https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/25/netflix-liu-cixin-adaptation-uighur-comments-the-three-body-problem

this is definitely the most important thing happening.

        • volkvulture [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          wait, did requiring engravings of knives purchased in these areas start before or after the fundamentalist sectarianism?

          Hui Muslims also do not completely escape this terrifying inculcation. Which isn't to say it's some inherent feature of Islam, obviously not if these groups have co-existed for so long, but we can't ignore the extent to which a recent narrative of "cultural genocide" gets slathered on these stories.

          Hui Muslims are socio-linguistically & historically of Chinese descent. And they are also known to have Salafist & extreme sectarian groups moving in and out of these areas in Xinjiang. Hui muslims have been implicated in Heroin rings & moving those drugs to those Uyghur areas.

          To what extent is Daesh and its outgrowths an encouragement for these groups elsewhere & why was the reporter A. Vltchek found dead under suspicious circumstances in Turkey?

          Is this global nexus of oil money & militant funding & state surveillance not just a way to encircle China from Central Asia?

            • volkvulture [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              education & economic development are not law enforcement issues in the same way as the United States' War on Drugs & racist for-profit prison industry.

              you can parse the lasting social benefits & fundamental uplifting aim of one over the other, i am sure of this.

              and you're right from one perspective about Turkey, I think, but this topic just gets more interesting & complex the less we accept the "china bad" line.

              https://www.sbs.com.au/news/china-releases-video-of-uighur-musician-disputing-reported-death

              the way news & sensationalism & outright lies blend so perfectly into jingoism can't be ignored. none of us are immune to propaganda, but I think we can comb through most of these claims about PRC and find very little real or irrefutable evidence.

                • volkvulture [none/use name]
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                  4 years ago

                  Wait, what's the solution outside of economically investing in these areas and attempting to bring these far-flung & socially disparate groups into the fold of larger PRC mainstream cultural norms?

                  I think you discount the extent to which these insurgencies have their origins in Western & Saudi-influenced meddling