A REPORT ON
CHINESE XIN JIANG ; A Short Comment from SAMIR AMIN
A French
reporter (Ursula Gauthier) has been recently expelled from China for her
criticism of the policies pursued by China in Xin Jiang. Well one would expect
from French journalists that they devote their efforts rather to look into the
continuous and systematic racist discrimination practiced vis a vis their
nationals of “moslem extract” by many of the authorities (municipal councils,
police, employers) running after the support of that important minority who
gives its votes to the racist fascists. She should have denounced these
practices which do not contribute fighting terrorism but rather reinforce its
chances. She should have explained to her readers that France and other Western
powers do not fight terrorism out of their boundaries. The continuous alliance
with the Gulf countries and Turkey, who actively support Daesh, Nosra and other
djihadists in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Mali , as well as in Russia
and China, is never denounced. These journalists belong to what I qualify “the
media clergy in the service of the imperialist oligarchies ruling their
countries”. For sure Chinese policies in Xin Jiang and Tibet are not above any
criticism, but it is not what is painted in the Western media. It fights
terrorism, not people. The Chinese revolution has liberated the peoples of Xin
Jiang and Tibet from the ugliest slavery practiced by the Mollahs and the
monks. The Western so called “democrats” of to-day ignore these facts. The
Western powers never did it in their colonies. They always fought democratic
struggles in the countries of the South, pursuing their exclusive goal
–subordinating those countries to their plunder- which implies associating with
the most reactionary local classes, enemies of their own people and therefore
useful friends of the Western powers. They pursue the same target in Xin Jiang
and Tibet and to that effect provide support to the Mollahs and the Dalai
Lama’s monks, including to those of them who moved into terrorist action. The
western powers and their media clergy have no right to give lessons of
democracy to China. They should first correct their ugly behavior in the places
they control.
(
December 2015)
