People helping Uyghur children struggling to build new lives in Turkey

https://thechinaproject.com/2023/07/13/the-people-helping-uyghur-children-struggling-to-build-new-lives-in-turkey/

by gsky • 3 years ago

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tuvan• 3 years ago

It's insane how this situation was allowed to exist for so long. Do other world powers not have the power to stop the genocide and concentration camps or do they just not care? It sickens me that millions of people are being tortured for their ethnicity and no state even properly acknowledges the situation.

gottorf• 3 years ago

Geopolitics is a cruel master, I suppose.

WhereIsTheTruth• 3 years ago

Look at what the West is allowing Israel to do in Palestine

Now you have your answer

Remember when China introduced the 1 child policy? China allowed Uyghurs to have more to not impact their minority

Now you understand how geopolitics affect your view on countries, don't let the propaganda stop you from being a critical thinker

Think more and make your own research

gpvos• 3 years ago

If it would really come down to it, the West (i.e., basically the USA) would be able to stop Israel oppressing the Palestinians. So that is political. They can't do that in China (without triggering a nuclear war).

I don't know about the 1-child policy exception; apparently China's internal calculus was different then from now. It would be nice if you were more explicit about why you're mentioning this instead of conspiracy-theory-like urging readers to "do their own research".

bitsinthesky• 3 years ago

No real power to. State sovereignty is the foundation of geopolitics and globalized enforcement of morality is maybe at its infancy, if it will even get anywhere.

morkalork2• 3 years ago

What a terrifying phrase, globalized enforcement of morality, it stirs images of the crusades and colonization of the americas in my mind.

yieldcrv• 3 years ago

and it will stop as soon as random countries start flying weaponized drones over America over causes that we would be completely blindsided by and would never reach consensus on changing

ip26• 3 years ago

Also, if you accept the maxim that government gets its power and legitimacy from the consent of the governed (whether voluntary or under threat of violence) it should quickly become apparent how difficult it is to force the matter.

ConfusedDog• 3 years ago

What do you suggest? Go to war? More tariff? People only do things in their own interest as always. Besides PRC is not torturing Uyghurs for being Uyghurs, they are torturing them for not being compliant with PRC rule - in Xinjiang region, they happen to be Uyghurs.

lyu072822• 3 years ago

as the native people they wanted Xinjiang independence for a long time. Which led to separatist violence and bombings by Uyghur groups. There are definitely reasons other than just racism, its just a big taboo in the west to mention that.

inconceivable3• 3 years ago

why should someone else do it? you could pick up a rifle and head over to go kill some chinese people to teach them a lesson.

btw, this is the guy who provided all of the evidence of concentration camps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Zenz

1368047974• 3 years ago

I mean, not "all the evidence." For one thing, China doesn't deny that the camps exist--they just claim that they're for "reeducation" or "work training." For another, other people have reported on the issue, and shown that the camps are real.

Unfortunately, while I can present sources to rebut you, your claim isn't falsifiable, since you'll just assert that any source that I present is "US counter-intelligence / the thinktank blob," because it rebuts your claim.

NoMoreNicksLeft2• 3 years ago

I do not know of any war or conflict where one of the primary or secondary goals was to liberate anyone from concentration/death camps (possible exceptions for POW camps though).

There are no scenarios where anyone manages to talk China or North Korea out of these peacefully. And while there probably are many where we win in a shooting war against either or both of those, none of those scenarios conclude with the world economy intact. What consumer goods can you name that your country makes domestically? We don't even make clothing domestically anymore. I suppose most are self-sufficient food-wise, so there'd only be a slight uptick in famines...

Hell, there's an entire younger generation that can't even bring themselves to condemn Maoism. But you want to sacrifice tens or hundreds of thousands of lives driving tank columns into Beijing?

mrguyorama• 3 years ago

Hell, there's an entire younger generation that can't even bring themselves to condemn Maoism

That's an absurd take

xp844• 3 years ago

Agree completely, but wanted to point out, on the food part you mentioned, I think China is a big food (rice) importer, so “we” have that going for us. Not that the CCP would bat an eye if half its population starved to death, they’d gladly “sacrifice” that to avoid losing power.

csomar• 3 years ago

The insane is that you are expecting the world powers to do something, when most people are not even doing the little things. One of them is boycotting Chinese-made products. This will inconvenience their life a little bit and make it more expensive (though maybe boost the local or friendly countries economies). Yet most people will not do that.

carapace• 3 years ago

boycotting Chinese-made products.

It's really challenging. Even if you try to just buy things made in the USA (or wherever, not China) very often some (or all) of the parts are made in China. And some sellers just lie about it: you order a product advertised as "Made in the USA" and when it arrives there's a "Made in China" label on it.

1368047974• 3 years ago

Unfortunately, no. There are evil things that happen all over the world, and the world powers are powerless to fix it. If <insert world power here> mobilizes its military to topple a government doing evil things--now what? People will be (rightfully) mad that the world power literally installed a new government, so the government will be unstable and illegitimate--and this will likely only cause even more strife.

xp844• 3 years ago

You sound like someone who’s heard of Iraq!

zdragnar2• 3 years ago

What would be the greater loss of life and harm to innocents- allowing China to continue, or world war 3? Because war with China will definitely devolve into a global conflict.

We couldn't even get India or Brazil on board with sanctions against Russia for invading Ukraine, and nothing short of military invasion will stop the CCP from doing what it does. Devout religious faith is entirely antithetical to the CCP rule- both in the idea of a higher power from the state, but also China's history wrt. the boxer rebellion and other movements.

realist20232• 3 years ago

> Because war with China will definitely devolve into a global conflict.

We're risking global conflict with Russia now to save Ukraine. People are willing to engage in global conflicts as long as the victims look like us.

But when they dont look at us, we dont care. People will say it outright

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/17/chamath-palihapitiya-says-no...

CNBC: Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya says ‘nobody cares’ about Uyghur genocide in China PUBLISHED MON, JAN 17 20226:00 PM ESTUPDATED WED, JAN 19 202210:02 AM EST thumbnail Amanda Macias

crispyambulance• 3 years ago

...nothing short of military invasion will stop the CCP from doing what it does.

Why do you think that's true?

The CCP, IMHO, is well aware that the real hard part is Western states even slightly slowing their roll on outsourcing every damn thing to China. Sanctions could absolutely work, but they're a double edged sword at this point.

option• 3 years ago

that is a false choice often used to justify the inaction

realist20232• 3 years ago

> It's insane how this situation was allowed to exist for so long. Do other world powers not have the power to stop the genocide and concentration camps or do they just not care?

In the US we say "Never Again" w/r/t genocide and concentration camps, but ultimately we turn a blind eye to (or worse, fund/arm perpetrators.) A great example would be turning a blind eye to the Bosnian genocide and arming Saudi Arabia with US weapons as they wipe out large parts of Yemen.

The reality is that we only intervene in narrow circumstances:

1. When there is money. The example would be Kuwait in 1991, when we went "to save the people" but in reality we went to try an capture Iraqi oil

2. When the people look like us. Both left and right leaning publications couldnt care less about reporting on genocide unless the victims look like us. Ukraine is an example, they look like us, and thus they have massive help.

ROTMetro2• 3 years ago

Right, it's not like the USA has funded containment of Russia/Soviets to the tune of 100 billions dollars in explicit defense budget allocation every year since the 1950s. Nope, it's that they look like us.

jfghi• 3 years ago

Even worse, attempts to even discuss the issue get aggressively hushed.

Symbiote• 3 years ago

"Hushed" meaning only a couple of articles a month in major newspapers, or something else?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/uyghurs

https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cpz1y9ney3mt

(Can't find a free American newspaper with tags/categories.)

quickthrowman• 3 years ago

Do other world powers not have the power to stop the genocide and concentration camps or do they just not care?

China has nuclear weapons. Would you prefer a total nuclear exchange instead of the current (bad) status quo of Uyghur genocide? I’m assuming that a total nuclear exchange between the US and China would lead to more suffering than not invading China and letting them continue their current Uyghur policy.

dirtyid• 3 years ago

Do other world powers not have the power to stop the genocide and concentration camps or do they just not care?

The realist answer: most leaders are eager to see the PRC securitization model work. Even if they don’t have the state capacity or ethnic mix to replicate. Most developing countries who still haven’t figured out their post colonial shitshow ethnic rivalries want what PRC is selling - turnkey safe/smart city solutions that can bring domestic serenity via technologic repression.

Majority of world powers simply did not eat the genocide/concentration camp propaganda. Plurality UN position still supports PRC actions in XJ as counterterrorism / deradicalization, which it is. From hundreds of terrorism attacks to 0. Obama got the Nobel Peace prize for worse. Second group = (mostly western led) block who characterize as crimes against humanity, which bluntly doesn't mean shit and isn't actionable. Finally the # of govs that formally characterize XJ as genocide has around flat earth level of support, augmented by flood of useful idiots who ate the propaganda who thinks not believing literal lying Pompeo initiated genocide propaganda narrative is insane.

Reality is PRC securitization of XJ, i.e. engineered mass cultural change (read: cultural genocide, which UN has no formal definition on) within one generation is something MANY still fractured countries are eager to see succeed because they are experiencing same issues with minority unrest on restive regions. Harsher reality is, forceful integration is essential 101 to building long term state capacity. Most countries would love to have US meltingpot or Canadian multiculturalism where state reap benefits from actual prior genocide by not harbouring potential existential internecine factionalism, while state does token effort to reconcile with apologia to minorities who can’t remember their culture let alone meaningfully coordinate.

PRC is delivering / showing model that does that in one generation. "So long" is less than decade from 2014 "strike hard" campaign that kick started securitization, PRC is zerg rushing western colonization in a fraction of time with fraction of suffering, and likely will integrate minorities long term. XJ mass internment phase has been over year+, small % of "problematic" individuals transferred to long term prison, this isn't a perennial US prison industrial complex that interns comparable % of minorities - 1/12 according to retarded Zenz estimates which is about lifetime chance for US blacks. Let that sink in. Most of XJ is just a heavy surveillance state now, and following trend in Tibet, most of Uyghurs will be relatively nationalized/secularized/adopt PRC islam in a couple generations. It's not nice, but it's nicer than actual genocide.

tropicalfruit• 3 years ago

reminder that apple lobbied against a bill to criticize forced uighur labor.

"Apple lobbyists are trying to weaken a bill aimed at preventing forced labor in China, according to two congressional staffers familiar with the matter, highlighting the clash between its business imperatives and its official stance on human rights."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/20/apple-u...

reminder that "environment, privacy, sustainability" is all marketing bs designed to own the narrative and deflect attention.

ablef• 3 years ago

The bill is absurd. It inverts the burden of proof, declaring all labor in Xinjiang forced until proven otherwise.

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