{"id":126041,"date":"2021-02-12T18:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T23:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=126041"},"modified":"2021-02-12T18:12:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T23:12:15","slug":"economist-rejects-uighur-genocide-determination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/economist-rejects-uighur-genocide-determination\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Economist\u2019 Rejects Uighur Genocide Determination"},"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\">10<\/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%2Feconomist-rejects-uighur-genocide-determination%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=126041&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-483699284_736x514.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The <em>Economist<\/em> says the United States was wrong to designate China&#8217;s ongoing use of prison camps and forced sterilization of women in the Uighur population as &#8220;genocide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Friday&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/leaders\/2021\/02\/13\/genocide-is-the-wrong-word-for-the-horrors-of-xinjiang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a>, published in the British magazine&#8217;s editorial section, said that ongoing population control efforts in Xinjiang do not meet the United Nations definition of genocide. By declaring that the Chinese Communist Party engages in genocide, the article argues, Washington diminishes the meaning of the term.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in National Security<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0\">\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/economist-rejects-uighur-genocide-determination\/\"><strong>\u2018Economist&#8217; Rejects Uighur Genocide Determination<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/state-dept-calls-on-iran-to-end-dangerous-nuclear-buildup\/\"><strong>State Dept. Calls on Iran to End \u2018Dangerous&#8217; Nuclear Buildup<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/beijing-bans-bbc-broadcasts\/\"><strong>Beijing Bans BBC Broadcasts<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">China\u2019s persecution of the Uighurs is horrific: It has locked up perhaps one million of them in prison camps, which it naturally mislabels \u2018vocational training centers.&#8217; It has forcibly sterilized some Uighur women. But it is not slaughtering them,&#8221; the article states. &#8220;By accusing it of genocide instead, in the absence of mass murder, America is diminishing the unique stigma of the term\u2026. It accomplishes nothing to exaggerate the Communist Party\u2019s crimes in Xinjiang.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The editorial does not mention new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-55794071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> of systematic rape in forced labor camps, nor does it acknowledge comments <a href=\"https:\/\/china.usembassy-china.org.cn\/determination-of-the-secretary-of-state-on-atrocities-in-xinjiang\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made<\/a> by Chinese Communist Party leadership that Uighur Muslims are comparable to &#8220;malignant tumors&#8221; and that their faith is like a &#8220;communicable plague.&#8221; Even further, it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/china-xinjiang-hospitals-abort-uighur-pregnancies-killed-newborns-report-2020-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ignores<\/a> accounts from camp survivors that Chinese officials kill newborn Uighur children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rep. Michael McCaul (R., Texas), ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called the article &#8220;incredibly unsettling.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;The <em>Economist<\/em> is wrong: The Chinese Communist Party is clearly committing a genocide against the Uighurs and other ethnic and religious minorities as defined by the Genocide Convention. And while the <em>Economist<\/em>\u2019s intentions were hopefully not to serve as genocide apologists, the CCP will certainly use their inaccurate headline to continue to excuse their genocide,&#8221; McCaul said. &#8220;It\u2019s incredibly unsettling to see one make excuses for those same horrors.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A series of<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Washington Free Beacon<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reports revealed ties between the<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Economist<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and the Chinese Communist Party. Last year, the magazine&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/economist-runs-chinese-coronavirus-propaganda-disguised-as-news\/\">published<\/a> several advertorials from the CCP-backed<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Beijing Review<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which contained highly favorable coverage of Xi Jinping\u2019s coronavirus response. The outlet failed to disclose its agreement with the CCP-funded entity, a potential violation of federal disclosure laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Economist<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">also <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/economist-failed-to-disclose-lucrative-beijing-ties\/\">provided sympathetic coverage<\/a> of Huawei without disclosing its lucrative business relationship with the&nbsp;Chinese tech giant. Over the course of recent years, magazine staffers have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/economist-staffers-flock-to-huawei\/\">left<\/a> the organization to join Huawei. The tech firm also worked with the<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Economist<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to organize multiple European tech junkets, effectively legitimizing the operations of CCP-backed Huawei.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Huawei-based technology <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/chinas-huawei-tests-facial-recognition-software-to-identify-uighurs-to-authorities\/\">plays<\/a> a major role in China&#8217;s growing surveillance state and could be partially responsible for overseeing the Uighur genocide. Facial-recognition technologies developed by Huawei could be used by the CCP to identify and track Uighur Muslims.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist says the United States was wrong to designate China&#8217;s ongoing use of prison camps and forced sterilization of women in the Uighur population as &#8220;genocide.&#8221; The Friday\u00a0article, published &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1891702,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6601,5912,5009,6600],"class_list":["post-126041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-determination","tag-genocide","tag-rejects","tag-uighur"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}