Editor's Note:

Southern Mongolian News republishes this speech by Enghebatu Togochog, Director of the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC), delivered during the protest against Chinese President Xi Jinping on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on September 24, 2026.

The speech addresses the human rights situation in Southern Mongolia and the importance of protecting the Mongolian people's language, culture, and fundamental rights. We are preserving and sharing this important address to make its message accessible to a wider audience.

Sain baitsagaan uu, Good afternoon! My name is Enghebatu Togochog. I am a Mongolian from Chinese-occupied Southern Mongolia.

First of all, I must make it clear that I am here today to protest Xi Jinping, not to protest the Chinese “President.” Because China does not have a “President” who is a head of state produced by a democratic election. Xi Jinping is not a “President”; he is the “Chairman” of China and the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP. We never called Mao “President Mao.” We called him “Chairman Mao.” We never called Stalin “President Stalin.” We called him “General Secretary,” or “Gen-sec,” of the USSR. China has never changed since Mao’s time. It is still an authoritarian Communist state. Xi Jinping’s title is exactly the same as Mao’s title in Chinese: “国家主席, 中共总书记”.

It is the West, it is the Western so-called “China experts,” it is the Western intelligentsia, it is the Western news media, it is Western politicians who volunteered to, rushed to admit China into the democratic world.

As a result, today, China, the world’s largest authoritarian regime, and the Chinese Communist Party, the world’s largest terrorist network, are blended into the global system and given equal footing with any other democratic nations.

As a result, today, Xi Jinping proudly wears the name tag of “President” and is welcomed with a red carpet to the White House. It is a sad fact that the United States is the single biggest contributor to China’s emboldenment.

It was President Nixon who brought China onto the world stage to corrupt the world politically; it was President Clinton who opened the door for China to exploit the world economically. In this sense, China is the Frankenstein made by the West itself. Today, the West itself is bowing to this monster it created and cannot even have the courage to call it what it is. If you can’t even call your enemy what it is, you will never win. Your fight is no more than a pillow fight.

We Southern Mongolians, Tibetans, Uyghurs, Hong Kongers, and Taiwanese warned the West of China’s true colors and insatiable ambition from day one of its existence.

In the past nearly eight decades, what China has done in the occupied nations of Southern Mongolia, Tibet, and East Turkistan is a textbook example of settler colonialism: violent military occupation, waves of genocidal campaigns, erasure of language, culture, and identity, and systematic destruction of nationhood.

Today, in Southern Mongolia, we Mongolians are not even allowed to learn or speak our language in schools or in any social life; anything with a hint of Mongolian identity is brutally destroyed; signs in Mongolian are taken down from buildings, streets, and parks; the Mongolian language is not just removed from schools but summarily banned across the Southern Mongolian public sphere; textbooks are burned; Mongolian books are removed from public libraries; music and songs with the keywords “Mongol,” “Mongolia,” and “Mongolian” are removed from the internet and social media; the term “Mongolian culture” was first changed to “grassland culture” and is now officially called “northern frontier culture.” The idea is not only to wipe out Southern Mongolia as a nation, but also to purge our identity and nationhood from the memory of mankind. If you do not call this “genocide,” what is it?

Southern Mongolia, Tibet, East Turkistan, and Hong Kong are not the only victims of China’s authoritarianism. China’s neighboring countries are gradually becoming de facto Chinese colonies; 150, or more than 3 quarters of the world’s countries, are lured or forced into China’s so-called “Belt and Road Initiative”.

Not only that. China is trying to redefine the concept of “human rights” in the United Nations system on its own terms. China is trying to create a new world order that satisfies its ambition for global hegemony.

The free and democratic world must wake up, must stand up, now, to save our democracy and freedom from this unprecedented existential threat.

Thank you.

Enghebatu Togochog

Director, Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC)