Since 2006, China has been undertaking the most significant health care reforms since the Mao era. The government launched the New Rural Co-operative Medical Care System (NRCMCS) in 2005 in an overhaul of the healthcare system, particularly intended to make it more affordable for the rural poor. Under the NRCMCS, some 800 million rural residents gained basic, tiered medical coverage, with the central and provincial governments covering between 30-80% of regular medical expenses.[7] Availability of medical insurance has increased in urban areas as well. By 2011 more than 95% of the total population of China had basic health insurance, though out-of-pocket costs and the quality of care varied significantly.
Since 2006, China has been undertaking the most significant health care reforms since the Mao era. The government launched the New Rural Co-operative Medical Care System (NRCMCS) in 2005 in an overhaul of the healthcare system, particularly intended to make it more affordable for the rural poor. Under the NRCMCS, some 800 million rural residents gained basic, tiered medical coverage, with the central and provincial governments covering between 30-80% of regular medical expenses.[7]
Healthcare availability has become available to 800 million (Xinjiang is the most rural province in China and benefitted disproportionately from this. Healthcare in China includes abortion and this procedure has become much more available in rural areas. Some abortions had historically been imposed as a way of maintaining the one child policy, which is a misnomer as I’ll explain below.
Abortion in China is legal and is a government service available on request for women.[1] In theory this does not apply to sex-selective abortion, although this remains the basis for some women's requests. In addition to virtually universal access to contraception, abortion was a common way for China to contain its population in accordance with its now-defunct one-child policy,[2] which was removed in 2015 in favor of a two-child policy.
China's Affirmative Action Policies
*No taxes in minority regions are required to be sent to the central government; all of it can be spent locally.[5] Minorities receive proportional representation in local government.[5] Higher-level jurisdictions ask lower-level minority areas to put forth “extensive efforts to support the country’s construction by providing more natural resources” and in exchange gives them infrastructural subsidies such as personnel training, budgetary subventions, and disproportionate public works investments.[1][6] The Chinese government encourages business to hire minorities and offers no-interest loans to businesses operated by minorities.[1][5] Prominent government posts may be filled with “model” citizens who are also minorities.[7]
Minority students applying to universities receive bonus points on the National Higher Education Entrance Examination (gaokao).[1][7][8] In 2009 authorities in Chongqing uncovered 31 high school students pretending to be members of a minority group in order to gain test points, and in 2011 Inner Mongolia authorities uncovered about 800 students pretending to be members of a minority group.[8] There is a system of universities exclusively for minority students.[5] The government established bilingual programs to help minorities learn Mandarin Chinese. Scholars are creating alphabets for minority languages that had not been previously written as a way of preserving those languages.[5]
The Chinese government officially allowed minority parents to have more than one child per family instead of the one demanded for Han people as part of the one-child policy.[7] Rena Singer of Knight-Ridder Newspapers wrote that “In practice, many minority families simply have as many children as they want.” 5][2] Singer wrote that the policies are meant to encourage assimilation instead of empowering minority blocs and “The idea is to give the minorities just enough power, education or economic success to keep them quiet.”[5] An article by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times describes the opposite effect: families that might have preferred to assimilate by identifying as Han instead maintain their minority identity, for the increased policy benefit and social opportunities.[7]*
What's Islam like in Xinjiang?
In France there are about 2,300 mosques and about 5,700,000 Muslims in Xinjiang there are over 25,000 mosques and about 8-12 million ugyhurs , not necesarilly muslims.
Today there are over 39,000 mosques in China, 25,000 of these are in Xinjiang, a north-west autonomous region.
If you want some less quantitative evidence I’d suggest checking out this travel blogger’s video I think he’s not politically motivated in his portrayal ( of course you are free to disagree) and the video is from 2018, before this propaganda battle really blew up. Video I really think he gives a realistic perspective, showing heavy policing and even going on a little rant calling it "modern day imperialism" (lib take IMO) but also mentioning terrorist attacks and the ETIM.
Heres a montage of economic development in XInjiang’s regional capital Urumqi
Here’s a Malaysian muslim youtuber’s travel video Loooots of Islamic culture visible, but the creator of the video in the comments says the guards began to force her to remove her hijab until she said she was a foreigner. She also replies in Malay to a comment saying "There is no visible camp camp that the USA calls killing Muslims 🤣" //note: gooole translate used in both cases// with a comment saying " try kashgar not urumqi" and futher down describes the lives of muslims in Urumqi as the "same as usual, but with religious practice limited and heavy surveillance"".
She says "In Urumqi, ethnic Han was brought in. There are many Uyghur ethnicities in the villages. But the kashgar is still pure Uyghur" which is kinda sus IMO. "its hot in Xinjiang as they wanted to be free from china. Same like hongkong. Well the shop lady wanna wear hijab but they said “ we cant as they will be sent to the camp”. For me it paints a picture of forceful secularization, but encouragement of cultural and "politically correct" religious expression.
And now that I've said all that, there are re-education camps, here's the BBC touring once (presumably the nicest facility avaialable, so bear that in mind too I'm not actually a Chinese shill (imo lmao)). The narration is INCREDIBLY BIASED but correctly points out that there are also prison facilites. For me this is where the dray area still is, I believe that there is a need to imprison at least some returning ISIS collaborators.I don't know to what extent that criteria reaches however, and I find it plausible that abuses and overreach do occur systemically. I also don't know that to be true.
I do not believe there is genocide taking place in Xinjiang, I believe consent is being manufactured through the creation of a misleading narrative. I believe the extent of Human Right abuses in XInjiang to be much much much less sever than those in American detention camps. I largely disbelieve horror stories, although I do believe the camps are likely dehumanising and much less free than attending a normal vocational shcool. I believe long hours and overnight stays are imposed but its apparent many prisoners/students (at least) are allowed to leave. It seems like harsh and chauvinist (but socialist) intesive community service with a lot of restraint and vocational training built in.
You know the Media is willing to lie about Bernie, you know they’re even willing to lie about war crimes, you know they are directly implicit in American imperialism, you know the New York Times lied to get us into Iraq, you know they are willing to mkae up names and reports and they will never ever face any consequences for it. You know they lied about Corbyn, you know UK media will and have lied to back up US media, you know Trump is in charge of federal agencies and there are neocons in alphabet soup agencies capable of manufacturing any story about China through their agencies and getting it published wherever they want. China’s GDP grew 3.2 this quarter, the US GDP fell more than 30%. China’s Yuan has been appreciating at a rate that indicates that even their deflated (relative to capitalist nations GDP) will surpass the US in net terms (already has considering purchasing power) US dollar hegemony seems to be receeding in a way that may make China a significantly more importnant economy, additonally the US still hasn’t been hit by the coming stock market crash or eviction crisis, and political crisis is looming no matter the result in November. You know the US deep state is aware of the geopolitical importance of Xinjiang.
You better start believing in Cold Wars comrade, youre in one.
My point is that there were larger armed uprisings over rural communities feeling like they weren't getting compensated enough for privatized communal lands. A project of extermination or mass incarceration on the scale that western propaganda accuses China of engaging in would certainly be met with more than scattered riots and some jihadists that the US has admitted to materially supporting.
ah, my bad then, i for sure agree with that