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<p>Im Zusammenhang mit dem Hype von Frank Sieren etc. möchte ich
auch das folgende Statement weiterleiten.</p>
<p>Danke für Eure Aufmerksamkeit,</p>
<p>Martin</p>
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<p>Fwd by Magnus Fiskesjö <<a href="mailto:nf42@cornell.edu">nf42@cornell.edu</a>></p>
<p>Source: <a href="https://concernedscholars.home.blog/">https://concernedscholars.home.blog/</a></p>
<p><b><font size="+1">Statement by Concerned Scholars on China’s
Mass Detention of Turkic Minorities</font></b></p>
<p>Scholars from around the world have signed on to a statement
forcefully condemning the mass internment of Uyghurs and other
Turkic Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous
Region (XUAR) of China.</p>
<p>TEXT OF STATEMENT</p>
<p>Statement by Concerned Scholars on China’s Mass Detention of
Turkic Minorities<br>
November 26, 2018</p>
<p>As concerned scholars who study China, the Xinjiang Uyghur
Autonomous Region (XUAR), Central Asia, and other related
regions of the world, we issue this statement to highlight our
concerns and to call the international community to action in
relation to the mass human rights abuses and deliberate attacks
on indigenous cultures presently taking place in China’s
XUAR. The signatories to this statement are united in viewing
the present situation in this region of China as one of
significant international concern. This situation must be
addressed to prevent setting negative future precedents
regarding the acceptability of any state’s complete repression
of a segment of its population, especially on the basis of
ethnicity or religion.<span id="more-27721"></span></p>
<p>Background</p>
<p>The Chinese state is engaged in the mass detention of Uyghurs,
Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and other Muslim minorities in their homelands
in the Central Asian borderlands of Northwest China.Researchers
estimate that around one million people have been detained
without trial. In the camps, these detainees, most of whom are
Uyghur, are subjected to deeply invasive forms of surveillance
and psychological stress as they are forced to abandon their
native language, religious beliefs and cultural practices.
Outside of the camps, more than 10 million Turkic Muslim
minorities in the region are subjected to a dense network of
surveillance systems, checkpoints, and interpersonal monitoring
which severely limit all forms of personal freedom.</p>
<p>What is Happening in the Camps?</p>
<p>Until October 2018 the Chinese authorities officially denied
the existence of the camps. They have since declared that the
camps are “vocational training” schools which Uyghurs, Kazakhs,
and other Muslim minorities attend voluntarily. In programing
featured on state television on October 16, Uyghur detainees
were shown learning Chinese, receiving training in industrial
production, and discussing their regret concerning past
religious and ethno-national beliefs while proclaiming a
new-found love for the Chinese political system. Yet in many of
the shots at the camp, it is clear that the detainees are being
monitored by numerous cameras.</p>
<p>Reports from eyewitnesses have noted malnourishment and severe
psychological distress among the detainees, and some report
detainees being forcibly given psychiatric drugs. In some cases,
shoelaces and belts are confiscated, due to the prevalence of
self-harm and suicide. Those who do not fully participate in
political reeducation are often subjected to beatings, solitary
confinement, and forms of religious and psychological violation.
There have been numerous reports of deaths in the centers,
particularly among the elderly and infirm, but also of younger
people who were in good health when they were taken. While there
are frequent reports of more people entering the camps, there
are very few reports of those being released.</p>
<p>Why is this happening now?</p>
<p>China’s present signature foreign policy initiative is the
“Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI) that seeks to connect the PRC
economically to the rest of the Eurasian continent through large
infrastructure projects that will stimulate international
trade. The western and south-western components of the BRI
require the XUAR to serve as a transportation and commercial hub
to trade routes and pipelines that will join China with Central
and South Asia, the Middle East, and the entirety of Europe. As
a result, the XUAR has become a very important strategic region
for China, and the state views its indigenous populations as an
obstacle to developing its vision for this future critical
center of international commercial networks.</p>
<p>What are the implications of the mass detention system in the
XUAR for the rest of China?</p>
<p>China’s approach in the XUAR is consistent with the CCP’s
broader implementation of the concept of “social management” as
a means of preserving its hold on power. For the Party, the
goal of “social management” and the “social credit” system is to
ensure that the population internalizes the Communist Party’s
ideology and supports the Party’s hold on power. In the XUAR,
this requires that key markers of Turkic Muslim identity such as
religious observance and language be forcibly “cured” or
“eradicated” through mass incarceration and “re-education.”
There are concerns that such extreme measures could be
replicated to address other segments of the Chinese population
who are perceived as threatening the Party’s monolithic vision
of the PRC.</p>
<p>What are the implications for the rest of the world?</p>
<p>China has defended its mass incarceration of Turkic Muslims on
the basis of counter-terrorism. However, it is also apparent
that China is both seeking to embed its Xinjiang-focused
policies in counter-terrorism cooperation with international
partners and to export the methods and technologies that have
underpinned its “surveillance state” in Xinjiang. If what is
happening today in the XUAR is not addressed by the
international community, there is a likelihood that we could see
its replication in other authoritarian states who have used the
label of “terrorist” to describe those who peacefully resist
state hegemony.</p>
<p>Policy Suggestions</p>
<p>There is now significant discussion among US and European
leaders regarding economic sanctions directed at key Chinese
leaders and security companies. There is also discussion of new
forms of assistance to Uyghur and Kazakh asylum seekers outside
of China and the establishment of a Congressional Act in the US
that would earmark resources to protect the human rights of
Uyghurs inside China. The signatories support these initiatives
and call for the following additional measures to be taken by
the international community:</p>
<p>1) We call on states and institutions to issue formal
statements demanding that Xi Jinping and Chen Quanguo
immediately abolish the “transformation through education”
detention system and release all Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and
other detainees.</p>
<p>2) We call on states and institutions to demand and impose
economic sanctions on Chinese authorities and technology
companies in- and outside of China, which are benefiting from
this process. Such sanctions should go beyond lower-level
officials and target Chen Quanguo, under whose leadership in the
region this system of mass incarceration has been instituted.
Likewise, they should include high-profile technology companies,
whose concessions to the Chinese government on internet
surveillance have implicated them in the repression presently
taking place in the XUAR.</p>
<p>3) We call on states and institutions to introduce legislation
joining Germany and Sweden in granting expedited asylum to
Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Turkic Muslim minorities from China
and a blanket refusal to deport Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims
to China.</p>
<p>4) We call on Beijing to cease its extra-territorial campaign
of harassment against members of the Uyghur diaspora community
around the globe and urge relevant states and institutions where
those communities reside to make the protection of Uyghurs a
matter of priority in their diplomatic relations with Beijing.</p>
<p>5) We call on the thirteen UN member states that expressed
grave concern about the existence of this system of mass
incarceration at the recent UN Universal Periodic Review of
China’s human rights record to spearhead a movement for UN
action aimed at investigating this mass internment system and
closing the camps. Additionally, we call on those states that
have yet remained silent on this issue, including
Muslim-majority states and those in Central Asia whose own
citizens or citizens’ relatives have been interned, to join in
this action.</p>
<p>6) We call upon countries presently engaged in negotiations
regarding projects that are part of the Belt and Road
Initiative, particularly those that are linking to the XUAR as a
hub for trade and commerce, to make their involvement in these
projects contingent on the closing of the mass internment camps
and the ceasing of other means of mass repression to which the
Turkic minorities in this region are currently subjected.</p>
<p>7) We call upon academic institutions around the world with
formal partnerships with state-run Chinese academic institutions
to express their concern about the present situation in the XUAR
with their colleagues and to consider suspending their
partnerships until the camps have been closed and all detainees
are released.</p>
<p>PDF of STATEMENT HERE:<br>
<a
href="https://concernedscholarshome.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/statement-by-concerned-scholars-on-the-mass-detention-of-turkic-minorities.pdf">https://concernedscholarshome.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/statement-by-concerned-scholars-on-the-mass-detention-of-turkic-minorities.pdf</a></p>
<p>Signatories (105) = listed at: <a
href="https://concernedscholars.home.blog/">https://concernedscholars.home.blog/</a></p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28/11/2018 11:10 a.m., Sinologie
wrote:<br>
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<h1><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D" lang="DE">Zu
Ihrer Information:<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1><span style="font-size:20.0pt" lang="DE">Frank Sieren:
Zukunft? China! Wie die neue Supermacht unser Leben, unsere
Politik, unsere Wirtschaft verändert (Penguin)<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="marker"><em><span style="color:red" lang="DE">Nov</span></em><span
class="ve-page"><span style="color:red" lang="DE">28</span></span><span
style="color:red" lang="DE">
<span class="dtstart"><b>28.11.2018, 19:00</b></span><strong>
- </strong><span class="dtend"><b>21:00</b></span>
<br>
<span class="location">Hauptbücherei am Gürtel, 1070
Urban-Loritz-Platz 2a</span>
<br>
</span><em><span lang="DE">Reihe: Pro und Contra – aktuelle
Sachbücher im Gespräch</span></em><span lang="DE">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span lang="DE">Helmut Opletal im Gespräch mit Frank
Sieren</span></strong><span lang="DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="DE">China ist keine ferne Bedrohung mehr, China
ist da! Politisch und wirtschaftlich. Das Reich der Mitte
ist ehrgeizig, schnell und gut organisiert, es ist innovativ
wie das Silicon Valley und bestimmt zunehmend die
internationalen Spielregeln. China setzt auf Wachstum und
digitale Technologien und hält sich nicht mit dem westlichen
Demokratiemodell auf. Auf allen Kontinenten investiert es in
Bodenschätze, Schlüsselindustrien und Infrastruktur – auch
bei uns. Das 1000-Milliarden-Dollar-Projekt der Neuen
Seidenstraße reicht bis Duisburg. An den Aktienmärkten
gehören <em>Alibaba</em> und
<em>Tencent</em> inzwischen zu den weltweit größten
Unternehmen. Aus erster Hand zeigt der China-Experte Frank
Sieren, wo China uns direkt herausfordert und was die neue
Weltmacht für uns bedeutet: sowohl Chance als auch Gefahr.<br>
<br>
<strong>Frank Sieren</strong> ist einer der führenden
China-Experten Deutschlands. Der Journalist, Buchautor und
Dokumentarfilmer lebt seit 1994 in Peking – länger als jeder
andere westliche Wirtschaftsjournalist. Er hat den Aufstieg
der neuen Weltmacht hautnah miterlebt. Lange schrieb Sieren
für die <em>Wirtschaftswoche </em>und die <em>Zeit;
</em>heute ist er der China-Experte des <em>Handelsblatts.</em>
Sieren hat bereits mehrere China-Bestseller veröffentlicht.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span lang="DE">Helmut Opletal, </span></strong><span
lang="DE">ehem. ORF-Redakteur, studierte Publizistik,
Politikwissenschaft und Chinesisch in Wien und Peking.
1980-85 China-Korrespondent des ORF und mehrerer Zeitungen.
Ab 2010 freier Publizist und Lehrender für Sinologie an der
Uni Wien. Für das Weltmuseum und das Völkerkundemuseum
Zürich kuratierte er eine Ausstellung über die »Kultur der
Kulturrevolution«. Zuletzt forschte er zur chinesischen
Demokratiebewegung.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="DE">Büchertisch: Buchhandlung Orlando | <a
href="http://www.orlandobuch.at/" moz-do-not-send="true">
www.orlandobuch.at</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Sieren © privat" class="" width="480" height="318"
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Katinka Kraxner<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri
Light",sans-serif;color:#2E74B5" lang="DE">Institut
für Ostasienwissenschaften/Sinologie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Light",sans-serif;color:#2E74B5" lang="DE">Spitalgasse
2, Hof 2, Eingang 2.3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Light",sans-serif;color:#2E74B5" lang="DE">T:
+43-1-4277-43840<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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