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Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide

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Re: Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide

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Post by almost_usual »

danShumway wrote: post #10

This is something that future generations are going to look back at with a lot of shame. It's going to end up being in textbooks as another thing where students wonder why we were OK with genocide happening under our noses. In the US at least, we are not taking this problem seriously enough. There's a lot of acknowledgement that something bad is happening, but not a lot of clear coordination on an international scale…

We have no leverage and the global economic system doesn’t care enough. Let’s be real, China is the new world super power. The US is still riding the coattails of prior success.

We’re a confused divided country and China has a brutally efficient system of exploitation the US needs.

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Post by coldtea »

Tiktaalik wrote: post #7
mosseater wrote: post #6

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The West isn't going to go to war to stop a genocide.

No, but they are gonna overblow what's going on in those areas, to use as "cold war" pressure and justify all kinds of measures and actions in a diplomatic / trade war that has nothing to do with caring for the plight of Uighurs...

One would expect by the 10th repetition of the same BS playbook in the last 100 years, people would know by now...

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Post by yumraj »

The world did nothing when same was happening in Tibet and China was a fraction of its current power.

Nothing is going to happen now when China is obviously more powerful. Moreover, none of the Muslim countries care, ME countries will happily sell China oil and Pakistan touts it’s relationship with China.

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Post by yumraj »

crashdelta wrote: post #15
legostormtroopr wrote: post #2

Yes - we know this. We've known this for a long time. The question is what now? Western nations have shown no political will to stand up to China.

The powers that be do not care, because they're Muslims.

Do the Muslim countries care, No!

Re: Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide

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Post by CaptainSwing »

mosseater wrote: post #6

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While I agree, there are plenty of poor sources getting too much uncritical attention in the press, even by China's own accounts there are a large network of education facilities, trying to hammer in a strong sense of national identity. It is hard not to interpret this as a direct assault on the culture of Uighur people.

It shouls also be viewed in it's geopolitical context - China is desparate to have secure land routes into Europe and the middle east incase things kick off in the South China sea, and by their calculations that security requires (forcefully) integrating the Uighur people into Chinese culture and nationalism. On the other hand, the west will take what opportunity they can to attack China on human rights grounds, despite the hypocrisy of all the human rights abuses around the world they happily ignore (the treatment of Kurds in Turkey, for example).

TLDR; we can be critical of western imperialism, while still holding China to account.

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