Xinjiang Re-Education Camps(en.wikipedia.org) |
Xinjiang Re-Education Camps(en.wikipedia.org) |
This topic has been discussed very often and very repetitively, which eventually makes a story off topic for HN, at least until significant new information emerges.
That is not to say that it isn't important; quite the contrary.
"In July 2019, 22 countries including U.K., Germany, France, Spain, Canada, Japan and Australia signed a joint letter to the UN Human Rights Council urging China to close the camps in Xinjiang.[27][110] In reaction to this, 37 countries including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, UAE, Sudan, Angola, Algeria, Nigeria, DRC, North Korea, Russia, Venezuela, Philippines, Myanmar, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Palestine have signed a joint letter to the UNHRC praising China's "remarkable achievements in Xinjiang."[0]
[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps#Re...
It goes to show how much you can accomplish foreign policy wise by being completely intolerant of any criticism (assuming you are armed with a sufficiently large stick and a people unified enough to wield it consistently).
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/world/asia/china-xinjiang...
> “Many, many governments are looking the other way and self-censoring on the issue of Xinjiang,” said Daniel R. Russel, the Obama administration’s assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. “Beijing is notoriously prickly about its self-declared ‘core interests,’ and few countries are willing to put the economic benefits of good relations with China at risk — let alone find themselves on the receiving end of Chinese retaliation.”
> When countries do criticize China, they tend to do so in a group, seemingly as a way to diffuse and lessen possible retribution.
So, let's agree that reeducation camps are terrible and inhumane, what is a good solution?
That would imply he's taking that position because he's being paid, which is most likely false. It's far more likely for a particular posting of propaganda, disinformation, or whataboutism to be made by a useful idiot [1] who's been duped than by an actual, self-conscious influence agent.
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