Jason Hopkins on October 9, 2019
The U.S. government slapped visa bans on Chinese officials connected to the mass detainment and subjugation of its Uighur Muslim population, further escalating tensions between the two countries.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Tuesday that the Trump administration would impose visa restrictions on Chinese Communist Party officials who are suspected responsible for the detention and alleged abuse of Uighurs, a Muslim minority group living in the country’s western province, and other religious minority groups.
“China has forcibly detained over one million Muslims in a brutal, systematic campaign to erase religion and culture in Xinjiang. China must end its draconian surveillance and repression, release all those arbitrarily detained, and cease its coercion of Chinese Muslims abroad,” Pompeo said in a Tuesday statement.
“Today, I am announcing visa restrictions on Chinese government and Communist Party officials believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, the detention or abuse of Uighurs, Kazakhs, or other Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang,” he continued.
The restrictions will also include family members of the officials. While the travel bans are largely symbolic — the officials don’t typically embark on international travels — the announcement marks the strongest condemnation of China’s treatment of Uighurs to date.
The Uighurs are a minority Muslim population living in China’s western Xinjiang province, and reports of their discrimination at the hands of the Chinese governments have circulated for years.
As part of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s campaign of sinicization — a government effort to make all of the country’s population more conformed to the Chinese Communist Party’s vision of Chinese culture, Uighurs have been placed into detention camps en masse. They have allegedly been subjected to brainwashing, torture, and other inhumane circumstances as the government tries to force them to let go of their Islamic faith and more fully embrace the communist state.
The Chinese government maintains that it is cracking down on terrorists, and claims that the detainment camps are simply vocational training centers. A government spokesman said the U.S. “smeared” China by instituting the travel bans.
“This is an act to deliberately make up excuses for its interference and to impede China’s efforts in counter terrorism in Xinjiang,” Geng Shuang, a ministry spokesman, said to reporters, according to Bloomberg.
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the secretary of state is authorized to restrict travel of foreign nationals he deems “would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.”
Who cares stop interfering with their Government policy and get ours taken care of. Stupidest thing I ever heard of. Just out there to pass them off.
No wait ! I have some lures ordered! I’ll inform when they arrive! lol
I’ll back you on this Mr. President, when Muslims cease their war on the Christians and Jewish religions and their attacks on democracy. Other than that Mr. President, thank you very much for being my president.
Let them kill the followers of the Satanic cult of Islam! The world will be a better place! Islam is NOT a religion!
this will get the lieberals stirred up..
either way if the lieberals protest it or dont they screw themselves….
coming down on Trump for doing it, it would show they hate Muslims and prefer Chinese abuse..
which means they prefer inhuman treatment of Muslims
if they dont come down on Trump, means they support Trump..
as if that would ever happen..
I would not ban Chinese officials for this, Islam is a disease a cancer to the world. They seek world domination and abuse others after they flood new countries with their people, Islam should be contained with in the middle east and not allowed to flourish else where. They would destroy all other peoples cultures if they could. This barbaric cults practices should be eliminated or destroyed from the face of the earth before they do that to the rest of the world. France is about to have a civil war to remove this cult from their lands, I have a friend in Sweden who says they form rape gangs and gang up on police with rocks and bottles. This cult deserves nothing but exile.
And who can forget what broke obama said about the Muslim faith….it’s a religion of peace. Ya right!
I agree with you Chris. I am inclined to side with China on this.
Why doesn’t he do the same to Muslims linked to Christian persecution?
Send Omar to China and even better if Pelosi, Schiff, Waters, AOC, Cummings and the rest of their gang go with her.
They are trying to keep their country from being islamified.
I know this breaks Obama’s heart.
It is art of the deal he wants China by the balls and he is succeeding by using muslims as a pawn on the chess board.
Look at Europe and any country that has large populations of muslims it is a headache and we all know it!
From New York to France to the UK.
I don’t know who gave the President this advice. History shows that when muslims come into a country it is NEVER about peace or assimilation. It is about a total takeover through persecution and sharia law.
Take a look across the pond. Eunope and the UK are tired of these people and their ancient way of thinking .
Everyone doesn’t want to be a Muslim.
China is doing the right thing. They don’t want their country to turn into the islamafacation of Europe !
Skip the travel ban and give them a medal for good work.
It was written in our immigration policy.
Chris N. You have stated the exact mission of the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR in America. Yes, to the question concerning the ban of muslims in America, however it was enacted in the 1950’s not the 60’s.
More TRUTH than fun…..
Didn’t we used to ban immigration of Muslims to the US until the 1960s for this reason?
You must be talking about some other country but who? It can’t be us we aren’t a “democracy”. We are a representative REPUBLIC. Big difference. China’s certainly not a “democracy” either so who?
For all of their crimes against humanity and endangered species as well as the environment we should not even be doing ANY commerce with them at all! END trade with china!
The only US Pres who confronts China head on…unlike Obama who was the yes-man of other foreign leaders.
Sharia law may indeed be incompatible with western democratic principles.
But then again, in how many parts of the US is pledging allegiance to the flag or constitution for that matter even discussed.
Taking the “knee” is considered the norm by the “ignoranti” of this country.
We rely on an educated moral populace to have our constitutional republic survive.
Let’s hope it does.
China may be right on how to deal with Muslims.
Boy this sounds just like a US political party . I substituted democrat for communist in some of this paragraph for fun.
As part of thew democrat campaign of sinicization — a government effort to make all of the country’s population more conformed to the democrat Party’s vision of left wing atheist secular culture, dems have been attempting to place all non-leftists in detention camps. They have allegedly been subjected to brainwashing, torture, and other inhumane circumstances as the government tries to force them to let go of their faith and more fully embrace the leftist socialist state.
Sometimes its easy to agree with China or Russia. Being a democracy its hard to put down evil. They just go in and arrest them all. Now we have more illegals and muslims in this country than one really knows.
but but but according to all liberals trump hates muslims all muslims, this cant be so it has to be fake news because trump hates muslims lol