{"id":1017443,"date":"2021-11-15T23:29:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T04:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1017443"},"modified":"2021-11-15T23:29:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T04:29:14","slug":"alleged-unfair-practices-cnn-bows-to-china-on-eve-of-biden-xi-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alleged-unfair-practices-cnn-bows-to-china-on-eve-of-biden-xi-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Alleged Unfair Practices\u2019: CNN Bows To China On Eve Of Biden-Xi Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falleged-unfair-practices-cnn-bows-to-china-on-eve-of-biden-xi-visit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1017443&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As President Joe Biden prepared for his virtual meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday evening, CNN continued a streak of minimizing and dismissing criticisms of the communist regime from current NBA star Enes Kanter, a former Chinese dissident, and the global business community.<\/p>\n<p>CNN posted an \u201copinion\u201d story by Nury Turkel last Wednesday titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/08\/opinions\/uyghur-human-rights-history-repeat-itself-turkel\/index.html\">I was born in a Chinese \u2018reeducation camp.\u2019 I\u2019m watching history repeat itself<\/a>.\u201d Turkel, a senior fellow at the right-of-center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hudson.org\">Hudson Institute<\/a>, wrote that he was born inside a Uighur detention center during the Cultural Revolution, \u201ca period of totalitarian zeal: Almost anyone suspected of not being adequately communist was beaten, jailed or killed. Religious and ethnic minorities were particular targets.\u201d Turkel warned that modern-day China resembles his nightmarish childhood, and that \u201cmany of the products enjoyed by Western countries are made by interned Uyghurs in China. According to several reports, Uyghur forced labor contributes significantly to the world economy \u2014 particularly<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/14\/energy\/china-solar-panels-uyghur-forced-labor-dst-intl-hnk\/index.html\">&nbsp;solar-panel manufacturing&nbsp;<\/a>and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/14\/energy\/china-solar-panels-uyghur-forced-labor-dst-intl-hnk\/index.html\">cotton-growing industries<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But CNN posted an unsigned \u201cEditor\u2019s Note\u201d at the bottom of the article, essentially exonerating China of Turkel\u2019s charges:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Chinese government&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2020\/02\/asia\/xinjiang-china-karakax-document-intl-hnk\/\"><em>has repeatedly denied&nbsp;<\/em><\/a><em>any allegations of crimes \u2014 including forced labor and forced sterilization \u2014 against the Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples. It claims it is providing the Uyghurs with education at \u201cvocational training centers\u201d while assisting in deradicalization efforts to combat alleged terrorism.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yet, few human rights authorities question the reality of China\u2019s exploitation of Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang province. \u201cThe government of China has detained between one and three million Uyghurs\u2014an ethnic and religious minority living in northwestern China\u2014in detention camps and other facilities where they are reportedly subject to mistreatment, torture, and forced labor,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/freedomhouse.org\/article\/united-states-freedom-house-applauds-passage-uyghur-human-rights-policy-act\">according<\/a> to the human rights watchdog Freedom House. The U.S. State Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/reports\/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices\/china\/\">fleshed out<\/a> the list of human rights abuses perpetrated against the nation\u2019s Uighur population by the Chinese Communist Party to include \u201carbitrary imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty of more than one million civilians; forced sterilization, coerced abortions, and more restrictive application of China\u2019s birth control policies; rape; torture of a large number of those arbitrarily detained; forced labor; and the imposition of draconian restrictions on freedom of religion or belief, freedom of expression, and freedom of movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) publicized CNN\u2019s Disclaimer to his 4.6 million followers on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1458572186487230470\">writing<\/a>, \u201cCNN editors, who have 0 hesitation about publishing trash allegations against anyone they perceive as not leftwing enough, took an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As President Joe Biden prepared for his virtual meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday evening, CNN continued a streak of minimizing and dismissing criticisms of the communist regime from current NBA star Enes Kanter, a former Chinese dissident, and the global business community.CNN posted an \u201copinion\u201d story by Nury Turkel last Wednesday titled \u201cI was born in a Chinese \u2018reeducation camp.\u2019 I\u2019m watching history repeat itself.\u201d Turkel, a senior fellow at the right-of-center Hudson Institute, wrote that he was born inside a Uighur detention center during the Cultural Revolution, \u201ca period of totalitarian zeal: Almost anyone suspected of not being adequately communist was beaten, jailed or killed. Religious and ethnic minorities were particular targets.\u201d Turkel warned that modern-day China resembles his nightmarish childhood, and that \u201cmany of the products enjoyed by Western countries are made by interned Uyghurs in China. According to several reports, Uyghur forced labor contributes significantly to the world economy \u2014 particularly\u00a0solar-panel manufacturing\u00a0and\u00a0cotton-growing industries.\u201dBut CNN posted an unsigned \u201cEditor\u2019s Note\u201d at the bottom of the article, essentially exonerating China of Turkel\u2019s charges:The Chinese government\u00a0has repeatedly denied\u00a0any allegations of crimes \u2014 including forced labor and forced sterilization \u2014 against the Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples. It claims it is providing the Uyghurs with education at \u201cvocational training centers\u201d while assisting in deradicalization efforts to combat alleged terrorism.Yet, few human rights authorities question the reality of China\u2019s exploitation of Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang province. \u201cThe government of China has detained between one and three million Uyghurs\u2014an ethnic and religious minority living in northwestern China\u2014in detention camps and other facilities where they are reportedly subject to mistreatment, torture, and forced labor,\u201d according to the human rights watchdog Freedom House. The U.S. State Department fleshed out the list of human rights abuses perpetrated against the nation\u2019s Uighur population by the Chinese Communist Party to include \u201carbitrary imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty of more than one million civilians; forced sterilization, coerced abortions, and more restrictive application of China\u2019s birth control policies; rape; torture of a large number of those arbitrarily detained; forced labor; and the imposition of draconian restrictions on freedom of religion or belief, freedom of expression, and freedom of movement.\u201dSenator Ted Cruz (R-TX) publicized CNN\u2019s Disclaimer to his 4.6 million followers on Twitter, writing, \u201cCNN editors, who have 0 hesitation about publishing trash allegations against anyone they perceive as not leftwing enough, took an article by a Uyghur-American advocate exposing China\u2019s ongoing genocide &#038; added an \u2018Editor\u2019s Note\u2019 pushing CCP propaganda.\u201dCNN editors, who have 0 hesitation about publishing trash allegations against anyone they perceive as not leftwing enough, took an article by a Uyghur-American advocate exposing China&#8217;s ongoing genocide &#038; added an &#8220;Editor&#8217;s Note&#8221; pushing CCP propaganda. https:\/\/t.co\/6LyByQRmeX pic.twitter.com\/7RWXoFJ7vA\u2014 Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) November 10, 2021The same day, CNN\u2019s Christiane Amanpour tweeted that NBA star Enes Kanter \u201chas been using his stardom to take a stand against what he sees as human rights violations committed by the Chinese government. \u2018China uses money to buy silence,\u2019 Kanter tells me in a TV exclusive. \u2018I don\u2019t care about your endorsement deal.\u2019\u201d (Emphasis added.)Kanter, a center for the Boston Celtics, has denounced Chinese President Xi Jinping as the \u201cbrutal dictator of China.\u201d He told his international audience that \u201cas I speak this message, torture, rape, forced abortions, sterilizations, family separations, arbitrary detentions, concentration camps, political reeducation, forced labor.\u201d\u201cNBA made me do this,\u201d Kanter told Amanpour. \u201cI don\u2019t do politics. I do human rights.\u201dThe Turkish-born Kanter said he felt obligated to speak when so many others in his profession remained silent. \u201cThere are so many athletes, so many actors, so many singers and so many people who have a platform that are speaking out about many of the issues out there in the world,\u201d he said. \u201cBut when it comes to China \u2026 they are scared, because they care too much about money; they care too much about business; and they care too much about endorsement deals.\u201dNBA star @EnesKanter\u00a0has been using his stardom to take a stand against what he sees as human rights violations committed by the Chinese government. &#8220;China uses money to buy silence,&#8221; Kanter tells me in a TV exclusive. &#8220;I don&#8217;t care about your endorsement deal.&#8221; pic.twitter.com\/u3s5HV4MQI\u2014 Christiane Amanpour (@camanpour) November 10, 2021CNN\u2019s denial turned to the economic front early Monday morning, as CNN reported on the virtual tete-a-tete, correspondent David Culver said that \u201cU.S.\/China relations have been growing tenser since 2018 when Former President Trump launched his trade war over Beijing\u2019s alleged unfair practices, slapping massive tariffs on Chinese goods.\u201d (Emphasis added.) China\u2019s notorious trade practices \u2014 including wholesale violations of intellectual property rights and support for state-sponsored industries that Republicans and Democrats alike say violate WTO rules \u2014 came under fire during the World Trade Organization\u2019s review on the 20th anniversary of China\u2019s WTO membership.The president\u2019s visit comes just days after China engaged in combat drills after a U.S. congressional delegation visited Taiwan.Despite the robust tensions between the United States and China, White House spokesperson Jen Psaki indicated the president would not be confrontational during his meeting. \u201cThe two leaders will discuss ways to responsibly manage the competition between the United States and the PRC,\u201d she said on Friday.The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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