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Now, increased abuse of foreign journalists in China: the Chinese state truly is fascist.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/china-foreign-journalists-harassment-report-1.5932691
Now, increased abuse of foreign journalists in China
It appears that China regards "foreign journalists" as intelligence agents and/or propagandists in a hybrid war. Russia is coming to a similar conclusion. National security matter.
Chinese government responsible for genocide in Xinjiang, says independent report
I downloaded and look at the NewLines Institute report. The "institute" is dodgy and the personnel are heavily Islamic judging by the names, suggesting an agenda. Zenz is a contributor and he has been exposed as a nut job. Not impressed.
The report is documented but it would take some time to check out the citations. But at least there is some documentation provided.
The question is why China is taking this approach to the Uighars? Just being mean? Unlikely, since the Uighars are Turkic people and China's New Silk Road runs through Turkic lands (Turan) and depends on good relations.
Are the Chinese anti-Islamic? Muslims are not persecuted in China as a whole, and mosques are functioning in Xinjiang.
On the other hand, the Uighars have along history of being separatists, and The US and Europeans have no problem in suppressing separatists there, e.g., Basques and Catalonian independence movement in Spain.
Then there is militant Islam and terrorism. See Terrorism in China, Xinjiang conflict, and East Turkestan independence movement at Wikipedia. There are thousands of Uighar militants fight for ISIS in the Middle East, and they are also targeting China. Reuters, Uighur IS fighters vow blood will 'flow in rivers'in China by Michael Martina, Ben Blanchard.
So, it's complicated. Genocide? I don't think so. Suppression of a separatist movement that has used violence, definitely. It is still not clear to me what the government policy of suppression involves through, and seemingly there have been rights violations. Whether this is a result of systematic government policy as is asserted is not clear to me. However, it seems abundantly clear than this is being politicized for several reasons. First and foremost, Xinjiang is strategic for China and China's adversaries would like to peel it off. Secondly, it is part of an intense anti-Chinese propaganda campaign in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. This ties into Five Eyes as operational in addition to intel.
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