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Primary sources have been lacking in coverage of this story; is the Communist party that powerful in controlling first hand accounts?
by abbracadabbra 6y ago
Primary sources have been lacking in coverage of this story; is the Communist party that powerful in controlling first hand accounts?
- iaw 6y agoGiven that his entire family in China has effectively been erased as far as he knows, I think the CCP has a pretty strong level of control in the vast majority of cases. He currently lives in Netherlands while his wife and child are in Turkey.
- yorwba 6y agoOf course there are primary sources, it's just that they're usually in Mandarin or Uyghur or some other non-English language of the region, and they're not nicely reduced down to a few key statements like a news article.