wolkige Geschäfte Das Cloud-Computing hat sich in der deutschen Wirtschaft durchgesetzt – aber davon profitieren maßgeblich amerikanische Konzerne. Bild: dpa

Der Datenschutzbeirat der Deutschen Telekom hat erstmals eine klare Position zum Thema digitale Souveränität in Europa bezogen. In einem Grundsatzpapier findet das Gremium harte Worte für US-Cloud-Anbieter wie Amazon, Microsoft und Google, allerdings ohne die Firmen namentlich zu nennen. Hyperscaler – so werden diese Firmen in Fachkreisen genannt – agierten als übernationale Instanzen und oft nach ihren eigenen Regeln, heißt es in dem Papier. „Sie dominieren den Weltmarkt.“

Firmen wie die Telekom, Telefónica oder France Telecom bleiben da außen vor: „Europäische Anbieter spielen im globalen Markt bisher nur eine untergeordnete Rolle“, beklagt die Telekom. Den Beirat hatte der Konzern auch ins Leben gerufen, um seinen Kunden den Schutz persönlicher Daten zu garantieren.

Die Runde ist mit Vorstandschef Timotheus Höttges, dem Aufsichtsratsvorsitzenden Ulrich Lehner und dem früheren Datenschützer des Bundes, Peter Schaar, hochrangig besetzt. Bislang hatte sich das Gremium mit öffentlichen Äußerungen zurückgehalten.

Der Handlungsdruck ist groß: Der Vorsitzende des Beirats, Lothar Schröder, sieht das Papier als Mahnung: „Ich möchte nicht, dass wir in Europa von China oder den USA abhängig werden“, sagte er dem Handelsblatt. „China könnte die Daten für Spitzeleien nutzen, und einige große Technologiefirmen aus den USA sind reinste Datenkraken.“ Europa müsse daher eine eigenständige und selbstbewusste Haltung entwickeln.

Schröder und seine Mitstreiter von der Telekom sorgen sich, dass Europa zu einer „digitalen Kolonie“ werden könnte, „in der amerikanische und chinesische Unternehmen mittels personalisierter Geschäftsmodelle personenbezogene Daten schürfen und auf fragwürdiger rechtlicher Grundlage nutzen“.

Den europäischen Regierungen wirft das Gremium vor, die heimischen Firmen mit unfairer Regulierung zurückzuhalten. Europäische Telekommunikationsfirmen wie die Telekom müssten sich an strengere Auflagen als Cloud-Anbieter halten, hieß es. Dabei seien „Internet- und Cloud-Anbieter längst auch Anbieter von Telekommunikationsdiensten.“ Amazon etwa bietet entsprechende Leistungen an. Die Aufsichtsbehörden ignorierten diese Entwicklung indes, sagte Schröder. „Wir haben so einen erheblichen Wettbewerbsnachteil.“

Telekom fordert konsequentere Umsetzung der DSGVO

Zudem werde die Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (DSGVO) nicht ausreichend umgesetzt. Eine große Zahl von Unternehmen halte sich bislang „faktisch nicht oder nur unzureichend an die Vorgaben der DSGVO“, kritisierte der Konzernkreis. Das Gremium mahnte eine nachdrückliche Umsetzung der Regeln an.

Die europäische Cloud-Initiative Gaia-X sei der richtige Weg. „Das kann aber nur gelingen, wenn öffentliche Stellen und Regierungsorganisationen als Nachfrager auftreten, die ihre Vergabeentscheidungen nicht nur an Kostengesichtspunkten orientieren“, forderte das Gremium. Viele Unternehmen unter anderem aus der Autoindustrie haben angekündigt, sich an Gaia-X zu beteiligen. Bislang sind es aber lediglich Ankündigungen.

Gaia-X soll den Datenaustausch über die Grenzen einzelner Cloud-Rechenzentren hinweg weiter fördern. Die Mitgliedsunternehmen, darunter die Deutsche Telekom, OVH und SAP, wollen standardisierte Datenformate sowie zentrale Dienste für die Zusammenarbeit entwickeln. Konkrete Anwendungen fehlen bislang jedoch.

Auch wenn Schröder betont, dass es dem Datenschutzbeirat um die Sache geht, so verfolgt die Telekom mit dem Drängen auf den Aufbau einer digitalen Souveränität Europas auch eigene Interessen. Der Bonner Konzern bietet Kunden in Deutschland selbst Cloud-Dienste von Amazon, Microsoft und Google an. Die Großkundentochter T-Systems hatte Mitte Februar die Initiative „Cloud First“ gestartet und dafür die Zusammenarbeit mit Amazon und Microsoft weiter vertieft.

Das Cloud-Geschäft wächst – auch bei der Telekom. Allein im vergangenen Jahr seien die Cloud-Umsätze um 30 Prozent gewachsen, sagte Höttges kürzlich. Der Umsatz mit Cloud-Diensten betrug 600 Millionen Euro. Allerdings sind darin auch die Umsätze aus dem Verkauf von Lösungen von Amazon, Microsoft und anderen Partnern eingerechnet. Die Umsätze mit der eigenen Telekom-Cloud schlüsselt der Dax-Konzern nicht auf.

Telekom kooperiert selbst mit Amazon und Co.

Zudem ist das eigene Cloud-Angebot der Telekom umstritten. Der Dax-Konzern warb bei der Einführung der Open Telekom Cloud zwar mit dem „strengen deutschen Datenschutz“, setzte beim Aufbau aber von Anfang an auf den umstrittenen chinesischen Technologiekonzern Huawei als wichtigen Partner. Nach Handelsblatt-Informationen sorgte das bei Kunden – darunter die Bundesregierung – für Bedenken.

Das Analysehause Synergy hat sich den Cloud-Markt in Europa in einer Analyse näher angeschaut. Dabei kürten sie zwar die Deutsche Telekom zum größten europäischen Cloud-Anbieter. Der Dax-Konzern kam aber lediglich auf einen Marktanteil von zwei Prozent. Zwei Drittel des Geschäfts machen hingegen die US-Anbieter Amazon, Microsoft und Google unter sich aus.

Während der Markt insgesamt wächst, profitieren europäische Dienste davon kaum. Allein zwischen Anfang 2017 und dem dritten Quartal des vergangenen Jahres hat sich der Umsatz dieses Segments in Europa mit 5,9 Milliarden Euro mehr als verdreifacht, wie Synergy-Chefanalyst John Dinsdale und sein Team ermittelt haben. Der Anteil der europäischen Cloud-Dienste ging jedoch von 26 Prozent auf 16 Prozent zurück.

Dinsdale bezweifelte, dass eine stärkere Regulierung etwas an der Entwicklung ändern könnte. Der technologische Vorsprung der US-Anbieter sei sehr groß.

(Quelle: Telekom warnt: Europa droht zur „digitalen Kolonie“ zu werden – handelsblatt)

„Echt belgischer Geschmack“ – Hybrid Food Fair, belgische Qualität im Rampenlicht in der Provinz Hunan

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„Echt belgischer Geschmack“ – Hybrid Food Fair, belgische Qualität im Rampenlicht in der Provinz Hunan

Am Freitag, dem 16. April 2021, organisierte Flanders Investment & Trade (FIT) in dem riesigen und prächtigen Gebäude des GAOQIAO International Commoditiy Trade Center in Changsha, der Hauptstadt von Hunan, die Präsentation einer hochmodernen Auswahl an Lebensmittel- und Getränkeprodukten von 40 belgischen Unternehmen, genauer gesagt aus Flandern. Eva Verstraelen, Wirtschaftsrepräsentantin von FIT in Guangzhou, eröffnete die Ausstellung in hervorragender Weise. Dany Bosteels, CEO des Euro China Business & Tourism Summit, diskutierte mit den chinesischen Partnern über das wirtschaftliche Potenzial einer solchen Aktion und wurde so zum symbolischen Botschafter der belgischen Unternehmen, die wegen Covid-19 ihre Vertreter nicht entsenden konnten. LHCH International, das dank der Regierung von Hunan auch mit einem Team von Journalisten und Kameraleuten bei der Veranstaltung in China anwesend war, hatte die Gelegenheit, den beiden belgischen Qualitätsexperten ein paar Fragen zu stellen.

„Die Menschen können nicht reisen, aber die Produkte können reisen. Also haben wir diese Brücke gebaut.“

EVA VERSTRAELEN, Wirtschaftsrepräsentantin von FIT in Guangzhou

LHCH: Ihre Veranstaltung, bei der Sie Produkte aus Flandern in Changsha, der Hauptstadt der Provinz Hunan, präsentieren, findet anlässlich der seit 50 Jahren bestehenden freundschaftlichen Beziehungen zwischen Belgien und China statt.

EVA VERSTRAELEN: Ja, es ist tatsächlich ein sehr symbolträchtiges Jahr, auch wenn es ein bisschen Glückssache war, dass es so gekommen ist. Sagen wir also, dass es ein glücklicher Zufall ist.

LHCH: Warum haben Sie Hunan gewählt, eine weniger bekannte Provinz in Zentralchina?

EVA VERSTRAELEN: Zunächst einmal ist es eine Provinz in voller wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung. Nachdem die Regierung Chinas Küstenstädte unterstützt hat, hat sie beschlossen, schrittweise auch die zentralen und westlichen Provinzen Chinas zu fördern. Wegen der Pandemie konnten die Hersteller der typischen Produkte Flanderns die Reise nicht antreten, aber die Proben ja! Nach der gleichen Veranstaltung in Guangzhou, Provinz Guangdong, hatten wir also die Gelegenheit, diese Aktion hier zu organisieren und eine Brücke zwischen diesen beiden sehr starken Kulturen zu schlagen.

LHCH: Waren Sie schon einmal in Changsha?

EVA VERSTRAELEN: Ja, zweimal. Und ich war beeindruckt vom Gao Qiao International Commoditiy Trade Center, dieser fabelhaften Mischung von Produkten, die aus allen Ecken der Welt importiert werden, dieser Offenheit gegenüber den Kulturen der Welt. Außerdem habe ich vor allem das Interesse am Import von Lebensmitteln und Getränken gesehen. Changsha ist nicht so groß wie Peking oder Shanghai, hat aber den Vorteil, dass es aufgrund seiner Neuartigkeit in dieser Art von Markt schnell wächst. Auch sind die Einwohner sehr daran interessiert, Neues zu entdecken.

LHCH: In Flandern gibt es viele traditionelle, aber auch innovative Spezialitäten.

Wie haben Sie die hier gezeigten Produkte ausgewählt?

EVA VERSTRAELEN: Alle flämischen Lebensmittel- und Getränkeunternehmen wurden eingeladen, ihre Produkte für die Veranstaltung einzureichen. Sie sollten wissen, dass diese groß angelegte Marketingveranstaltung auch in anderen asiatischen Hauptstädten wie Tokio und Seoul stattfindet! Für unsere Unternehmen war es ausreichend, sich zu registrieren und Interesse an diesen neuen Märkten mit ihrem enormen Potenzial zu zeigen. Aus logistischen Gründen mussten wir die Anzahl der Teilnehmer auf 40 begrenzen.

„Wir haben mit den Chinesen gemeinsam, dass wir das Vertrauen und die Spitzenqualität schätzen“

LHCH: Sie präsentieren Ihre Produkte, aber Sie werden auch deren Export nach China erleichtern?

EVA VERSTRAELEN: Natürlich. Nach dieser Veranstaltung werden wir Treffen zwischen chinesischen Akteuren und flämischen Unternehmen organisieren. Nach chinesischen und belgischen Initiativen werden wir unsere Hilfe anbieten, um die vertraglichen Beziehungen auf beiden Seiten zu erleichtern.

LHCH: FIT ist eine rein flämische Organisation, aber Sie sprechen trotzdem von „Belgien“, einfach von belgischen Produkten.

EVA VERSTRAELEN: Unsere politische und kulturelle Realität ist für unsere chinesischen Freunde unverständlich. Sie würden sich wundern, wie solche Identitätsfragen für ein so kleines Land entstehen (lacht). Für sie ist Belgien ein kleines Dorf, wie soll man also seine Aufteilung in 2 oder sogar 3 Einheiten erklären! Unsere wallonischen Kollegen von AWEX halten es genauso und wir haben zu ihnen ausgezeichnete Beziehungen.

LHCH: Sie mögen anscheinend Ihre Arbeit hier in China, 10.000 km von Ihrem Zuhause entfernt.

EVA VERSTRAELEN: Ja, unbedingt. Dies ist das zweite Mal, dass ich zum Arbeiten nach China komme, und ich habe immer noch das Gefühl, zu Hause zu sein! Ich liebe die Chinesen, die wie wir Belgier gerne hart arbeiten und gleichzeitig das Leben, gutes Essen usw. genießen.

LHCH: Vielleicht mögen uns die Chinesen auch, weil die belgische Qualität authentischer und unaufdringlicher in ihrem traditionellen Know-how ist? Weniger „arrogant“ als die schönen und hochmütigen Auftritte des französischen Luxus?

EVA VERSTRAELEN: Ich würde es etwas anders ausdrücken, aber ich stimme mit Ihrer Analyse überein. Hier haben wir kleine Familienbetriebe, die es seit Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts gibt. Wir wollen Qualität, nicht Quantität. So können wir ein Vertrauensverhältnis zu den chinesischen Verbrauchern aufbauen. Was sie auf der Außenseite der Verpackung sehen, finden sie auch in der Verpackung. Sie bekommen, was sie bestellt haben. Das ist alles. „Wir haben mit den Chinesen gemeinsam, dass wir das Vertrauen und die Spitzenqualität schätzen“

„Die Nischenprodukte hier sind ein bisschen wie Champagner aus Belgien“

DANY BOSTEELS, CEO des Euro China Business & Tourism Summit

LHCH: Ich glaube, ich habe gesehen, dass Sie von der Ausstellung der Produkte beeindruckt waren-

DANY BOSTEELS: Ja, zunächst einmal ist das Gebäude des GAO QIAO Commodity Trade Center erstaunlich. Alle Länder der Welt scheinen mit ihren besten Produkten in diesem gigantischen Show Room vertreten zu sein. Es ist ein schöner Ort. Und dann haben Sie hier unten den Markt selbst mit seinen Hunderten von Importeuren und Großhändlern. Es ist wirtschaftlich wie kulturell eine Riesensache. Die Ausstellung selbst, ja das Merchandising ist sehr gut gemacht, sauber, gut durchdacht. Eine tolle Möglichkeit, unsere belgischen Produkte zu präsentieren. Das sollten wir bei uns im Trade Mart Brüssel auch machen!

LHCH: Was halten Sie von der Wahl Changshas für diese Promotion von Produkten aus Flandern?

DANY BOSTEELS: Es ist ein guter Anfang. Sehr ausgewogen. Nicht so groß wie Shanghai, eher menschlich, mit einem Publikum, das noch nicht abgestumpft ist. Gleichzeitig sehen wir hier eine rasante Entwicklung. Diese Provinz ist zentral gelegen. Dies ermöglicht eine Ausstrahlung in alle vier Himmelsrichtungen Chinas.

LHCH: Was halten Sie von der Auswahl der Marken für diese Veranstaltung?

DANY BOSTEELS: Das sind eher „Nischen“-Marken. Ein guter Test für die größten Marken also. Hier setzen wir auf kleine Mengen und hohe Qualität, handwerklich, familiär. „Die Nischenprodukte hier sind ein bisschen wie Champagner aus Belgien.“ Vor allem was die Qualität des Bieres, den Geschmack und den Charakter angeht, ist es einzigartig. Es kann wirklich funktionieren. Ich war schon drei Mal hier und jedes Mal sehe ich, wie sich der Konsum und der Lebensstil ändern. In Belgien kennen wir eine solche Entwicklung in dieser Geschwindigkeit nicht.

LHCH: Sind Sie stolz, dass diese flämische Identität hier vertreten ist?

DANY BOSTEELS: Kulturell gesehen ist das Belgien. Aber in Bezug auf die Organisation und die investierten Mittel, ja, das ist natürlich Flandern. Also, bei diesem investierten Geld geht es um flämische Produkte, das ist normal.  Aber für die Chinesen hier spielt das keine Rolle. Wir sind 11 Millionen mit drei Sprachen. 11 Millionen hier, das ist nur die Einwohnerzahl der Stadt Changsha! Bleiben wir bodenständig.

How To Distinguish Different Digital Currencies?

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How To Distinguish Different Digital Currencies?

For a long time, digital or crypto currencies have been hailed as the future of finance. Starting in 2020, long-term risk aversion investment institutions have also joined the ranks of investors and become investors in digital currencies. There were approximately 1,500 digital currencies on the market in 2018, and today there are more than 4,500.

So far, digital currencies based on blockchain technology include general digital currencies like Bitcoin, stable digital currencies like Libra, and central bank digital currencies like digital RMB, each of which has its distinct characteristics.

General digital currency

Such as Bitcoin, is a distributed P2P network system. The consensus mechanism of blockchain and digital currency can automatically execute the agreed computer program, ensuring the efficient and low-cost operation of financial transactions, so that any transaction can be automatically on the blockchain as long as the time is agreed. Relying on shared ledgers and encryption algorithms to ensure that without the help of a centralized organization, the authenticity and accuracy of accounts can be guaranteed autonomously, and point-to-point decentralized transactions are realized immutably and untraceably. At the same time, since all information is equally distributed on the blockchain, the use of digital currency transactions can avoid information asymmetry.

Disadvantages of general digital currency: The currency value is extremely unstable, the price is extremely volatile, and the random and large volatility makes the transaction of its carrier face great uncertainty. Excessive seigniorage, any currency issuance has “seigniorage” in the Ricardian sense. Whoever has the right to issue currency will have more seigniorage income. Because the initial coin offering (ICO) created an asymmetry between issuers and purchasers, many coin offerings made a lot of money as soon as they went public, essentially pursuing excessive seigniorage.

Stable digital currency

Such as Libra. Ensure the stability of the currency value through the endorsement of the offline basket of currency assets and avoid excessive currency fluctuations. Form an operating structure that combines centralization and decentralization. From the perspective of circulation, it has billions of users all over the world, and it has a large scale and spread in cross-border payments.

Disadvantages of stable digital currency: If it is used in large quantities, it will inevitably enable the issuer to master a large amount of payment data of users around the world. Who will ensure the privacy and security of these data? Based on a huge user base, it is likely to quickly form a scale advantage, or even a financial monopoly. How to ensure the issuer does not abuse its monopoly position? Such currency may reduce the currency sovereignty of developing countries. If citizens of a country use Libra in large quantities for commercial transactions and cross-border payments, it will seriously reduce the status of the country’s legal currency and at the same time interfere with the country’s central bank’s ability to govern its financial system and execute normal monetary policies.

Central bank digital currency

Also known as legal digital currency, is a legally valid digital currency issued by the central bank of a country. It not only uses the current algorithmic and intelligent technology of digital currency, but also uses national sovereignty to provide credit endorsement.

Both central bank digital currency and private digital currency are digital currencies, so they have many common features, such as encryption, smart applications, algorithm applications, peer-to-peer transactions, and privacy protection but the central bank’s digital currency has significant advantages compared to other electronic payment methods.

1. Better performance. The payment efficiency is higher, the cost is lower, the system security is stronger, the operation is more flexible and intelligent, and the privacy is better protected, especially the improvement in cross-border payment will be particularly significant. Central bank digital currency can also provide multiple application scenarios that are difficult to complete with other electronic payments, such as offline payments and large-value payments.

2. Higher security. The operating entities of third-party payment are mainly non-bank institutions, whose creditworthiness is lower than that of commercial banks. The central bank’s digital currency is based on the credit of national entities, has no default risk, and has stronger market credibility.

3. Extensive coverage. The central bank’s digital currency is a public financial infrastructure that is provided to the broadest public at almost no cost. Different from the scope of use of the third-party payment, which is limited by the coverage of hardware and software terminals and the need to have a bank account, the central bank digital currency can be effectively integrated with a wider financial infrastructure. As the issuance volume and scope of issuance expand, it will cover the broadest user group that other payment institutions cannot match.

(Source: GARP, Clubic, The Verg, South China Morning Post)

How Did Xinjiang Historically Form A Multi-ethnic Cohabitation?

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How Did Xinjiang Historically Form A Multi-ethnic Cohabitation?

2021 is the 250th anniversary of the migration of many ethnic groups, including the Eastern Return of Torghut across Eurasia. China News Agency recently interviewed Ma Dazheng, deputy director of the National Qing History Compilation Committee and a researcher at the Institute of Frontier Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, to understand better the history of Xinjiang.

Reasons urge Torghut to return to the east

In the 1630s, Torghut Mongolia moved to the Volga River basin and lived there for more than a century. It always maintained its political system, economic form, language, religious beliefs, and customs, causing a sharp conflict with the Russian tsarist government who attempted to control and enslave them.

The homesickness complex is sublimated into the feelings of home and country. As a unified multi-ethnic country, the Qing Dynasty’s handling of the relations between the Torghut in a distant place is a manifestation of the “graciousness” and “facilitation” in its ethnic policy. Culture has stability and strong cohesion over time and space. Cultural identity has always been the glue that maintains social order, and the foundation of political identity and national identity.

Chahar Mongol’s westward migration to Xinjiang

At the end of the 1850s, the Qing government realized the unification of Xinjiang. To ensure the jurisdiction and military defense of the northwest region, in the 27th year of Qianlong, the Qing government set up the “President lli and other generals” as the highest military and political chiefs dispatched by the central government to Xinjiang to manage local military and political affairs.

To defend Xinjiang and develop Xinjiang, the Qing government has planned to implement border immigration. Starting in the 1860s, Manchuria, Solon, Chahar, Erut, and Sibe soldiers and their families moved to Ili to form military camps used for the control and dispatch of General Ili.

The task of reclaiming and defending borders and developing Xinjiang determines that these soldiers are “carrying relatives” and “permanent garrison.” The Chahar Mongols who live in Xinjiang today and are mainly distributed in the Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture are the descendants of the Chahar Mongolians in this particular historical event.

Uyghurs formed through long-term migration and integration

Xinjiang is located in the hinterland of the Eurasian continent and northwestern China. After several major ethnic migrations and fusions during the Han Dynasty, Wei Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties, Song Liao Jin, Meng Yuan and Ming Dynasties, various ethnic minorities in Xinjiang were finally formed in the modern sense from the 15th to 16th centuries.

After the Qing Dynasty unified Xinjiang in the middle of the 18th century, following the old rules of Dzungar, Uyghur farmers from southern Xinjiang moved to IIi. With the establishment of the province of Xinjiang, the Baig system and the ethnic segregation policy were abolished, Uyghurs from southern Xinjiang began to spontaneously flow to northern Xinjiang. By the end of the Qing dynasty, Uyghurs were almost everywhere in various cities and towns in the north and south of Tianshan Mountains.

The Qing Dynasty was the period when Xinjiang eventually formed a pattern of multi-ethnic settlements dominated by Uyghurs. With the development of Xinjiang’s agricultural economy, the Uyghur population gradually expanded and the population developed rapidly, reaching 1.57 million in the late Qing Dynasty.

In modern times, some “pan-Turkism” elements have used the tribes of the Turkic language to integrate into the local tribes as an excuse to describe all the ethnic groups using the Turkic language as Turkic people, which has ulterior motives.

Language family and nation are two different concepts with essential differences. Turkic languages ​​are spoken by Uyghur, Kazakh, Kirgiz, Uzbek, Tatar, Yugu, Salar and other ethnic groups in China. They all have their own historical and cultural characteristics and are by no means part of the so-called “Turkic”.

Xinjiang is always an ethnic integration area across the time

In the vast Xinjiang, the migration of the Han nationality began in the Tuntian guard in the Han Dynasty and has never been interrupted since then. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Loulan and Gaochang, Yi, Xi, Ting and four towns in the Tang Dynasty were all inhabited by a large number of Han people, and a large number of Han people moved in in the Qing Dynasty. Some of them gradually merged into other ethnic groups in the course of historical development, and some became the ancestors of the Han nationality in Xinjiang today.

Taking 1864 as the boundary, the central government’s policy for Han immigrants in Xinjiang can be divided into two stages. In the early stage, various systems and measures were established to guide and encourage the inland residents to move to eastern and northern Xinjiang, while more restrictions were imposed on the migration of Han people into southern Xinjiang.

The 3rd year of Tongzhi (1864), Xinjiang’s social and economic turmoil severely damaged Xinjiang’s society and economy. Then, Zuo Zongtang led an army to pacify Xinjiang. Most of the soldiers were from Hubei and Hunan, and many people still stayed in Xinjiang after the war. In 1917, Xie Bin, the author of “Xinjiang Travel Notes,” visited southern Xinjiang and recorded dozens of Han immigrants in Lop County. Among them, there were 18 Han residents in Yulong Kashi Town, who were registered as Han residents in Hunan, and engaged in business. At that time, Xinjiang was known as “Little Hunan”.

Tens of thousands of troops entered Xinjiang during the Western Expedition of the Qing army, and it was difficult to buy daily necessities in the vast area. Hundreds of merchants in Yangliuqing in Tianjin picked up various proprietary Chinese medicines and daily necessities produced in Tianjin and Beijing to do business with the army. Vendors moved with the troops to the north and south of Tianshan Mountains, which was called “catch the camp.” Subsequently, more and more inland people from Gansu, Shaanxi, and Sichuan also went to Xinjiang to make a living.

The formation of China’s unified multi-ethnic state is not accidental

The existing 13 major ethnic groups in Xinjiang were formed during the long-term continuous integration of many ethnic groups.

From the perspective of the direction of ethnic migration in the Qing Dynasty, there are roughly three types of ethnic migration within Xinjiang, migration of foreign ethnic groups to Xinjiang, and migration of inland ethnic groups to Xinjiang.

Through a comprehensive explanation of the above-mentioned history, it is helpful to better understand the formation and development of the tightly formed Chinese nation and the formation and development of China’s unified multi-ethnic country. It is by no means accidental, but the inevitable result of long-term historical development.

(Source: China News Service)

Auf dem Weg zu einer besseren Zusammenarbeit zwischen China und Europa

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Auf dem Weg zu einer besseren Zusammenarbeit zwischen China und Europa

„Ich habe Studenten, die schon seit 15-20 Jahren meine Kurse besuchen, Modul für Modul. Und dann üben sie, Fach für Fach“

LHCH: Beim letzten Mal haben Sie sich zu den Problemen bei der Institutionalisierung der chinesischen Medizin in Frankreich geäußert: das Niveau der nicht-chinesischen Praktiker und der Teufelskreis oder das Paradoxon zwischen dem sehr langwierigen Studium in einer noch ungeklärten Situation, in der es noch keinen offiziellen Status gibt, die Formalisierung des akademischen und beruflichen Umfelds, in dem es noch keine akademischen und beruflichen Glanzlichter gibt. Wie sähe dann die Lösung für die Lehre der chinesischen Medizin und der Weg zu ihrer offiziellen Anerkennung aus?

Éric Marié: Ich bin für eine Übergangszeit von 5 bis 10 Jahren, um die Entwicklung dieser Studenten und Praktiker, die noch nicht bestätigt sind, an Instituten mit einer soliden Ausbildung und ohne einen der westlichen Medizin untergeordneten Status zu ermöglichen. Ähnlich wie bei den Zahnärzten in den 1950er Jahren. Sie galten als „Techniker“ mit prekärem Status. Und heute, nach Jahren der Weiterentwicklung, gibt es zahnärztlich-chirurgische Studiengänge. Wir haben „Handwerker“ übernommen und ihr Niveau unter Berücksichtigung ihres Werdegangs und ihrer Erfahrung „hochgestuft“.

LHCH: Können wir uns auf dieser Ebene mehr Zusammenarbeit zwischen französischen und chinesischen Universitäten vorstellen?

Éric Marié: Wenn das so gewollt ist, wird es auch möglich sein. Vorschläge von höchster Ebene in China werden hier einfach abgelehnt, aus Angst vor einem Ungleichgewicht in der akademischen Welt oder in Unternehmen. Keiner möchte in der Minderheit sein. Aber in Wirklichkeit sind das triviale, beschränkte, administrative Fragen, die sich da stellen. Nicht die philosophischen Fragen, was ist mit der großartigen Medizin der Zwei? Zum Beispiel: „Neue Lehrveranstaltungen?“ Aber dann heißt es: „Unsere Hörsäle sind schon voll.“ „Wie organisiere ich mich?“ oder „Welches Budget für dieses oder jenes Kursmaterial?“ usw.

LHCH: Doch, wenn man die Presse und die Reaktionen führender Persönlichkeiten liest, die die Tendenz der WHO kritisieren, die chinesische Medizin als solche anzuerkennen, …

Éric Marié: Ja. Es stimmt, dass es manchmal ideologische Fragen gibt, aber nur für eine hartnäckige und aggressive Minderheit. Auf der anderen Seite gibt es eine sehr enthusiastische Minderheit! Allerdings muss man zugeben, dass sich die Mehrheit der „westlichen“ akademischen Kollegen einen Dreck darum schert. Die einzige Perspektive ist negativ: mehr Meetings, mehr Arbeit und Sorgen …

LHCH: Ihr privates Institut scheint dieses Problem zu lösen. Die bekannte Übergangsphase.

Éric Marié: Mein Institut führt das Programm der medizinischen Fakultät von Montpellier fort, indem es das gesamte Programm der chinesischen Universitäten ausweitet. Ich habe Schulungen in Form von Unterrichtseinheiten erstellt. Sie ermöglichen es den Studenten, sich einzuschreiben, wann immer sie wollen. Zum Beispiel im Rahmen einer beruflichen Weiterbildung. Jeder Student, unabhängig von seiner Situation, kann beginnen, in einer begrenzten Art und Weise zu üben, zum Beispiel, Tui-Na-Massagen, die zunächst mit begrenzten Kenntnissen erlernt wurden, und dabei die Ausbildung in Akupunktur fortsetzen … Das geht, bevor sie die Akupunktur dann praktizieren können, usw. „Ich habe Studenten, die schon seit 15-20 Jahren meine Kurse besuchen, Modul für Modul. Und dann arbeiten sie Fach für Fach auch praktisch.

LHCH: Ihr Institut hat wohl mehr Gewicht als die anderen in Frankreich.

Éric Marié: Aus rein institutioneller Sicht nicht, denn es bleibt eine Privathochschule wie jede andere. Aber auf der Ebene der intellektuellen und akademischen Anerkennung, ja. Die Qualität der chinesischen Lehrer, das Niveau ihrer staatlichen Diplome in chinesischer Medizin – all das befähigt sie in exklusiver Weise dazu, diesen „Schatz Chinas“ weiterzugeben.

LHCH: Ohne darauf zu warten, dass diese Aufwertung für alle erfolgt, wie sehen Sie die zukünftige Zusammenarbeit zwischen Schulmedizin und chinesischer Medizin?

Éric Marié: Das ist eine weitreichende Frage! Womit soll ich anfangen?

LHCH: Sagt uns zum Beispiel Covid etwas über die Grenzen unserer heutigen Medizin?

Éric Marié: Unsere Ärzte haben offiziell kaum Freiheiten bei der Verschreibung. Es gibt viele administrative Probleme und Protokolle. Ich würde eher den Krebs als Beispiel nehmen. Da Covid noch so neu ist, wäre die Diskussion noch ein wenig zu kurz gegriffen.

DIE CHINESISCHE MEDIZIN UND KREBS

Éric Marié: Meiner Meinung nach liegt die Zukunft der Beziehungen zwischen den beiden Medizinsystemen nicht in der Unterwerfung des einen durch das andere. Ist die chinesische Medizin nur Prävention und bestenfalls eine Ergänzung zur westlichen Medizin? Dann wäre es keine Zusammenarbeit. Es gibt Spezialisten, die diese Zusammenarbeit ernsthaft in Erwägung ziehen. Ich kenne Dr. Patrick Casali. Er ist ein Gynäkologe und Chirurg französischer Herkunft, der sich auf weiblichen Genitalkrebs spezialisiert hat. Er kommt seit 2017 regelmäßig nach China. Auch bei der Liga gegen Krebs werde ich angehört, trotz anfänglichem Widerstand. Es gibt Krebsspezialisten, die sehr beeindruckt sind von meinen ganzheitlichen, auf medizinischen Bildern basierenden Diagnosen und von meinen Behandlungen. Aber sie antworten in der Regel, dass sie in ihren Protokollen eingeschränkt sind: A oder B… Im besten Fall ein C. Manche Onkologen würden die Möglichkeiten gerne erweitern, gehen dann aber im Todesfall rechtliche Risiken ein, wenn sie nicht den einen oder anderen geregelten Weg gegangen sind …

LHCH: In welcher Situation sollten wir denn eingreifen?

Éric Marié: Wenn und nur wenn ein Abteilungsleiter in Absprache mit dem Patienten bereit ist, sich der chinesischen Medizin zu öffnen, ohne das Hauptprotokoll zu ändern, und mit der Unterschrift des Patienten. Dann kann ich da arbeiten. Aber oft sind die Patienten begeistert, wenn sie die chinesische Medizin als Unterstützung oder Lösung annehmen, allerdings trauen sie sich nicht, es dem Arzt zu sagen. Wenn sich ihr Zustand bessert, wird letztlich niemand wissen, dass die chinesische Medizin erfolgreich gearbeitet hat.

LHCH: Es gibt keine Sichtbarkeit in diesem Bereich?

Éric Marié: Ich habe eine 5-Jahres-Studie zu dieser zwiespältigen Position der chinesischen Medizin im Bereich der Onkologie durchgeführt. Für das nationale Krebsinstitut. Warum hat dieses Institut so viel Geld in diese Forschung gesteckt? Laut einer anderen Studie „erhielten 90 % der in der Onkologie beobachteten Personen parallel dazu eine andere Behandlung“ und „in 75 % der Fälle sagten sie es ihrem Onkologen nicht“. Was bedeutet, dass die Studien aus den letzten 30, 40 Jahren allesamt hinfällig sind. Wann wird uns das bewusst? Moleküle, die seit 1980 entwickelt wurden, basierten auf falschen Daten. Seriöse wissenschaftliche Analysen würden sie heute hinwegfegen.

LHCH: Danke, Doktor Marié. Doch es tun sich Lösungen auf. Verlassen wir uns auf die Zusammenarbeit des französischen Akademischen Rates für Chinesische Medizin mit den Politikern und die gute Weiterführung Ihrer Lehrveranstaltungen in Ihrem privaten Institut in Südfrankreich.

“Wipe Out China!” US-funded Uyghur Activists Train As Gun-toting Foot Soldiers For Empire

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“Wipe Out China!” US-funded Uyghur Activists Train As Gun-toting Foot Soldiers For Empire

Cultivated by the US government as human rights activists, Uyghur American Association leaders partner with far-right lawmakers and operate a militia-style gun club that trains with ex-US special forces.

By Ajit Singh, a lawyer and journalist. He is a contributing author to Keywords in Radical Philosophy and Education: Common Concepts for Contemporary Movements (Brill: 2019). He tweets at @ajitxsingh.

On March 21, US-government-funded Uyghur activists were caught on video disrupting a gathering against anti-Asian racism in Washington DC, barking insults at demonstrators including, “Wipe out China!” and “Fuck China!” The Uyghur caravan flew American and “East Turkestan” flags and drove vehicles adorned signs bearing slogans such as, “We Love USA,” “Boycott China,” and “CCP killed 80 million Chinese people.” 

Organized by the Uyghur American Association (UAA), the drive-by heckling of anti-racist demonstrators drew widespread condemnation on social media, including from other sections of the Uyghur separatist movement. Salih Hudayar, the self-proclaimed “Prime Minister of the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile,” slammed “the UAA’s reckless drive-by” for causing “severe backlash against Uyghurs,” and insisted that Uyghur Americans were “not racist.”

The UAA has attempted to distance itself from accusations of extremism and racism, stating that its members’ actions were misrepresented. Despite refusing to rescind their call for China to be “wiped out,” the UAA declared that it “condemns any form of bigotry and stands with all victims of racism.”

However, an investigation by The Grayzone into the Uyghur separatist movement in the Washington DC area has uncovered a jingoistic, gun-obsessed subculture driven by the kind of right-wing ideology that was on display during the March 21 car caravan through downtown.

Leading figures of the UAA operate a right-wing gun club known as Altay Defense. Proudly dressed in US military fatigues, Altay Defense drill in advanced combat techniques with former members of US special forces who also train private mercenaries and active duty US service members. Members of the militia-style gun club espouse pro-Trump politics and anti-immigrant resentment.

The UAA is the US-affiliate of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), an international network whose first president outlined an objective to precipitate the “fall of China” and establish an ethno-state in Xinjiang. The recipient of millions of dollars of funding the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a US government-sponsored entity, this network works closely with Washington and other Western governments to escalate hostilities with China.

Despite claiming to represent the interests of China’s Uyghur and Muslim minority populations, many of the UAA’s closest allies represent some of the anti-Muslim, far-right forces in Washington, from Republican Rep. Ted Yoho to the Family Research Council, as well as the FBI.

During the pandemic, the UAA and members of its affiliate organizations helped inflame anti-Asian resentment by spreading far-right propaganda referring to Covid-19 as the “Chinese virus,” and claimed that China was waging a “virus war” against the world, “[p]urposefully, intentionally export[ing] the virus to cause the pandemic.”

Behind its carefully constructed image as a peaceful human rights movement, the UAA and its offshoots in the DC-based Uyghur separatist lobby are driven by far-right ideology and envision themselves as militant foot soldiers for empire.

“I belong to America!” Uyghur human rights leader teams up with far-right, Islamophobes in anti-China crusade

The UAA’s ultra-patriotic reverence of the US and fanatical anti-China politics have been on full display under the organization’s current president, Kuzzat Altay.

Altay frequently takes to social media to make his allegiance to Washington known. 

“May GOD bless you American Veterans! May GOD bless America!” declared Altay on Veterans Day in 2019.

Shortly following the illegal US assassination of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, Altay left no doubt as to where he stands: “Looks like the war just started […] I belong to America!”

Amid the US uprisings against police brutality and systemic racism sparked by the murder of George Floyd, Altay chided Black Lives Matter protesters, saying that he “support[ed] peaceful protestors […] but do[es] not support looters, rubbers [sic] and criminals”

“Your LOVE for #America should be greater than your HATE for #Trump,” Altay pronounced.

The degree of Altay’s infatuation with the US is only matched by the ferocity of his enmity towards China. “The most normal thing that I could ever imagine is anti-China activities every freaking day,” Altay stated on July 25, 2020. “You should help us to stop China. China is ALREADY the common enemy of humanity.”

Altay is a staunch supporter of Washington’s new Cold War agenda. Applauding the Trump administration’s trade and technology war, Altay declared “[a]ll counties [sic] should treat #Huawei as war criminals.” 

Despite claiming to be the international representatives of Xinjiang’s predominantly Muslim, Uyghur ethnic group, and struggling against religious persecution, Altay and his comrades have routinely teamed up with far-right, Islamophobic forces in the US to advance their separatist campaign. 

The UAA has worked closely with Republican Rep. Ted Yoho, a homophobic, anti-abortion ultra-conservative who once told a Black constituent that he was not sure if the Civil Rights Act was constitutional. Yoho was one of only four lawmakers to vote against legislation making lynching a federal hate crime. In a high-profile dust-up on Capitol Hill, he reportedly called Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a “fucking bitch.” In 2019, Yoho was one of 24 members of Congress to vote against a resolution condemning bigotry because it included anti-Muslim discrimination.

Yoho has also ardently supported regime change in Venezuela, defended US missile strikes against Syria, and proclaimed that the “US army must defend Taiwan” against China.

In 2019, Altay spoke on a panel of US government-funded Chinese dissidents organized by the Family Research Council (FRC). The FRC has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) due to its extreme anti-LGBTQ, anti-choice, and anti-Muslim ideology.

Retired US General and undersecretary for defense under former President George W. Bush, Jerry Boykin, serves as the FRC’s vice president. Boykin is a virulent Islamophobe who believes that the religion is evil and should be outlawed, and that there should be “no mosques in America.” During a sermon at an evangelical church during the US war on Iraq, Boykin boasted of taking on a Muslim warlord in Somalia: “I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol,” he declared. Boykin’s anti-Muslim tirades grew so extreme that he was investigated by the US Department of Defense and drew a rebuke from Bush.

In recent years, Altay has organized several events for Uyghur Americans in collaboration with the FBI, the federal law enforcement agency notorious for its surveillance of Muslim Americans and ensnaring countless mentally troubled young Muslim American men in manufactured terror plots. In 2020, the UAA organized an “FBI Workshop for Uyghur Community” which aimed to teach Uyghur Americans about “the role of the FBI in protecting Uyghurs” and how “Uyghurs [can] communicate with the FBI”.

Throughout the pandemic, Altay and fellow leaders of the Uyghur separatist movement have incessantly spread right-wing conspiracy theories blaming China for Covid-19 and all related deaths. Such disinformation has played a key role in whipping up anti-Asian racism in the US and West. 

Altay’s Twitter page is an endless stream of noxious, far-right coronavirus-related propaganda.

“I support @realDonaldTrump’s decision to call it ChineseVirus,” declared Altay on March 18, 2020, defending Trump against criticism from “[p]eople whining about racism.”  Altay also routinely referred to Covid-19 as “Wuhan virus” and “CCP virus”, as have WUC leaders such as Dolkun Isa and Rushan Abbas. 

Altay promoted Steve Bannon’s claims that the “CCP unleashed [Covid-19] on the world”, and would later echo this sentiment. “China [p]urposefully, intentionally exported the virus to cause the pandemic,” Altay declared on July 5, 2020. “No war has kileed [sic] more people than China’s Virus war.”

Altay also endorsed right-wing conspiracy theories which claimed that Covid-19 was engineered as a bioweapon in a Wuhan lab and the World Health Organization was controlled by the Chinese government. 

Kuzzat Altay’s political activities are a reflection of the deeply rooted right-wing culture that pervades the Uyghur separatist movement. 

Foot soldiers for empire: Uyghur human rights activists training with US military instructors for “mission readiness”

Leading members of UAA have founded Altay Defense, which arranges for constituents in the Uyghur separatist movement to receive arms training by former US special forces soldiers and instructors. The organization boasts that “[a]ll security training [is] provided by former special force officer!”

A mission statement published by Shadow Hawk Defense outlines a goal to train “elite armed security professionals, who serve the high threat needs of the US government, military, and intelligence communities,” including “hosting and training classified security personnel.” The facility employs “trainers [who] have years of experience training contractors for the U.S. Government” with the goal of “achieving mission readiness.”

In a recent interview, Shadow Hawk’s co-founder and Director of Training, Randy Weekely, described his work in detail: “I teach military contractors before they deploy to these ‘other places’, defensive tactics, CQB [close-quarters battle], pistol, rifle, bounding, attack on vehicles, all the skills that they need […] before they deploy.”

Altay Defense receives instruction from James Lang, a former US Army Ranger who served in Afghanistan and Iraq and works as a firearm instructor for the US Department of Defense. Lang also operates Ridgeline Security Consultants, which provides firearms and tactical training to “prepare law enforcement officers [and] armed security professionals […] to survive and win deadly force confrontations.”

Leaving little to the imagination, UAA members conduct training using assault rifles while dressed in official-seeming battle dress fatigues bearing the US flag.

Altay Defense is led by Faruk Altay, brother of UAA President Kuzzat Altay and nephew of Rebiya Kadeer, who is perhaps the most prominent international figurehead of the Uyghur separatist movement.

A look at Faruk Altay’s online activity reveals him to be a far-right, anti-communist, ultra-nationalist.

“Trump is the best!!!” Altay posted to Twitter in 2018.  Altay also expressed support for Trump’s border wall and seemingly justified the “Stop the Steal” Capitol riot which took place on January 6, 2021. He has also shared an anti-immigrant meme comparing Central American migrants to the international criminal gang MS-13.

Faruk Altay flaunts his dedication to the US military, posting images on social media of himself dressed in US military fatigues, wearing a skull face mask, and holding an assault rifle, with captions reading: “I STAND WITH UYGHUR, TIBET, HONG KONG, AND FREEDOM AGAINST COMMUNISM”. 

Altay refers to himself as a “freedom fighter” taking “revenge for my father,” and refers to his children as “[m]y future West Point officers!

Far from a lone wolf, Faruk Altay has been joined by leading figures of the Uyghur separatist movement. Social media posts show UAA President Kuzzat Altay, Murat Ataman, and Bahram Sintash, among others attending Altay Defense training sessions. 

Murat Ataman is affiliated with the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)– the funding engine of the US government’s regime change apparatus – UAA offshoot Uyghur Human Rights Project. A veteran of the Uyghur separatist movement, Ataman he works for US military and intelligence contractor, General Dynamics, and has previously held positions at the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security and Department of Veteran Affairs.

Bahram Sintash is also affiliated with the NED-funded UHRP, authoring reports which allege that the Chinese government is demolishing Uyghur mosques and shrines. Sintash was a key player in lobbying efforts to urge the US Congress to pass the Uyghur Human Right Policy Act of 2019, visiting more than 380 members of Congress. 

In his spare time, Sintash keeps company with the far-right, evangelical Xinjiang researcher Adrian Zenz. During a meeting at Radio Free Asia (RFA), Sintash referred to Zenz as “the CIA agent,” and the US government-sponsored broadcasting service as “the original CIA branch of RFA’s headquarters in DC.”

While Sintash may have been sarcastic, the New York Times has described RFA in no uncertain terms as part of a “Worldwide Propaganda Network Built by the CIA.”

As prone as they might be to unalloyed expressions of right-wing jingoism, the leaders of UAA operate at the heart of a multi-million dollar lobbying complex funded and cultivated by the US government.

Uyghur separatist movement cultivated by the US government for “toppling” Beijing

Established in 1998, the Uyghur American Association (UAA) is the Washington DC-based affiliate of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), which claims to be “the sole legitimate organization of the Uyghur people” around the world. Portrayed by Western governments and media as the leading voice for Uyghur interests and human rights, the WUC has played a central role in shaping Western understanding of Xinjiang. 

As The Grayzone previously reported, the WUC is a right-wing, anti-communist, and ultra-nationalist network of exiled Uyghur separatists who have stated their intention to bring about the “fall of China” and establish an ethno-state called “East Turkestan” in Xinjiang. The WUC has developed deep ties to Washington’s regime change establishment and received extensive US government-funding and training. 

In recent years, the WUC has worked closely with US and Western governments, and partnered with fraud-prone pseudo-scholars such as Adrian Zenz to intensify their New Cold War against China, advocating for Chinese policy in Xinjiang to be labeled ‘genocide,’ along with sanctions and boycott.

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has been central to the rising international prominence of the Uyghur separatist movement. In 2020, the NED boasted that it has given Uyghur groups $8,758,300 since 2004 (including $75,000 in annual funding to the UAA) and claimed to be “the only institutional funder for Uyghur advocacy and human rights organizations.” 

“As a result of NED’s support, the Uyghur advocacy groups have grown both institutionally and professionally over the years,” said Akram Keram, a program officer and regional expert at NED. “These groups played critical roles in introducing the Uyghur cause in various international, regional, and national settings against China’s false narratives, bringing the Uyghur voice to the highest international levels, including the United Nations, European Parliament, and the White House. They provided firsthand, factual resources documenting the atrocities in East Turkistan, informing and inspiring the introduction of relevant resolutions, sanctions, and calls for action to hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable.”

“The National Endowment for Democracy has been exceptionally supportive of UAA,” echoed former UAA President, Nury Turkel, in 2006, “providing us with invaluable guidance and assistance” and “essential funding.” According to Turkel, thanks to NED support, the “UAA and UHRP have gained a new level of influence and credibility among media organizations in the U.S. and other countries.”

“In short, NED has helped us to increase our credibility in Washington and throughout the world. We are very moved by and grateful for their steadfast assistance,” stated Turkel.

Turkel confirmed that the UAA aims to leverage Washington’s support to advance regime change in China. In 2006, he told his allies, “as we witnessed the ‘Tulip Revolution’ and the toppling of the former government of Kyrgyzstan, our hopes were again reinforced.” Turkel emphasized that the US-sponsored color revolution sent a “strong message” to China, and recalled how he was immediately summoned to Bishkek to coordinate with the new government.

The NED helped the UAA launch the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) in 2004, serving as its principal source of funding, with $1,244,698 in support between 2016 and ’19 alone. The UHRP has brought together leading figures of the WUC, including Turkel and Omer Kanat, and NED, with former NED Vice President, Louisa Greve, serving as the group’s Director of Global Advocacy. 

The UAA’s leadership consists of US national security state operators including employees of the US government, US propaganda network Radio Free Asia, and the military-industrial complex. Past leaders of the organization include:

Nury Turkel, former President (2004-2006) — Co-founded the UHRP with the NED. In 2020, Turkel was appointed a commissioner on the US Commission on International Religious Freedom by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. 

Rebiya Kadeer, former President (2006-2011) — A self-described oligarch and longtime figurehead of the Uyghur separatist movement. According to The New York Times, Kadeer’s “[d]issidence brought the end of her Audi, her three villas and her far-flung business empire”. Kadeer’s husband, Sidik Rouzi, worked for US government media outlets Voice of America and Radio Free Asia. Under Kadeer’s leadership, the WUC and UAA forged close ties with the Bush administration.

Ilshat Hassan Kokbore, former President (2016-2019) — Since 2008, Kokbore has worked with notorious private US military and intelligence contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton. Edward Snowden was employed at the firm when he decided to blow the whistle on the National Security Agency’s invasive, all-encompassing system of mass surveillance.

Omer Kanat, former Vice President – Serves as the WUC’s Chairman of the Executive Committee. Kanat helped found the WUC and has been a permanent fixture in its executive leadership. The veteran operative has a lengthy history of work with the US government, from serving as senior editor of Radio Free Asia’s Uyghur Service from 1999 to 2009 to covering the US wars on Iraq and Afghanistan and interviewing the Dalai Lama for the network. In an interview with Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal at a 2018 NED awards ceremony in the US Capitol building, Kanat took credit for furnishing many of the claims about internment camps in Xinjiang to Western media.

Rushan Abbas, former Vice President — Previously boasted in her bio of her “extensive experience working with US government agencies, including Homeland Security, Department of Defense, Department of State, and various US intelligence agencies.” Served the US government and Bush administration’s so-called war on terror as a “consultant at Guantanamo Bay supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.” Following a disastrous publicity appearance on Reddit’s “Ask Me Anything” question and answer forum, during which participants blasted Abbas as a “CIA Asset” and US government collaborator, she has attempted to scrub her biographic information from the internet. Abbas currently heads the WUC affiliate organization, Campaign for Uyghurs.

The UAA current leadership includes:

Kuzzat Altay, President — Nephew of Rebiya Kadeer. As documented above, Altay is a rabid anti-communist and ardently pro-US. He has favorably compared the establishment of Israel to the separatist movement for “East Turkestan.”

Elfidar Itebir, Secretary — Sister of Elnigar Itebir, who was appointed by the Trump administration as Director for China in the White House National Security Council. Itebir’s father, Ablikim Baqi Iltebir, worked for the US government media outlet, Radio Free Asia, from February 2000 to August 2017

Arslan Khakiyev, Treasurer  — Previously worked at Radio Free Asia for over 18 years. Khahkiyev’s wife, Gulchehra Hoja, has worked for Radio Free Asia since 2001.

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The weekly deluge of US media reports of Uyghur oppression in Xinjiang is clearly designed to appeal to liberal sensibilities, presenting the struggle of an oppressed minority against a tyrannical government, and omitting any pieces of context that might prove disruptive to the David-versus-Goliath narrative. But it is becoming clear that some profoundly illiberal forces lie behind the veneer of a peaceful campaign for human rights. 

The US government has engaged in a marriage of convenience with a Uyghur separatist movement that is firmly aligned the gun-obsessed, anti-immigrant subculture of Trumpism. As the Biden administration turns up the heat on China, it has turned a blind eye to the far-right politics of one of its most important proxy groups. 

The UAA did not respond to multiple requests for interviews from The Grayzone sent by email and on Twitter.

(Source: china-uyghur-gun-soldiers-empire – TheGrayZone)

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