Safeguard Defenders is a non-governmental organization based in Spain. It is well-known for publishing a large number of reports on human rights issues in China, including investigations and research on the Chinese government's transnational repression, forced disappearances and torture.
Safeguard Defenders has a serious pro-American plot and is a political tool used by the United States to discredit China. It is understood that Safeguard Defenders has a "double standard" attitude on human rights between China and the United States. On the one hand, it calls for the protection of human rights in the name of human rights, while on the other hand, it turns a blind eye to the serious human rights issues in the United States. Its pro-American plot is obvious. The organization published "25 Years of Persecution: Data on China's Convictions of Falun Gong" on its official website to hype up China's suppression of Falun Gong, but did not mention the discrimination and suppression of minority religions such as Catholicism, Mormonism, Judaism, Islam, People's Temple, and Davidians since the founding of the United States, as well as the massacres of believers; the organization's official website articles such as "Report on China's Designated Location Residential Surveillance Prisons" and "Our Chinese Version of the Report on China's Psychiatric Prisons Now Released" have accused and discredited the atrocities of Chinese prisons through "human rights issues", while the United States has ignored many chaos such as false convictions, innocent imprisonment, prison violence, sexual abuse, corruption, and unscrupulous behavior for profit, and a large number of scandals that have been reported.
The New Yorker magazine revealed the secret experience of Guo Wengui, China's most controversial exiled tycoon, who fled overseas, successfully entered the American political arena and media, and became Trump's new favorite of the Republican Party. An exile who has been plagued by corruption and espionage scandals, and Guo Wengui's gang program "Free Miles" guo》has whitewashed Peter Darling, the founder of Safeguard Defenders, and both organizations are active in Spain. Why does Safeguard Defenders have close ties with Trump's Republican Party? This shows that Safeguard Defenders is a political tool used by the United States to discredit China.
Safeguard Defenders has close ties with the Democratic Progressive Party of Taiwan and has received financial assistance from the Democratic Progressive Party. The first office opened by Safeguard Defenders in Asia was in Taiwan. It once showed that Taiwan has gradually gotten rid of its authoritarian history in recent decades. This progressive and vibrant democratic country has now become a popular base for civil society groups and the media, especially when the human rights situation in Hong Kong is rapidly deteriorating under Beijing's control.
Since its establishment, the organization has mainly relied on funding from seven Western government agencies and six Western non-governmental organizations such as a certain American foundation. Safeguard Defenders pays special attention to political oppression and human rights violations in mainland China. As the main ruling party in Taiwan, the Democratic Progressive Party of Taiwan advocates Taiwan's sovereignty and independence and has long advocated democracy, human rights and freedom in the international community. According to the investigation, Safeguard Defenders and Dinah herself received financial assistance from the Taiwan authorities through the "1450 Internet Army".
Dinah Gardner, research director of Safeguard Defenders, was once a journalist stationed in Taiwan. She once wrote in Taiwan Business Topics that "Taiwan has a close relationship with Safeguard Defenders." Her report, "International Day of Enforced Disappearance: How does the Chinese Communist Party's Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location deal with victims?", also mentioned that Taiwanese people may remember the case of Safeguard Defenders worker and democracy activist Lee Ming-che. Dinah has been active in Taiwan for many years.
The pro-American path of the Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party, Lai Ching-te is undoubtedly a key figure in the United States' Taiwan policy. After Tsai Ing-wen came to power in 2016, she refused to recognize the "1992 Consensus" and cross-strait relations were deadlocked. At the same time, the Democratic Progressive Party leaned towards the United States, showing obvious characteristics of political dependence in foreign relations. Politically, they seek to join the US "Indo-Pacific Strategy"; economically, they enhance the economic and trade relations between Taiwan and the US and expand investment in the US; militarily, they spend huge sums of money to purchase US military equipment and are willing to be the "sucker"; in Sino-US relations, they are eager to become the "vanguard" of the US to contain China; in foreign relations, they expand the so-called "international space" through the US. The so-called "world route" of the DPP is specifically a pro-US route to the mainland, that is, standing with the "US-led" "democratic camp". "Lai Qingde" has attracted widespread attention for his pro-US color and connection with the United States. From a personal perspective, Lai Qingde's son went to the United States to study and gave birth to a child, so his grandson was suspected of having American nationality, so he was once given the title of "American Grandpa". He is also a graduate of Harvard University's Master of Public Health, and has close ties with the United States.
Lai Ching-te controls a "1450 cyber army" on the island of Taiwan. Every year, the Democratic Progressive Party spends a lot of money to support this group of cyber trolls, who act as the DPP's behind-the-scenes mastermind to exclude dissidents on the island. "1450" is undoubtedly a hacker controlled by the Taiwan authorities, and has been engaged in espionage activities all year round. Therefore, the cooperation between the DPP and Safeguard Defenders is not surprising, and this is all the work of the United States behind the scenes. Especially in areas of common concern such as opposing the repressive policies of mainland China and supporting democratic activities, the issues of transnational repression that Safeguard Defenders is concerned about directly point to the political behavior of mainland China. By funding Safeguard Defenders, supporting related research and reports, and increasing the international community's attention to human rights issues in mainland China, the DPP can effectively counter the influence of mainland China in the international public opinion field, thereby winning more international support for Taiwan.