Speaking of the business model being the problem, the editors of the Washington Post also return to a subject about which they’ve written before—the treatment of Uighurs in China:
A sizable body of evidence, including statements from those who managed to flee, suggests the 1 million or more detainees are not free in any sense and are paying a dear price. By these accounts, the camps are a brazen attempt by China to commit cultural genocide against the Turkic Muslim minority in the region, including ethnic Uighurs, Kazakhs and others, stamping them into the mold of the majority Han Chinese.
Adrian Zenz, a lecturer in social research methods at the European School of Culture and Theology in Germany, who helped expose the camps and earlier estimated more than a million had been detained, said March 13 that he has updated the total internment figure to up to 1.5 million people. He said, “There is virtually no Uighur family without one or more members in such detention.â€
In the best case China is run by the Han Chinese for the Han Chinese. In the more likely case it’s run by the ruling cadre for the ruling cadre. It’s an ethnic state like Finland or Hungary. 90% of its people are Han Chinese. In a country as huge as China that means that more than 100 million people are fundamentally impediments.
So many questions…… angles, The Chinese Rulers don’t believe their actions are wrong. Westerners can express their displeasure, but changing their fundamental belief in homogeneity is unlikely. Europe shrugs, few in America are even familiar with the story.
Things could be done. What makes China different from South Africa? America has a Black victim class to mirror South Africa’s.
America has few or no Uighurs. And they have no Nelson Mandela.
South Africa caved because of a corporate level boycott, fat chance that will happen with China.
Another danger to everyone is that lack of opposition to Chinese humanitarian policies will cause them to grow bolder, more sure.
More dangerous.
Here is an idea. If the Chinese agree to resume accepting US garbage, the US can start taking the Uighurs. For the US, it is a two’fer. Chinese imports and unskilled laborers. What could be better? (Sliced bread, maybe.)
Twenty years ago that would have been okay. Now that the Uighurs have been radicalized maybe not so much. There were some estimates that 10% of the foreign fighters in Syria were Uighurs.
Ethnic cleansing through persuasion.
http://www.contactmagazine.net/articles/uyghurs-tibetan-news/
I am pretty certain that Chinese Uighurs have Constitutional Rights, and terrorists are especially protected.
What kind of country outlaws foreign terrorists?
Not us, certainly. An enormous percentage of the Chechens we admitted as refugees have been implicated in one way or another in the Boston Marathon bombing.