Typical British reptile, too much of a bloodless coward to admit he's an imperialist:
In response to some people responding to this quite bizarrely claiming that I supported the West's war in Libya - no, I did not
You posted it the day after the bombing started.
https://twitter.com/bot_nabq/status/1352409294357090309
Hi! I opposed the Western war on Libya, well done on finding a tweet supporting the initial uprising though!
If Gaddafi was a "savage dictator", the rebels the West helped were good and them overthrowing Gadaffi was something to be desired, it made no sense to oppose the West assisting their effort. Half the arguments in that article could just as easily be arguments for more interventions
here's an article about these class traitors: https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2021-01-22/lessons-iraq-libya-syria-cheer-war/
The Lausan article casually cites the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), which is an organization founded by the Australian government and is funded by the US State Department, the Australian Department of Defense, and military contractors like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.
Lausan then cites Critical China Scholars, which admits to using Chuang (which has ties to the National Endowment for Democracy (a CIA cutout) and Radio Free Asia through its reliance on Han Dongfang/China Labor Bulletin) and New Bloom (run by Brian Hioe, who was a fellow at the Taiwanese government’s “Taiwan Foundation for Democracy”, which is one of the largest donors to the right-wing Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation) as top resources.
It also cites Darren Byler who is a fellow at Center for Asian Studies and China Made, which are financially supported by the Henry Luce Foundation, which also funds anticommunist organizations like the Atlantic Council (a NATO cutout), the Asia Foundation (was heavily funded and originally established by the CIA) and the Council on Foreign Relations. The Henry Luce Foundation had been established by the vehemently anticommunist media tycoon Henry R. Luce, who helped shape US foreign policy during the Cold War. Byler is also a fellow at the Kissinger Institute.
The article then bemoans that "Trump ignored calls to sanction China" for its Xinjiang policies while referencing a New York Times article that cites Rushan Abbas, who has boasted of her “extensive experience working with US government agencies, including Homeland Security, Department of Defense, Department of State, and various US intelligence agencies.” Abbas was a National Endowment for Democracy grantee, worked for Radio Free Asia, and even worked for the US State Department in Guantanamo Bay, which had imprisoned Uyghurs.
They then cite an AP article that relies extensively on the dodgy work of the far-right evangelical Adrian Zenz from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and the neoconservative Jamestown Foundation. His work, which he claims is "led by God", relies on wild unfounded assumptions, misrepresenting statistics and taking figures out of context to build dubious narratives, blatant misunderstandings of how Chinese family planning policies even work, North Korean defector-style questionable testimonies that have inconsistencies, and ignoring the impact of massive improvements in education, poverty alleviation, and economic development.
Also worth mentioning that Wilfred Chan, who is a founder of Lausan, worked for the hawkish and vehemently anti-China United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission of the US government and was one of the many who helped produce their 2011 Report to Congress, which recommended a more hostile foreign policy against China. After working for CNN for years, he managed to even get the hawkish 2019 Report to Congress to cite one of his articles. He also interned at the White House. Despite Lausan's claim to be "decolonial", they've engaged in blatant colonial apologism with their bizzare condemnation of India for liberating Goa from white Portuguese colonizers.
Nevertheless, there are still some very real problems with China's counter-terrorism measures which can get overzealous. I know from even pro-China sources that mass-surveillance is still very much a reality in Xinjiang years after the Salafi terrorist attacks and that even regular Uyghurs can unfortunately get profiled pretty hard at airports. De-radicalization programs will always be a source of controversy and it does not appear that the Xinjiang regional government had a solid system of due process in place. There's also an asinine restriction on beard length in Xinjiang just because having a very long beard is commonly associated with foreign Salafi jihadist influence and is supposedly not part of traditional Sunni Uyghur culture. The more religious aspects of Uyghur society could be potentially marginalized as a consequence of heavy-handed enforcement of "anti-extremism" measures. The CPC did at least finally ban Islamophobic speech on the internet and social media after the surge in Islamophobic rhetoric on social media in China after some of the terrorist attacks.