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[beijingwalker]

Uighur girl shows you that going to a shopping mall in Xinjiang is not all about shopping.

 

[beijingwalker]

Uighur girls sing "Ode to the Motherland": 歌唱祖国

Lyrics (original)
Our flags are waving in the wind
With the glorious praise of victory
Ode to our gracious motherland
Marching toward prosperity from today
Ode to our gracious motherland
Marching toward the prosperity from today
Over the mountains, across the plains
Cross the Yangtze and Huang River
Tis’ the dear home of ours,
the grand and beautiful land of China
Hail the Chinese people stand up from today
We are united, affectionate, and strong as steel!

Our flags are waving in the wind
With the glorious praise of victory
Ode to our gracious motherland
Marching toward prosperity from today
Ode to our gracious motherland
Marching toward the prosperity from today
We work tirelessly, we share bravery
Splendid is our Five-thousands years history
How many challenges we have encountered
To gain today's liberation
We love peace, we love our motherland
But we pledge to tear any aggression

Our flags are waving in the wind
With the glorious praise of victory
Ode to our gracious motherland
Marching toward prosperity from today
Ode to our gracious motherland
Marching toward the prosperity from today
People's republic is thriving
As the oriental rising sun
Great leader Mao is pointing the path toward victory
Our future is bright and fruitful
We the people will enjoy her plenteousness!

Our flags are waving in the wind
With the glorious praise of victory
Ode to our gracious motherland
Marching toward prosperity from today
Ode to our gracious motherland
Marching toward the prosperity from today!

They are kind of out of tune, not a good singing, here is a better one.

 

[beijingwalker]

Uighur girls sing"My motherland and I"

My Motherland and I
My country and I are never apart
Wherever I may be, I'll sing a song of praise
I sing of every high mountain, I sing of every river,
I sing of curling smoke, little villages and ruts in the road,
My dearest country, I'll aways be by your side.
You talk to me from a mother's heart.
My country and I are like sea and waves, the waves is the child of the sea
The sea nurtures the wave
Every time the sea smiles, I become a dimple of whirlpool
I share the worries and the happiness of the sea,
My dearest country, you are the sea that never dries up,
You bring me clear and gentle tides like a song in my heart

 

[beijingwalker]

Due to Xinjiang's peace , stability and great prosperity along with the stunning natural beauty, it attracts 300 million tourists every year in recent years, roughly one third of Xinjiang's GDP now comes from tourism.

Xinjiang is very famous for its unique head slide Uighur dance style in China, so many tourists try to mimic this dance style and interact when they see Uighur girls when traveling in Xinjiang.

 

[beijingwalker]

Uighur girl: We are Chinese beauties.

 

[striver44]

U.S. Seizes $800k Chinese Shipment of Human Hair Products on Suspicion of Human Rights Violations

Mairead McArdle
,
National Review•July 2, 2020

U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Wednesday seized a Chinese shipment of nearly 13 tons of wigs and other human hair products suspected of being produced by forced labor in Xinjiang.

U.S. officials at the Port of New York/Newark detained the shipment of products and accessories suspected to be made with human hair, citing “potential human right abuses of forced child labor and imprisonment.”

“The production of these goods constitutes a very serious human rights violation, and the detention order is intended to send a clear and direct message to all entities seeking to do business with the United States that illicit and inhumane practices will not be tolerated in U.S. supply chains,” read a statement from Brenda Smith, executive assistant commissioner of the CBP Office of Trade.

“It is absolutely essential that American importers ensure that the integrity of their supply chain meets the humane and ethical standards expected by the American government and by American consumers,” Smith said.

Federal law prohibits importing goods produced by forced labor.

On June 17, CBP issued a detention order for imports from Lop County Meixin Hair Product Co. Ltd. in southern Xinjiang, based on “information that reasonably indicated” that the company’s products are manufactured with prison labor as well as forced labor involving excessive overtime, withholding of wages, and restriction of movement. The order requires shipments from the company to be detained at ports nationwide.

“If this highly suspicious, 13-ton shipment of human hair indeed turns out to be linked to the Uighur concentration camps, then this is a new low — even for the Chinese Communist Party — and they will have to answer to the world community for their actions,” National Security Council spokesperson John Ullyot told Axios.

Since 2017, the Chinese government has detained an estimated one million or more Uighur Muslims and other minorities in “re-education camps” around Xinjiang, which are designed to instill a sense of loyalty to the government. Around 80,000 Uighurs have been forced to work in factories, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute estimated.

China claims that the detention camps are for voluntary education and training and are used to combat extremism, but Chinese government documents leaked last year detail how the facilities are run with extreme control over their residents.

https://news.yahoo.com/u-seizes-800k-chinese-shipment-173940513.html

 

[YeBeWarned]

products suspected of being made through forced labor in Xinjiang

 

[Dalit]

What is wrong with using hair? LOL Putting something to good use is rewarding.

 

[waz]

Guys let go of the personal abuse.
Anyway merged with the sticky thread.

 

[jaibi]

Closed for clean up.

 

[jaibi]

Please, keep this thread clean and if there's any abuse then report instead of engaging with it.

 

[Raphael]

U.S. Seizes $800k Chinese Shipment of Human Hair Products on Suspicion of Human Rights Violations
https://news.yahoo.com/u-seizes-800k-chinese-shipment-173940513.html

@Hamartia Antidote @KAL-EL @dbc

Another case of USians trying to shirk responsibility and blame others for their problems. Demand for weaves only arises because of centuries of systemic racism and white supremacist beauty standards that brainwashed US black women into believing that their natural nappy-textured hair was "ugly", and that they couldn't be pretty without using fake hair to emulate the straight hair on white women. Nothing to do with Uygurs, and everything to with the ugly legacy of being a racist, colonialist, imperialist country.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

@Hamartia Antidote @KAL-EL @dbc

Another case of USians trying to shirk responsibility and blame others for their problems. Demand for weaves only arises because of centuries of systemic racism and white supremacist beauty standards that brainwashed US black women into believing that their natural nappy-textured hair was "ugly", and that they couldn't be pretty without using fake hair to emulate the straight hair on white women. Nothing to do with Uygurs, and everything to with the ugly legacy of being a racist, colonialist, imperialist country.

This is truly one of the dumbest posts I have ever seen on PDF.

Demand for hair products is global...and it isn't just for American black women. The USSR was the primary source of human hair and that was big with Jewish women.

As for black women and hair extensions even women in Africa do it and most have never met an American. So pulling out the white racism card is just stupid. More likely China's recent influence in Africa is brainwashing black women there into buying Chinese products. Look who is reporting and happily promoting it...

Huge market in Nigeria for weaves made in China
CGTN Africa (China Global Television Network)

Hair manufacturers vie for a cut of Kenya's $250 million market
CGTN Africa (China Global Television Network)

The sad reality is impoverished Chinese women are an exploited source. If they can find a cheap source...they can also easily find cheap labor.

 

[beijingwalker]

Farewell to "sour" life: Cleaner water for arid Xinjiang
Farewell, sour, salty puddle water! Rural residents in Xinjiang now have access to clean drinking water thanks to a water project in the arid northwestern Chinese region.

 

[beijingwalker]

Western reports of organ harvesting in Xinjiang run contrary to facts: China's top organ donation expert
By Liu Xin and Zhao Yusha Source:Global Times Published: 2020/7/4 23:32:49

A new wave of accusations against China "harvesting organs" emerged recently, and by adding minorities in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to the latest "victims" list, some anti-China forces and Western media are attempting to use these unfounded reports to escalate slandering against China, observers said. "You will never wake someone who is pretending to be asleep," China's top expert on organ transplant said, as these lies do not accord with principles and practices on organ transplant and donations in China.

Following some Western media reports from the China Tribunal which accused the Chinese government of "harvesting organs from Falun Gong practitioners" and Uygurs "detained in camps" since June 2019, VICE magazine's France version has released a new report on the same topic on June 19, offering more so-called "evidence."

By digging into the VICE story and the series of reports on "China harvesting organs" from Falun Gong practitioners and Uygurs, the Global Times has found out that such claims are lies interwoven by members of the Falun Gong cult, separatists from Xinjiang and overseas anti-China forces with the purpose to further paint China as a devil mistreating minorities in Xinjiang, to smear the country's organ transplantation and donation system and its anti-terrorism work in Xinjiang, and to instigate the international community to further pressure China.

The VICE story was released in its France version on June 19, in which it claimed that Xinjiang authorities are taking organs from "detainees" in the vocational education and training centers. One "evidence" it gives is that since 2016, the Chinese government has launched a comprehensive medical check-up in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Tests are "only compulsory" for Uygur inhabitants aged from 12 to 65, it claims.

However, the Global Times learned from different departments and hospitals in Xinjiang and confirmed with local residents, that the medical examination project starting in 2016 covered residents from all ethnic groups.

The project includes checks on diseases of hepatitis, tuberculosis and echinococcosis to help find diseases early. The early detection of diseases through regular medical checks could help residents get early treatment and decrease poverty incidence for illnesses. By August 2019, the region had invested 4.068 billion yuan in the project.

Many residents from Uygur, Han and other ethnic groups reached by the Global Times confirmed that the medical examinations they had were nothing unusual other than medical check-ups. They felt it was absurd and ridiculous upon hearing some foreign media linking a project to such horrifying accusations of organ harvesting.

Another reason listed by VICE to support its accusations against China is the country has the shortest waiting list time - around 12 days for a transplant while many people in China don't wish to donate their organs after death. Therefore, they believe that organ "harvesting from Uygurs" makes up for the high demand.

However, reports on the yearly numbers of China's organ transplantation operations nationwide, and the Global Times' interviews with scholars and experts in the field show how shallow and biased the VICE report is regarding China's organ transplantation and donation system.


Transparent system

There are about 300,000 patients who suffer from liver, kidney, heart and lung failure on average annually in China, whilst more than 22,000 organ transplantation operations were conducted last year and the year before, Huang Jiefu, head of the China National Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee and chairman of the China Organ Transplantation Development Foundation, told the Global Times.

Although the number of organ donations in China has increased in recent years and there are still gaps between supply and demand. "Sometimes a patient has to wait one or two years to get a suitable organ," said Huang.

Chen Jingyu, a well-known expert in the lung transplant field and deputy head of the Wuxi People's Hospital, told the Global Times previously that differences exist regarding the supply and demand for different organs, as heart donations are comparatively few, but lungs are quite common - only 6 percent of donated lungs were used.

Some patients in China also receive organ donations from their relatives. Public data shows in 2017, more than 16,000 transplantation operations were conducted and 86 percent of these organs were from other donors and 14 percent from relatives of the patients.

Back in 2010, China started a pilot reform regarding deceased organ donations. In January 2015, China banned the use of executed prisoners' organs, making voluntary donations the only legitimate channel.

Organs would be allocated through the China Organ Transplant Response System and surgeons are not allowed to change the system or use organs not allocated via the system or from unclear sources.

Chen told the Global Times that China's smart organ allocation system allots organs properly and according to an individual's situation. Between two patients, one suffering from a severe illness and has to use a ventilator, and one with relatively mild symptoms, the organ will be distributed to the former.

The basic working principles of allocating organs in China also act as evidence to debunk rumors of "taking organs from Uygurs." One principle is that organs getting from one place to another should be firstly distributed to hospitals in the same place to ensure the success rate and avoid complications during transplantation.

As Xinjiang is located at the northwestern corner of China, flights to other Chinese cities from Xinjiang usually take more than two hours. For example, it takes 4.5 hours to fly from Urumqi to Beijing and more than 5 hours to Shanghai. According to Xinjiang Daily, Xinjiang announced to start comprehensive work on organ donations from 2013. A total of 55 donations were made and there were 6,700 voluntary donors as of August 2019.

"You will never wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep," Huang said, noting that rumors regarding China taking organs from Uygurs has long existed. Such fabricated reports always lack solid evidence to support their claims, so there's no need to take them seriously, he said.

"But with China being more open to the outside world, we invited foreign organizations to visit China, to see with their own eyes how China is developing its organ transplantation system. The truth lies in people's hearts."

In the past few years, China has also increased promotion of organ donation among its people. According to data from the website on organ donation established by the China Organ Transplantation Development Foundation, more than 1.3 million people have been registered as voluntary organ donors.

Closed loop of lies

VICE's story is the latest push to sell the horrific idea of the "Chinese government harvesting organs from Uygurs." Starting from June 2019, Western media have gone wild with similar claims.

In June 2019, the China Tribunal published a report claiming that the Chinese government has been "systematically executing and harvesting organs of Falun Gong members" and Muslim Uygurs.

Although the China Tribunal describes itself as an "independent tribunal into forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China," a report from US media outlet The Grayzone revealed that the tribunal and the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC) have close relations to the Epoch Times, a far-right media arm of the Falun Gong cult.

ETAC, which initiated the China Tribunal claims itself to be an international nonprofit organization, with its headquarters in Australia.

Falun Gong is an illegal cult that has been banned by the Chinese government. It is also an anti-China political organization that has used unscrupulous measures to discredit China, and the Epoch Times acts as its rumor spreading machine.

Campbell Fraser, an international organ trafficking researcher from Australia, told the Global Times in an interview in April 2017 that a number of Western politicians, academics and lawyers have used Falun Gong to fulfill their political objectives against the Chinese government.

It seems that to add more ingredients to their long-lasting lies, The Falun Gong cult drags liars and separatists from Xinjiang and more anti-China forces into their clique.

The VICE story cited Gulbahar Jelilova, who claimed she was sent to Xinjiang's vocational education and training centers and heard about people's organs being harvested.

However, the Global Times learned from relevant departments and various sources that Gulbahar is a Kazakh national and was detained by police for allegedly financing terrorist activities. She had never been to any vocational education and training center during her stay in Xinjiang.

Erkin Sidick, advisor to the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), has also been mentioned by VICE and some Western media as one of the first to have alerted outsiders to the "existence of the Chinese government selling organs of Uygurs."

The self-proclaimed "peaceful" organization, the WUC, has been revealed as a US-backed right-wing regime-change network seeking the "fall of China." It has become a political tool for the US' new Cold War and media campaign against China.

"It has become a closed loop for fabricating, spreading and hyping up lies regarding Xinjiang - overseas separatists, NGOs and anti-China forces create new rumors and lies, Western media report and hype them up, Western politicians use them to make accusations against China. And the practice has been escalated to a new level recently," Wang Jiang, an associate research fellow at the Institute of Law at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times.

Wang said that these anti-China forces aim to smear China but their efforts seem in vain as the majority of countries in the international community express support regarding China's stance on Xinjiang.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1193505.shtml