We Don't Have to Trade With China

We don't:

China toughened its language towards Taiwan on Thursday, warning after recent stepped up military activities near the island that “independence means war” and that its armed forces were acting in response to provocation and foreign interference.

**

From the available evidence, China’s actions in Xinjiang lack the targeted mass-murder that characterized genocides such as the Holocaust or the Holodomor, the Soviet Union’s engineered starvation of several million Ukrainians. The United Nations Convention on Genocide, drafted only months after the liberation of Nazi death and forced labour camps, characterized genocide as any deliberate attempt to inflict “physical destruction” on a people. In this, the convention’s framers saw fit to also characterize a genocidal regime as one “imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.”

An AP investigation last year found that China’s Xinjiang crackdown has been accompanied by a wave of forced sterilization, birth control and abortion. The Xinjiang birth rate is now indeed in freefall, with population growth in some regions falling by more than 80 per cent.

(Sidebar: China has been murdering people within its borders for decades. Why did the world sleep when Tiananmen bled?)

**

According to senior research director at Open Doors USA Dr. Ron Boyd-MacMillan, the Chinese government is fearful as the country’s Christian population continues to grow despite immense persecution.

Boyd-MacMillan recently told UK’s Express newspaper there is reason to believe the increase in persecutions in recent years is because the communist state fears the church’s growth.

“We think the evidence as to why the Chinese Church is so targeted, is that the leaders are scared of the size of the Church, and the growth of the Church,” he said.

“And if it grows, at the rate that it has done, since 1980 and that’s about between seven and 8 percent a year, then you’re looking at a group of people that will be 300 million strong, nearly by 2030.”

China’s population is expected to peak at 1.44 billion in 2029, meaning that in nine years Christians may make up 21% of the total Chinese population.

The Chinese government claims there are 44 million Christians in the country, but as most Christians practice in secret, estimates have put the true number at over 100 million.