Today, the U.S. Congress almost unanimously (with one vote against) passed the historic Uyghur Act, which provides for the imposition of sanctions against all Chinese Communist officials involved in the policy of oppression of the Uyghurs in occupied East Turkestan, better known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). This document requires the White House to report regularly to the U.S. Congress on the situation of the Uyghurs, making their issue an official priority of U.S. foreign policy. Despite its narrow national designation, the Uyghur Act also applies to other national and religious minorities suffering repression in China, and their situation should be brought under the control of U.S. authorities.
It is clear that by taking such measures against China under the convenient humanitarian pretext, the Americans are primarily pursuing their geopolitical and, no less importantly, geo-economic tasks in the competition between the two real (and only) global superpowers. However, it is also indicative and testifies to the real situation of the Islamic world (including those countries whose leaders regularly call for a change of this situation…) that a similar law on making the protection of Muslim minorities in China a priority of its foreign policy was adopted not in China itself, but in the USA…
Another similar news is the breakthrough in the investigation of the murder of Chechen refugee Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Germany, which, as we speculated, could become a German analog of the Skripal case. The investigation into the case has been taken over by the German Federal Prosecutor’s Office, which means that it recognizes that foreign intelligence services are involved in the murder and that it poses a threat to national security, rather than being an ordinary crime.
Leaks about the progress of the investigation in German and oppositional Russian-language media leave no doubt that the fact of the organization of this murder by Russian intelligence services has been established. Today there is already unofficial information that Germany is planning to expel two Russian diplomats in this connection.
In this way, the Chekists can be congratulated on another «success» in foreign policy — in the country where the strategically important «Nord Stream» should go…