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Pew Poll Finds Widespread Global Disgust with China’s Human Rights Atrocities
A Pew Research Center poll of 25,000 adults across 19 countries found that nearly 80 percent of respondents viewed China’s human rights violations as a “serious problem,” the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported Thursday.
A median of 79 percent of the poll’s respondents considered China’s human rights abuses a “serious problem” while 47 percent viewed them as a “very serious problem.”
Pew Research Center conducted the survey between February 14 and June 3 and published its results on June 29. The Washington D.C.-based think tank interviewed people from the following 19 nations: the U.S., Canada, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the U.K., Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea, Hungary, Poland, Israel, and Australia.
The participants were asked questions concerning their opinions of China and its “policies on human rights,” among others. Pew Research Center surveyed respondents about “China’s military power, economic competition with China and China’s involvement in domestic politics in each country.”
Uyghur Turks who say they haven’t heard any news our families and relatives in Eastern Turkistan attend a protest near the Chinese embassy, in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. (Burhan Ozbilici/AP)
“[M]ore people label the human rights policies [of China] as a very serious problem than say the same of the others,” the organization noted.
Protestors march with placards during a demonstration against the planned construction of the Chinese Fudan University campus on June 5, 2021 in Budapest, Hungary. (Janos Kummer/Getty Images)
Continuing, Pew Research Center wrote:
Unfavorable views are also closely related to concerns about China’s military power – something that a median of 37% say is a very serious problem. Worries are particularly acute among China’s neighbors – especially Japan (60%), Australia (57%) and South Korea (46%) – though nearly half in some non-geographically proximate countries like Spain (47%) and the Netherlands (46%) also feel this way.
Economic competition with China is seen as a less serious problem. A median of 30% describe it as
very serious, and outside of Israel, it is not seen as the top problem among the four tested in any of
the 19 countries.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) routinely violates the human rights of its citizens, most egregiously committing genocide against the ethnic groups native to occupied East Turkistan. The territory is located along China’s western boundary with Central Asia and thus is home to a number of regional ethnic minorities, including the Turkic-speaking Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz people. Chinese government-run concentration camps have funneled members of these groups into slave labor conditions across factories and farms in East Turkistan and greater China in recent years years. Human rights organizations estimate that up to three million of the region’s Uyghurs have been subjected to this system since 2017.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in January 2021 he had “determined that the PRC [People’s Republic of China], under the direction and control of the CCP, has committed genocide against the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang.”
‘Innovative and Inspiring:’ Apple CEO Tim Cook Cozies Up to Communist China
Apple CEO Tim Cook recently met with Chinese Communist Party members and praised China’s “innovative and inspiring” app developers in a cozy interview with Chinese state-owned media.
The Washington Free Beacon reports that Apple CEO Tim Cook met with Chinese Communist Party members and propagandists this month. Speaking from the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Cook praised the “innovative and inspiring” app developers of China in an interview with China Daily. The publication is a state-owned CCP mouthpiece that regularly defends the government and spreads disinformation about china’s genocide against Uyghur Muslims.
Tim Cook speaks in China ( NG HAN GUAN /Getty)
Apple CEO Tim Cook poses for a goofy selfie ( Justin Sullivan/Getty)
This move shows Cook’s readiness to compromise Apple’s core values around privacy and user data in order to continue operating in China. Apple has previously stated its dedication to human rights and privacy in the U.S. while complying with Beijing’s national laws around access to user data and ignoring the country’s human rights record.
Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) told the Free Beacon: “This further underscores the hypocrisy of corporate America, which preaches social justice at home and turns a blind eye when it comes to its profits. It’s absolutely shameful an American CEO would sit down with a communist, genocide-denying propaganda rag like China Daily.”
Cook noted that Apple’s app store has 5 million China-based apps, an increase from 4.4 million last year, and praised China’s developers as “at the cutting edge” and said he was “inspired” by their innovation.
Apple regularly blocks apps from its tore that might offend Chinese leaders and shares its Chinese customers’ sure data with authorities in the country. One China expert said that Cook has had to “kiss the ring” of Chinese government leaders as he “is desperate to hold onto any remaining scraps of the China market.”
In 2021, it was revealed that Apple had signed a secret “deal with the devil,” a $275 billion deal between the tech giant and the communist dictatorship to secure its business interests in China.
Breitbart News reported:
In 2016, Cook lobbied Chinese government officials over regulations that could threaten Apple services including the App Store, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Cook signed the deal with China during one of several visits to China that year after Chinese regulators’ actions tanked iPhone sales in the country.
A memo of understanding was created by Apple’s government affairs team in China alongside China’s National Development and Reform Commission to improve the company’s relations with Chinese leaders. Apple executives also made it a priority to meet with top Chinese government officials after the 2016 regulations affected iTunes books and movies.
The deal made Apple commit to helping Chinese manufacturers build the most advanced manufacturing technologies” and train workers. It also included promises to use Chinese suppliers for more parts for Apple devices, develop deals with Chinese software firms, work with Chinese universities, and invest “many of billions of dollars more,” than Apple was already investing in China.
Read more at the Washington Free Beacon here.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or contact via secure email at the address lucasnolan@protonmail.com
Mitch McConnell says he'll kill the bipartisan China bill if Democrats revive their agenda with Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema
Mitch McConnell vowed to effectively kill major bipartisan legislation if Democrats pursue their own plan.
McConnell's statement is a major and perhaps fatal setback for a lengthy effort to pass a China bill.
Lawmakers on both sides have moved to bulk up the US semiconductor industry, which is a major part of the plan.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declared on Thursday that he would block the progress of President Joe Biden's major bipartisan semiconductor bill aimed at thwarting China if Democrats continue to pursue a separate economic plan crafted from the ashes of Build Back Better.
"Let me be perfectly clear: there will be no bipartisan USICA as long as Democrats are pursuing a partisan reconciliation bill," McConnell tweeted.
In response, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office blasted McConnell as a tool of the "Chinese Communist Party."
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"Make no mistake: Senator McConnell is now siding with the Chinese Communist Party against American workers and American industry," Pelosi spokesperson Henry Connelly wrote on Twitter. "And why? So that the GOP's pals in Big Pharma can keep ripping off Americans struggling to afford their prescriptions."
McConnell's statement all but spells the death knell for bipartisan talks that have dragged on throughout the year as both chambers crafted their own sweeping plans aimed at reinvigorating America's supply chain amid China's rise. It comes as Democrats inch closer to striking a deal at reviving their stalled party-line climate and healthcare bill.
Democratic and Republican leaders continuously feuded over the China bill's scope in negotiations this year. Republicans pressed Democrats to ditch provisions dealing with trade, labor, and immigration to keep it smaller. A chunk of the bill set aside $52 billion to shore up the US semiconductor industry during a chip shortage, a key Democratic priority.
Centrist Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are key votes on Biden's stalled economic agenda. All 50 Senate Democrats must band together to advance the smaller spending bill with a tie-breaking vote from Vice President Kamala Harris.
Spokespeople for Manchin and Sinema didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Biden and the White House have repeatedly made clear that passing the China bill is a major priority. The legislation, the USICA or United States Innovation and Competition Act, is at times just called the China bill. It is so massive that it has sparked a reputation for all of the various special-interest driven provisions that have found their way into the text.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has repeatedly warned that failing to pass the legislation could have devastating consequences. Raimondo said on CNBC on Monday that GlobalWafers might not follow through on its plans to build a $5 billion factory in Texas if the bill fails.
"It has to be done before they go to August recess," said Raimondo, who has been closely involved in the talks. "I don't know how to say it any more plainly. This deal … will go away, I think, if Congress doesn't act."
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer authored the Senate's version of the bill, a sign of just how serious leadership is in passing it. Biden also pushed it during his State of the Union address in March. The Senate passed its $250 billion package last June. The House advanced its own plan in February. Both sides have been trying to sort out the details for months.
"To compete for the best jobs of the future, we also need to level the playing field with China and other competitors," Biden said during his address. "That's why it is so important to pass the Bipartisan Innovation Act sitting in Congress that will make record investments in emerging technologies and American manufacturing."
