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

      except Vietnam is not even close to US sphere of influence & Xinjiang is literally within PRC sovereign territory

      PRC recognizes all of these groups with special designation. You can parrot jingoist disinformation about a situation you've no personal experience with, or you can admit & attend specifically to the terrible ways the West (North & South America especially) treat indigenous there. Canada & US have never given these groups outreach or uplift & leave them to flounder in marginal scrubland

      Yet you appear to live in this fantasy where Islamic fundamentalism & zealotry are only conceivable threats to “Western society”…

      You think PRC deserves terrorist attacks, & that the global war on terror & gitmo & extrajudicial rendition by America are in this other category.

      • BETO_Institute [none/use name]
        2·
        4 years ago

        if you want to link me better facts (against the western narrative/propaganda), feel free, but i'm absolutely not sympathetic to this argument.

        Yet you appear to live in this fantasy where Islamic fundamentalism & zealotry are only conceivable threats to “Western society”…

        You think PRC deserves terrorist attacks, & that the global war on terror & gitmo & extrajudicial rendition by America are in this other category.

        in no way am i saying that, bud. clearly islamic fundamentalism is not a serious threat to the west, it's a sad pretext for western hegemony and incursion. the capitalist west shouldn't do it; nor should the PRC.

        • volkvulture [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1160094.shtml this is from last year & seems to indicate things are improving from the perspective of government openness & goodwill

          https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47191952 this is also from last year and maybe passes the sniff-test for you here for "East vs. West media bias" maybe not idgaf

          https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/china-muslims-work-change-perceptions-after-knife-attacks this is VOA, so it's definitely tripe, but even it still was giving somewhat of an even-handed & in-depth perspective on the issues at play here in the Obama era

          https://thediplomat.com/2014/10/chinese-salafism-and-the-saudi-connection/ this too gives nuance and offers wider connections to the general state of Islam globally. But it leaves out key connections between the "openness" reforms of Deng's era & how these have always led to potentially dangerous Western & even extreme theocratic influences into the country

        • ARVSPEX [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          Except Islamic Fundamentalism is very much a threat to the PRC because it stems from within its own borders—The slew of terrorist attacks carried out in the Xianjing region can attest to that. The two are not comparable.

          • BETO_Institute [none/use name]
            2·
            4 years ago

            uh, physical/territorial proximity is definitely not why there is an obvious salient comparison between the two.

            when france annexes/colonially appropriates algeria, algerian separatists come from "within" france. we're right to support the algerians, and condemn the french. not sure why Uigher separatists shouldn't be afforded the same solidarity and consideration as we would have with the algerians .