tweet link -> https://twitter.com/AP/status/1447147267669037057?s=20
archived -> https://web.archive.org/web/20211012141845/https://twitter.com/AP/status/1447147267669037057?s=20
For the records, here is a NED official tweet mentioning they have been "funding Uyghur groups" since 2004:
img -> https://i.imgur.com/Wr8EOYS.png
tweet -> https://twitter.com/NEDemocracy/status/1337063301113581568?s=20
archived -> https://web.archive.org/web/20211012142639/https://twitter.com/NEDemocracy/status/1337063301113581568?s=20
Here is a video someone posted below the tweet -- of a guy discussing this shift in narrative (using this article, specifically). He makes the case that the *actual* cultural genocide occurred/was occurring when Salafism was injected into the region and supported by outside actors in the Western axis. I think the video is pretty good, and, among other things, he shows that NGO internal memos refer to the "concentration camps" as 'vocational centers' -> https://youtu.be/78s7yP2BdF0?t=0
Here is Lawrence Wilkerson spilling the beans also -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrufheMU-WQ&t=0s
It doesn't even matter that it doesn't matter. Not like PRC's rise is going to be halted by whatever level of xenophobia that exists in the US. Nice to have a pseudo-retraction, but at this point I care very little whether they walked back on their narrative or not. None of us were relying on western media to suddenly find their integrity anyway.
Nuclear missiles are always a thing.