1103 Left Denial of Uighur Genocide is like Left's Denial of Ukraine Famine in the 1930s

Left Denial of Uighur Genocide is like Left's Denial of Ukraine Famine
in the 1930s

Newsletter published on January 3, 2020

This material is at at http://mailstar.net/genocide-uighur-tibet.html.

(1) Left deniers of Uighur genocide are like those who denied Ukraine Famine
(2) China trained and armed Afghan Mujahidin, in Xinjiang, against
Soviet Union in the 1980s
(3) Trains records which recorded all passengers in, but none out
(4) Two people left my mailing list over the Uighur issue, and I am
barred from posting about it at Shamireaders
(5) Shaw was red as a beet. Soviet Ambassador Maisky was one of his best
friends
(6) You will probably be proven right by history, just like the
anti-Stalinists were.
(7) China is a National Socialist society with ethnic-based supremacism
and concentration camps
(8) Those struggling against Empires
(9) How can you say that "Nazi Germany was expansionist"?
(10) Eric Walberg: the world has to stand up now. This is Munich 1938.
(11) Was Mao separate from the Anglo? Or are these empires just heads of
the same Anglo-hydra?
(12) Larouche & Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) writers deny the
Genocides in Tibet & Xinjiang
(13) China bulldozed the Old City of Kashgar - a priceless heritage of
the old Silk Road culture - to better control the Uighurs
(14) In destroying Kashgar, China aimed to push the Uighurs out of the
alley ways and corners - Foreign Correspondent, ABC TV, Australia

(1) Left deniers of Uighur genocide are like those who denied Ukraine Famine
- by Peter Myers, January 2, 2020

Left deniers of the Uighur genocide are like those who denied the
Ukraine Famine in the 1930s

I am reminded of George Bernard Shaw, and Sidney & Beatrice Webb, who
put out their book Soviet Russia: A New Civilization during the 1930s,
shutting their eyes to the cost of the Collectivization program.

They thought that Communism was better than the Great Depression in the
West. So they turned a blind eye to reports of starvation. Six Million
died, but the Leftist media in the West turned away.

Similarly, today's Western Communists think that China is better than
the Austerity and Imperialism of the West.

They turn a blind eye to China's destruction of Kashgar, and genocide of
the Uighurs and Tibetans.

Yet the same Leftists publicize Israel's merciless persecution of the
Palestinians.

Yes, some Uighurs have embraced Islamic terrorism. But when Russia faced
a Chechen uprising, it was able to put it down without genocide.

Anyway, China itself caused the problem. After the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan in late December 1979, China purchased weapons from the USA
and allowed the installation of two CIA tracking stations in Xinjiang,
to monitor Soviet nuclear tests.

China participated in the Afghan war against the Soviet Union. It
trained Mujahidin fighters in camps near Kashgar and Khotan, in
Xinjiang, and provided them with weapons.

That's how Uighur militants became radicalized. China brought the
problem upon itself. But to solve it, it should follow Putin's methods
in dealing with the Chechens - not genocide.

China's forced marriage of Uighar women to Han men, after imprisoning
the Uighur men, is barbaric. Not in keeping with Confucian morality or
the Taoist ethic.

One can only conclude that the Cultural Revolution destroyed China's
civilization.

China's system now is National Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.

Sure, they pulled a lot of people out of poverty. So did Hitler.

And just like Nazi Germany, today's China is expansionist.

I'm no defender of the Anglo-Zionist Empire. But China is a rising
empire too. We should oppose BOTH.

(2) China trained and armed Afghan Mujahidin, in Xinjiang, against
Soviet Union in the 1980s

Note (Peter M.): That's how the Uighurs became radicalized with Islamic
fundamentalism; China brought it on itself.
The Great Wall of Steel: Military and Strategy in Xinjiang
by Yitzhak Shichor
in Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland
ed. S. Frederick Starr
Routledge, 2004
{p. 157}  The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in late December 1979
increased Beijing’s threat perception and overnight created a new front
in Xinjiang.

It was this threat (and the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia) that
brought China and the United States more closely together than ever. By
1980, Washington had begun to supply China with a variety of weapons,
and an agreement was reached on the establishment of two joint tracking
and listening installations in Xinjiang. Xinjiang had become a base for
Chinese operations against the Soviets in Afghanistan as soon as they
arrived. PLA personnel
{p. 158} provided training, arms, organization, financial support, and
military advisers to the Mujahidin resistance throughout nearly the
entire Soviet military presence in Afghanistan—with the active
assistance and cooperation of the CIA. Until the mid-1980s, most of
China’s training centers for the Afghan rebels were located in Peshawar
and along the Pakistani border. Since then, China trained several
thousand Mujahidin in camps near Kashgar and Khotan inside Xinjiang and
provided them with machine guns, rocket launchers, and surface-to-air
missiles valued at an estimated $200 million to $400 million.120
The Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989 and the emergence of the
Islamic State of Afghanistan in April 1992 led to the normalization of
Sino-Afghan relations. Yet, the factional fighting, the intensification
of the civil war, and, eventually, the consolidation of the Taliban in
1996 brought new problems that directly affected the internal security
of Xinjiang.121 Reportedly, Uyghur militants had been trained by, and
fought with, the Afghan Mujahidin since 1986, and Chinese officials say
that the arms and explosives used against the Chinese in Xinjiang
originated in Afghanistan. Funds for the Muslim resistance to Chinese
rule in Xinjiang came from smuggled Afghan heroin. Although Taliban
officials assured China that they did not harbor Uyghur fugitives, there
is solid evidence about Uyghurs who were recruited by the Taliban while
studying at the Dar ul-Ulum Sharia in Kabul and at Kabul University and
who joined the fighting in the north. Contrary to the Taliban claims
that it lacked outside support, 100 (some say 600) Uyghurs were
reportedly helping Taliban Islamic guerrillas in Afghanistan. Tahir
Yuldashev, the leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, who had
fled in early 1999 to Afghanistan, is said to have been training several
hundred Muslim militants from Central Asia, including an unknown number
of Uyghurs from Xinjiang.122
To cope with this problem, Beijing’s best and only option was dialogue,
rather than the use of force. Suspended in February 1993, relations with
Kabul resumed in early 2000 when a Chinese embassy reopened there. In
return, the Taliban handed to China thirteen Uyghur rebels who had
earlier been given "political asylum" in Afghanistan.

(3) Trains records which recorded all passengers in, but none out

From: Thomas Seidler <tom@seidler.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Left deniers of Uighur genocide are like those who denied
Ukraine Famine

You just keep writing what you want Peter. People take the rough with
the smooth or unsubscribe and get over it! It’s easy enough to not read
anything if I don’t want to, but being kept broadly aware (even if only
at headline level) of many potential current issues is useful.

Btw my dad says (Chris Seidler antiques dealer and historian with a
special interest in Nazi Germany though a very wide general historical
knowledge) that the holocaust deniers are not worth publishing as their
central arguments have long been removed by the trains records which
recorded all passengers in, but none out, so the numbers scale is pretty
conclusive as far as he was concerned. His father was a US officer at
release of Mauthausen if I recall correctly.

I’m sure he’d be up for a private dialogue the matter if you wished, you
may know counter arguments, of course which would benefit him, though
I’m pretty sure he has read both sides already.

I only raise this last point as you're publishing such deniers, if they
lack academic/rational credibility in the light of the full evidence,
then they are not worth treating with any weight?

(4) Two people left my mailing list over the Uighur issue, and I am
barred from posting about it at Shamireaders

From: Priscilla Seidler <priscilla@seidler.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Left deniers of Uighur genocide are like those who denied
Ukraine Famine
To: peter@mailstar.net

Completely agree, Peter.
Priscilla

REPLY: Thanks Priscilla.

This turns out to be a hot issue. Two people left my mailing list over
it, and i am barred from posting about it at Shamireaders.

Israel Shamir posted,

"I do definitely deny the Ukr Holodomor and Uygur and Tibet etc, and
many other genocides."

What an eye-opener for me.

I have also come to realise that the Larouche (EIR) people are deniers
of China's genocides in Tibet & Xinjiang.

This includes William Engdahl and Webster Tarpley.

Peter

(5) Shaw was red as a beet. Soviet Ambassador Maisky was one of his best
friends

From: bronek <bronekc@me.com>
Subject: Reply: Left deniers of Uighur genocide are like those who denied
  Ukraine Famine

Hi Peter,

Good post. As for Shaw he was red as a beet. Soviet Ambassador Maisky
was one of his best friends. As a kid I consumed a lot about him. If you
ever get a chance read some of the books by Prof. Steven Kotkin on
Stalin and WWII. I read just about all of Prof. Richard Evans work on
WWII, Kotkin is better.

Peter, we enjoyed your info on Soros. My take about Western Civilization
is that we have gone from kings, to parliaments/senates to a few
corporatists running much of the show. Congress is a compete farce in
the pockets of the big boys…

Oh, why have you given up on Shamireaders? Is it cuz of some
"us-against-them" zyds are amongst the group? I have found that the
"us-against-them" transnational networking kook crowd sends out viruses
if they think you might question some of their "special" status. A large
percentage are indeed psychologically impaired. Sad, to say the least.
As individuals there certainly are some good ones. An academic Z
acquaintance of mine used to reiterate, "I keep away from them…" It’s
amazing that your defense of the Pals hasn’t had those fruitcakes gang
up on you.

Have a great year/ bruno

(6) You will probably be proven right by history, just like the
anti-Stalinists were.

From: Kevin Barrett <kevin@heresycentral.net>
Subject: Re: Left deniers of Uighur genocide are like those who denied
Ukraine
  Famine

You will probably be proven right by history, just like the
anti-Stalinists were.

(7) China is a National Socialist society with ethnic-based supremacism
and concentration camps
From: Danil Kornishev <danil.kornishev@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Left deniers of Uighur genocide are like those who denied
Ukraine Famine
To: Peter Myers <peter@mailstar.net>

Hello mr. Myers, couple of issues here.

First of all, there is no mythical unified "Stalinists".  Left (even
traditional "normal" non-LGBT left) is as bitterly divided as ever.
Many of us have been screaming for a long time that China is very
obviously a National Socialist society, complete with ethnic-based
supremacism and concentration camps.
It is also a country that has been, and continues to ruthlessly exploit
its own working class in near labor-camp conditions.  Obviously no
"dictatorship of proletariat" there, not even a hint of that.

This topic is voluminous and too complex to receive fair treatment in
email, but suffice it to say that supposed "right", while being publicly
critical of china, has gone to great length to support it in the form of
productive capacity and technology transfers.

Now on topic of "Ukraine Famine".  Phrasing it as "Ukraine Famine" is a
manipulative and politicized exercise (like Katyn massacre).
1932 famine occurred across multiple parts of USSR and in general,
famines in Russia, sadly, wasn't anything out of ordinary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts_and_famines_in_Russia_and_the_Soviet_Union

And again, this topic is so complex and voluminous that reducing it to
"genocide of Ukrainians" is nothing but repeating manipulative slogans.

Regards,
and Happy New Year!
Danil

REPLY: Danil,

I don't call it a "genocide of Ukrainians"; that's a politicization
formulated for the current clash between Ukraine and Russia. And yes, it
occurred in other areas too.

It wasn't just an ordinary famine, but a politically induced one.
Admittedly, the peasants played a contributory role, because at the
start they killed farm animals rather than hand them over to the state
without recompense.

Similarly in Xinjiang, the Uighurs contributed their own plight by
staging terrorist acts. But when Russia faced a Chechen uprising, it was
able to put it down without genocide.

Anyway, China itself caused the problem. After the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan in late December 1979, China purchased weapons from the USA
and allowed the installation of two CIA tracking stations in Xinjiang,
to monitor Soviet nuclear tests.

China participated in the Afghan war against the Soviet Union. It
trained Mujahidin fighters in camps near Kashgar and Khotan, in
Xinjiang, and provided them with weapons.

That's how Uighur militants became radicalized. China brought the
problem upon itself. But to solve it, it should follow Putin's methods
in dealing with the Chechens - not genocide.

The famine in the Ukraine and other fertile areas occurred because the
peasants, having been given the land taken from the landlords, resisted
having it taken from them once again. Lenin tricked them, with his
slogan "workers and peasants", when, all along, the Communists saw the
peasants as an enemy to be overcome, because they were self-sufficient
small entrepreneurs. The Anarchists and SRs were pro-peasant.

Trotsky's call for collectivization & industrialization forced Stalin's
hand. Up to that point Stalin had sided with the Bukharin Right; he
changed policies to steal Trotsky's thunder, deprive him of a case which
might help him gain support in the Party - he still hoped to unseat Stalin.

But Stalin's brutality in the Collectivization later cost him his
marriage. Nadezhda found out about the Ukraine famine, and confronted
him about it; they had a terrible fight. She was dead soon after - some
say Stalin killed her in the heat of the argument, others that it was
suicide. The loss made Stalin harder than ever.

Peter

(8) Those struggling against Empires

From: mike robeson <mikerobeson1@yahoo.com>
To: shamireaders+owner@groups.io
Cc: "peter@mailstar.net" <peter@mailstar.net>
Subject: Re: [shamireaders] Critics of China and Russia / Team Players?

Dear Israel,
You nailed it on the head - 'Trivial truths' -

Be a team player.
Don't shit in your neighborhood.
What would your  parents say?

Don't criticize the lesser of two evils.
Don't rock the boat you're sailing with..
And above all, If they're not 100 percent with you, they're against you.

Call it whatever - Stalinism, Talmudism, Clericalism,  bottom line is
this - It's much easier to go along and get along with any Empire where
the 'trivial truths' above are standard operating procedure.

But those struggling against Empires and who already feel alone and in
need of some small protection will eventually become what they are
struggling against by accepting them.

Best regards,
Michael Robeson

(9) How can you say that "Nazi Germany was expansionist"?

From: "fja0527@bellsouth.net" <fritza2tt@yahoo.de>
Subject: Re: Left deniers of Uighur genocide are like those who denied
  Ukraine Famine

Peter,

how can you say that "Nazi Germany was expansionist"? You are familiar
with Benjamin H. Freedman's speech in 1964, aren't you? These two World
Wars began as a European civil war that no one wanted except for the
deep state globalists. The first one set the stage for the second one
and both should be considered as one 30 year long war in Europe. It only
looks like Hitler was expansionist, he was not. He acted purely defensively.

You have to remember how it was before 1918. Were we lived had been
Austria for 145 years. Austria had shown that multiple European
nationalities were able to live together in harmony. In our particular
area, where my father was born, Poles, Ukrainians, Germans and Jews had
no problem living next to each other. All this was changed in 1918.
Where my mother was born became part of Rumania and where dad was born
became part of Poland and now is Ukraine.

To get back to Hitler, all he did was recover ancient German lands. In
order not to upset the Poles, all he wanted was a corridor to connect to
connect with East Prussia. But the "deep state", the same who objected
to the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings and now is doing everything it
can to impeach President Trump, encouraged the Poles that in a war they
would be able to expand further West into Germany and conquer Berlin.

It was France and England who declared war on Germany, a war Hitler
never wanted! Stalin saw this as his opportunity to bring the rest of
Western Europe under his umbrella and massed his war machine ready to
strike along his western boarder. Hitler thought the Western allies
would have more sense than to make it difficult for him once he was
occupied with Uncle Joe. He did not realize that Communism was in bed
with the people of the "Deep State" etc. :-(

Fritz

(10) Eric Walberg: the world has to stand up now. This is Munich 1938.

From: Eric Walberg <efgh1951@yahoo.com>
To: israel shamir <israel.shamir@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Myers <peter@mailstar.net>
Subject: Re: [shamireaders] After imprisoning Uighur men, China is offering
  money, housing & jobs to Han men to marry Uighur women

hi israel

thanks for your caution. yes, stories for years. the problem goes back
to china's retaking of east turkestan 1949, same as tibet.
first of all, canada is a home to uighurs (and tibetans and lots of
falun gong). i know uighurs. it is not just china.
secondly, all muslims have a duty to stand for persecuted muslims.

erdogan can't use this to his advantage in HIS new ottoman world order,
but istanbul is home to the 200,000+ uighurs, the largest emigre
community. they now fear deportation to certain death/ enslavement.

eredogan's pussy-footing with big brother china is no argument in favour
of ignoring them. all other muslim nations have denounced china on this.
we are wrong to blindly support the anti-imperialists. we lose all
credibility.

china's new world order is looking creepier all the time. peter's right:
it's a replay of the 1930s now, the anti-imperialists blindly supporting
the 'good guys' soviet union, even when stalin ordered the german
communists to stand down, letting hitler take over, etc. we can support
china/ russia but also criticize. neither is a paradise.

 > natives of North America were exterminated.

of course assimilation is fine, but what china is doing is precisely
what we did to our natives. destroying their way of life, their beliefs,
pumping them full of whiskey, stealing their women, enslaving/ killing
their men.

in the past year, china is changing, into high gear to wipe out the
entire culture. this isn't the same old same old.
i guess tibet was first, as it is higher profile and had to be nipped in
the bud. but buddhists are more easily cowed, and the western glitterati
are big on buddhism, so china's playing nice there.

but islam is fair game. and it's not only uighurs. chinese wei muslims
are totally peaceful/ integrated, not isis, and their mosques too are
being destroyed and qurans confiscated, destroyed, soon to be replaced
by 'little red books'.
there will be a new communist party approved quran. ha, ha. what muslim
will buy into that?
it's not a feel-good assimilation.

i'm reading rybakov's 'heavy sand'. what a great bildungsroman of the
soviet era. fascinating to see how he dealt with the 1937 nightmare show
trials. trenchant on the nazi treatment of jews-slavs. when i saw your
dismissal of the uighurs, it hit a raw nerve. here's rybakov:

Wwii -never thought it would be far worse for those who remained behind.
At least at front died as soldiers.

Hitlerites programme of the destruction of entire peoples. If i send the
flower of the german nation into the thick of war, then without doubt i
have the right to destroy millions of people of inferior race.

First victim paralysed yankel on porch. 2nd 80 yr old great uncle khaim.
Slave labour died after 2-3 months. Perfect as soon electric saws and
can kill off remaining jews. All who cooperated exterminated, good and
bad, but we judge people  by the way they lived, not died. Death can
atone for much when purposeful act.

china creates more terrorist actions by trying to erase the uighurs.
they are muslim. i am muslim and i know how muslims think. you can't
force them/me to convert/ drop allah. islam is against force in religion
(which is why it's still growing fast, despite the horrors muslims live
under).

rybakov's ghetto uprising is a powerful ending. 'i am a jew.' just as 'i
am an uighur' just as 'i am a palestinian' just as...

i'm sorry, but the chinese archetype of inscrutable has more than a
grain of truth for 'whites' or anyone. i never got conned by the
maoists. they were much creepier than the trots in the 1970s but faded out.

neo-maoist china is out to take over the world by hard work and smarts.

just like 'the jews', all supremacists must be resisted.

peter myers writes: China's system now is National Socialism with
Chinese Characteristics.

And just like Nazi Germany, today's China is expansionist.

china is busily setting up its own neo-maoist new world order (mao was
never officially condemned for great leap and cultural rev). my uighur
friend jacob studied through high school (only in mandarin, ie already
assimilated to death) and said the mao period is all described
positively, presumable even the invasion of vietnam in 1979. china's
policies were a disaster then. what makes anyone think that they are
suddenly benign, sensible?

ironically (?) chinese smiles are everywhere here in Canada, sinophilia
a la judophilia is rampant. one of CBC's hosts is chinese male.
vancouver has been virtually occupied by chinese billionaires. i live in
a cantonese retirees subsidized housing in toronto. no one speaks
english. they've lived here 50 yrs! i could be living in china. a
glimpse of the future. han chauvinism. and canada etc loves money.
china's the new guy making us all those pretty, cheap commodities. good
for them!

the uighurs have their terrorists just like the uzbeks though uzbeks are
bigger. and all because of the vicious ISLAM karimov. he's gone and ISIS
almost gone. and they are fading away. tho a new dictator, benign, not
persecuting muslims. which means (by hadiths, sharia) no revolution/
terrorism.

now china is going to have much more uighur violence. women will be
committing suicide or be murdered. china's just waiting for the next
terrorist bombing a la chechens. they won't play nice (if that's what we
can call putin's war there). note that reconstruction included mosques,
and quran is the real one, not a russian PC version.

but i think this nightmare has resonance. the UN mainly. china still
listens to the UN. but the world has to stand up now. this is munich 1938.

only peaceful, noninvasive governance in east turkestan can bring an end
to terrorist acts.
it's the same as afghanistan, iraq, syria... get the f-ing imperialist
troops out. let people live in dignity.

we shouldn't just dismiss everything human rights related as a con by
the neolibs. some issues are vital and we can support them principally.

we have to criticize the hindu militants too. notice it's muslims that
are suffering almost everywhere. and islam is not imperialistic. it is
always the victim.
and you know why? it's because islam holds the answers to just about all
the problems. that's why china is determined now to wipe out islam. it
interferes with china's world hegemony plans.

eric

(11) Was Mao separate from the Anglo? Or are these empires just heads of
the same Anglo-hydra?

Subject: Re: Left deniers of Uighur genocide are like those who denied
Ukraine Famine
From: Philippe Landau <plandau@yandex.com>

Dear Peter

Was Mao separate from the Anglo ?

Or are these empires just heads of the same Anglo-hydra ?

Reply (Peter M.):

That's like people who say Hitler was merely a stooge of the
Anglo-Zionist empire. Preparata says that, in this book: Conjuring
Hitler: How Britain and America Made the Third Reich, by Guido Giacomo
Preparata.

But how did they know how WWII would end? Hitler could have won it if
he'd made fewer mistakes.

(i) The Soviet-German Pact was Stalin's way of breaking up the
Anti-Comintern Pact. In this, Stalin deceived Hitler; his main concern
was to avoid war on two fronts (Japan was in Manchuria & parts of
Mongolia). Instead, Hitler was the one who got war on two fronts.

(ii) Hitler let the British Army escape at Dunkirk, thinking that
Britain might do a deal & join Germany against Russia. But that was
wishful thinking; Britiain had similarly refused Napoleon's hegemony
over the European continent.

(iii) Hitler could have seized the French fleet and used it against Britain.

(iv) In Operation Barbarossa, as I recall, Hitler wanted to seize the
oilfields of Baku, but his generals wanted to capture Moscow (or was it
the other way around?). This failure in strategy lost the war.

In conclusion, those who maintain that the outcome of WWII was
pre-ordained are wrong. Therefore, it was not stage-managed.

(12) Larouche & Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) writers deny the
Genocides in Tibet & Xinjiang

- by Peter Myers, January 3, 2020

Yesterday I dug up some old Larouche literature on the Eurasian
Corridor, what China now calls the New Silk Road. Lyndon Larouche and
his wife Helga Zepp Larouche were pushing it by 1996. Ever since then,
they have been working hand-in-glove with the Chinese Government.

The Summer 1997 issue of Fidelio Magazine, a Larouche publication,
carried an article called The Eurasian Land-Bridge. I have a copy.

At the same time, they were condemning Tibetans, in effect denying the
genocide in Tibet. Similarly they now deny the genocide of Uighurs.

This denial applies to writers who used to write for Executive
Intelligence Review - including F. William Engdahl and Webster Tarpley.
They have since left the Larouche cult, but still maintain the same line.

David P. Goldman (Spengler at Asia Times) is another. I hear that Asia
Times was started by ex-Larouche writers.

In 1983, Lyndon H. LaRouche published a book called There Are No Limits
To Growth.

That shows the EIR line on environmental issues. Amazon still lists this
book:
https://www.amazon.com/There-Are-No-Limits-Growth/dp/0933488319

China Daily, a government newspaper in China, has on many occasions
mentioned EIR. Yesterday (Jan 2, 2020) I did the following search in Google:

"china daily" "executive intelligence review"

There were about 1,730 hits. Here is one - it's an article in China
Daily by William Jones, who is described (at the bottom) as "the
Washington bureau chief for the Executive Intelligence Review and a
non-resident senior fellow at the Chongyang Institute for Financial
Studies, Renmin University of China"

China embarking on new phase of opening-up

By William Jones | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2018-04-13 16:07

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201804/13/WS5ad06559a3105cdcf6518298.html

The 40th anniversary of reform and opening-up makes 2018 a banner year
for China. The commitments made at this year’s National People’s
Congress for a deepening of the "reform and opening up" policy also
characterize a "new era" in the development of the People’s Republic of
China. [...]

The development of the Chinese economy has provided a practical lesson
for other developing countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa,
showing them that through a similarly focused policy of development,
they can also overcome the poverty and misery that prevails in most of
the world. And, as we have witnessed in the last five years, with the
launch of the Belt and Road Initiative, China has now become the major
driving force for global economic development. [...] community, one
where there are no losers, only winners.

The author is the Washington bureau chief for the Executive Intelligence
Review and a non-resident senior fellow at the Chongyang Institute for
Financial Studies, Renmin University of China.
{endquote}

The Larouche movement is complicit in Communist intellectuals in the
West denying China's genocides of Tibetans and Uighurs, and in aiding
the buildup of China's new empire.

An article from EIR issue of July 27, 2001 describes how Larouche's
proopsed Eurasian Land-Bridge led to China's New Silk Road:

https://larouchepub.com/other/2001/2828elb_chronology.html

{quote}
Chronology: Productive Triangle to Eurasian Land-Bridge

Since Lyndon LaRouche's historic press conference in West Berlin in
October 1988, the Eurasian Land-Bridge has developed step by step,
despite all the interventions of the Anglo-American financier oligarchy
to prevent it ...

March 1991: A Schiller Institute conference in Berlin, "Infrastructure
for a Free Europe," was attended by over 100 economists and political
activists from 17 countries. ... In a speech read to the conference,
LaRouche ... identified the political battle of the last century, of
European and Asian leaders attempting to unite Eurasia as "a sphere of
cooperation for mutual benefit among sovereign states," which could have
ended the British domination of the world. ...

1992: The Schiller Institute elaborated the "spiral arms" of the
Productive Triangle, as a network of transcontinental Eurasian
development corridors. The concept soon resonated in China, where
attention to the potential for development along the new Eurasian
Land-Bridge began to intensify ...

December 1994: A Schiller Institute conference in Eltville, Germany ...
focussed on the "New Silk Road" development policy.
{endquote}

An article in 21st Century Science and Technology (another Larouche
publication) descrbes the Eurasian Landbridge as the "Motor for Eurasian
Development":
https://21sci-tech.com/Subscriptions/Archive/1997_Sp.pdf

Larouche's movement is called "Far Right". Yet he started out as a
Trotskyist. Abandoning the Socialist Workers Party, he "joined the rival
Spartacist League before announcing his intention to build a new Fifth
International."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche

A Fifth International? That's Communist. Yet Larouche is pushing
Christian social values - can this be Christian Communism?

Is that what the Larouche movement is?

Yes, it is. But what kind of Christianity denies the genocide of
Tibetans and Uighurs?

Israel Shamir is similarly a Christian Communist.

Yesterday, he told me not to post any more material on the Uighurs to
Shamireaders. When I likened Denial of the Uighur genocide to denial of
the Ukraine Famine, Shamir replied,

"I do definitely deny the Ukr Holodomor and Uygur and Tibet etc, and
many other genocides."

Even the Trotskyist wsws (World Socialist Web Site) denies the genocide
of Uighurs and Tibetans:

US media ramps up anti-China campaign over Uyghur "human rights"
By Peter Symonds
28 November 2019
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/28/uygh-n28.html

Max Shachtman's faction of the Trotskyists might be thought to oppose
the new China, since they opposed the Soviet Union, eg during the Korean
War. But Michael Hudson, who belongs to that faction, sides with China.

Breaking with the Trotskyist Fourth International, Trotsky's widow
Natalya wrote in 1951:

https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2000-10-01/appendix-a-natalya-trotsky-breaks-with-the-fourth-international

{quote}
Letter to the Executive Committee of the Fourth International

Comrades,

[...] you continue to advocate, and to pledge the entire movement, to
the defence of the Stalinist state. You are even now supporting the
armies of Stalinism in the war which is being endured by the anguished
Korean people. I cannot and will not follow you in this.

[...] the Socialist fatherland ... has been replaced by the enslavement
and degradation of the people by the Stalinist autocracy. This is the
state you propose to defend in the war, which you are already defending
in Korea.

I know very well how often you repeat that you are criticising Stalinism
and fighting it. But the fact is that your criticism and your fight lose
their value and can yield no results because they are determined by and
subordinated to your position of defence of the Stalinist state. Whoever
defends this regime of barbarous oppression, regardless of the motives,
abandons the principles of socialism and internationalism. [...]

Natalya Sedova Trotsky
Mexico, D.F. 9 May 1951
{endquote}

(13) China bulldozed the Old City of Kashgar - a priceless heritage of
the old Silk Road culture - to better control the Uighurs

https://uyghuramerican.org/article/china-razes-cradle-culture.html

China razes the cradle of a culture

Mon, 05/04/2009 - 12:00

Paul Mooney, Foreign Correspondent

May 3. 2009 4:27PM GMT

A street in Kashgar's old town, Sept. 30, 2007

KASHGAR, CHINA

An old way of life is coming to a crashing end in north-western China
with two-thirds of Kashgar’s Old City being bulldozed over the past few
weeks under a government plan to "modernise" the area.

The few remaining houses still standing are marked with an
ominous-looking Chinese character written in red with a circle drawn
around it. The character, pronounced "chai" in Chinese, means demolish.

A government plan worth US$440 million (Dh1.6 billion) calls for the
relocation of 65,000 Uighur households, about 220,000 people, whose
families have lived in the Old City for centuries. Until a few weeks
ago, the area housed 40 per cent of the city’s residents in its
labyrinth-like alleyways, where the naturalness of the life made it a
popular tourist destination and one that was not ruined by tourism.

For centuries, children played on the cobblestone streets of the Old
City, mothers standing in the doorways of their mud-brick dwellings
chatting with neighbours, their faces covered by scarves. Bearded men
wearing embroidered doppas (skullcaps) have walked daily to the many
small neighbourhood mosques that pepper the area for prayers, passing by
coppersmiths hammering pieces of metal into shiny pots, butchers cutting
lamb in the open air and bakers slapping traditional flatbreads on to
the sides of a tandoor, a makeshift clay oven.

According to the state media, the ancient district – which provided the
exotic backdrop for Kabul in the movie The Kite Runner – chosen for its
close resemblance to that vibrant Afghan city of the 1970s must be torn
down because of poor drainage, unsound construction and susceptibility
to earthquakes.

Irritated residents claim the government made no attempt to discuss the
demolition plan with them or to consider other ways of dealing with the
problems.

The Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim group, have long resented Chinese
rule of Xinjiang, which they call East Turkestan. Wang Lequan, the
Xinjiang party secretary, announced in March during a visit to Kashgar
and Hotan that the two cities were at the "forefront of the fight
against the three evil forces of terrorism, extremism and separatism".

Some Uighurs argue the demolition is part of an orchestrated campaign by
the Chinese government to destroy Uighur culture.

"The Old City in Kashgar represents the very essence of Uighur
civilisation for thousands of years," said Rebiya Kadeer, the president
of the Uyghur American Association. "The Uighurs consider Kashgar the
cradle of Uighur civilisation.

"By destroying Kashgar, the Chinese government will make all East
Turkestan cities and towns look just like all other Chinese cities and
towns along the east coast. Once Kashgar is destroyed, the unique Uighur
and Central Asian character of East Turkestan will become history." [...]

(14) In destroying Kashgar, China aimed to push the Uighurs out of the
alley ways and corners - Foreign Correspondent, ABC TV, Australia
https://www.abc.net.au/foreign/the-uyghur-dilemma/1371154

The Uyghur Dilemma

Posted Tue 28 Jul 2009, 10:38pm

Kashgar stands at the very western edge of China - an oasis city that
has long provided relief for travellers on the ancient Silk Road.

Parts of the city have stood for more than 2000 years and within its
labyrinth, Uighur traditions have played largely unchanged over time.
It's a living history attracting hordes of tourists every year.

But Beijing is bringing in the bulldozers - knocking down great swathes
of the old town - because it says there is an increasing risk of
devastation from earthquake. Officials say they're worried about the
safety of the people who live there.

The Uighurs though are a Muslim majority in the city and the region and
many residents suspect other motives. They believe Beijing's agenda is
to push the Uighurs out of the alley ways and corners of old Kashgar and
into more manageable and uniform accommodation where they can be
monitored and better kept in check.

China correspondent Stephen McDonell has managed to gain extraordinary
access to Kashgar, its residents and local leadership, to assess the
motives behind the demolition program and to explore more broadly the
strategic security problems Beijing is trying to contain and cauterise.

McDonell manages to gain entry to a highly sensitive security zone
outside Kashgar for a bigger picture. Across the mountains in one
direction Pakistan is locked in battle with the Taliban in another
Afghanistan is facing the same extremist threat. The Chinese government
holds grave concerns that Muslim terrorism could find fertile ground
here. The Foreign Correspondent team happens upon a full scale
anti-terror exercise and films from a distance.

But there's also the developing domestic friction. In early July
violence erupted between the Uighurs and the otherwise dominant Han
Chinese - many of whom are resettling Uighur territory.

In the region's capital Urumqi, it's estimated as many as 200 people
were killed and many more injured. About one thousand were arrested
after troops moved in.

Transcript

MCDONELL: The Taklamatan Desert in Western China is 337,000 square
kilometres of arid, dramatic wasteland. It's the hottest place in China
which, for many an emperor, was a natural barrier to potential invaders.
Yet for hundreds of years, camel trains would brave this desolate
expanse. Because traders carried Chinese silk to sell to the Western
world, this became known as "the Silk Road". The camel trains took this
dangerous journey knowing that if they could make it across the
Taklamatan, there was relief on the other side.

They would arrive in Kashgar. The old city looks pretty similar today to
how it would have been centuries ago. Tens of thousands of people still
live in this romantic, crumbling rabbit warren.

At street level you can really feel the history oozing out of these
walls. Imagine what it was like for travellers in the past. After
spending weeks in the desert heat, they would arrive here and meander
around these cool alleyways, tasting again the fruits of civilisation.

Kashgar is the cultural capital for the Uighurs. Though they look and
sound like Turks, these people are officially Chinese and ten million of
them live here in China's far Western Xinjiang Province. Apart from
their language, music and clothes, the Uighurs are known for their
mercantile spirit and it's there in abundance at Kashgar's Sunday
livestock market.

The Uighurs are Sunni Muslims. Throughout history their homeland has
been in and out of Beijing's control. It became part of Communist China
when the People's Liberation Army entered the region in 1949. For the
many Uighurs who've never accepted being Chinese, their relationship
with the government is at best tense.

Everywhere you go in this labyrinth of a place, there are working
examples of a very different way of life. Tradition permeates everything
and even dictates people's jobs. Fifty-year-old Tursun Zunun was born in
this 400-year-old house. He's a 6th generation pot thrower.

TURSUN ZUNUN: "We live as we did in the old times. We don't use electric
lights. I use my feet to turn the wheel to make pots. If I was to stop
doing this the souls of my father and grandfather would also stop".

MCDONELL: As the oldest of twelve children, Tursun Zunun inherited this
trade from his forefathers. He has three daughters and also a son who he
hopes will take over after him. Yet he worries that his culture is under
threat.

TURSUN ZUNUN: "In the past we had no hair - we had to shave our heads.
We wore these dopas. But everything is changing - am I right? We didn't
wear this type of clothing, but now we do. The old things are going.
We've put away the dopa, and wear nothing on our heads. We're Uighurs in
name only - so much of our culture has already changed".

MCDONELL: Kashgar's blacksmiths have occupied the same corner of this
city for many hundreds of years. As with other crafts, their skills have
been passed down from generation to generation. But here, like
elsewhere, change is only days away and the fear of what's coming is
palpable.

BLACKSMITH: "I spent my whole childhood in this place and if they
destroy it, we can't continue our business".

MCDONELL: Whether they're bakers or noodle makers, tailors or painters,
for many the old ways are about to end. And this is not some slow
erosion but an upheaval in front of their faces. The government has
declared that most of the old city will have to be knocked down. It's
already levelled parts of the town as big as football fields, other
areas have been cleared the size of large city office blocks.

XU JIANRONG: "The reality is that dangerous buildings are everywhere in
the old town of Kashgar".

MCDONELL: Deputy Mayor, Xu Jianrong, is responsible for the old town's
reconstruction. He says he's worried that an earthquake, like that in
Sichuan last year, could one day strike Kashgar. [...]

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