China’s chief diplomat at the Munich Security Conference

On Wednesday, the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) warned not to expect more than warm words from Wang Yi in the course of his visit to the Munich Security Conference. “Wang Yi represents a state that is responsible for systematic human rights violations. Further, Wang Yi’s superior, Xi Jinping, is ideologically in line with Vladimir Putin. They have met in person more than 40 times, and they have even celebrated birthdays together,” stated Jasna Causevic, STP expert on genocide prevention and the Responsibility to Protect. “The leaders of China and Russia agree that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a catastrophe, that only the right of the strongest matters in this world, and that the system of human rights is worthless.” This should not be obscured by a charm offensive of the Chinese Foreign Minister. The Munich Security Conference must work out a concept to force Putin to put an end to his war in Ukraine – otherwise it would miss its point. “The mistakes states such as Germany made concerning Vladimir Putin must not be repeated when dealing with Xi Jinping,” Causevic warned.

Meanwhile, China’s genocide crimes against the Uyghurs continue unabated. Wives, sisters, and mothers of hundreds of thousands of camp inmates are being mistreated, raped, and subjected to forced sterilization, while their children are put in state-run boarding schools where they are forcibly assimilated. Tibetan monasteries are destroyed, and the Tibetan and the Mongolian language are rigorously suppressed. “The Chinese regime wants to allow only the Han culture and the Han language,” confirmed Hanno Schedler, STP expert on genocide prevention and the Responsibility to Protect. “Both Russia and China are systematically using family separations to tear Ukrainian, Tibetan, and Uyghur children out of their communities.” Thus, the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues, Fernand de Varennes, recently reported that about one million Tibetan children were separated from their parents and sent to border schools that are run by the Chinese state. This policy is reminiscent of the treatment of indigenous children in North America in the 19th and 20th century.