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I quietly wondered, some weeks ago, when China’s “Khashoggi moment” might occur. This probably isn’t it, unless an individual story can emerge that can capture
by throwaway5411 8y ago
I quietly wondered, some weeks ago, when China’s “Khashoggi moment” might occur. This probably isn’t it, unless an individual story can emerge that can capture the public’s revulsion in a way that, for some reason, only an individual story can.
It took one journalist’s murder and dismemberment to finally make Mohammed Bin-Salman politically radioactive in a way that thousands of dead and starving Yemenis could not. As we continue to ignore the Uighur internment camps, and probably this as well, what will it take for Xi?
- mc32 8y agoChina took and kidnapped their own international official personified in the head of the Interpol. Not much more than a squeak. So, I don't think you're going to hear about "unknowns" much. The Saudi journalist is an odd exception. Any other journalist (remember the Russian journalist assassinated, or the Maltese journalist). Like there is a squeak but not much else --which tells me there is something about the Saudi case.
- chaostheory 8y agoYes, he worked for the Washington Post. I guess it hits closer to home for US media, seeing it happen to their own.
- hutzlibu 8y agoWell, but he was not murdered. "Just" imprisoned in unconvential ways so to say. So you can't really expect the same outcry.
- mc32 8y agoTrue, but a person of great stature and responsibility, Not the UN sec general, but imagine the UN sec general gets kidnapped by Portugal and.... crickets...
- usaar333 8y ago> which tells me there is something about the Saudi case. It being done on foreign soil is part of what made the Saudi case so egregious.