Also condemn Palestine for supporting China.

    • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      east turekstan islamic militants were funded by the west as a proxy force to fuck with the belt and road initiative. here's footage of a US military official casually admitting this at the ron paul institute in, i want to say, 2018,. they carried out terrorist attacks in xinjiang. china tried to combat radicalization of ETIM extremists by employing, educating, and housing people so that they would be less likely to sympathize. these were called uyghur ethnic concentration camps by the west. it was easy to push this narrative because the housing is public housing in block apartments, and the education included anti-radicalization, and the jobs were sometimes outdoor agricultural work. muslim majority nations sent delegations to xinjiang and concluded there was no uyghur genocide. NATO countries continued to assert that there is a genocide of uyghurs in xinjiang and that the only reason muslim majority nations disagree is because they benefit from the belt and road initiative. the genocide narrative was cooked up by adrian zenz, an evangelical conservative guy who has written books about how God wants america to destroy china.

      • mkultrawide [any]
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        1 year ago

        The funny thing is, back when all those knife attacks were happening in Xinjiang, :reddit-logo:'s biggest enemy was still Islam, and reddit was almost uniformly against them. Whereas now, they would probably be cheered as heroes.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, i read the UN report. It's frustrating that there's a big, boring UN report that says "China is doing some unlawful detentions but it's not a lot of people and at most it's a few months.

    • Dryad [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      It's what liberals think Xinjiang should be as an independent state

      • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        and by independent they mean another vassal state bogged down with IMF loans and privatized to hell and back

            • nohaybanda [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              For sure. I wonder if their pawns in Taiwan are paying attention right now. Because Ukraine is large enough you can sleep a 1000 km away from the battle lines and pretend it's all fine. Taiwan doesn't get that luxury.