Strange Bedfellows: A Uyghur View of the Bill Gates–Xi Jinping Meeting

Liberal billionaire Bill Gates on Thursday last week announced a $50 million collaboration with China’s Tsinghua University, and met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday.

A meeting while China continues its Uyghur Genocide may only indicate Gates’ implicit approval of this tragedy. Pledging a huge amount of US dollars to China, whatever the name of the project, clearly results in support for the genocide.

Is Gates just supporting a university? It is indisputable that there are no independent researchers or research institutions in China. There are only members, partners, and participants in captive institutions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Chinese society is made up of this triple constituency. If there is a fourth group, which takes an independent stand, the place where it is found is in the Chinese prisons.

Those who do not understand or acknowledge these facts prove that their knowledge of China is close to zero—unless they are willing accomplices of the regime.

These facts are evident in China’s laws, documents, and media. In the case of Bill Gates, the Tsinghua University website states, that on February 25, 2022, the Organization Department of the CCP Central Committee announced that it had appointed Qiu Yong as the secretary of the Party Committee of Tsinghua University and Wang Xiqin as the president of Tsinghua University.

From these official data, it is clear that the school is run by the CCP, i.e., the same organization that is committing the Uyghur Genocide and other crimes. Naturally, US $50 million will strengthen the actions of the murderer (the CCP) and indirectly contribute to the acceleration and expansion of the ongoing genocide.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation explained in a statement that the purpose of the funding is to improve health research and the health situation of the world’s poorest people.