ウイグル問題：制裁の輪が広がっていくようで

　中国の要人に対する制裁を科す動きが展開中。

BBC Uighurs: Western countries sanction China over rights abuses 9 hours ago

「Several Western countries have imposed sanctions on officials in China over rights abuses against the mostly Muslim Uighur minority group.

China has detained Uighurs at camps in the north-west region of Xinjiang, where allegations of torture, forced labour and sexual abuse have emerged.

The sanctions were introduced as a coordinated effort by the European Union, UK, US and Canada.」

「The EU has not imposed new sanctions on China over human rights abuses since the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, when troops in Beijing opened fire on pro-democracy protesters.」

　天安門事件以来のことということで。

BBC China forcing birth control on Uighurs to suppress population, report says 29 June 2020

「China is forcing women to be sterilised or fitted with contraceptive devices in Xinjiang in an apparent attempt to limit the population of Muslim Uighurs, according to new research.」

　ああそう言えば、いわゆる一人っ子政策は終了したんだったけか。にもかかわらず不妊処置をしているとなると、そりゃあまあ、少なくとも疑惑の目で見られるわな。

「For decades, under China's one-child policy, urban minorities were instead allowed two children, or three for rural families. A 2017 policy change, under President Xi Jinping, removed the ethnic distinction, permitting Han Chinese to have the same number of children as minorities, while preserving the urban-rural distinction.」

　…いや、全面的撤去ではないのか。3人までというのか。

「US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on China to "immediately end these horrific practices".

In a statement, he urged "all nations to join the United States in demanding an end to these dehumanizing abuses".」

「It alleges that Uighur women and other ethnic minorities are being threatened with internment in the camps for refusing to abort pregnancies that exceed birth quotas.」

　…中国中央政府的には、党中央が定めた許容可能な数以上の妊娠などするな！と言いたいわけだろう。この点、まあ、法律等々を定めてしまえば（3人まで、と）、法に従った処置であると、そりゃあまあ言えるには言える。とはいえ妊娠出産という、かなり個人的な属性の行為・現象をどのように公的に制御制圧できるのかと言う問題はあるが―そこも…全体主義国家だからということで押し込んでいくのかなあ…いやあ…うん…。

　…食わしていけないような数の子供をつくるな！という理屈かなあ…にしてもなあ…正当化は、どういう道筋をとるにせよ、かなり、きわめて、危うい。

　関連。

BBC Chinese economy to overtake US 'by 2028' due to Covid 26 December 2020

「China will overtake the US to become the world's largest economy by 2028, five years earlier than previously forecast, a report says.」

「"For some time, an overarching theme of global economics has been the economic and soft power struggle between the United States and China," says the CEBR report.」

「But the average Chinese person will remain far poorer in financial terms than the average American even after China becomes the world's biggest economy, given that China's population is four times bigger.」

　…まあこうした意味で、人口増加をできるだけ抑えたいという中国側のマクロな視点からの希望も理解はできるんだけど―まあ、その、ねえ…。