Washington, Dec 14 (NVI) The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) of Uyghur Muslims has strongly condemned the invitation extended by Donald Trump to Chinese President Xi Jinping for his inauguration as the next President of the US in January, saying the move was an “affront to the American values”.
Urging that the invitation be withdrawn, it said the Chinese President does not deserve to be part of any celebrations but needs to be held accountable for the “genocidal” crimes committed by his regime.
“Inviting Xi Jinping to the inauguration of American democracy—a system he actively seeks to destroy—is an affront to America’s values and a betrayal of the oppressed who suffer under China’s tyranny, as well as the American people who have endured the consequences of China’s unrestricted attacks against the United States,” the ETGE said in a statement.
Telling Trump that “history will judge this moment with unwavering clarity”, it said inviting Xi Jinping “is not just a misstep — it mirrors Neville Chamberlain’s disastrous appeasement of Adolf Hitler, a decision that emboldened a genocidal tyrant and unleashed one of the darkest chapters in human history.”
Insisting that the “genocidal Chinese dictator” Xi Jinping is “no different from Hitler”, it said he “does not belong at the celebration of freedom and democracy” but “in the dock of an international tribunal, answering for his genocide and crimes against humanity.”
The ETGE recalled that it had “commended the initial Trump administration for its historic recognition and condemnation of China’s ongoing Uyghur Genocide in Occupied EastTurkistan” but this invitation undermines that principled stance and threatens to tarnish America’s moral authority and credibility on the global stage.”
Making an impassioned plea to Trump, the ETGE said, “We call on you to rescind this invitation immediately. Honor your administration’s legacy of upholding American values and holding China accountable for its crimes.”
It urged Trump to “stand firm with the oppressed people of East Turkistan and demonstrate to the world that America will never honor genocidal dictators or compromise its principles.”
Since 2014, millions of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic peoples in Occupied East Turkistan have been subjected to mass internment, torture, enslavement through forced labor, sterilization, and cultural and physical annihilation, it added.
“Under Xi Jinping’s leadership, the Chinese regime has escalated its campaign of colonization and genocide in East Turkistan into the worst atrocity since the Holocaust,” the ETGE said.
“Simultaneously, Xi’s regime wages unrestricted warfare against the United States through economic and military espionage, cyberattacks, and propaganda campaigns.
“It has devastated America by trafficking fentanyl into American communities—killing hundreds of thousands—and unleashed the China virus (coronavirus), which has taken the lives of over one million Americans,” it said. (NVI)
