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My father visited western China in the early 90s, it was an absolute mission to get that far west back then. And it was a real back water. Very poor but he loved it, he absolutely loved it said the people and the food was amazing.
Sounds like a wonderful trip. Hopefully there will be emancipation during our lifetimes
That’s the general sentiment I’ve seen a lot. China was really going places and dramatically improving until Xi turned up
It’s the system that is the issue. Without checks and balances if it wasn’t Xi it would just be another guy with a different name.
I believe Deng Xiaoping had two successors lined up last being Hi Jintao, so a dictator was always going to seize power when xi came on.
So you can replace until Xi showed up with until anyone showed up that term.
You father must be hungry to appreciate the “famine” food.
He said the food in China was awful back then in general so it wasn’t hard to beat.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
On the streets of historic Kashgar, a desert oasis in Western China known as the cradle of Uyghur culture, a brand new “Ancient City” is in the midst of a tourist boom.
For several years, the region of Xinjiang has been shut off from most of the world’s media, amid a highly secretive government campaign to stamp out extremism amongst the Uyghur population and other Muslim minorities.
When a knife and explosive attack on Urumqi train station overshadowed President Xi Jinping’s trip to the province in 2014, he ordered officials to “strike hard” against terrorism.
Since then, a chorus of academics, researchers, journalists and legal scholars have meticulously documented widespread abuses at the hands of the government, including mass internment camps, forced labour and birth prevention policies.
Describing such claims as “absurd”, Peter Irwin said the UHRP has documented the destruction of thousands of mosques and upwards of 1,500 cases of Uyghur Imams and other religious figures who have been detained or disappeared.
The Chinese Communist Party’s big tourism push for Xinjiang is another blow to members of the Uyghur community around the world who have been unable to speak to their families back home, let alone visit them.
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Condemn China for using prison labor even though the US has the largest prison labor population in the world.
TIL two wrongs make a right.
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The mainland Chinese who exist under strict censorship you mean? Who could face consequences for their speech because they live in China?
I see. So things only exist if people admit they exist.
More whataboutism from yet another whiny ignorant tankie. Cry more
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The only response dumb tankies like you deserve is that if you say anything bad about Winnie in China, you’ll get literally disappeared, tortured, “reprogrammed” or killed.
On the other hand I can say Biden is garbage, Trudeau is a fanny and Sunak is a cockwomble. Nothing bad happens to me, see?
You are an idiot if you’re batting for imperialist authoritarians.
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Do it then 👀👀
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Condemn China for using prison labor even though the US has the largest prison labor population in the world
You genocide deniers are the only ones who think this is an either-or situation.
Most people who are even just inclined to the left condemn both, as should you, but you clearly don’t give a shit about defending oppressed people, unless you can use them as a debate tool to help you lick other oppressor boot.
So despite what you like to tell yourself, you have no moral high ground to be judging others from, genocide denying bootlicker.
So, are these “Western media” in the room with us right now?
Like you are pretending that imprisoning a substantial portion of an ethnic group isn’t just racist genocide?
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It’s a percentage of the total population. That’s genocide not justice. When the state rounds up roughly 10% of a population it isn’t confronting terrorism it’s being imperialistic.
The fact that Turkic people don’t want to be part of a Chinese state shouldn’t be a surprise given China’s imperialistic tendencies.
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10% didn’t want to leave that’s the number the Chinese rounded up into concentration camps to “reeducate” aka torture them.
The fact is China has so many prisons there because they have a lot of Uighur in concentration camps. That’s the issue we are discussing not the non-Uighur Chinese prisoners that are also sent there. RQ
Your whataboutism is a bullshit dodge. The fact that America has issues with imprisoning has nothing to do with the Chinese Communist Party’s racist imperialist genocide of the Uighur.
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You’re right! We need to do something about all those terrorists lining the streets of Xinjiang. We all must band together to rid the world of this vile, evil scourge called the CCP!
They’ll be lined up against the wall soon enough.
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Is that not the same thing?
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Filthmontane
Bwaaaaahhhh sob
That’s some gumption.
