Thursday, December 05, 2019

James Carafano: China bears watching — even at the UN


From Fox News.com (Sept. 23):
Turtle Bay is awash with heads of state this week. They’ve come to New York for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.

President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are among those in attendance, and they come with an agenda of their own. Item 1 for the Americans is to remind world leaders — in subtle and not-so-subtle ways — that Beijing is up to no good.

China is bad on many levels. And Trump will call attention to one facet of their badness that gets too little attention: the fact that the world’s leading persecutors of the Islamic religion reside in Beijing.

While many of the world’s dignitaries sat in the General Assembly to pontificate sanctimoniously about the climate, Trump chaired a roll-up-your-sleeves side session to explore ways to combat the global assault on religious liberty.

It was an opportunity to turn the spotlight on China’s abuses of Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim, Turkic group found in about a dozen countries.  [read more]
Yea, China cannot be trusted.

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