May 5, 2021 - Epoch Times
08:13
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| And you have, frankly, personal experience with the realities of what the CCP is all about, and I actually want to take a moment to get you to tell me a little bit about that, because a lot of people, again, just can't even imagine some of the things that you yourself have actually experienced. | |
| I always use two words to describe my life, no escape. | |
| I was born In a re-education camp during the height of the Cultural Revolution, where my young mother was detained because of her relationship with her dad, my grandfather, who was a Uyghur nationalist. | |
| And also my dad, my father, a university-educated father, was sent to a labor camp for three years in the countryside. | |
| So not only a newly vetted couple being separated by the government, but also my mom, my mother, who was pregnant with me when she was taken into the re-education camp, went through physical verbal abuses and delivered me while she was injured, while she was in cast chest down. | |
| So I was born in such a horrific circumstances, but after coming to the United States, establishing my professional life, establishing a happy family life, I never thought until 2018, summer 2018, That I would even mention the way that I was born to this world. | |
| Because people need to know that this is not something new. | |
| This has been ongoing as long as I have been breathing. | |
| But the circumstances kind of compelled me to come out and say, look, I've seen this movie before. | |
| I asked you to pay attention, but you did not. | |
| Now we have a much bigger problem. | |
| The Chinese Communist Party managed to establish or build industrial scale concentration camps. | |
| On the world's watch, making never again a meaningless vow. | |
| And sadly, no one is raising a finger until the United States government, starting 2019, speaking up publicly and responding with some unprecedented historic measurements. | |
| This has been part of the Uyghur life for a long time. | |
| The Uyghur people around the world, NGOs, human rights activists, have been sounding an alarm that this needs to be something that people should take it seriously. | |
| But it took a genocide in Uyghur's homeland East Turkestan, an uprooting of democracy, rule of law in Hong Kong, and most oppressive ways to repress the religious minority in China. | |
| To the world community and national community to realize CCP is a threat to a civilization. | |
| So it's a very sad reality, but it should not take a genocide for the national community to realize what CCP is about. | |
| So in the measure, of course, you mean the genocide designation, is that what you're talking about? | |
| Genocide designation was one of the most significant policy responses by the United States government. | |
| But before even that decision, from October 2019, Through January 2021, the previous administration announced over 70 sanctions. | |
| I'm talking about the individual sanctions. | |
| That includes blacklisting of entities under the statute that the Commerce Department was authorized to do. | |
| And also sanctioning of four Chinese senior government officials, including the current Chinese Communist Party chairman, Chen Quanguo, and also Xinjiang Production Construction Corp., which is a paramilitary unit, reportedly has over 800,000 shell companies around the world. | |
| And also visa restrictions that you're aware of. | |
| So, that was the policy responses. | |
| This does not even include the legislative responses that we've been seeing in the U.S. Congress. | |
| So, the general decision is the strongest policy response announced by former Secretary of State Pompeo. | |
| Endorsed on the same day by the new Secretary of State Blinken. | |
| This shows the seriousness of the United States government. | |
| USERF, as we noted in our report, And not only ask the State Department to look into this to evaluate and determine if the atrocities amount to genocide and crimes against humanity, but also we support this bipartisan decision. | |
| This should send a message to Beijing that they cannot play division game with American people. | |
| This is a matter of value and principle. | |
| The United States government, just like the Chinese government, is a signatory to Genocide Convention that our country ratified in 1988. | |
| Since 1988, there has been only five decisions, adding the Uyghurs. | |
| There have been only six instances that the U.S. government made a similar decision. | |
| I need to highlight something very important in this respect. | |
| The United States, or any country, does not lightly Or casually go out and accuse somebody or government or government entities for committing genocide. | |
| This is a very serious, serious words, accusations, if you will. | |
| But when you look at the way that this was done through analysis, relying on the fact, and also fulfilling our obligation on the international law, it's something that the United States government, particularly Secretary Pompeo, deserves a lot of credit. | |
| It was a bold decision, and Secretary Blinken also deserves credit for acknowledging, endorsing it, and taking additional measures, including The coordinated sanctions announced in March, along with our allies. | |
| And now we're seeing this expanding Canadian Parliament recognize it as a genocide, so that the Netherlands Parliament, or the UK Parliament, we're also expecting others joining the force. | |
| So the United States has shown true leadership on this. | |
| This has been a bipartisan, and this should be a strong message to China that this is not something that we will Take lightly. | |
| This is a matter of conscience, a matter of principle. | |
| This is not only a moral obligation, but the United States is legally obliged to respond on these kind of atrocities. | |
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| I don't find this to be acceptable. | |
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