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China thanks Kazakhstan for support on Xinjiang de-radicalisation scheme - Reuters

MARCH 29, 2019 / 8:16 AM / 7 DAYS AGO
China thanks Kazakhstan for support on Xinjiang de-radicalisation scheme

BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese government’s top diplomat has thanked Kazakhstan for its support for a controversial de-radicalisation programme in China’s far western region of Xinjiang, and said others should follow China’s example.

Kazakh Foreign Minister Beibut Atamkulov (L) and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) pose for photos after signing documents at the end of a meeting at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China March 28, 2019. Andrea Verdelli/Pool via REUTERS
Critics say China is operating internment camps for Uighurs and other Muslim peoples who live in Xinjiang, although the government calls them vocational training centres and says it has a genuine need to prevent extremist thinking and violence.

Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi said after meeting Kazakh Foreign Minister Beibut Atamkulov in Beijing that China’s de-radicalisation measures in Xinjiang had been very effective, China’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement late on Thursday.

The steps had “vigorously protected local security and stability and made an important contribution to promoting regional peace and stability”, Wang said.

They also gave a “useful reference for the international community in cracking down on violent terror forces and banishing extremist thought”, he said.

“We appreciated the Kazakh government’s understanding and support for China’s position, and we will never let any person or any force damage the friendship and mutual trust between China and Kazakhstan,” Wang said.

The government of the Central Asian nation has avoided criticising China’s Xinjiang policies but has negotiated the release of some two dozen people with dual Kazakh and Chinese citizenships detained in China.

Kazakh police this month detained a Chinese-born activist who has campaigned on behalf of ethnic Kazakhs in China.

Xinjiang is home to a sizeable Kazakh minority, some of whom have also ended up in the de-radicalisation facilities, rights groups say.

China has been stepping up a push to counter growing criticism in the West and among rights groups about the programme in Xinjiang, which borders Central Asia.

That has included inviting foreign diplomats and reporters to visit on well-chaperoned tours, including a Reuters reporter in January.

China has denied all accusations of rights abuses in Xinjiang and says it has a genuine need to ensure security there, where hundreds have been killed in unrest in recent years blamed by Beijing on Islamist militants and separatists.

Wang said China and Kazakhstan should strengthen their cooperation in the human rights field and ensure people do not try to “politicise” the issue, China’s Foreign Ministry said.

Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Paul Tait

 

[master_13]

LOL chemical weapons were the excuse the US gave for the 2003 Iraq War even though Saddam Hussein gave them up already by then. So show me the evidence Saddam Hussein lied about his chemical weapons in 2003?

It was never about chemical weapons, that guy is simply diverting topic. I was around before the invasion, all over the news, and in the press, it was solely about "nukes", Bush administration never cared about so called chemical weapons. US went in to find nukes, nothing else. Only after they couldn't find any nukes, then they starting to talk about "chemical" weapons. Chemical weapon was never the premise for invasion.

 

[Feng Leng]

It was never about chemical weapons, that guy is simply diverting topic. I was around before the invasion, all over the news, and in the press, it was solely about "nukes", Bush administration never cared about so called chemical weapons. US went in to find nukes, nothing else. Only after they couldn't find any nukes, then they starting to talk about "chemical" weapons.

They didn't find anything because Saddam Hussein gave up his WMDs before the 2003 invasion. The justification for the 2003 invasion was that he still had WMDs and lied about it to UN inspectors.

 

[Menthol]

If there is no internet, and global media is dominated by USA.

Perhaps USA is already invaded China and make it like Iraq, while self proclaim that what happened to Chinese people is a blessing.

And we all will think that people in Iraq, Syria and Lybia today are very happy and prosperous.