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Xinjiang - A Surveillance State Unlike Any the World Has Ever Seen
- justicezyx 8y ago""" The Uighurs see themselves as a minority facing cultural, religious and economic discrimination. When Xinjiang was incorporated into the People's Republic of China in 1949, they comprised roughly 80 percent of the region's population. Controlled migration to Xinjiang of Han Chinese has reduced this share to 45 percent, and it is mainly these migrants who benefit from the economic boom in the region, which has plentiful supplies of oil, gas and coal. """ This is the key problem for political instability. China is having the inequality problem worse than any other countries....
- gonmf 8y agoChina is also populous and oppressive enough that they can outlast the Uighurs in the long run, so there is little hope on this matter.
- techVentureStar 8y agoYeah China should evaporate anytime, since 1949. Wonder when it will actually happen. Inequality happens everywhere even in America. For instance trump vs his supporters.
- bbstevecou 8y agoThe Chinese dictatorship is literally setting up concentration camps in Xinjiang. "Zenz’s research demonstrates that such facilities are not only of significant size, with some exceeding 10,000 square metres, but also are akin to concentration camps: Many bids mandate the installation of comprehensive security features that turn existing facilities into prison-like compounds: surrounding walls, security fences, pull wire mesh, barbwire, reinforced security doors and windows, surveillance systems, secure access systems, watchtowers, and guard rooms or facilities for armed police." https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/xinjiangs-transformation-through-education-camps https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/xinjiangs-tran... It's pretty disgusting how another previous thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17645273 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17645273 has people wanting 'new leadership from China' to lead the world
- lainga 8y agoThere were plenty of Oxford and Cambridge students in the 30's and 40's who were all up and hot for the USSR. I think there's a common thread between these two phenomena.
- glitchc 8y ago"Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them." -George Orwell
- fny 8y agoThat's not an Orwell quote. > It is similar in meaning to Orwell's line from Notes on Nationalism (1945): "One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool." [0] Full context: > The average intellectual of the Left believed, for instance, that the war was lost in 1940, that the Germans were bound to overrun Egypt in 1942, that the Japanese would never be driven out of the lands they had conquered, and that the Anglo-American bombing offensive was making no impression on Germany. He could believe these things because his hatred for the British ruling class forbade him to admit that British plans could succeed. There is no limit to the follies that can be swallowed if one is under the influence of feelings of this kind. One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool. [1] [0]: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell#Misattributed https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell#Misattributed [1]: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/notes-on-nationalism/ https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
- gok 8y agoSuccessful soft power is setting up concentration camps for Muslims and not having any Islamic governments say anything about it. [1] [1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/24/islamic-leaders-have-nothing-to-say-about-chinas-internment-camps-for-muslims/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/24/islamic-leaders-have-no...
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- amaccuish 8y agoDo we need an article every few days on Xinjiang? These articles reveal nothing new.
- rambojazz 8y agowell it's a first for me. Perhaps for other people too.
- posting2fast 8y agohttps://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/main https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/ma... > American diplomats in Germany were well aware of the Nazi persecution of Jews and political opponents. Yet the US government respected Germany’s right to govern its own citizens and was hesitant to aid those being targeted. > Throughout spring 1933, tens of thousands of Americans signed petitions protesting the Nazis’ treatment of Jews. Hundreds of petitions were sent to the State Department, but the US government made no official statement against the German regime.
- zwaps 8y agoThis is a good thing to complain about when there are literal concentration camps and there's a government who actively tries to suppress the spread of information on it in the whole world. Yeah, better decrease the amount of articles on the matter. Man I hope you don't hate yourself too bad when you look back and think "well what was my reaction to this, ah yes, I was annoyed by the reports"
- singularity2001 8y agoNeedless to say that every knife sold has a bar code associated with your file. So when you slay your friendly neighbor they know it was you.