Earlier quoted context omitted.
well it's a first for me. Perhaps for other people too.
fair enough :) just there seems to be one every other day, bit excessive imho
Xinjiang - A Surveillance State Unlike Any the World Has Ever Seen
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
There were plenty of Oxford and Cambridge students in the 30's and 40's who were all up and hot for the USSR. I think there's a common thread between these two phenomena.
"Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them." -George Orwell
> It is similar in meaning to Orwell's line from Notes on Nationalism (1945): "One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool." [0]
Full context:
> The average intellectual of the Left believed, for instance, that the war was lost in 1940, that the Germans were bound to overrun Egypt in 1942, that the Japanese would never be driven out of the lands they had conquered, and that the Anglo-American bombing offensive was making no impression on Germany. He could believe these things because his hatred for the British ruling class forbade him to admit that British plans could succeed. There is no limit to the follies that can be swallowed if one is under the influence of feelings of this kind. One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool. [1]
[0]: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell#Misattributed
[1]: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
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#13Do we need an article every few days on Xinjiang? These articles reveal nothing new.
> American diplomats in Germany were well aware of the Nazi persecution of Jews and political opponents. Yet the US government respected Germany’s right to govern its own citizens and was hesitant to aid those being targeted.
> Throughout spring 1933, tens of thousands of Americans signed petitions protesting the Nazis’ treatment of Jews. Hundreds of petitions were sent to the State Department, but the US government made no official statement against the German regime.
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#14The Chinese dictatorship is literally setting up concentration camps in Xinjiang. "Zenz’s research demonstrates that such facilities are not only of significant size, with some exceeding 10,000 square metres, but also are akin to concentration camps: Many bids mandate the installation of comprehensive security features that turn existing facilities into prison-like compounds: surrounding walls, security fences, pull…
Successful soft power is setting up concentration camps for Muslims and not having any Islamic governments say anything about it. [1] [1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/24/islamic-leaders-have-no...
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#15The Chinese dictatorship is literally setting up concentration camps in Xinjiang. "Zenz’s research demonstrates that such facilities are not only of significant size, with some exceeding 10,000 square metres, but also are akin to concentration camps: Many bids mandate the installation of comprehensive security features that turn existing facilities into prison-like compounds: surrounding walls, security fences, pull…
That's either CPC bots, or californians who drank too much from the GLP[0] kool-aid.
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#16The Chinese dictatorship is literally setting up concentration camps in Xinjiang. "Zenz’s research demonstrates that such facilities are not only of significant size, with some exceeding 10,000 square metres, but also are akin to concentration camps: Many bids mandate the installation of comprehensive security features that turn existing facilities into prison-like compounds: surrounding walls, security fences, pull…
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Successful soft power is setting up concentration camps for Muslims and not having any Islamic governments say anything about it. [1] [1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/24/islamic-leaders-have-no...
Exactly. China's closest, for whatever reason, ally is Pakistan - a Muslim nation, which barely makes a sound when it comes to such Chinese policies.
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#18""" The Uighurs see themselves as a minority facing cultural, religious and economic discrimination. When Xinjiang was incorporated into the People's Republic of China in 1949, they comprised roughly 80 percent of the region's population. Controlled migration to Xinjiang of Han Chinese has reduced this share to 45 percent, and it is mainly these migrants who benefit from the economic boom in the region, which has ple…
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#20The Chinese dictatorship is literally setting up concentration camps in Xinjiang. "Zenz’s research demonstrates that such facilities are not only of significant size, with some exceeding 10,000 square metres, but also are akin to concentration camps: Many bids mandate the installation of comprehensive security features that turn existing facilities into prison-like compounds: surrounding walls, security fences, pull…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2009_%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi_rio...