Saudi’s bin Salman mum on China’s abuse of Uyghur Muslims as he touts ties
Absent from the crown prince’s two-day visit to China was any mention of the brutal abuses suffered by millions of Uyghur Muslims in Chinese internment camps
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Yeni Şafak
Saudi
Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman was all smiles in his photo ops during
his visit to China, where he touted his country’s ties with the world’s
second biggest economy.
Absent from the crown prince’s two-day visit to China was any mention
of the brutal abuses suffered by millions of Uyghur Muslims in Chinese
internment camps, labeled by many as akin to World War Two gulags.
Official press photos showed bin Salman flashing big smiles at the
camera as he toured the Great Wall of China with the Chinese ambassador
to Saudi Arabia by his side.
Earlier
this month, Turkey slammed Chinese authorities’ systematic assimilation
policy towards Uighur Turks, saying it is a "great embarrassment for
humanity.”
China sees "enormous potential" in Saudi Arabia's economy and wants
more high-tech cooperation, the Chinese government's top diplomat said,
as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman began a two-day trip to
Beijing.
The
crown prince will meet President Xi Jinping, who has made stepping up
China's presence in the Middle East a key foreign policy objective,
despite its traditional low-key role there.
Reuters Agency
Saudi crown prince sings trade deals in Beijing
Saudi
Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attended a signing ceremony
with Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng, ahead of his meeting with President
Xi Jinping in the Chinese capital of Beijing on Friday.
China’s
Xinjiang region is home to around 10 million Uighurs. The Turkic Muslim
group, which makes up around 45 percent of Xinjiang’s population, has
long accused China’s authorities of cultural, religious and economic
discrimination.
China
stepped up its restrictions on the region in the past two years,
banning men from growing beards and women from wearing veils and
introducing what many experts see as the world’s most extensive
electronic surveillance program, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Up
to 1 million people, or about 7 percent of the Muslim population in
Xinjiang, have been incarcerated in an expanding network of “political
re-education” camps, according to U.S. officials and UN experts.
In
August, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination,
in a meeting held in Geneva, stated that the Uyghur individuals, who the
local administrators accuse of having unfavorable political thought, in
China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region were held in political
training centers.
The UN body’s representatives stated that up to 3 million people have been detained without any judicial decisions.
Human
Rights Watch had previously announced that the Chinese government was
conducting a "mass, systematic campaign of human rights violations
against Turkic Muslims" in China.
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