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No, the UN did not report China has ‘massive internment camps’ for Uighur Muslims</h1>
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Media outlets falsely claimed the UN reported China is holding a million Uighurs in camps. The claim is based on unsourced allegations by an American commission member, US-funded outfits, and a shadowy government-funded opposition group.</h4>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;" class="">By <a href="https://grayzoneproject.com/author/ben-norton/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">Ben Norton</a> and <a href="https://grayzoneproject.com/author/ajit-singh/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">Ajit
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Numerous major media outlets, from Reuters to The Intercept, have claimed that the United Nations has reports that the Chinese government is holding as many as 1 million Uighur Muslims in “internment camps.” But
a close examination of these news stories, and of the evidence behind them — or the lack thereof — demonstrates that the extraordinary claim is simply not true.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">A spokesperson from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) confirmed in a statement to The Grayzone that the allegation of Chinese “camps” was not made by the United Nations, but rather
by a member of an independent committee that does not speak for the UN as a whole. That member happened to be the only American on the committee, and one with no background of scholarship or research on China.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Moreover, this accusation is based on the thinly sourced reports of a Chinese opposition group that receives funding from foreign governments and is closely tied to exiled pro-US activists. There have been numerous
reports of discrimination against Uighur Muslims in China. However, information about camps containing 1 million prisoners has originated almost exclusively from media outlets and organizations funded and weaponized by the American government to turn up the
heat on Beijing.</span></p>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;" class="">A blatant falsehood introduced by Reuters and echoed across mainstream media</strong></h3>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">On August 10, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination conducted its regular review of China’s compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
The review, which is conducted periodically for all 179 parties to the Convention, has generated a frenzied response by the Western corporate press — one which is uniformly misleading.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">On the day of the review, </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-un/u-n-says-it-has-credible-reports-that-china-holds-million-uighurs-in-secret-camps-idUSKBN1KV1SU" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">Reuters</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""> published
a report with an explosive headline: “U.N. says it has credible reports that China holds million Uighurs in secret camps.”</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">The claim was feverishly reproduced by outlets such as The New York Times and The Washington Post to denounce China and call for international action. Even <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/08/13/china-muslims-uighur-detention/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">The
Intercept</a>’s Mehdi Hasan belted out the breathless headline, “One Million Muslim Uighurs Have Been Detained by China, the U.N. Says. Where’s the Global Outrage?”</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">The impression readers were given was that the UN had conducted an investigation and had formally and collectively made such charges against China. In fact, the UN had done no such thing.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">The headline of Reuters’ report attributed its explosive claim to the UN; yet the body of the article ascribed it simply to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. And this committee’s official
website makes it clear that it is “a body of </span><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/cerd/pages/cerdindex.aspx" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">independent</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""> experts,”
not UN officials.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">What’s more, a look at the </span><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=23452&LangID=E" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">OHCHR’s
official news release</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""> on the committee’s presentation of the report showed that the only mention of alleged re-education “camps” in China was made by its sole American member, Gay McDougall. This claim was
then echoed by a Mauritanian member, Yemhelhe Mint Mohamed.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">During the committee’s regular review of China, McDougall commented that she was “deeply concerned” about “credible reports” alleging mass detentions of millions of Uighurs Muslim minorities in “internment camps.”
The <a href="https://apnews.com/35ab4fdc95a64a849e8d9a960bab50df" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">Associated Press</a> reported that McDougall “did not specify a source for that
information in her remarks at the hearing.” (Note that the headline of the AP news wire is much weaker than that of Reuters: “UN panel concerned at reported Chinese detention of Uighurs.”)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Video of the session confirms that McDougall provided no sourcing to back up her remarkable claim.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">This is to say, one American member of an independent UN body made a provocative claim that China was interning 1 million Muslims, but failed to provide a single named source. And Reuters and the Western corporate
media ran with it anyway, attributing the unsubstantiated allegations of one US individual to the UN as a whole.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">In an email to The Grayzone, OHCHR spokesperson Julia Gronnevet confirmed that the CERD was not representative of the UN as a whole. “You are correct that the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
is an independent body,” Gronnevet wrote. “Quoted comments were made during public sessions of the Committee when members were reviewing State parties.”</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Thus the OHCHR implicitly acknowledged that the comments by McDougall, the lone American member of an independent committee, were not representative of any finding by the UN as a whole. The report by Reuters is
simply false.</span></p>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;" class="">‘Credible reports’ from a government-funded opposition group with zero transparency</b></h3>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">In addition to this irresponsible misreporting, Reuters and other Western outlets have attempted to fill in the gaps left by McDougall, referring to reports made by so-called “activist group” the Network of Chinese
Human Rights Defenders (CHRD). Conveniently left out of the story is that this organization is headquartered in Washington, DC. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">CHRD, which receives hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from unnamed governments, advocates full-time against the Chinese government and has spent years campaigning on behalf of extreme right-wing opposition
figures.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">CHRD is not at all transparent about its funding or personnel. Its </span><a href="https://www.nchrd.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/CHRD-2017-Annual-Report-of-Situation-of-HRDs-in-China_Feb-2018.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">annual</a><a href="https://www.nchrd.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/They-Target-My-Human-Rights-Work-As-a-Crime-CHRD-Report-on-the-Situation-of-Chinese-Human-Rights-Defenders-2016.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class=""> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">reports</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""> contain
notes stating, “This report has been produced with the financial support of generous donors.” But the donors are never named.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Publicly available 990 IRS filing forms reviewed by The Grayzone show that the organization is substantially funded by government grants. In fact, in 2015 virtually all of the organization’s revenue came from government
grants.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">CHRD’s </span><a href="https://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2015/260/523/2015-260523708-0cd17926-9.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">2015
form 990</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""> discloses that $819,553 of its $820,023 revenue that year (99.94 percent) came from government grants. A measly $395 came from investments, with another $75 from other sources.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">According to its </span><a href="https://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2016/260/523/2016-260523708-0e4e77e4-9.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">2016
form 990</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">, CHRD received $859,091 in government grants in that year.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Which government provided these grants is not clear. The Grayzone did not receive a response to several emailed interview requests sent to the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">However, it appears likely that CHRD could be receiving funding from the US government-backed National Endowment for Democracy (NED).</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">A search of the </span><a href="http://www.ned.org/wp-content/themes/ned/search/grant-search.php?organizationName=®ion=&projectCountry=&amount=&fromDate=&toDate=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&search=Chinese+human+rights+defenders&maxCount=25&orderBy=Year&start=1&sbmt=1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">NED’s
grants database</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""> shows funding from 2014 and 2015 totaling approximately half a million dollars to “support the work of Chinese human rights defenders.” It is not clear if this is a reference to the organization
specifically, but the description accompanying the grants matches that of CHRD.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">CHRD has used its generous funding to provide </span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080905170443/http://crd-net.org/xx/index5.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">grants</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""> to
opposition activists inside China, bankrolling dozens upon dozens of </span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080905172636/http://crd-net.org/xx/index7.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">projects
in the country</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">On its tax forms, CHRD lists its </span><a href="https://www.hrw.org/contact-us#Washington" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">address</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""> as
the Washington, DC office of </span><a href="https://www.alternet.org/world/nobel-peace-laureates-slam-human-rights-watchs-refusal-cut-ties-us-government" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">Human
Rights Watch</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">. HRW has long been </span><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2014/6/11/debate_is_human_rights_watch_too" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">criticized</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""> for
its </span><a href="https://www.alternet.org/world/nobel-peace-laureates-human-rights-watch-close-your-revolving-door-us-government" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">revolving door
with the US government</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""> and its excessively <a href="https://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/human-rights-watch-honduras-venezuela-kenneth-roth" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">disproportionate
focus</a> on designated enemies of Washington like China, </span><a href="http://www.coha.org/taking-human-rights-watch-to-task/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">Venezuela</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Syria,
and Russia.</span></p>
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Human Rights Watch did not respond to an email from The Grayzone inquiring about its relationship with CHRD.</p>
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A who’s who of right-wing opposition activists</h3>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders’ forms 990 also reveal that the board of the organization is a Who’s Who of exiled Chinese anti-government activists.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">The chair of the group is the US-based activist </span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304070304577393643330521080" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">Su
Xiaokang</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">, who proclaimed that the Chinese public supposedly “wants the U.S. to watch over activists, and is disappointed when Washington fails.” Fellow US-based dissident </span><a href="https://twitter.com/tengbiao" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">Teng
Biao</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""> is a CHRD director who has sarcastically boasted of how the Chinese communist party dubbed him a “</span><a href="http://www.chinafile.com/confessions-reactionary" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">reactionary</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">.”</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">CHRD’s secretary is the American academic Perry Link, who has </span><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/4f970144-e658-11e3-9a20-00144feabdc0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">built</a><a href="https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/worldwise/the-long-shadow-of-chinese-blacklists-on-american-academe/33359" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class=""> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">his</span></a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/opinion/blacklisting-scholars.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class=""> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">public</span></a><a href="http://www.initiativesforchina.org/?p=1206" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class=""> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">reputation</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""> on
winding up on the Chinese government’s academic “</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv4F4cqMvSk" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">blacklist</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">.”
Link testified for the US </span><a href="https://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA16/20141204/102778/HHRG-113-FA16-Wstate-LinkP-20141204.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">House
Committee on Foreign Affairs</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""> in 2014, claiming that the Chinese government is threatening academic freedom in the US.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">In his congressional testimony, CHRD secretary Link insisted the US government should crack down on the Chinese government’s Confucius Institute organization and instead fund its own pro-US Chinese-language programs.
Link characterized Chinese-language programs as a potential American weapon against the Chinese communist party, arguing they could “very arguably do more to blunt the CPC’s advance than the [B-2 Spirit Bomber] airplane could.”</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">These are some of the pro-US, anti-Chinese government figures who lead the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Otherwise, there is very little publicly available information about CHRD. It appears to largely be the brainchild of its international director, Renee Xia, an opposition activist who has publicly called for the
US government to impose </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ReneeXiaCHRD/status/994922358870855680" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">sanctions</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""> on
Chinese officials under the Magnitsky Act.</span></p>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;" class="">Support for a ‘non violence advocate’ who loves America’s wars</b></h3>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders’ founder, Xia, was a </span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=liu%20xiaobo%20from%3AReneeXiaCHRD&src=typd" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">strong
supporter</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""> of the imprisoned hard-right neoconservative Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, and she campaigned years for his release.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">An archived version of the group’s website shows that as far back as </span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20110721182653/http://chrdnet.org/2010/12/10/free-liu-xiaobo-now-an-open-letter/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">2010</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">,
CHRD was vociferously advocating on behalf of Liu, while likening the Chinese government to Nazi Germany.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">While Liu Xiaobo became a cause celebre of the Western liberal intelligensia, he was a </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/dec/15/nobel-winner-liu-xiaobo-chinese-dissident" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">staunch
supporter of colonialism</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">, a fan of the most blood-soaked US military campaigns, and a hardcore libertarian.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">As writers Barry Sautman and Yan Hairong reported in The Guardian in 2010, Liu led numerous US government-funded right-wing organizations that advocated mass privatization and the Westernization of China. He also
expressed openly racist views against the Chinese. “To choose Westernisation is to choose to be human,” Liu insisted, lamenting that traditional Chinese culture had made its population “wimpy, spineless, and fucked up.”</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">While CHRD described Liu as an “advocate of non-violence,” he practically worshiped President George W. Bush and strongly supported the illegal US-led invasion of Iraq, as well as the war in Afghanistan. “Non-violence
advocate” Liu was even a fan of America’s wars in Korea and Vietnam, which</span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-do-we-ignore-the-civilians-killed-in-american-wars/2011/12/05/gIQALCO4eP_story.html?noredirect=on" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class=""> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">killed
millions of civilians</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">CHRD’s </span><a href="https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CERD/Shared%20Documents/CHN/INT_CERD_NGO_CHN_31915_E.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">most
recent China report</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""> — the one cited by Reuters and other outlets to give credence to the allegations of Uyghur re-education camps — further highlights the organization’s links to Washington and compromised
impartiality.</span></p>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;" class="">Most sources on the Uighur ‘camps’ story are US government-linked<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">A look at the sourcing of the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders’ research raises many doubts about its legitimacy. For one, the most-cited source in the CHRD report, accounting for more than one-fifth of
the 101 references, is Radio Free Asia, a news agency created by the CIA during the Cold War pump out anti-China propaganda, and still today funded by the US government.</span></p>
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Even The New York Times has referred to Radio Free Asia as a “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/worldwide-propaganda-network-built-by-the-cia-a-worldwide-network.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">Worldwide
Propaganda Network Built by the CIA</a>.” <span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Along with Voice of America, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Radio y Televisión Martí, and Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Radio Free Asia (RFA) is operated by the
Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a federal agency of the US government under the supervision of the State Department. </span><a href="https://www.bbg.gov/who-we-are/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">Describing
its work</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""> as “vital to U.S. national interests,” BBG’s </span><a href="https://www.bbg.gov/who-we-are/oversight/legislation/standards-principles/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">primary
broadcasting standard</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""> is to be “consistent with the broad foreign policy objectives of the United States.”</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">The near-total reliance on Washington-linked sources is characteristic of Western reporting on Uighurs Muslims in China, and on the country in general, which regularly features sensational headlines and allegations.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">In addition to CHRD and RFA, it is common for news reports to cite the </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/02/asia/china-xinjiang-detention-camps-intl/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">World
Uighur Congress</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">, an organization </span><a href="http://www.ned.org/wp-content/themes/ned/search/grant-search.php?organizationName=world+uyghur+Congress®ion=&projectCountry=&amount=&fromDate=&toDate=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&search=&maxCount=25&orderBy=Year&start=1&sbmt=1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">funded
by the NED</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">. At a recent NED event, The Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal interviewed <a href="https://thegrayzone.com/2018/08/20/inside-americas-meddling-machine-the-us-funded-group-that-interferes-in-elections-around-the-globe/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">World
Uighur Congress chairman Omer Kanat</a>, who took credit for furnishing many of the claims of internment camps to Western media.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Another favorite congressional and mainstream media source for information about China is the </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chinas-repugnant-campaign-to-destroy-a-minority-people/2018/05/20/9fe061b4-5ac0-11e8-b656-a5f8c2a9295d_story.html?utm_term=.ea5ccee52d3f" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">Jamestown
Foundation</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">, a neoconservative think tank founded during the height of the Cold War by Reagan administration personnel with the support of then-CIA Director William J. Casey. Former Jamestown board members
include Dick Cheney and Zbigniew Brzezinski.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">The latest incident of misreporting by Reuters is part of a trend of increasingly hostile, Cold War-like coverage of China by the Western press — one that coincides with Washington’s push for conflict with Beijing.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">In a series of policy statements, the Trump administration has repeatedly identified the “threat” posed by “economic and military ascendance” of China, with Defense Secretary James Mattis declaring that “<a href="https://therealnews.com/stories/trump-admin-says-china-and-russia-are-top-us-national-security-threats-not-terrorism" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(215, 18, 31); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">Great
Power competition</a>, not terrorism, is now the primary focus of U.S. national security.”</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Growing anxious about its diminishing global dominance, the United States seeks to forestall the rise of of an alternative node of international power. A longstanding component of US imperialism is the use of ostensibly
impartial “civil society groups” and “think tanks” to promote narratives in the media supportive of US foreign policy goals. Often under the guise of “humanitarian concern,” such stories aim to stir up public outrage and weaponize it to advance imperial ambitions.</span></p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">This time-tested program is at the heart of the intensifying campaign against China, and as the latest raft of bogus stories demonstrated, the corporate media is eager to play along.</span></p>
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