https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/25/netflix-liu-cixin-adaptation-uighur-comments-the-three-body-problem

this is definitely the most important thing happening.

  • volkvulture [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    education & economic development are not law enforcement issues in the same way as the United States' War on Drugs & racist for-profit prison industry.

    you can parse the lasting social benefits & fundamental uplifting aim of one over the other, i am sure of this.

    and you're right from one perspective about Turkey, I think, but this topic just gets more interesting & complex the less we accept the "china bad" line.

    https://www.sbs.com.au/news/china-releases-video-of-uighur-musician-disputing-reported-death

    the way news & sensationalism & outright lies blend so perfectly into jingoism can't be ignored. none of us are immune to propaganda, but I think we can comb through most of these claims about PRC and find very little real or irrefutable evidence.

      • volkvulture [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Wait, what's the solution outside of economically investing in these areas and attempting to bring these far-flung & socially disparate groups into the fold of larger PRC mainstream cultural norms?

        I think you discount the extent to which these insurgencies have their origins in Western & Saudi-influenced meddling