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guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
Sat Sep 28, 2019, 12:58 PM Sep 2019

(X-posted from religion) China Wants the World to Stay Silent on Muslim Camps. It's Succeeding.

From the article:

When Turkey’s leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, visited Beijing this summer, he hailed a new Silk Road bridging Asia and Europe. He welcomed big Chinese investments for his beleaguered economy. He gushed about China’s sovereignty.
But Mr. Erdogan, who has stridently promoted Islamic values in his overwhelmingly Muslim country, was largely silent on the incarceration of more than one million Turkic Muslims in China’s western region of Xinjiang, and the forced assimilation of millions more....

Like Mr. Erdogan, the world has been noticeably quiet about Xinjiang, where China has built a vast network of detention camps and systematic surveillance over the past two years in a state-led operation to convert Uighurs into loyal, secular supporters of the Communist Party. Even when diplomats have witnessed the problems firsthand and privately condemned them, they have been reluctant to go public, unable to garner broad support or unwilling to risk financial ties with China.


To read more:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/world/asia/china-xinjiang-muslim-camps.html

China is using the language of the "war on terror" to cover for an attack on theism, and to seize the assets of the Uighur peoples.
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(X-posted from religion) China Wants the World to Stay Silent on Muslim Camps. It's Succeeding. (Original Post) guillaumeb Sep 2019 OP
Like everyone's quiet about Yemen and the Saudis muriel_volestrangler Sep 2019 #1
Exactly on target. guillaumeb Sep 2019 #2

muriel_volestrangler

(101,149 posts)
1. Like everyone's quiet about Yemen and the Saudis
Sat Sep 28, 2019, 02:58 PM
Sep 2019

Too busy with other things, or too concerned about trade links to denounce the actions.

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