Commentary
The Biden administration’s efforts to sustain a dialogue with Beijing must be questioned in light of the Chinese regime’s gross and consistent human rights violations against its own people.
While the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) consistently violates human rights and has done so since it came to power in 1949, the intense focus on Islam is part of a new wave of repression against religious freedom in China. Communist leader Xi Jinping has launched a campaign to “Sinicize” and “deradicalize” religions in China, that is, to pressure organized religions to conform to “Xi Jinping Thought” and the CCP’s demands. This is part of the sharp crackdown against Chinese citizens and enforced compliance with Xi’s oppression. Xi’s regime is characterized by universal human rights violations, but he has a particularly intense and targeted pattern of human rights abuses against religion. Last year, the United Nations condemned the regime for its abuses against Muslims in Xinjiang as a “crime against humanity.”…