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Egg In Their Face
Two Anti-China Claims The Wall Street Journal Made Last Week Were Fake
by b
www.moonofalabama.org (May 29 2023)
On May 26 Amnesty International published one of its usual aggressive
accusations against a government the US is hostile to.
Hong Kong: Government must reveal whereabouts of Uyghur student
detained at airport (archived {1})
Hong Kong authorities must reveal the whereabouts and fate of a Uyghur
student who has been missing since he arrived in the city from South
Korea earlier this month, amid fears he has been unlawfully extradited
to mainland China without due process and is at risk of arbitrary
detention and torture, Amnesty International said today.
Abuduwaili Abudureheman has not been heard from since he sent a text
message to a friend on 10 May. In the message, Abudureheman said he
was being interrogated by Chinese police after arriving at Hong Kong
airport.
"The unknown fate of Abuduwaili Abudureheman is deeply worrying, given
the background of crimes against humanity committed against Uyghurs by
the Chinese government in Xinjiang, and its ongoing pursuit of Uyghurs
who have travelled overseas", said Alkan Akad, Amnesty International's
China Researcher.
The accusations seem to be based on claims made by a single anonymous source:
On 10 May 2023, Abuduwaili travelled to Hong Kong to visit a friend,
but he has been missing since his text message that evening, saying
that he was being questioned at the airport by Chinese police. The
friend has made Abuduwaili's disappearance public after becoming
increasingly concerned for his safety.
Amnesty International understands that Abuduwaili was on a Chinese
government "watch list" of Uyghurs and other Muslims from the Xinjiang
region, based on the fact that he had a history of overseas travel.
Amnesty International has documented numerous instances of the Chinese
government targeting Uyghurs both at home and abroad with arbitrary
incommunicado detention, lengthy imprisonment and torture purely based
on the fact that they had travelled outside of China.
In 2021 Amnesty closed its Hong Kong office {2}. One wonders then how
it communicated with the relevant "friend"?
The Wall Street Journal and others {3} published China-bashing pieces
{4} based solely on Amnesty's claims.
The authorities Hong Kong were pretty pissed {5} about the allegations
as the man is question had never been there:
Hong Kong on Saturday criticized rights group Amnesty International's
accusation that a Uyghur student disappeared after being interrogated
at the airport, and said that government records showed that he had
not entered or been refused entry to the city.
The Korean Yonhap news agency made efforts to actually contact the
man. It turned out that he is still in Korea and has no plans {6} to
go anywhere else (machine translation):
(New York = Yonhap News) Correspondent Koh Il-hwan = Abduwali Abu
Dureheman (38), an international student from Xinjiang, China, who
Amnesty International said was missing in Hong Kong, is staying in
Korea, his advisor said.
In a phone call with Yonhap News on the 29th, Jo Wook-yeon, head of
the physical education department at Kookmin University, who is Abu
Durehman's advisor, said, "Amnesty's announcement is not true".
Dean Cho said, "Abu Dureheman has not departed from Hong Kong, and is
staying in Korea safely".
Dean Cho repeatedly confirmed that he had been in contact with Abu
Durehman on a daily basis for guidance for his doctoral degree, and
that "it is true that he is in Korea".
"I don't know why Amnesty announced that Abu Dureheman in South Korea
was missing in Hong Kong", he said.
We don't know either, but it aptly shows what standards Amnesty
International and other such propaganda outlets have when making their
sensational claims. None. A claim by one person based on a text
message that may not even exist and made for whatever reason is
trumpeted into the world even before any effort is made to verify it.
And why do The Wall Street Journal and others, who should have higher
standards, publish Amnesty's accusations without ever fact-checking
them?
That is a question that one that can be reliably answered. The US is
hostile to China. Therefore US mainstream media must bash China
whenever they can.
Here is a case from another recent Wall Street Journal attempt to do
just that {7}:
On the day that Special Representative of the Chinese Government on
Eurasian Affairs Li Hui visited Moscow on the last leg of his European
trip, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) ran an article that completely
contradicted the facts and even fabricated stories. Such behavior that
attempted to impose its own views and practices on others is in fact
obstructing the peaceful resolution of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Facts have proven that blindly fueling the fire can only escalate the
conflict and cause more harm to people.
The article began by stating that the Chinese envoy carried a clear
message that "US allies in Europe should assert their autonomy and
urge an immediate cease-fire, leaving Russia in possession of the
parts of its smaller neighbor that it now occupies", accusing China of
trying to split the West.
However, what the WSJ received was a denial from Ukrainian Foreign
Minister Dmytro Kuleba. On May 27, Kuleba said in a video message that
after the article appeared, he immediately contacted his colleagues in
the European capitals visited by Li. None of them confirmed that
negotiations about what the WSJ suggested were held.
In response to this, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning stated on
Monday that she noted that the Foreign Minister of Ukraine publicly
said that he contacted other parties and no country said Li made the
remarks reported by the WSJ.
That is some egg in the face of the WSJ editors. China bashing in the
opinion sections is fine. But fake news, twice in one week, to make
some editorial point, is not something that readers are willing to pay
for.
Links:
{1} https://archive.is/kzeUn
{2} https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14468540
{3} https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/china-detention-fears-for-uighur-man-abuduwaili-abudureheman-missing-in-hong-kong/news-story/5a9fc5e9f6618ee7c0613a5295d11c20
{4} https://www.wsj.com/articles/uyghur-scholar-is-missing-in-hong-kong-rights-group-says-raising-fear-of-detention-702c4b18
{5} https://www.independent.co.uk/news/hong-kong-ap-amnesty-xinjiang-china-b2347057.html
{6} https://m.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20230529030100072
{7} https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202305/1291567.shtml
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Two Anti-China Claims The Wall Street Journal Made Last Week Were Fake
by b
www.moonofalabama.org (May 29 2023)
On May 26 Amnesty International published one of its usual aggressive
accusations against a government the US is hostile to.
Hong Kong: Government must reveal whereabouts of Uyghur student
detained at airport (archived {1})
Hong Kong authorities must reveal the whereabouts and fate of a Uyghur
student who has been missing since he arrived in the city from South
Korea earlier this month, amid fears he has been unlawfully extradited
to mainland China without due process and is at risk of arbitrary
detention and torture, Amnesty International said today.
Abuduwaili Abudureheman has not been heard from since he sent a text
message to a friend on 10 May. In the message, Abudureheman said he
was being interrogated by Chinese police after arriving at Hong Kong
airport.
"The unknown fate of Abuduwaili Abudureheman is deeply worrying, given
the background of crimes against humanity committed against Uyghurs by
the Chinese government in Xinjiang, and its ongoing pursuit of Uyghurs
who have travelled overseas", said Alkan Akad, Amnesty International's
China Researcher.
The accusations seem to be based on claims made by a single anonymous source:
On 10 May 2023, Abuduwaili travelled to Hong Kong to visit a friend,
but he has been missing since his text message that evening, saying
that he was being questioned at the airport by Chinese police. The
friend has made Abuduwaili's disappearance public after becoming
increasingly concerned for his safety.
Amnesty International understands that Abuduwaili was on a Chinese
government "watch list" of Uyghurs and other Muslims from the Xinjiang
region, based on the fact that he had a history of overseas travel.
Amnesty International has documented numerous instances of the Chinese
government targeting Uyghurs both at home and abroad with arbitrary
incommunicado detention, lengthy imprisonment and torture purely based
on the fact that they had travelled outside of China.
In 2021 Amnesty closed its Hong Kong office {2}. One wonders then how
it communicated with the relevant "friend"?
The Wall Street Journal and others {3} published China-bashing pieces
{4} based solely on Amnesty's claims.
The authorities Hong Kong were pretty pissed {5} about the allegations
as the man is question had never been there:
Hong Kong on Saturday criticized rights group Amnesty International's
accusation that a Uyghur student disappeared after being interrogated
at the airport, and said that government records showed that he had
not entered or been refused entry to the city.
The Korean Yonhap news agency made efforts to actually contact the
man. It turned out that he is still in Korea and has no plans {6} to
go anywhere else (machine translation):
(New York = Yonhap News) Correspondent Koh Il-hwan = Abduwali Abu
Dureheman (38), an international student from Xinjiang, China, who
Amnesty International said was missing in Hong Kong, is staying in
Korea, his advisor said.
In a phone call with Yonhap News on the 29th, Jo Wook-yeon, head of
the physical education department at Kookmin University, who is Abu
Durehman's advisor, said, "Amnesty's announcement is not true".
Dean Cho said, "Abu Dureheman has not departed from Hong Kong, and is
staying in Korea safely".
Dean Cho repeatedly confirmed that he had been in contact with Abu
Durehman on a daily basis for guidance for his doctoral degree, and
that "it is true that he is in Korea".
"I don't know why Amnesty announced that Abu Dureheman in South Korea
was missing in Hong Kong", he said.
We don't know either, but it aptly shows what standards Amnesty
International and other such propaganda outlets have when making their
sensational claims. None. A claim by one person based on a text
message that may not even exist and made for whatever reason is
trumpeted into the world even before any effort is made to verify it.
And why do The Wall Street Journal and others, who should have higher
standards, publish Amnesty's accusations without ever fact-checking
them?
That is a question that one that can be reliably answered. The US is
hostile to China. Therefore US mainstream media must bash China
whenever they can.
Here is a case from another recent Wall Street Journal attempt to do
just that {7}:
On the day that Special Representative of the Chinese Government on
Eurasian Affairs Li Hui visited Moscow on the last leg of his European
trip, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) ran an article that completely
contradicted the facts and even fabricated stories. Such behavior that
attempted to impose its own views and practices on others is in fact
obstructing the peaceful resolution of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Facts have proven that blindly fueling the fire can only escalate the
conflict and cause more harm to people.
The article began by stating that the Chinese envoy carried a clear
message that "US allies in Europe should assert their autonomy and
urge an immediate cease-fire, leaving Russia in possession of the
parts of its smaller neighbor that it now occupies", accusing China of
trying to split the West.
However, what the WSJ received was a denial from Ukrainian Foreign
Minister Dmytro Kuleba. On May 27, Kuleba said in a video message that
after the article appeared, he immediately contacted his colleagues in
the European capitals visited by Li. None of them confirmed that
negotiations about what the WSJ suggested were held.
In response to this, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning stated on
Monday that she noted that the Foreign Minister of Ukraine publicly
said that he contacted other parties and no country said Li made the
remarks reported by the WSJ.
That is some egg in the face of the WSJ editors. China bashing in the
opinion sections is fine. But fake news, twice in one week, to make
some editorial point, is not something that readers are willing to pay
for.
Links:
{1} https://archive.is/kzeUn
{2} https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14468540
{3} https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/china-detention-fears-for-uighur-man-abuduwaili-abudureheman-missing-in-hong-kong/news-story/5a9fc5e9f6618ee7c0613a5295d11c20
{4} https://www.wsj.com/articles/uyghur-scholar-is-missing-in-hong-kong-rights-group-says-raising-fear-of-detention-702c4b18
{5} https://www.independent.co.uk/news/hong-kong-ap-amnesty-xinjiang-china-b2347057.html
{6} https://m.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20230529030100072
{7} https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202305/1291567.shtml
Posted by b on May 29, 2023 at 17:09.
www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/egg-in-their-face-two-anti-china-claims-the-wall-street-journal-made-last-weeks-were-fake.html#more
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