Published on July 15, 2019.
This article introduces a Yomiuri Shimbun report on China’s human-rights repression in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and the United States’ consideration of sanctions.
It criticizes the silence of the UN Human Rights Commission and UNESCO toward China’s repression, and argues that Japan and the United States should build an international order suitable for the twenty-first century, based on freedom, intelligence, and democracy.

July 15, 2019.
The corruption of the UN Human Rights Commission and UNESCO, which say absolutely nothing about this matter either, is beyond discussion.
What is the value of the United States, the country before which The Turntable of Civilization is turning before Japan, or what is the role of the United States?
I wrote that Japan must lead the world alongside the United States for the next 170 years.
What Japan lacks is military power, and what was on the verge of becoming a fatal wound was the fact that forces beginning with the Asahi Shimbun, which reveres the Constitution drafted by GHQ as if it were sacred, ruled Japan until August four years ago.
There is something that human-rights advocacy forces beginning with the Asahi Shimbun… so-called human-rights lawyers, so-called scholars, and so-called citizens’ groups never say, but the United States never turns itself, as they do, into a lump of masochistic historical views and anti-Japanese thought, and never marches in step with the anti-Japanese propaganda states of China and the Korean Peninsula.
Although there are people such as Alexis Dudden, Mindy Kotler, Carol Gluck, and Mike Honda, who are under their money traps, honey traps, and other operations, and who repeatedly make anti-Japanese statements.
The following is from the international section on page 7 of this morning’s Yomiuri Shimbun.
When one reads this article, one can also read that both China and the people controlling NHK’s news division want to bring down President Trump.
The emphases in the text, apart from the headings, and the passages marked with ＊～＊ are mine.
Uyghur repression: U.S. considers sanctions.
Pressure on China: Congress also demands action.
“Washington＝Seima Oki” As trade friction between the United States and China deepens, the Trump administration is increasing pressure over human-rights issues in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
It is moving forward with consideration of sanctions against regional officials on the grounds of human-rights violations, and the U.S. Congress is also calling on the Trump administration to impose sanctions, strengthening interest in the Uyghur issue throughout the United States.
“Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of Uyghurs are being held against their will in so-called reeducation facilities and forced to undergo harsh ideological education and abuse.”
U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo gave a speech at a conference in Washington on the 21st and condemned the Chinese government’s tightening of control over the Uyghurs.
He also said that “the faith of the Uyghurs is being taken away,” and pressed China to recognize freedom of religion.
＊The corruption of the UN Human Rights Commission and UNESCO, which say absolutely nothing about this matter either, is beyond discussion.
Japan, together with the United States, should immediately withdraw from the present United Nations, which is controlled by countries like China, and create an international organization suitable for the twenty-first century, founded upon intelligence, freedom, and democracy.
Unless it does so, it will be impossible to prevent attacks from countries of “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies,” and to defend the national interest.＊
According to international human-rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, since the latter half of 2016, when Chen Quanguo became the region’s top Communist Party secretary, the tightening of controls on Uyghurs and Kazakhs who believe in Islam has intensified, and an estimated one million people have been illegally detained and forced, under poor conditions, to undergo ideological education and show loyalty to the Communist Party.
In the United States, interest is rising, as American media outlets have taken up the issue, with the Wall Street Journal saying, “The world should watch the repression of the Uyghurs.”
In the U.S. Congress as well, a bipartisan group of seventeen lawmakers, including Republican Senator Marco Rubio and Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, sent a letter on August 29 to Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, calling for sanctions against seven regional officials including Chen and two companies that manufacture surveillance equipment for Uyghurs.
The measures would be based on the Global Magnitsky Act, which punishes human-rights violations by foreign government officials, and if applied, would result in measures such as freezing assets in the United States and banning travel to the United States.
Manisha Singh, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, said at a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the 13th, “We are watching the situation in Xinjiang, and the Global Magnitsky Act is a tool we use to deter human-rights abuses around the world,” suggesting that sanctions are under consideration.
The minority issue involving the Uyghurs also has aspects that bring to mind links with terrorism by Islamic extremists, and until now the United States and Europe had shown a lower level of concern about this issue than about the human-rights issue in Tibet.
However, as reports have spread of the mass detention of Uyghurs and the harsh reality inside reeducation facilities, the Trump administration has developed a strong sense of crisis over the matter as a humanitarian issue.
A diplomatic source in Washington pointed out, “As trade between the United States and China intensifies, the Trump administration is also trying to play the human-rights issue as a card,” and the friction between the United States and China appears likely to become even more complicated.