An old friend and mentor Dr. Moses wrote to NY times to criticize the indifference of the Chinese government in the Xinjiang ethnic conflict and more broadly, he believed that the government failed to see the meaning of the late conflicts throughout China. For starters, I am pretty sure that the Chinese government is neither comfortable or over-confident in these event, nor arrogant enough to totally ignore the threat posed by these connected dots. I am surprised that Dr. Moses, without even a reliable investigation, said such a thing just to cave into the normal image of the Chinese government depicted by the western media. I'd rather believe that it was the editor who adds those words into the lines, just like what they usually do to other countries. Now to the real point.
Dr. Moses must believed that he had stayed in China long enough to warrant any criticism on the Chinese policy as truthful. He claimed that there were "discriminatory policies", but when look closely, the only thing that bothered him was the lack of religious “freedom”. As always the case, any attempt by the Chinese government to modernize educational system and give children a modern education, like in the West, would be deemed as cultural genocide of some sort. Regardless the need of a sovereign country to build a legitimate national identity based on modern education, Dr. Moses and other western scholars continue to side with the “underdog” and claim the fault of a “repressive government”. By the way, they never mention, or maybe intentionally forgot, how their military machine crusaded into Iraq and Afghanistan and destroyed those people’s religious freedom (in those cases called religious extremism) and even their lives.
It is always easy to ridicule government positions as so called “propaganda”. That way the truth will never exist, as Dr. Moses actually taught us. He seems also prefer such a course by saying the protesters were peaceful and turned violent only after they met with security forces. According to his logic, no police should show up and the mob should be allow to kill and loot, only then the police would have an excuse to show their faces, or maybe they should never have come at all. For Moses, apparently, Uighur’s “grievances” are more important than innocent people’s lives. I’d be delighted to hear his opinion on what should happen if the same situation arises in the U.S.
Moreover, all methods adopted by the government to curb rumors and reduce innocent casualties were seen by Dr. Moses as violating freedom of speech. Again, it shows that his ideology has deprived him of any humanity and caring of the Chinese people. And again, other than repeating his political belief, he refuses to understand the Chinese situation in a more thorough and complex way. Sure, we can understand his position as a professor coming from America to “teach” us a lesson. But we also know that for what he cares, planting western democracy in China is more important than peace, stability and unity of a Chinese nation.
His fake sympathy with Islamic freedom is derived from his quest for democracy in China and now he realized that social upheaval is less likely to accomplish such a mission. Maybe that’s a plea to Western powers to stop supporting those who instigate such events in China again and again. And if the causal relations were to be cleared, the so called Chinese “nationalistic fervor” was actually a making of the Western interference instead of a home grown menacing movement.
When Dr. Moses volunteered to come to China, we thought he’d be different from the mainstream western political ideologues, but it turns out, such a regime is too tight even for him to escape. Until the day Dr. Moses stop applying double standard and the West stop playing both sides, common people will pay the ultimate price and be sacrificed for the fanatic illusion promoted by western supported puppets that somehow “religious freedom” and “democracy” are going to bring ethnic minority in China a better life.
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