{"id":6318,"date":"2025-02-15T05:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T05:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/cuts-to-u-s-backed-rights-groups-seen-as-a-win-for-china\/"},"modified":"2025-02-15T05:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T05:51:16","slug":"cuts-to-u-s-backed-rights-groups-seen-as-a-win-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/cuts-to-u-s-backed-rights-groups-seen-as-a-win-for-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuts to U.S.-Backed Rights Groups Seen as a Win for China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The nonprofit groups track the imprisonment of Chinese political dissidents and the expansion of state censorship. They speak out for persecuted minority groups like the Uyghurs and Tibetans. And they help sustain attention on Beijing\u2019s crackdown of freedoms in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The future of their work is now in question as Elon Musk\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/03\/us\/politics\/musk-federal-government.html\" title=\"\">government efficiency operation<\/a> takes aim at an important backer of such groups: the National Endowment for Democracy, or N.E.D., an American nonprofit largely funded by the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Several China-focused nonprofits told The New York Times that the endowment had informed them this past week that their funding had been suspended indefinitely. Money distributed to the endowment was no longer being delivered after members of Mr. Musk\u2019s so-called Department of Government Efficiency gained access to the Treasury Department\u2019s payment system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The stoppage of N.E.D. funds affects groups all over the world, but activists say the impact on groups focused on China will be especially severe. Such work has become more crucial \u2014 and risky \u2014 as Xi Jinping, the most powerful Chinese leader in decades, has waged a far-reaching crackdown on civil society and tightened control on information. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Across China, scores of activists, lawyers, journalists and intellectuals have been harassed, detained or jailed since Mr. Xi came to power in 2012. In the far-western region of Xinjiang, officials have detained and imprisoned an estimated hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and members of other Muslim ethnic minorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It is unclear how many organizations have been affected by the cuts to the endowment\u2019s funding. The Treasury Department and the endowment, which was allocated $315 million by Congress this year, did not respond to requests for comment. The Department of Government Efficiency could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The National Endowment for Democracy was established by Congress during the Reagan administration to bolster democracy worldwide. It has long attracted the ire of Beijing, which has accused the group of committing \u201cevil deeds\u201d by instigating protests and \u201ccolluding with anti-China destabilizing forces\u201d in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Among the endowment\u2019s grantees is China Digital Times, a United States-based website that monitors Chinese internet controls and censorship. It recently exposed a Chinese state-sponsored disinformation campaign targeting Canada\u2019s former finance minister Chrystia Freeland, who is running to succeed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The website\u2019s founder, Xiao Qiang, said his operations were \u201cseverely disrupted\u201d by the funding suspension, resulting in pay cuts and work-hour reductions for staff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe are facing significant financial challenges that threaten our ability to continue our work,\u201d said Mr. Xiao, whose website has been financially supported by the endowment since the site was established in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A representative of the World Uyghur Congress, a group of exiled Uyghurs, which has also seen its N.E.D. funding frozen, said the cuts came at a difficult time for their advocacy work. The group said that the plight of Muslim Uyghurs in China had been overshadowed by other global crises, like the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. And its advocacy efforts have been complicated by Beijing\u2019s growing ability to silence its critics abroad by <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/10\/magazine\/uyghur-china-escape.html\" title=\"\">targeting their family members<\/a> still in the country and pressuring governments to repatriate asylum seekers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The funding was especially important, the group said, because private donors like companies or entrepreneurs with overseas business interests were more vulnerable to Chinese retribution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some activists had hoped that the Trump administration\u2019s appointment of politicians with hawkish views on China was a sign that they would retain support from the United States. They lamented how abruptly the funds were cut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe in the China community were initially hopeful and optimistic about this administration because of appointments like Marco Rubio,\u201d Zumretay Arkin, the vice president of the World Uyghur Congress, said about the secretary of state, who has long been critical of Beijing\u2019s human rights record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe are shocked by how rapidly things have changed in not even a month,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Li Qiang, the founder of the New York-based China Labor Watch, which seeks to end the forced labor and trafficking of Chinese workers, said he was told on Wednesday that N.E.D. funds to his group would be halted for the first time in the 23 years he has been a grantee of the organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He said the sweeping way in which Mr. Musk had mobilized people online to attack groups like the National Endowment for Democracy reminded him of political crackdowns in China aimed at consolidating control under a top leader. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHistory has proven that this approach ultimately led to chaos in China, resulting in the deaths of thousands of innocent people,\u201d Mr. Li said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Chinese nationalist voices, on the other hand, applauded President Trump\u2019s and Mr. Musk\u2019s moves to cripple the endowment. China has accused it of fomenting all kinds of dissent against Beijing, including the 2019 antigovernment protests in Hong Kong. Beijing said the endowment\u2019s support for rights groups there was an attempt at <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/05\/world\/asia\/china-hong-kong-protests.html\" title=\"\">destabilizing the city<\/a> and weakening Beijing\u2019s control over it. (Hong Kong activists have rejected the accusation of foreign meddling as an attempt at belittling their grievances.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m undoubtedly happy about it, and, hopefully, this cutoff will be long-term instead of temporary,\u201d said Hu Xijin, a retired editor in chief of The Global Times, a Communist Party tabloid, in an interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Wang Yiwei, the director of the Institute of International Affairs at Renmin University in Beijing, said the dismantling of U.S. foreign aid pointed to a retreat by the United States from the global stage. He said the endowment\u2019s work was America\u2019s way of interfering in the internal affairs of other countries and a waste of taxpayers\u2019 money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cChina welcomes this, of course, and so do other countries,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/14\/world\/asia\/us-rights-groups-doge-cuts-china.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nonprofit groups track the imprisonment of Chinese political dissidents and the expansion of state censorship. 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