{"id":94484,"date":"2021-03-26T12:54:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T12:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/?p=9695"},"modified":"2021-03-26T12:54:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T12:54:02","slug":"the-entire-world-should-be-laughing-at-america-for-pretending-to-care-about-muslims-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/26\/the-entire-world-should-be-laughing-at-america-for-pretending-to-care-about-muslims-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"The Entire World Should Be Laughing At America For Pretending To Care About Muslims In\u00a0China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current representative of the US empire finally held his first full press conference yesterday, an embarrassing and undignified affair which saw a gaggle of obsequious imperial stenographers gather round to make believe that important policy decisions about the operation of the most powerful government in the world are actually being made by this dried up empty husk of a man who can barely think or talk.<\/p><p>Once again we heard the US empire babbling about the plight of Muslims in China, with <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/www.rev.com\/blog\/transcripts\/president-joe-biden-first-white-house-press-conference-transcript-march-25\">the words<\/a> tumbling out of Biden&#8217;s dementia-addled brain that he &#8220;made it clear that no American president, at least one did, but no American president had ever backed down from speaking out of what\u2019s happening in the Uyghurs.&#8221;<\/p><p>By &#8220;what&#8217;s happening in the Uyghurs&#8221; Biden was attempting to articulate a concern for the human rights of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province, a talking point the US empire has been <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8yURIS7S9zg\">fallaciously<\/a> and <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2021\/03\/17\/report-uyghur-genocide-sham-university-neocon-punish-china\/\">dishonestly<\/a> pushing with more and more aggression as attempts to halt the rise of China <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/caityjohnstone.medium.com\/how-to-understand-all-this-china-stuff-c31a85bf99d0\">escalate in urgency<\/a>. And <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usatodayDC\/status\/1375151165915209732?s=20\">literally seconds later<\/a>, Biden made it clear that that is exactly what this feigned concern for Muslim lives was indeed really about.<\/p><p>&#8220;So I see stiff competition with China,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;China has an overall goal, and I don\u2019t criticize them for the goal, but they have an overall goal to become the leading country in the world, the wealthiest country in the world and the most powerful country in the world. That\u2019s not going to happen on my watch because United States is going to continue to grow and expand.&#8221;<\/p><blockquote\nclass=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\"><p\nlang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Biden on China: &quot;They have an overall goal to become the leading country in the world, the wealthiest country in the world and the most powerful country in the world. That&#39;s not going to happen on my watch.&quot; <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GAZUqnpY9G\">pic.twitter.com\/GAZUqnpY9G<\/a><\/p><p>&mdash; USA TODAY Politics (@usatodayDC) <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usatodayDC\/status\/1375151165915209732?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><p>As we <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/03\/23\/that-time-a-leaked-memo-proved-the-us-weaponizes-human-rights-against-nations-like-china\/\">discussed recently<\/a>, it is a known fact that the US government <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/12\/19\/tillerson-state-human-rights-304118\">has a standing policy<\/a> of dishonestly weaponizing &#8220;human rights&#8221; concerns against nations like China in order to strategically undermine them while knowingly ignoring the brazen human rights violations that are being perpetrated by its allies on a regular basis. The US government does not care about the plight of the Uyghurs in China. It doesn&#8217;t care that the allegations regarding the abuse of their rights are <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8yURIS7S9zg\">riddled with glaring plot holes<\/a>. All it cares about is undermining its chief geostrategic rival on the world stage, truth be damned.<\/p><p>And I just can&#8217;t get over the fact that the path the US empire has taken in order to attack that leading geostrategic rival is in <em>pretending to care about the human rights of Muslims<\/em>. We really don&#8217;t laugh at these clowns hard enough for that.<\/p><p>I mean, just think about that for a second. The US government, the government of the United States of America, has been melodramatically rending its garments over the wellbeing of Muslims. <em>Muslims<\/em>! Of all the populations they could possibly have chosen to cynically spearhead their campaign against China, they went with the one where they have the least possible number of legs to stand on.<\/p><p>This would after all be the same religious population which the US has been cheerfully <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/qewrW#selection-1419.0-1419.249\">slaughtering by the millions<\/a> in its campaigns of military mass murder, just since the turn of this century. The same religious population the US has <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/R3aPp\">displaced by the tens of millions<\/a> in its campaign of terrorism called the &#8220;war on terror&#8221;, also just since the turn of this century. The same religious population the US has\u00a0<a\nhref=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/05\/08\/a-brief-history-of-american-torture\/\">sadistically tortured<\/a>\u00a0in facilities like Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. The same religious population who was terrorized by an <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2016-09-12\/data-hate-crimes-against-muslims-increased-after-911\">escalation in hate crimes<\/a> in the United States itself due to propaganda campaigns for George W Bush&#8217;s wars, wars which were <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/www.currentaffairs.org\/2020\/03\/democrats-you-really-do-not-want-to-nominate-joe-biden\">enthusiastically supported and facilitated<\/a> by the current invalid-in-chief.<\/p><blockquote\nclass=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\"><p\nlang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In almost the same breath as humanitarian interventionist bromides about Uyghurs and Hong Kong, Biden says his goal with China is preventing it from supplanting the US as the world\u2019s leading economic power. A candid explanation of why Washington exploits human rights.<\/p><p>&mdash; Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxBlumenthal\/status\/1375151834734661633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><p>The only sane response to the US empire feigning concern for the wellbeing of a foreign Muslim population is laughter, derision, and ridicule. The whole world should be rolling on the floor laughing at these people. The fact that these butchers are saying &#8220;Oh won&#8217;t somebody <em>please<\/em> think of the Muslims!&#8221; after waging a psychopathic campaign of murder and theft upon an entire swath of Muslim-majority countries means we should all be mocking them, pointing at them, and laughing them out of the room.<\/p><p>Can you honestly think of anything more ridiculous? Off the top of my head I cannot.<\/p><p>The fact that a vast globe-spanning empire has placed so many chips on its ability to halt the rise of China by claiming to care about the rights and wellbeing of Muslims is one of the most cartoonishly absurd things that has ever happened in the history of civilization. We should be reacting to this\u00a0<a\nhref=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=igCrZ23QJ0Q\">accordingly<\/a>.<\/p><p><iframe\nclass='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='1060' height='597' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/igCrZ23QJ0Q?version=3&#038;rel=1&%23038;fs=1&%23038;autohide=2&%23038;showsearch=0&%23038;showinfo=1&%23038;iv_load_policy=1&%23038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'><\/iframe><\/p><p>It&#8217;s silly how many of us are still sitting around taking this clown show seriously. 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