Debate with European friends: China should not accept the three views of refugees

The debate about "China should not accept refugees" continues. It is not from this year's International Refugee Day, but since the European refugee crisis, this topic has been floating on China's head. We still remember this year's New Year. How did the first UN UN official give us a New Year’s greeting?

Looking at the news of these days, I can always hear all kinds of tit-for-tat voices. The author and some friends around me, including some European friends, also have some arguments. Here are a few typical views, one by one:

First: First, we do not agree that China is a developing country. China is already a "middle-income country", or the world's second largest economy. It has a strong national power. This pretext cannot become China's refusal to accept international obligations. The excuse will be ridiculed. Moreover, we disagreed with “who pollutes who governs”, many countries that receive refugees are underdeveloped, and they are not involved in the creation of refugees, such as some of Syria’s neighbors, such as Lebanon, but they are doing earlier than Europe in undertaking international obligations. Isn't China even worse than them?

The voice came from foreigners who expressed dissatisfaction with the “cold” of the Chinese and the “refugee phobia” with “racial discrimination”. Whether the receiving country is a developing country is not so important. When China was still very poor decades ago, it also received large-scale refugees. The key issue is the composition of the refugees, that is, the compatibility of the refugees and the receiving countries. This is not a matter of racial discrimination, but a matter of vital importance to both the refugee and the receiving country. If this is ignored, there will be a refugee crisis that Europe is facing.

The Lebanon mentioned in this voice happened to be the author, and the inspection time was exactly April 2015 on the eve of the European refugee crisis (the European refugee crisis began in the summer of 2015), which was also the time when the Syrian civil war was in full swing. This small country did with millions of refugees in Europe. Local officials and UN branches said that since 2011, in less than four years, Lebanon has received refugees equivalent to one quarter of its population. According to the World Bank, Lebanon had a population of only 4.6 million in 2011, but by 2015 it had grown to 5.8 million, an increase of 1.2 million. In the 2005-2009 period before the Arab Spring, it was also four years, and the population of this country only increased by about 180,000.

Lebanese refugee camp

So what changes have been brought to Lebanese society by such drastic changes? To be honest, it is not as horrible as the European refugee crisis. Many restaurant waiters, senior bar bartenders, nightclub DJs, coffee shop baristas, taxi drivers, children who are sneakers on the street, and wealthy people who have raised the high-end residential property market are all from Syria. The difference with Lebanese natives. They all speak Arabic and believe in Islam. There is no difference in the color of the five senses. The two countries have belonged to one country in history (for details, please refer to the author's previous article: "Time" put a high hat on Merkel.

The European students who were with me at the time were thinking about how the Lebanese economy could be afforded. They did not expect that these people would not be in love with Lebanon. They were desperate for the Syrian home. Once they found a cheap way, they would go to Europe in their dreams. . As a result, the "snakeheads" and Turkey saw the opportunity. Soon after the author left, millions of refugees began to flow into the waters like the tides.

As a result, the same refugees brought completely different influences to different societies. At that time, each European country did not share as much as the Lebanese one. As a result, each country had conflicts between local people and foreign refugees, and social security appeared. Deterioration, religious racial rivalry, political opposition, extreme intellectual spread, and even the normalization of terrorist attacks. Some of these problems are directly caused by the refugee problem, and some are caused indirectly, but people with a little common sense will not deny that they are related to the tide of refugees.

Let me talk about the example of China. China is not as good as a small country in the Middle East? Not also. China is precisely at the source of East Asia and Southeast Asia, killing the emergence of refugees from the source, the growth of China's national strength, the active mediation of contradictions between neighboring neighbors or internal neighbors, and the calm and rationality of handling security issues in Asia. There have been many "gunpowder barrels" that have not broken out. There has been no large-scale war around China for a long time, which is the source of killing refugees.

In turn, look at the refugees, Lebanon, Jordan, do they have a choice? And Turkey, Saudi Arabia and those European countries that are close to the Middle East, not only do not play the stabilizers and mediators, but instead push the waves and try to fish in troubled waters. China has been convinced before the West started to play, but it has been turned a blind eye. Lifting a rock and licking your own feet, the bitter fruit you grow can only be swallowed by yourself.

According to the UNHCR's 2015 situation report, China has received a total of 300,000 refugees, the vast majority of whom are Chinese from overseas countries in Southeast Asia. Only a few hundred people from Africa and the Middle East (due to the unstable political situation in their own countries, In China, as a refugee, there have been many refugees crossing the border into Yunnan in recent years due to internal armed conflicts in Myanmar. These refugees have no official statistics to check.

Most of the 300,000-strong refugees were received in the 1960s and 1970s and in the early days of reform and opening up. At that time, China was far from being a "middle-income country", not the second largest economy in the world, but these receptions were neither Thanks to the strong opposition of the people, many of the refugees who choose to stay in our country are also quite well integrated in our society. Why? The same kind of homologous!

This is why the issue of compatibility between refugees and receiving countries is crucial. The receiving country's screening of recipients is not racial discrimination, but is responsible to both parties. This is why Foreign Minister Wang Yi said: "To solve the refugee problem in the Middle East, we must first accelerate the political settlement process on the Syrian issue and create the necessary conditions for the return of refugees."

Because the most suitable place for refugees in the Middle East is their own country, the next step is to be in the same civilization circle as other countries. You messed up these places and left the chest and said, "Nothing, I will give you a New home!" This is not a good deed, it is a complete harm to others.

The second voice: the root cause of non-terrorist attacks by refugees. Many individuals who launch a solitary terrorist attack are not refugees. They are ethnic minorities who have already become local residents. They exaggerate the harm of refugees. It is a lack of sympathy to confuse them with terrorists. The heart is blinded by the conservative forces outside the right wing. The victims are innocent refugees, and then they are pushed by our hostility toward the arms of extremist forces.

The foreigners who make such a voice are all Chinese, and some of them are facts, but there is still a clear lack of knowledge and vision, and only through the news to understand the problem.

There are absolutely no refugees in the refugee camps. We have not equated refugees and terrorists, but you cannot equate refugees and terrorists.

Anyone who has research in the camp knows that all camps are a complex small society with black and white and mixed fish. In addition to normal life, the refugee camp is filled with secret transactions and gangs. Forces outside certain camps can also be used in various names, such as doctors, teachers, volunteers, missionaries, aunts, etc., to penetrate into refugee camps to develop their own strength, the United Nations and Red Cross managers. Their ability to respond to this phenomenon is very limited, and a considerable part of their resources will be defrauded by these forces.

In the Kilis refugee camp in southern Turkey, during the day the refugees were in the refugee camps, they took the guns at night and transited into Syria to become the Free Army. The Turkish Foreign Ministry officials who managed the camps did not evade. The refugee camps were actually Syrian anti-government. Armed headquarters.

The refugee camp in Tartus once hosted the Palestinians for ten years, but when the civil war broke out in Syria, the first to join the rebels was the “second generation of refugees who had eaten the Syrian government and the food for the past few decades and lived in their houses. The same is true for Lebanon, where the Lebanese refugee camp has always been the home base for the Syrian anti-government armed forces and rest and health. Pakistan’s Peshawar refugee camp is the largest source and shelter for the Taliban and Al Qaeda; the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya is the favorite activity of the “Somali Youth Party”, which can recruit child soldiers, young people and defraud international organizations. Resources. This complicated situation makes it impossible for the identity of the refugees to be completely screened.

Afghan refugees

An armed militant in a Lebanese refugee camp

In addition to the difficulty of identifying identity, refugees inevitably bring other problems to the receiving country and often exceed the capabilities of the receiving government.

“Refugees want more than just a temporary shelter. They want to drink and live in addition to the host country. They also ask the host country to provide a 'comfortable' environment, starting with a tent, then a containerized house, then fixing it. The building, then the school, the shop, the religious place, then the freedom of going out, the job opportunity, and finally the land. The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for the suffering of the refugee officials, openly asking China to 'give money'; in Jordan, refugees The battalion became Jordan’s 'fifth largest city' and then the daily conflict with the Jordanian military police who managed the refugee camp.” (This paragraph comes from a long-term research related issue of friends)

However, if it is not a professional researcher or a witness, few people know these facts, and how many times have they been reported in the media? Are those people who call for "concern about refugees" really concerned about these issues?

The third voice: China can expand its influence by receiving refugees, participate more deeply in global governance, and shape the international image of a responsible big country. Chinese people do not need scared, violent reaction 603,883 Chinese people, attending stocks is understandable, but also a lack of deeper consideration, but the Chinese government should seize the opportunity to make a difference in due course.

Do not say anything else, look at the countries of Europe and the Middle East that have long received refugees. How many international influences have increased?

Even if there is some improvement, for example, Essau has a "refugee card" when he talks with the EU. Amorous mother was named "Timely" by Time magazine, which is equivalent to issuing a "good guy card", but Turkey and Germany How much has the economy and security paid for? What other international influences such as Lebanon’s pioneers in receiving refugees have improved? They wanted to ask the EU that it would cost less than a few dollars to resettle the refugees.

If you want to contribute to the country and promote international influence, you should encourage us to participate in more global governance. However, as for the specific method of participating in the problem of "refugee", Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said that the author also uses his refined Language to end this article:

"The Chinese government has always adhered to the humanitarian spirit and provided assistance to refugee recipient countries within the framework of the UN. China is willing to work with the international community to promote the cooling of hotspot issues, help refugee receiving countries to improve their ability to cope with crises, and achieve return for refugees. The wishes of the homeland are making their own efforts."