Liu Xiaoming, the outspoken Chinese Ambassador to the U.K., who has been there for ten years, held a virtual press conference on July 30 in which he blasted the multiple lies being used to attack China, hitting especially at Andrew Marr, the disgusting BBC interview specialist, who had held an insulting interview with him last week (and a similar one with Russian Ambassador Andrei Kelin). He also warned the U.K. that their break from China will harm them more than it will China, that cutting off Huawei is “cutting the U.K. off from growth and progress,” and assuring that the U.K. will not be a leader in 5G.
Ambassador Liu said this was the fifth anniversary of the U.K.-China “Golden Era,” (declared by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne in 2015), but that rather than celebrating, the relations are collapsing. “China has not changed,” he said. “It is the U.K. which has changed. The U.K., he said, is directly interfering in the internal affairs of China, explicitly breaking the UN Charter, on several counts. He named four lies:
First, the “lie of the century”: China locked up 1 million Uighurs in Xinjiang. He said that in October 2019, some 60 countries at the UN General Assembly supported China’s approach to countering terrorism in Xinjiang, through education and job training, while in July 2020, some 46 countries at the Human RIghts Council did the same. He reviewed the fact (from the “GrayZone”) that the author of the “million Uighurs locked up” was Adrian Zenz, a fundamentalist lunatic who “believes he has been sent by God to confront China.” Liu showed videos of the terrorist attacks from several years ago, showed the classrooms at the schools set up for the youth, and interviews with a number of the graduates of the training. Andrew Marr had shown a video supposedly showing “hundreds of Uighurs blindfolded and kneeling” as if part of the suppression. Liu said these were prisoners being transferred, “a normal judicial process, nothing to do with Uighurs,” and that they were not kneeling, while over half the group were guards.
Second, the “destruction of mosques”: Liu showed the satellite photos displayed by Western media of ancient mosques “before and after” their destruction — but then showed the new, modern mosques that had replaced the old, which of course were never shown on Western media. “There are 24,000 mosques in Xinjiang, one for every 530 Muslims, which is greater than the number of churches per Christian in the U.K.,” Liu reported.
Third, Marr had shown a video of a Uighur woman claiming she had been forcefully sterilized. Ambassador Liu then showed a video with the woman’s sister and brother telling her she should stop lying, that she had had an operation after a problem with her third child’s birth, that her husband had signed for it. He said that the Uighur population had been given special exemptions (with other ethnic minorities) from the restriction on the number of children per family, and that the Uighur population had doubled.
