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riversedge

(69,724 posts)
Tue Dec 10, 2019, 05:48 PM Dec 2019

Facing Criticism Over Muslim Camps, China Says: What's the Problem?

Sounds like a Trump comment.---yes, I did it, so what!


Facing Criticism Over Muslim Camps, China Says: What’s the Problem?


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/world/asia/china-camps-muslims.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

Chinese officials have released social media videos, blistering editorials and attacks on researchers in a push to counter evidence of its Muslim internment drive.


Shohrat Zakir, center, the chairman of the Xinjiang government, as screens showed a film titled “Fighting Terrorism in Xinjiang” at a news conference in Beijing on Monday.Credit...Ng Han Guan/Associated Press


Dec. 9, 2019 Updated 8:16 a.m. ET

BEIJING — On Twitter and YouTube, with slick videos and strident editorials, the Chinese government has gone on the offensive to reject mounting evidence that it is detaining Muslims in droves, depicting its critics as players in a Western conspiracy.

China’s aggressive media campaign comes after exposés published by the The New York Times and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists about the government’s drive to detain a million or more members of largely Muslim minority groups in indoctrination camps. The reports, which used leaked official documents to reveal the coercive workings of the camps in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, sharpened international criticism of China’s ruling Communist Party.

The pushback from China has escalated in recent days after the United States House of Representatives last week overwhelmingly supported a bill that could impose sanctions on Chinese officials overseeing the internment drive.

Chinese officials have accused Western lawmakers, experts and news outlets of maligning the government’s policies and stirring ethnic discord in Xinjiang.



At a news conference in Beijing on Monday, Shohrat Zakir, the chairman of the Xinjiang government, dismissed the congressional bill as “crude meddling in China’s internal affairs.”

He sought to foil the criticism by saying that the facilities — which Beijing calls vocational training centers — were now holding only people who were there voluntarily. Others who were previously in the facilities had “graduated,” he said, providing no specifics and declining to say whether they had been released.
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Midnight Writer

(21,547 posts)
1. If the USA complains about China detaining people, China can just show American internment camps.
Tue Dec 10, 2019, 05:59 PM
Dec 2019

We have allowed Donald Trump and the GOP to piss away our credibility and our moral authority.

Mission Accomplished?

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
3. When I traveled in China on business in the 1990s I never criticized the government there. To
Tue Dec 10, 2019, 06:29 PM
Dec 2019

anyone. snark on: Oh, if the Chinese could only learn from the perfect U.S, government led by
tRUMP, and turn from their evil ways. Oops! snark off.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
4. " holding only people who were there voluntarily" Please, sooo not a China thing , they got history
Tue Dec 10, 2019, 06:48 PM
Dec 2019

Trump and China can talk about and trade each other’s forced holding camp tips
when they meet over trade talks
if that ever even happens

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