Mercatornet has a piece on the UN career of Xi Jinping’s wife and her role in the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Xi Jinping’s wife is a UN envoy for promoting ‘empowerment’ for women and girls.
Chinese are outraged at how badly poor and disabled women are being treated in their country
A Chinese woman called Peng Liyuan was appointed in 2014 as the UNESCO Special Envoy for the Advancement of Girls’ and Women’s Education, with the mandate of “supporting girls’ and women’s empowerment through quality education.” She has been quietly kept in this position until today.
When Peng visits countries on behalf of the UNESCO, she is often introduced as a “world-famous soprano and folk singer,” although as an artist she is unknown outside China. However, her talents as a singer are not the reason why she is a UNESCO Special Envoy. She is there because she is the wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping. She had already been appointed by the World Health Organization “Goodwill Ambassador for Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS” with a press release calling her “a famous Chinese soprano and actress,” and hiding that she was the wife of Xi Jinping, then China’s Vice President.
Peng started “empowering women and girls” early enough. In 1989, the Chinese Army and State Security killed some 10,000 students in Tiananmen Square during the June Fourth Incident, including a good number of young women. Peng dressed in a military uniform went to celebrate and sing for the “victorious” troops in Tiananmen Square.
5 comments:
Doubtless the UN would say that they want her to be seen as a woman in her own right, rather than a mere appendage of a famous man.
They could probably find other important or influential women, but that would mean doing a little work, and also upsetting the Chinese leadership.
The UN was formed in 1945 and so is 76 years old or so. Following my '70 year rule' it is overdue for massive reorganisation or replacement. The organisation has been commandeered by the personal interests of the people in charge.
DJ: "The organisation has been commandeered by the personal interests of the people in charge." Much like the Non-functional Health Service, then . . .
@The Jannie
Exactly. Other long lived organisations which need reorganisation or replacement include the BBC, The Church of England, the National Trust. Privatisation also broke up several organisations that had become stale (British Steel, British Rail, British Leyland Motor Corporation, British Coal).
Most commercial organisations are kept 'honest' by competition... Microsoft, Apple and Google are not yet 'old enough' as effective monopolies to qualify. The House of Commons manages to escape my 70 year rule because the MPs have to face re-election every 4 - 5 years. The House of Lords *fails* my rule because Lords are secure until retirement or death.
Gives you a whole new way of looking at organisations.
Sam - yet presumably she must know she is there as a mere appendage of a famous man. Maybe she sees it as a partnership.
DJ - I think your 70 year rule is right. Includes state education and maybe even the Chinese Communist Party.
Jannie - that would be the Non-functional Health Service which showed little interest in a teenager who has recently had a very bad reaction to the whooping cough vaccine, that Non-functional Health Service.
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