East Turkistan’s Right to Sovereignty: Decolonization and Beyond
______Last Chapter: Legal Dimensions
China’s euphemistic five principles, particularly “mutual respect of sovereignty,” “peaceful coexistence,” and “non-interference in each other’s internal affairs,” have been created to formulate the bases of China’s new world order. This approach has garnered strong support from many countries, particularly in the global south. To further bolster its credibility, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi stressed China’s stance on the Palestinian-Israeli issue to the press following his leadership of a high-level meeting of the UN Security Council on November 29, 2023. He emphatically stated, “establishment of independent state is the undeniable national right of Palestinian people, in the face of historical injustices long suffered by Palestinian people, no one has excuse drag their feet and there is no justification for inaction. When comes to the issues bearing on future of the Palestinian people no country has a veto right.”
However, it raises a pertinent question: If Minister Wang Yi’s assertion is genuine and China is a righteous country that cares about injustices and the national rights of others, as his speech reflected, why does China not apply the same principles to itself first when addressing the issue of East Turkistan? This region is currently under China’s occupation and enduring ongoing atrocities of genocide. Instead, China aggressively refute any criticism against China’s oppression in the region and claiming it as their internal affairs. Not to mention how ridiculous and inconsistent it would be with Wang Yi’s speech if the Uyghur genocide were brought to the UN Security Council, and China maintain its veto power while openly violating the UN Genocide Convention.
Clearly, the genuine essence behind China’s five principles remains hidden beneath China’s propaganda facade promising mutual growth and great economic benefit. This book “East Turkistan’s National sovereignty: Decolonization and Beyond” unveils China’s ambition behind these principles by exampling China’s intricate and distressing relationship with East Turkistan, a historically independent country before the invasion and occupation by People’s Republic of China.
Through the chapter readers will be introduced to East Turkistan’s actual status of self-determination in decolonization and beyond by providing an analysis of how the PRC invaded East Turkistan’s sovereignty by force with the help of Stalin, why China should not be legally entitled to East Turkistan as a sovereign nation with representative government and why PRC has never been able to achieve peaceful coexistence with the people in this region. Further, the book delves into China’s current genocide in the region, arguing that China’s principle of “non-interference in each other’s internal affairs” is not only designed to create an iron wall to ensure continuance of its ongoing genocide, but is also deliberately intended to obstruct the moral imperative of states to intervene in human rights violations, allowing any power to engage in any aggression and transforming the world into a cesspool of violence.
Meanwhile, the book also makes clear that how China’s genocidal policies, aimed at “cleansing” its colonized region to enable territorial expansion by land, as a part of a broader strategy for global influence. At the same time, U.S.-led Western nations remain predominantly focused on maritime security.
In this excerpt, we introduce you to the legal dimensions of the meaning right to sovereignty of East Turkistan.
