Green Dreams, Red Nightmares

Febuary 1, 2025 | Brown Political Review | By Chiupong Huang

Some American advocacy groups and environmental leaders have directly expressed their desire to avoid US-China friction on human rights violations. The anti-war group CODEPINK, a signatory of the letter, defended China’s Uyghur policy on its website in a section titled, “China is not our enemy.” It provided links to Uyghur genocide denial content and implied that China’s policies in Xinjiang are a response to terrorism, in line with CCP rhetoric justifying genocide as a defense against extremism. Omer Kanat, Executive Director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, said of the letter’s dire implications, “We felt they were sacrificing Uyghurs to convince China to come to the table for climate change.”

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