US SUPPORT FOR MUSLIM HUMAN RIGHTS IN XINJIANG, CHINA, BUT NOT PALESTINE

 It is indeed the case that China is hardly Norway when it comes to the issue of religious and political tolerance. This includes the 11 million ethnic Yugur minority in the northwest province of Xinjiang. China's lack of pluralism notwithstanding, here is the problem of credibility with any Western politician using the Xinjiang minority population issue, especially an American politician carrying the legacy of a racist institutional structure.

1. As of November 2020, the last 10 poverty-stricken counties of Xinjiang had all completely eradicated absolute poverty. By contrast, US poverty rate rose across the US from 10.5% in 2019 to 11.5% in 2023, and the poverty rate among AMERICAN MINORITIES averages 6 points higher than the general population.

2. The largest Western multinational corporations, mostly US-based, operate in Xinjiang province because of cheap labor and proximity to markets. While the hypocritical political rhetoric about Chinese repressed minorities makes Western headlines, a closer look reveals that the Western capitalist class makes huge profits exploiting those minorities. Whereas China has a social development policy intended to benefit the working class across the country, including Xinjiang, social development policy in the US has been eroding since the Reagan era.

3. The UN, and the ICJ have clearly made their positions known about Israel's genocidal war. By contrast, there has been no international court ruling on the Xinjiang province minority. The only country in the world trying to build such a case has been the US, but the evidence is lacking and the multinational corporations operating there are uneasy about having their operations exposed to the world.

Blinken is visiting China knowing that he is going to hear complaints about American destabilization of the Middle East, Eastern Europe-Eurasia, and South China Sea. Having no defense for America's FOREVER WAR policy, and lacking in diplomatic training and any sort of foreign affairs depth, he decided to follow the cheap rightwing American neocon road of propaganda regarding the Muslim minority in Xinjiang province, a fruitless strategy against the background of genocide and forced famine which the US has made possible in Gaza.