{"id":1106259,"date":"2021-12-10T13:43:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T18:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1106259"},"modified":"2021-12-10T13:43:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T18:43:48","slug":"marco-rubio-asks-nyt-did-you-collude-with-china-to-protect-xi-jinping-from-genocide-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marco-rubio-asks-nyt-did-you-collude-with-china-to-protect-xi-jinping-from-genocide-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Rubio Asks NYT: Did You Collude with China to Protect Xi Jinping from Genocide Evidence?"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fmarco-rubio-asks-nyt-did-you-collude-with-china-to-protect-xi-jinping-from-genocide-evidence%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=1106259&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 class=\"subheading\">Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) pressured the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em> once again on Thursday to clarify if it had colluded with the Communist Party of China to hide documents implicating dictator Xi Jinping in the ongoing genocide of the Uyghur people in occupied East Turkistan, China.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio sent a letter to the&nbsp;<em>Times<\/em> \u2013 a far-left publication that has won the Pulitzer Prize for publishing fake news whitewashing genocide \u2013 last week asking the same question, along with other inquiries related to the fact that the newspaper obtained documents in 2019 that would have revealed that the Chinese genocide of Uyghurs was not the product of rogue officials, but prompted by a directive from Xi himself. Human rights activists have repeatedly urged legal institutions such as the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute Xi for genocide and crimes against humanity, but the ICC has refused on the grounds that it did not have sufficient evidence that Xi personally ordered the genocide \u2013 the kind of information the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em> chose not to publish.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Following the first round of inquiries from Rubio, the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;assistant international managing editor&nbsp;Michael Slackman published a defensive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytco.com\/press\/new-york-times-response-to-senator-rubios-letter\/\">response<\/a> claiming Rubio was \u201cwrong on the facts\u201d and the&nbsp;<em>Times<\/em> had, in fact, \u201cspecifically connect[ed] the crackdown [genocide], including the internment of more than one million ethnic Uyghurs, Kazakhs and others, to Mr. Xi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Slackman admitted, however, that the newspaper \u201cchose not to publish the documents in their entirety,\u201d alleging, without elaborating, that doing so would have put the source who leaked the documents \u201cat risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Rubio responded in a letter to the publisher of the newspaper, A.G. Sulzberger, noting that Slackman did not answer most of the questions Rubio posed to the newspaper.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIn response to my November 30 letter, Assistant Managing Editor for International Michael Slackman confirmed that the New York Times intentionally withheld nearly every document,\u201d Rubio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubio.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/press-releases?ID=E36AD157-CFFA-49D6-A0A3-7A9B2CE8477F\">wrote<\/a>, \u201cCritically important information was contained within the hundreds of pages that were hidden\u2014and continue to be hidden\u2014from the American people and governments across the globe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rubio called the&nbsp;<em>Times<\/em>\u2018 answers \u201cinadequate\u201d and emphasized the need for the newspaper to explain what, if any, contact it had with the Chinese Communist Party before omitting evidence that implicated Xi Jinping personally in genocide.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18970106\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"41\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/marco-rubio-xi-new-york-times-nyt-uyghur-genocide-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18970106\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/marco-rubio-xi-new-york-times-nyt-uyghur-genocide-getty.jpg\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) questions witnesses during a Senate Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services Subcommittee hearing (Sarah Silbiger-Pool\/Getty Images).<br \/>Chinese President Xi Jinping proposes a toast during the welcome banquet for leaders attending the Belt and Road Forum at the Great Hall of the People on April 26, 2019, in Beijing, China (Nicolas Asfouri \u2013 Pool\/Getty Images).<br \/>A demonstrator wearing a mask painted with the colours of the flag of East Turkestan and a hand bearing the colours of the Chinese flag attends a protest of supporters of the mostly Muslim Uighur minority and Turkish nationalists to denounce China\u2019s treatment of ethnic Uighur Muslims (OZAN KOSE\/AFP\/Getty Images).<br \/>Chinese policemen push Uyghur women protesting on the streets of Urumqi (Guang Niu\/Getty Images).<br \/>The Chinese flag behind razor wire at a housing compound in Yangisar, south of Kashgar, in China\u2019s western Xinjiang region (GREG BAKER\/AFP via Getty Images).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps most alarmingly, Mr. Slackman\u2019s response failed to address my direct questions regarding the New York Times\u2019 communication with the Chinese Communist Party,\u201d Rubio wrote, repeating his questions:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p>Did the New York Times have any discussions or communications with the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese Government about any of the 403 pages it received? If so, did the Times make any deal or concessions to withhold the release of any of the documents, including Xi\u2019s speech about what he wanted to do in Xinjiang?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Slackman failed to address this line of questioning in any way in his response.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/16\/podcasts\/the-daily\/china-coronavirus.html\">expelled<\/a>&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em> journalists from the country in 2020, as the world was beginning to realize the scope of the damage that the Chinese coronavirus \u2013 which originated in Wuhan, China, and fueled a pandemic directly because of policies the Communist Party implemented in Wuhan \u2013 could cause in nearly every country. The&nbsp;<em>Times<\/em> was one of several American media outlets to have their journalists expelled through to last month when China <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/581871-us-china-ease-restrictions-on-journalists\">announced<\/a> it would \u201cease\u201d its restrictions on foreign journalists. The expulsion occurred, however, long after the initial reporting the&nbsp;<em>Times&nbsp;<\/em>did on the leaked documents regarding the genocide in East Turkistan, suggesting the two are unrelated.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>It remains unclear at press time which outlets, including the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>, will benefit from the promised \u201ceasing\u201d or if the newspaper was part of negotiations that resulted in this agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The documents the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em> chose not to publish surfaced elsewhere \u2013 in the hands of the Uyghur Tribunal, an independent attempt by a group of international lawyers and human rights activists to legally process the crimes China committed against the Uyghur people. The Uyghur Tribunal appeared to obtain the same documents separately and published more of their contents, including speeches by Xi Jinping to private meetings of Communist Party officials that clearly indicated a genocidal intent behind the repression of the Uyghur people and other Muslim ethnic minorities in East Turkistan.<\/p>\n<p>The Uyghur Tribunal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/09\/tribunal-olympics-host-china-beyond-a-reasonable-doubt-guilty-of-genocide\/\">issued<\/a> its verdict on Thursday: China was guilty of genocide \u201cbeyond a reasonable doubt.\u201d The Tribunal found that, while China appeared not to be engaging in mass killing and extermination of Uyghur adults, evidence proved that Chinese officials were engaging in the mass extermination of Uyghur babies through both forced abortions and killing of infants. A mass sterilization campaign of Muslim women also corroborated the genocide charge. The legal definition of genocide includes&nbsp;\u201cimposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the other crimes the Tribunal exposed were acts of extreme torture in China\u2019s vast network of concentration camps for Muslims, including \u201cpulling off fingernails; beating with sticks; detaining in \u2018tiger chairs\u2019 where feet and hands were locked in position for hours or days without break; confined in containers up to the neck in cold water; and detained in cages so small that standing or lying was impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen detainees have had their vaginas and rectums penetrated by electric shock rods and iron bars. Women were raped by men paying to be allowed into the detention centre for the purpose,\u201d the Tribunal documented, citing testimony from women who had escaped the camps. \u201cOne young woman of twenty or twenty-one was gang raped by policemen in front of an audience of a hundred people all forced to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Tribunal derisively observed that it was not a legal institution with the power to act on any of its conclusions, but the institutions that did have that power refused to act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would seem altogether more appropriate for such things to be dealt with by governments or international organisations. But governments have no courage to do such things; neither does the UN where a powerful state is involved,\u201d the Tribunal\u2019s judgment read. \u201cHad any other official body or court, domestic or international, determined or sought to determine these issues the Tribunal would have been unnecessary and would not have been formed or would have ceased its work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em> has an extensive history of defending communist crimes, including genocide. Most infamously, the newspaper won a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/news\/statement-walter-duranty\">Pulitzer Prize<\/a> for \u201creporting\u201d by Moscow journalist Walter Duranty that lied about Joseph Stalin\u2019s genocide of the Ukrainian people known as the Holodomor. The Pulitzer Prize Board has refused to rescind the honor despite the abundantly clear reality that Duranty\u2019s reporting was all fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. 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