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Falsifier Wang Lequen
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On 21
January 2002, the Xinghua Chinese News Agency issued a
press release with the text of interview of Wang
Lequen, Secretary of Party Committee of the so-called
Xinjiang Autonomous Province, given to correspondents
of the French “European times” newspaper and of
another famous magazine.
The Chinese authorities have
permanently lied to the world community about Eastern
Turkistan. The false propaganda has been aimed at
distorting public opinion about the true situation in
Eastern Turkistan. Lies have always been spread to
disguise the brutal Chinese oppression in this region.
This time the Chinese
authorities intentionally lied once again. Their
representative Wang Lequen actually exceeded in his
interview the ‘normal” range of the regular Chinese
deception standards.
Anyone familiar with the real
situation in Eastern Turkistan would easily identify
that Wang Lequen’s lying to French correspondents
about the present economic, political and social
situation in Eastern Turkistan is nothing but
intentional distortion of the real facts. The Chinese
government agent simply tried to cheat foreigners
about what is really happening in this part of the
world.
Let us consider just one
example.
When answering the question “ what concrete benefits
the policy of ‘reaching the West’ will bring to the
Xinjiang population?» Wang Lequen stated: “ local
citizens welcome the policy of ‘reaching the West and
they will gain from it greatly. One illustration:
there was no railroad in the western part of Xinjiang
before. Now the railroad is built, so local citizens
will be able to deliver their goods by train to the
inner regions of China. They can trade commodities now
and prosper.”
Wang Lequen then “ended the
discussion”. Obviously he failed to give any other
argument of how “reaching the West” policy would
benefit Uighurs. His reasoning is ridiculous and he
well knows it; but he could not give any better
example. The Chinese government official is well aware
that construction of the railroad will not have any
practical positive impact on Eastern Turkistan
economic situation.
In reality the proclaimed
policy of “reaching the West” does not have a purpose
of improving economic or social well-being of Eastern
Turkistan citizens. This policy solely serves
political and economic objectives of the Chinese
Communist government.
These objectives fall in the
following categories:
1) It is widely known that
Eastern Turkistan territory has rich oil and natural
gas reserves. The Chinese regime had long planned to
explore these resources but it lacked economic
strength for carrying out large-scale projects.
Besides, the Chinese invaders were reluctant to
develop this region since big projects would only
emphasize the overall crumbling economic situation and
“would pose a real threat to stability in the region.”
Since the liberalization of the Chinese economy and
its opening to the world 20 years ago, the government
made estimations of the national economy’s need for
energy sources. The government was seriously concerned
with the depletion of China’s own oilfields. Over a
short period of time China has become a strong
economic, military and political power that plans to
steadily take the leading position in the world from
the USA. In order to realize its global ambitions
China drastically needs vast energy and raw material
sources. Naturally, China with its own poor source
base considers Eastern Turkistan as a major supplier
of oil, natural gas, gold, ferrous, non-ferrous and
precious metals. The large-scale exploration of oil
and natural gas in Eastern Turkistan makes China
richer while the true owner of natural treasure –
local population is only being robbed of its potential
wealth. The Eastern Turkistan people do not benefit a
penny from the exploration of natural resources in
their land. For instance, the Chinese explored oil and
natural gas long time ago in Qaramay, Maytagh, Poskam
and other oilfields. Some oilfields were turned into
major oil exploration and processing centers. However,
virtually all explored oil and natural gas were
transported to the inner China. The poverty stricken
local citizens did not benefit a single penny. All
workers in this industry were brought in from China.
The unemployed local inhabitants did not get much
needed jobs. The prices of gasoline and other fuel is
higher in Eastern Turkistan than in inner China.
Village farmers who comprise 90% of Eastern Turkistan
population still use firewood for heating. City
inhabitants pay high prices for natural gas. Recently
the “Tarim-Shanghai Oil Pipe” project was launched
within the frame of the ‘reaching the West» concept.
There is no doubt that the local Eastern Turkistan
people will not benefit at all from this construction
project.
2) The policy of “reaching
the West” has ultimate goals of bringing even more
ethnic Chinese migrants to Eastern Turkistan, building
up new migrant bases, minimising the number of
indigenous Uighur population, and finally completely
assimilating them. When the Communist Chinese
government occupied Eastern Turkistan in 1949, over
90% of its population were Uighurs and the rest were
ethnic Chinese and other groups. Nowadays, the Uighurs
amount only to 47% of the total population. The total
number of the Chinese migrants number increased over
last 50 years from initial 400 thousand settlers to
present 7,5 million migrants. The ratio of the Chinese
population in Eastern Turkistan is now equal to the
ration of Uighur population.
Moreover, presently the Chinese authorities plan to
bring even more Chinese migrants to this region under
the cover of the ‘reaching the West” policy.
The Chinese scientists drew
up recently “The Great Tibetan tunnel” project which
basically includes building dams across the Yaluzangbu
river in Tibet at the 400 m wide current flow point,
and reversing the water flow through the tunnel to the
Tarim river basin. This project aims at irrigating
arid areas thus creating favorable conditions for
migrating here about 300 million ethnic Chinese
settlers.
3) Eastern Turkistan borders
with the Central Asian states which are situated in a
strategically important part of the world. These newly
independent states are rich in natural gas, oil, and
other valuable resources; however they are quite weak
in political, economic and military aspects.
The Chinese government has
far-reaching plans of first building up economic power,
strengthening its military forces in Eastern Turkistan
under the disguise of implementing ‘reaching the West”
concept, and then steadily penetrating into Central
Asia, gaining ultimate dominance, control and
influence over this region, and perhaps even occupying
the Central Asian states.
Wang Lequen mentioned “the
benefits to local inhabitants” from carrying out the
policy of “reaching the West» and particularly from
building the railroad as though this railroad was
built with the primary objective of creating
prosperity to the local people and giving them an
opportunity to sell their goods in inner China. Quite
contrarily, in reality this railroad was built so
promptly in order to establish an international
transport link on the Qashqar-Osh-Andijan line.
The successful operation of
this transport link will allow the Chinese to export
their cheap and low quality products to Uzbekistan,
Kirghizstan and other Central Asian countries. The
Chinese will then acquire even more power to influence
and control these states politically and economically.
One of the obvious gains for the Chinese would be
getting an opportunity of importing the Central Asian
natural resources into China and also transiting
resources to the Chinese seaports.
Moreover, building the
railroad in Western Turkistan makes it easy and
economically feasible to transport in big volumes the
cotton, fruits and vegetables, and other agricultural
products from Eastern Turkistan into inner China at a
low cost. In return Eastern Turkistan will receive
more Chinese settlers who arrive constantly by train
in big numbers.
Wang Lequen told the
journalists that the railroad was built as “the road
of happiness”. If two French correspondents who
interviewed Wang Lequen took an opportunity to travel
by train from Urumchi to Qashqar or the other way
around, they would notice that 90% of passengers were
Chinese migrants from inner China who come to settle
in a densely populated Tarim valley.
In that case the journalists would definitely find out
a clear answer as for whose ‘happiness” the railroad
is really built and to whose “benefits” it really
serves.
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ETIC REPORT 2000 
