“外交部网站”消息，在4月15日外交部例行记者会上，湖北广电记者提问：澳大利亚公民党刊物《澳人警示服务》连续刊发8篇题为《新疆：欧亚中心地带的中国西部边境》的特别报告，详细披露美国等西方国家出于地缘政治目的，支持新疆分离主义和恐怖主义活动的行径。你对此有何评论？

HRTN: The Australian Alert Service, a weekly publication of the Australian Citizens Party, published an eight-article series "Xinjiang: China's Western Frontier in the Heart of Eurasia", disclosing with details how some Western countries, including the US, have supported Xinjiang separatist and terrorist activities for geopolitical purposes. Do you have any comment?

赵立坚：我也注意到这几篇报告。报告写得很好。报告指出，冷战结束后，美国等西方国家大打“新疆牌”，支持新疆分离主义和恐怖主义势力破坏新疆稳定。2003年，美国中情局就建议“美国在未来面临与中国的危机或对抗时，不应排除将‘维吾尔牌’作为施压手段的选项”。2004年以来，美国国家民主基金会向“世界维吾尔大会”等“东突”势力提供876万美元资助。上述因素导致极端思想在新疆地区迅速传播，恐怖分子进入新疆，“东突”频繁策划发动恐怖袭击，造成大量无辜平民伤亡，新疆稳定遭到严重破坏。

报告还披露，美西方通过情报机构和反华势力操纵、利用海外维吾尔人组织，炮制所谓“拘留营”、“强迫劳动”、“种族灭绝”等弥天大谎和虚假信息，安排所谓智库、学者和主流媒体制作散播假新闻，形成一条完整的造假售假“谎言链”。他们制造“新疆穆斯林支持‘独立’”、“‘东突’势力追求‘和平’”、“新疆存在侵犯人权行为”等三种假象，妄图祸乱新疆、以疆制华。

事实真相总会大白天下。美西方涉华谣言旨在毁掉中国，但这些谣言却毁掉了美国在中国人心目中的形象。这些谣言也让中国人民更加团结起来了，更加认清了美西方国家一些人的真面目。

今天是第六个全民国家安全教育日。相信随着总体国家安全观的广泛宣传和深入贯彻，每一位中国公民都会练就一双“火眼金睛”，可以分分钟识别美西方涉华谎言，最终形成维护中国国家安全的“铜墙铁壁”。美西方国家破坏中国新疆稳定发展的图谋绝不会得逞。

Zhao Lijian: I also noted this series. The articles are very well-written. They point out that since the end of the Cold War, Western countries, including the US, have been playing the “Xinjiang card” and supporting separatist and terrorist forces to disrupt Xinjiang. In 2003, the CIA concluded that “It would be unrealistic to rule out categorically American willingness to play the ‘Uyghur card’ as a means of exerting pressure on China in the event of some future crisis or confrontation.” The NED has funneled US$8.76 million since 2004 to East Turkestan forces including the “World Uyghur Congress”. These factors lead to rapid spread of extremist ideologies in Xinjiang and the inflow of terrorists. The East Turkestan forces then frequently plotted and carried out terrorist attacks in the region, causing heavy casualties of innocent civilians, severely jeopardizing stability in Xinjiang.

The series also reveals that the US and the West have manipulated and taken advantage of overseas Uyghur groups through intelligence agencies and anti-China forces to cook up outrageous lies and disinformation like "detention camp", "forced labor" and "genocide", and arrange so-called think-tanks, scholars and mainstream media to fabricate and spread fake news. This is a complete rumor-mongering chain. They created the false impression that Muslims in Xinjiang support "independence", that East Turkestan forces pursue "peace", and that there are human rights violations in Xinjiang, in an attempt to disrupt Xinjiang and contain China.

The truth will come to light. The US and the West want to destroy China with rumors, but these rumors have destroyed their image in the eyes of Chinese people. These rumors only make the Chinese more united and clear-eyed about the true face of the US and the West.

Today is the sixth National Security Education Day in China. We believe that with extensive publicity and in-depth implementation of the holistic approach to national security, each and every Chinese citizen will have sharp eyes to spot the lies of the US and the West, thus forming an impregnable fortress for our national security. Their conspiracy to disrupt Xinjiang’s stability and development will by no means succeed.

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