I want to share the following article written by our friend Professor Da Hsuan Feng.
Concern from the US about the UN High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet 23-28 May visit to Xinjiang – Da Hsuan Feng, June 5, 2022
After the Honorable Bachelet left China on 28 May 2022 and made comments about her visit (https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements/2022/05/statement-un-high-commissioner-human-rights-michelle-bachelet-after-official), Western media as well as the US State Department immediately commented in an official release that
“The United States remains concerned about the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet and her team’s visit to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and PRC efforts to restrict and manipulate her visit. “ (https://www.state.gov/concerns-with-un-high-commissioner-for-human-rights-visit-to-the-peoples-republic-of-china/)
Other harsh comments also came from “Voice of America”, “The Guardian” and so on:
I think as long as the Honorable Bachelet did not express with explicit language her profound concern that China is practicing obvious human rights violation, even “genocide”, such harsh rebuttals from all corners from the West is entirely expected.
Quite by serendipity, I was able to watch my favorite food podcast this morning from a Chinese blogger Ah Xing (阿星). The title of his podcast is known as 阿星探店, or “Ah Xing in search of shops”. In his many podcasts, he went to every corner of China with the intention of tasting the food of every region. While doing so, he also made an effort to portray the local cultures.
In the YouTube of this morning (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sJjl3lsv_c) Ah Xing’s is discussing the special food he enjoyed enormously in Bagua City, Xinjiang. (For a map of this city, click on https://www.google.com/maps/@43.215101,81.8376903,4508m/data=!3m1!1e3).
I was fascinated that in China, there is even a city with the name BAGUA (八卦). The meaning of bagua is explained in detail by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagua. Even in physics, when Murry Gell-Mann and Yu’val Ne’eman had a theory of the quark structure, they realized that it had a bagua structure and called it “The Eight-Fold Way” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eightfold_way_(physics)).
I find it purely coincidental that in discussing the truly tasty foods in Bagua City, Ah Xing also gives the viewers a sense of the culture of this particular city in Xinjiang.
I am sure as in all his podcasts (there are at least now several hundreds, and quite a few in Xinjiang), there is not one ounce of ideology in Ah Xing’s production. So in a sense, this gives the viewers a portrayal of the life of Xinjiang which we never see from the Western media report!
Happy viewing!