Trump starts Cold War 4 Military Industrial Complex & Tai Pan

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Contrary to popular belief - educated people don't want to be slaves ...

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2019/09/18/protests-force-hong-kong-to-cancel-communist-national-day-celebration/
Protests Force Hong Kong to Cancel Communist ‘National Day’ Celebration
Frances Martel
18 Sep 2019

The government of Hong Kong canceled a fireworks show on Wednesday to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of communist China, fearing the event would be a magnet for pro-democracy protesters who do not feel bound by Beijing.

The People’s Republic of China, as the communist tyranny is officially named, is planning the largest military parade in decades in Beijing and a host of activities to celebrate Mao Ze Dong and the legacy of radical Marxism in China. Communist Party chairman Xi Jinping will reportedly deliver an “important” speech, according to state media, that many believe may finally address the three months of protests against his regime in Hong Kong.

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“In view of the latest situation and having regard to public safety, the National Day Fireworks Display originally scheduled to take place at Victoria Harbour in the evening of October 1 (Tuesday) will be canceled,” a statement issued Wednesday by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the city government read. HKFP notes that other similar holiday events, such as a flag-raising ceremony, appear to still be scheduled to occur.

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Xi has refused to address the political crisis in Hong Kong save for a passing remark that the city is among the “struggles” communists must overcome in their aspirations to rule the world during a speech in early September.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/protests-in-hong-kong-clashes-between-demonstrators-on-chinas-communist-party-anniversary-2019-10-01/
Hong Kong protesters defy ban to challenge Beijing on Communist China's 70th birthday
Updated on: October 1, 2019 / 7:49 AM / CBS/AP

Hong Kong — Thousands of black-clad protesters marched in central Hong Kong as part of multiple pro-democracy rallies Tuesday urging China's Communist Party to "return power to the people," as the party celebrated its 70th year of rule. The protesters defied a police ban to march along a broad city thoroughfare, chanting anti-China slogans and carrying Chinese flags defaced with a black cross.

Chaos erupted as hundreds of riot-equipped police swooped in to try and break up the protests, and CBS News correspondent Ramy Inocencio said video posted online appeared to show one protester being shot at almost point-blank range in the chest by a police officer with a handgun. The wounded protester survived and was being treated for his injury.

Leading pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong told CBS News that he and the other demonstrators felt it was their duty to turn the "dream" of enduring democracy in Hong Kong into a reality, but Inocencio said the scenes on Tuesday were more of a nightmare.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/protests-in-hong-kong-clashes-between-demonstrators-on-chinas-communist-party-anniversary-2019-10-01/
Hong Kong protesters defy ban to challenge Beijing on Communist China's 70th birthday
Updated on: October 1, 2019 / 7:49 AM / CBS/AP

Hong Kong — Thousands of black-clad protesters marched in central Hong Kong as part of multiple pro-democracy rallies Tuesday urging China's Communist Party to "return power to the people," as the party celebrated its 70th year of rule. The protesters defied a police ban to march along a broad city thoroughfare, chanting anti-China slogans and carrying Chinese flags defaced with a black cross.

Chaos erupted as hundreds of riot-equipped police swooped in to try and break up the protests, and CBS News correspondent Ramy Inocencio said video posted online appeared to show one protester being shot at almost point-blank range in the chest by a police officer with a handgun. The wounded protester survived and was being treated for his injury.

Leading pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong told CBS News that he and the other demonstrators felt it was their duty to turn the "dream" of enduring democracy in Hong Kong into a reality, but Inocencio said the scenes on Tuesday were more of a nightmare.
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President Tito happy birthday to your Communist Party



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https://www.theepochtimes.com/in-hong-kong-young-protester-shot-by-police-becomes-new-call-for-protests_3103822.html
In Hong Kong, Young Protester Shot By Police Becomes New Call for Protests
By Frank Fang, Epoch Times
Comments October 2, 2019 Updated: October 2, 2019

In Hong Kong, the injury of an 18-year-old student, who was shot by a police officer during protests on Oct. 1, has become another reason for Hongkongers to continue their mass demonstrations, now in their 17th consecutive week.

The student, Tsang Chi-kin, attended Tsuen Wan Public Ho Chuen Yiu Memorial College. He was critically wounded after he was shot in the chest during a scuffle with police in the Tsuen Wan neighborhood. Tsang was shot in his left lung, three centimeters from his heart, according to local media.

It was the first time a police officer opened fire at a protester in months of demonstrations that began in opposition to a controversial extradition bill.

He was first sent to Princess Margaret Hospital, then transferred to Queen Elizabeth Hospital for an operation.
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earlier: an newly coined citizen .... from china ...

https://fox59.com/2019/09/30/us-citizen-accused-of-spying-for-chinese-government/
US citizen accused by feds of spying for Chinese government
Posted 4:23 PM, September 30, 2019,


SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California man who operates tours for Chinese students and visitors was charged with being an illegal foreign agent and delivering classified U.S. national security information to officials in China. U.S. government officials announced Monday.

U.S. Attorney David L. Anderson accused Xuehua Edward Peng, 56, of a “combination of age-old spycraft and modern technology.”

“The charges announced today provide a rare glimpse into the secret efforts of the People’s Republic of China to obtain classified national security information from the United States,” Anderson said.

The U.S. is engaged in a trade war with China, but John Bennett, the FBI agent in charge of San Francisco, said international politics had nothing to do with the arrest and charges against Peng.

“We have criminal spies that are running around in our area of responsibility and it’s the FBI’s mission to stop this, so what’s going on in the rest of the world, it doesn’t matter to us,” he said.

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Peng was arrested at his home Friday and ordered held without bond at a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero. He is scheduled to return to court Wednesday.

The criminal complaint says Peng is a naturalized U.S. citizen who entered the country on a temporary business visitor visa and became a permanent resident in 2006. Peng was naturalized in September 2012.

He holds an acupuncturist license from the state.

If convicted, he could face up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.



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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/you-can-really-feel-peoples-anger-hong-kongers-gather-protest-governments-new-mask-ban
Undercover Cops Badly Beaten As Hong Kong Protesters Rampage Over 'Anti-Mask' Law
Fri, 10/04/2019 - 12:51

Update (12:30 pm ET): The backlash to Carrie Lam's "anti-mask law" intensified late in the Hong Kong evening, resulting in the entire MTR public transit network being closed down. Protesters are preparing what would be an 'illegal' demonstration on Saturday as they march from Causeway Bay into down town.

From 1 pm on Saturday through the end of the day, airport-bound Express trains will be the only trains running. They will travel from Hong Kong station to Hong Kong International Airport.
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It has been posted that chi-comm infiltration has occurred creating violent incidents to be blamed on protestors ... hmmm yes violence is destroying hk   

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-04/hong-kong-invokes-rare-emergency-powers-to-ban-masks-at-protests?srnd=premium-asia

Hong Kong invoked emergency powers for the first time in more than half a century to ban face masks for protesters after months of unrest, prompting demonstrators to occupy downtown streets.

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Friday the move was necessary to stem increased violence in recent weeks, including attacks by protesters using petrol bombs, corrosive liquids and other weapons. The prohibition on face masks will deter violence and help police enforce the law, she said, adding that the measure didn’t mean Hong Kong was under a state of emergency.
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“The violence is destroying Hong Kong,” Lam told reporters, flanked by 16 members of her cabinet. “We must save the present Hong Kong and the future Hong Kong.”



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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-finance-202/2019/10/08/the-finance-202-impeachment-probe-clouds-prospects-for-u-s-china-trade-talks/5d9ba519602ff16116ea47e3/
The Finance 202: Impeachment probe clouds prospects for U.S.-China trade talks

By Tory Newmyer
October 8 2019 at 7:47 AM

Whatever chances remained of the Trump White House striking a major trade deal with the Chinese this fall appear to have left the building as the impeachment crisis walked in.

That is the rough truth confronting Trump’s trade negotiators as they this week restart talks with their Beijing counterparts in Washington. The Chinese feel no compulsion to make big concessions to a besieged President Trump.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/oh-my-god-they-killed-cny-you-bastards
Oh My God, They Killed CNY! You Bastards
Michael Every of Rabobank
Cartman Blanche



Tipping points are funny things in markets and in life in general. Sometimes you see them clearly ahead of time, sometimes only in hindsight. Sometimes you still don’t see them even afterwards. But they are there regardless.

Most Americans have paid no attention at all to developments in China aside from not liking tariffs. But touch basketball and suddenly things get serious! Daryl Morey, general manager of the Houston Rockets, recently tweeted support for pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, and the immediate reaction was China--an avid NBA market of 500m--banning the team. Morey deleted the tweet and made a very humble apology, as did the Rockets, which didn’t assuage Chinese fury; but it did create a backlash against the Rockets from the US public, who are pro-democracy, and from US politicians, who are anti-China, and whom are noticing that the outspoken-on-domestic-politics NBA runs a training camp in Xinjiang(!) Indeed, there is new focus on the issue of US firms ‘having to kowtow to Beijing’. Is it a tipping point in US-China relations as trade talks begin? Hard to say. But it’s a discussion the average American will be part of for once.
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https://reason.com/2019/10/07/china-south-park-ban-censorship/
China Banned South Park After the Show Made Fun of Chinese Censorship
"You gotta lower your ideals of freedom if you want to suck on the warm teat of China."
Robby Soave | 10.7.2019 1:37 PM



In a case of life imitating art imitating life, the Chinese government has purged all references to South Park from the country's highly restricted internet—following an episode of the show that criticized Chinese censorship.
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"Band in China," the second episode of the show's 23rd season, satirizes China's heavy-handed crackdowns on free expression. The kids attempt to make a biopic about their new rock band, only to discover that they need to sanitize the plot to appease the Chinese government.
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And on Baidu's Tieba, China's largest online discussions platform, the threads and sub-threads related to South Park are nonfunctional. If users manually type in the URL for what was formerly the South Park thread, a message appears saying that, "According to the relevant law and regulation, this section is temporarily not open."

The South Park ban proceeds news that Chinese broadcasters will no longer air the Houston Rockets' NBA games because a general manager tweeted in support of the Hong Kong protests. Both incidents should serve as reminders that China is a one-party state whose authoritarian government squelches freedom of speech at every turn.


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https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/nation-now/2017/07/17/winnie-the-pooh-banned-china-report-says/484775001/
Winnie-the-Pooh banned by China, report says
Josh Hafner, USA TODAY Published 1:13 p.m. ET July 17, 2017 | Updated 1:28 p.m. ET July 17, 2017

Over the weekend, Chinese censors blocked users of WeChat and Weibo, China's bigger-than-Twitter microblogging platform, from using the name of the most famous resident of the Hundred Acre Wood in the comment section of posts. Times

Winnie-the-Pooh, the beloved children's icon, has been blacklisted in China following comparisons between the pot-bellied bear and China's president, the Financial Times reported.
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The reasons for China's Pooh ban remain unclear, the Times said, but it may or may not have to do with previous online comparisons of the pants-less bear to Chinese President Xi Jinping.



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https://anthrogenica.com/showthread.php?7898-How-the-Han-Chinese-became-the-biggest-tribe

The Han Chinese, the world's biggest ethnic group, owe their rise thanks to massive southward migration from northern China led by the men of their tribe, according to a new study.

Chinese tradition says that the Han sprung from the ancient Huaxia communities of northern China and that their influence then spread south.

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They analysed the blood for telltale sequences in the Y chromosome, which only males have, and for variations of mitochondrial DNA, which is only handed down by women.

Little difference was found in the Y-chromosome fingerprint, but there were broad variations in the mitochondrial sequences. In other words, there was a clear Han lineage, determined by the males who initially came out of the north.

These men crossed the Yangtze River that until some 2,000 years ago was the country's ethnic divide. They then fanned out, progressively heading to the southwest, the southeast and due south, eventually to the tropical island of Hainan.
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"The massive movement of the northern immigrants led to a change in genetic makeup in southern China, and resulted in the demographic expansion of Han people as well as their culture."
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https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0125676

Ancient DNA Reveals That the Genetic Structure of the Northern Han Chinese Was Shaped Prior to 3,000 Years Ago
Yong-Bin Zhao ,
PLOS

Published: May 4, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125676

Abstract

The Han Chinese are the largest ethnic group in the world, and their origins, development, and expansion are complex.

Many genetic studies have shown that Han Chinese can be divided into two distinct groups: northern Han Chinese and southern Han Chinese.

The genetic history of the southern Han Chinese has been well studied. However, the genetic history of the northern Han Chinese is still obscure. In order to gain insight into the genetic history of the northern Han Chinese, 89 human remains were sampled from the Hengbei site which is located in the Central Plain and dates back to a key transitional period during the rise of the Han Chinese (approximately 3,000 years ago). We used 64 authentic mtDNA data obtained in this study, 27 Y chromosome SNP data profiles from previously studied Hengbei samples, and genetic datasets of the current Chinese populations and two ancient northern Chinese populations to analyze the relationship between the ancient people of Hengbei and present-day northern Han Chinese. We used a wide range of population genetic analyses, including principal component analyses, shared mtDNA haplotype analyses, and geographic mapping of maternal genetic distances. The results show that the ancient people of Hengbei bore a strong genetic resemblance to present-day northern Han Chinese and were genetically distinct from other present-day Chinese populations and two ancient populations. These findings suggest that the genetic structure of northern Han Chinese was already shaped 3,000 years ago in the Central Plain area.
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EARLIER:

https://listverse.com/2019/06/07/10-most-genocidal-wars-in-chinese-history/
10 Most Genocidal Wars In Chinese History

In those thousands of years of civilization, China has been the scene of several genocidal bloodbaths. Some of these were due to outside invasions, while others were the result of civil wars and imperial politicking. Either way, the following incidents featured mass slaughter on a scale unprecedented until the horrors of World War II. Some even exceeded the body count of the Bolsheviks, Joseph Stalin, and Adolf Hitler.



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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_issues_in_China
China is a largely homogenous society; over 90 percent of its population has historically been Han Chinese.[1] Some of the country's ethnic groups are distinguishable by physical appearance and relatively-low intermarriage rates. Others have married Han Chinese and resemble them. A growing number of ethnic minorities are fluent at a native level in Mandarin Chinese. Children sometimes receive ethnic-minority status at birth if one of their parents belongs to an ethnic minority, even if their ancestry is predominantly Han Chinese. Pockets of immigrants and foreign residents exist in some cities such as Africans in Guangzhou.

A 100-day crackdown on illegal foreigners in Beijing began in May 2012, with Beijing residents wary of foreign nationals due to recent crimes.[2][3] China Central Television host Yang Rui said, controversially, that "foreign trash" should be cleaned out of the capital.



https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13995/china-third-reich
China's Han Superstate: The New Third Reich
by Gordon G. Chang
April 3, 2019 at 5:00 am

    China's ruler, Xi Jinping, demands that the five recognized religions — official recognition is a control mechanism — "Sinicize." The Chinese, as a part of this ruthless and relentless effort, are destroying mosques and churches, forcing devout Muslims to drink alcohol and eat pork, inserting Han officials to live in Muslim homes, and ending religious instruction for minors.

In recent years, there have been many ugly portrayals of Africans in Chinese media, and although the skit last year was not the worst, it was striking because the main state broadcaster, by airing it to about 800 million viewers, made it clear Chinese officials think of Africans as both objects of derision and subhuman.

    Concentration camps, racism, eugenics, ambitions of world domination. Sound familiar?

    There is a new Third Reich, and it is China.


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At the same time, Beijing is renewing its attempt to eliminate religion country-wide. Christians have come under even greater attack across China, as have Buddhists. China's ruler, Xi Jinping, demands that the five recognized religions — official recognition is a control mechanism — "Sinicize." The Chinese, as a part of this ruthless and relentless effort, are destroying mosques and churches, forcing devout Muslims to drink alcohol and eat pork, inserting Han officials to live in Muslim homes, and ending religious instruction for minors.

These attempts, which have antecedents in Chinese history, have been intensified since Xi became the Communist Party's general secretary in November 2012.

At the same time, Xi, far more than his predecessors, has been promoting the concept of a world order ruled by only one sovereign, a Chinese one. [ see: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13497/china-sovereign-state   Xi Jinping Thinks China Is World's Only Sovereign State ]

In broad outline, Xi's vision of the world is remarkably similar to that of the Third Reich, at least before the mass murders.

The Third Reich and the People's Republic share a virulent racism, in China politely referred to as "Han chauvinism." The Han category, which is said to include about 92% of the population of the People's Republic, is in truth the amalgamation of related ethnic groups.

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As a result of racism, many in China, including officials, "believe themselves to be categorically different from and impliedly superior to the rest of the humankind," writes Fei-Ling Wang, author of The China Order: Centralia, World Empire, and the Nature of Chinese Power.

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[ one child policy ending ? ]

In 2024, another momentous event will occur. Then, for the first time in at least 300 years — and maybe for the first time in recorded history — China will not be the world's most populous society. That honor will go to a country the Chinese generally both detest and fear, India. When India peaks in 2061, it will have a population 398.088 million larger than China's.

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He Jiankui of Shenzhen's Southern University of Science and Technology announced in November that he had used CRISPR to edit human embryos that produced live births, in this case twins girls. He claimed he was making the babies resistant to HIV, but there is speculation he was also trying to enhance intelligence. In any event, the announcement evoked Nazi eugenics experiments, especially because there is evidence that the Chinese government had backed He's "world's first" experiment, considered unethical and dangerous.

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Horner sees disconcerting similarities between Xi's China and 1930s Imperial Japan. "Like Imperial Japan then," Horner said, "Xi and the Party look backward to a mythologized past when a benign Emperor brought the whole world together to bask in his glory and share his munificence."



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https://www.statista.com/statistics/249994/number-of-chinese-communist-party-ethnic-minority-group-members-in-china/
Number of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members in China from 2008 to 2018, by ethnic group (in millions)
by Shu Han, last edited Sep 23, 2019

This statistic shows the number of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members from 2008 to 2018, by ethnic group.
In 2018, approximately 6.7 million CCP members had belonged to an ethnic minority in China





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https://apnews.com/54907f62b1784c86826ca1854c77c25b
Hong Kong descends into chaos again as protesters defy ban
By KELVIN CHANtoday



HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong streets descended into chaotic scenes following an unauthorized pro-democracy rally Sunday as protesters set up roadblocks and torched businesses and police responded with tear gas and a water cannon.

Protesters tossed firebombs and took their anger out on shops with mainland Chinese ties as they skirmished late into the evening with riot police, who unleashed numerous tear gas rounds on short notice, angering residents and passers-by.

Police had beefed up security measures ahead of the rally, for which they refused to give permission, the latest chapter in the unrest that has disrupted life in the financial hub since early June.

Some 24 people were hurt and treated at hospitals, including six with serious injuries, the Hospital Authority said.

Police did not give an arrest figure. One person was seen being handcuffed and taken away to a police van.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7590823/Hong-Kong-activists-wear-Joker-Winnie-Pooh-masks.html
Hong Kong activists wear Joker and Winnie-the-Pooh masks as they form human chains in defiance of ban on face coverings
By Faith Ridler For Mailonline

Published: 07:01 EDT, 19 October 2019 | Updated: 15:03 EDT, 19 October 2019

Hong Kong demonstrators donned cartoon masks on Friday as they formed human chains around the city in defiance of a ban on face coverings at rallies.

Gathering along the city's subway lines hand-in-hand, pro-democracy protesters masqueraded as characters including Winnie-the-Pooh, the Joker and Guy Fawkes.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/leaked-chinese-government-documents-prove-muslims-are-being-detained-massive-numbers
Leaked Chinese Government Documents Prove Muslims Are Being Detained In Massive Numbers

There's now substantial evidence - in the Chinese government's own words - that they are detaining Muslims in massive numbers.

403 pages of internal documents have been leaked to the New York Times that describe a clampdown in Xinjiang - a resource-rich territory located on the border of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia - where authorities have "corralled as many as a million ethnic Uighurs, Kazakhs and others into internment camps and prisons over the past three years."

In Xinjiang, Muslim ethnic minority groups make up more than half the region's population of 25 million. The largest group is the Uighurs. Beijing has fought with the Uighurs for decades, who have offered resistance to Chinese rule.

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The campaign is being called "ruthless and extraordinary". Senior party leaders are recorded ordering "drastic and urgent" action, including mass detentions. The leaked papers show how the country carried out its "most far-reaching internment campaign since the Mao era."
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President Xi Jinping laid the groundwork for the camps during speeches to officials in Xinjiang in April 2014, after Uighur militants stabbed more than 150 people at a train station, killing 31. In his speech, Xi called for "an all-out struggle against terrorism, infiltration and separatism using the organs of dictatorship and showing absolutely no mercy.”

Xi also said: “The methods that our comrades have at hand are too primitive. None of these weapons is any answer for their big machete blades, ax heads and cold steel weapons. We must be as harsh as them and show absolutely no mercy.”

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In another speech, he said: “After the United States pulls troops out of Afghanistan, terrorist organizations positioned on the frontiers of Afghanistan and Pakistan may quickly infiltrate into Central Asia. East Turkestan’s terrorists who have received real-war training in Syria and Afghanistan could at any time launch terrorist attacks in Xinjiang.”

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Since 2017, hundreds of thousands of Muslims have been detained in Xinjiang. One leaked document describes how to handle minority students returning home to Xinjiang in summer 2017 to find that their relatives have been detained. The document says that students should be informed that their relatives are receiving “treatment”.

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html

The Xinjiang Papers
‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims

More than 400 pages of internal Chinese documents provide an unprecedented inside look at the crackdown on ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region.

By Austin Ramzy and Chris Buckley
November 16, 2019


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https://boingboing.net/2019/11/12/china-has-500-uighur-camps-an.html
China has 500+ Uighur camps and prisons and is holding far more than one million, activists say
Xeni Jardin / 12:42 pm Tue Nov 12, 2019



On Tuesday, advocates for human rights for China's Uighur minority said they have documented 500 camps and prisons in China run by the government to detain people identified as belonging to that targeted ethnic group.

The activists say that when you add up the number of detention facilities they've identified, it means China must be holding a total number of Uighur people that far exceeds the commonly cited figure of one million people.


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"If anything, we are concerned that there may be more facilities that we have not been able to identify," he told a news conference in suburban Washington.

Anders Corr, an analyst who formerly worked in US intelligence and who advised the group, said that around 40 percent of the sites had not been previously reported.

China uses torture and sexual abuse to “forcibly integrate Uighurs into the Han majority, including pressuring Muslims to give up tenets of their faith such as praying and abstaining from pork and alcohol,” the report continues.

read more here: https://news.yahoo.com/uighur-researchers-china-running-hundreds-more-camps-181157759.html



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https://dnyuz.com/2019/11/24/massive-turnout-in-hong-kong-elections-amid-unrest/
Massive Turnout in Hong Kong Elections Amid Unrest
November 24, 2019

Hong Kongers voted in record numbers Sunday in a local election that is widely seen as a de facto referendum on recent pro-democracy protests.

Voters formed long lines that snaked around city blocks outside polling stations across the territory, many waiting more than an hour to vote in local elections that are usually viewed as relatively inconsequential.

District Council members who are being elected by Hong Kong voters have no power to pass legislation. But the election is the first chance for Hong Kongers to vote since a wave of anti-government protests erupted in June, creating bitter divides in Hong Kong society.

A record 4.1 million Hong Kongers registered to vote, and it appears a record number will turn out. By midday Sunday, the number of voters had surpassed that of the previous District Council election in 2015, according to government figures. By 3:30 p.m., nearly 2 million had cast their ballots.

“This amount of people I’ve never seen. There are so many people,” said Felix, who works in the real estate industry and voted in the central business district.
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Sending a message

Hong Kongers are choosing more than 400 members of 18 district councils scattered across the tiny territory. The district councils essentially serve as advisory bodies for local decisions such as building roads or schools.

“I think the political message is more important than anything else,” Ma Ngok, a political scientist and professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said. “If the democrats really score a landslide victory, it will show very clearly that the public is in support of the movement.”
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/28/china-condemns-us-bills-supporting-hong-kong-protesters.html
China accuses US of ‘sinister intentions’ after Trump signs bills supporting Hong Kong protesters
Published Wed, Nov 27 2019

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday it firmly opposes the U.S. signing of a bill into law that supports the Hong Kong protesters.
The ministry emphasized that Hong Kong is part of China through the “one country, two systems” policy, and that the special administration region’s issues are internal affairs.
On Wednesday evening, Trump signed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 into law. He also signed another bill banning the sale of munitions like tear gas and rubber bullets to Hong Kong police.

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“We are officially telling the U.S. and the handful of opposition politicians in Hong Kong who follow America’s lead to not underestimate our determination to protect Hong Kong’s prosperity and stability, don’t underestimate our belief to protect the ‘one country, two systems policy’ and don’t underestimate our capabilities and strategies in protecting our country’s sovereignty, safety, growth and rights,” the office said, according to a CNBC translation of an online-Chinese language statement.
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In a statement released by the White House, Trump said, “I signed these bills out of respect for President Xi, China, and the people of Hong Kong. They are being enacted in the hope that Leaders and Representatives of China and Hong Kong will be able to amicably settle their differences leading to long term peace and prosperity for all.”
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/we-are-really-grateful-hong-kong-protesters-throw-thanksgiving-rally-to-celebrate-us-support
'We are really grateful': Hong Kong protesters throw ‘Thanksgiving rally’ to celebrate US support
by Madison Dibble
November 28, 2019

Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong gathered to celebrate the legislation signed by President Trump in support of their autonomy from China.

On Wednesday, Trump signed legislation that required the State Department to do an annual review of the relationship between Hong Kong and China to ensure that China does not overreach and hamper with Hong Kong’s autonomy. The legislation received support from every senator and all but one member of the House.

While signing the bill, Trump didn’t condemn China and claimed the legislation aimed to respect both President Xi Jinping and the people of Hong Kong, saying, “I signed these bills out of respect for President Xi, China, and the people of Hong Kong. They are being enacted in the hope that leaders and representatives of China and Hong Kong will be able to amicably settle their differences leading to long term peace and prosperity for all.”

Trump’s attempt to please both sides did not fly with Chinese officials. China promised “firm countermeasures” in response to the legislation, which will likely rock any trade deal in the near future.

The legislation may have upset China, but the people of Hong Kong were thrilled. Thousands took to the streets with American flags in a “Thanksgiving rally” out of appreciation for the legislation.
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https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/hongkong-thanksgiving-rally-trump/2019/11/28/id/943750/
Thousands in Hong Kong Stage 'Thanksgiving' Rally After Trump Signs Rights Bill



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"The rationale for us having this rally is to show our gratitude and thank the U.S Congress and also President Trump for passing the bill," said 23-year-old Sunny Cheung, a member of the student group that lobbied for the legislation.
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Hong Kong's Beijing-backed government said the legislation sent the wrong signal to demonstrators and "clearly interfered" with the city's internal affairs.

China is considering barring the drafters of the legislation, whose U.S. Senate sponsor is Florida Republican Marco Rubio, from entering mainland China as well as Hong Kong and Macau, Xu Xijin, the editor of China's Global Times tabloid, said on Twitter.



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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hong-kong-protests-attract-massive-crowds-estimated-800k-march-financial-district
Hong Kong Protests Attract Massive Crowds, Estimated 800k March In Financial District
Sun, 12/08/2019 - 10:15

With zero signs of abating, hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy protestors lined the streets around Hong Kong's financial and shopping districts on Sunday, demanding the Beijing-backed Hong Kong government fulfill their demands, reported Reuters.

The semi-peaceful protest, a drastic change from violent ones in the last several weeks that have been raging for at least six months, plunged the city into a dangerous recession in Nov., attracted at least 800,000 participants on Sunday, according to protest organizer Civil Human Rights Front. Though Hong Kong police said, approximately 200,000 showed up.


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China has become more vocal about Western powers interfering in the Hong Kong protests since the US signed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act HKHRDA) into law last month. This allows Washington to impose sanctions against Chinese and Hong Kong leaders responsible for human rights violations during the protests.

Beijing was furious when the US lawmakers passed HKHRDA, which they have vowed to retaliate with a no-entry list for US lawmakers behind drafting the bill, along with other government officials, though the true extent of the retaliation remains a mystery.

On Saturday, we noted that the president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong was detained and then denied access to the neighboring Chinese city of Macau.


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If you made a bet on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement still bringing out huge crowds after six consecutive months of demonstrations, well done, please collect your winnings

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https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/escaping-hong-kong-residents-purchase-overseas-homes-protests-continue
Escaping Hong Kong - Residents Purchase Overseas Homes As Protests Continue
Thu, 12/26/2019 - 12:50

Police in Hong Kong battled pro-democracy demonstrators on Christmas as unrest is expected to roll into the new year.

Many residents have had enough of the sustained protests, are now fleeing the city, and buying homes abroad, reported Bloomberg.

Real estate brokers in top housing markets across the world have reported an uptick in interest in December from Hongkongers:

"There's been an increase in capital outflows from Hong Kong-based investors into other major global real estate markets, with Australia, Singapore, Japan, and the U.S. all seeing an increase in purchasing activity," said Ben Burston, Knight Frank LLP's Australia-based chief economist.

Pro-democracy protests have entered the sixth month, with no end in sight, has thrown the city into a deep economic recession.
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Protesters were seen on Christmas throwing petrol bombs at police. Hong Kong has canceled New Year's Eve fireworks over security concerns, a move that will continue pressuring the city's tourism industry.

Residents are furious over the socio-economic chaos that has unfolded in the back half of 2019.

    "I have to come up with a back-up plan," said Cat Liu, a salesperson in her 40s who's considering buying an apartment in Taiwan or Malaysia, partly because of the current political situation. "The situation hasn't gotten any better. Both sides are standing firm and there's no way to reach a compromise."

CBRE Group Inc.'s Australia residential director, Colin Griffin, said many Hongkongers are moving to "Australia viewed as a safe haven."

Griffin said the exodus is nothing new and has been underway for the last several years.

He said Hongkongers are starting to purchase high-end residential real estate in major metros across Australia.
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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/04/19/uk-u-s-condemn-chinese-communists-breaking-sino-british-treaty-crack-down-hong-kong-democracy-advocates/
UK, U.S. Condemn Communists for Breaking Sino-British Treaty to Crack Down on Hong Kong Activists
Breitbart London
19 Apr 2020

HONG KONG (AP) – The United States condemned the arrests of at least 14 veteran pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong on charges of joining massive anti-government protests last year, saying the police action jeopardizes a high degree of autonomy guaranteed the southern Chinese city.

Among those arrested Saturday were 81-year-old activist and former lawmaker Martin Lee and democracy advocates Albert Ho, Lee Cheuk-yan and Au Nok-hin. Police also arrested media tycoon Jimmy Lai, who founded the local newspaper Apple Daily.

The sweeping crackdown amid a coronavirus pandemic is based on charges of unlawful assembly stemming from huge rallies against proposed China extradition legislation that exposed deep divisions between democracy-minded Hong Kongers and the Communist Party-ruled central government in Beijing.

The bill — which would have allowed the residents of the semi-autonomous Chinese territory to be sent to the mainland to stand trial — has been withdrawn, but the protests continued for more than seven months, centred around demands for voting rights and an independent inquiry into police conduct.

While the protests began peacefully, they increasingly descended into violence after demonstrators became frustrated with the government’s response. They feel that Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has ignored their demands and used the police to suppress them.

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a statement condemned the arrests.

“Beijing and its representatives in Hong Kong continue to take actions inconsistent with commitments made under the Sino-British Joint Declaration that include transparency, the rule of law, and guarantees that Hong Kong will continue to `enjoy a high degree of autonomy,'” Pompeo said. He was referring to the 1997 handover of the former British colony to China, which promised the city would enjoy political freedoms not afforded mainland China.

Attorney General William Barr also weighed in with a statement saying these events show how “antithetical the values of the Chinese Communist Party are to those we share in Western liberal democracies. These actions — along with its malign influence activity and industrial espionage here in the United States — demonstrate once again that the Chinese Communist Party cannot be trusted.”

Britain’s Foreign Office also criticized the arrests, saying “the right to peaceful protest is fundamental to Hong Kong’s way of life and as such is protected in both the Joint Declaration and the Basic Law.”

Beijing has accused the U.S. and other Western countries of instigating the protests and insists they’re China’s internal affairs.



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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/world/asia/hong-kong-china.html
China Moves to Impose New Hong Kong Security Laws, Tightening Its Control

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Such rules would allow Beijing to take aim at the protests that have roiled the semiautonomous city and posed a direct challenge to the Chinese Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping.
Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, arriving at a gathering of a top advisory body to the central government in Beijing on Thursday.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/21/china-proposes-controversial-national-security-law-for-hong-kong
'This is the end of Hong Kong': China pushes controversial security laws
Proposed legislation would effectively end one country, two systems status, say critics
Lily Kuo in Beijing, Verna Yu in Hong Kong, and Helen Davidson
Thu 21 May 2020 14.31 EDT

China plans to push through sweeping national security laws for Hong Kong at its annual meeting of parliament, in a move that critics say will effectively end the territory’s autonomy.

“National security is the bedrock underpinning the stability of the country,” said Zhang Yesui, spokesman for the National People’s Congress (NPC), the annual meeting of parliament that kicks off its full session on Friday.

Zhang announced that delegates at the NPC – a largely rubber-stamping exercise – would “establish and improve a legal framework and mechanism for safeguarding national security” in Hong Kong.
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Condemnation of the proposal was swift, amid fears it could erase the “one country, two systems” framework that is supposed to grant the territory a high degree of autonomy.

“This is the end of Hong Kong,” said the pro-democracy Honk Kong legislator Dennis Kwok. “Beijing, the Central People’s Government, has completely breached its promise to the Hong Kong people ... They are completely walking back on their obligation.”
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https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-05-11/hong-kong-media-police-arrest-more-than-200-protesters
Hong Kong Police Arrest More Than 200 in Renewed Protests
Hong Kong police says that more than 200 people were arrested during anti-government protests on Sunday night.
By Associated Press, Wire Service Content May 11, 2020, at 4:44 a.m.

Police arrest anti-government protesters in Hong Kong, early Monday, May 11, 2020. A pro-democracy movement that paralyzed Hong Kong for months last year has shown signs of reviving in recent weeks as the coronavirus threat eases. The government recently decided to allow public gatherings of eight people, up from four previously. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) The Associated Press

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“Police condemn protesters for disregarding the Government’s disease prevention and control measures, and participating in or organizing prohibited group gatherings," the statement said.

Protesters later chanted slogans and built barriers to block roads in Hong Kong's Mongkok district, and set fires on some streets, according to police.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/23/coronavirus-may-have-emptied-hong-kongs-streets-pro-democracy-protests-continue/
Coronavirus may have emptied Hong Kong’s streets, but the pro-democracy protests continue
As the government cracks down on dissent, protests have moved into the courts

By Maggie Shum
April 23, 2020 at 2:00 a.m. PDT

Last week, Hong Kong officials detained more than a dozen prominent pro-democracy activists, as the 10-month long anti-extradition bill turned pro-democracy movement continues. Since the outbreak of covid-19 in the region, the Hong Kong government has been aggressively clamping down on the protest movement on multiple fronts, including politicized arrests and further encroachment on civil liberties and rights.

Of course, the outbreak of covid-19 has drastically changed the landscape for contentious politics. Hong Kong’s rules on social distancing and prohibitions on group gatherings have rendered mass mobilization impossible.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hong-kong-erupts-tear-gas-deployed-thousands-fill-streets-oppose-chinas-national-security
Hong Kong Erupts: Tear Gas Deployed As Thousands Fill Streets To Oppose China's National Security Law
Sun, 05/24/2020 - 10:50

After months of relative quiet amid the coronavirus pandemic, thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Hong Kong, defying the city's ban on gatherings to voice their opposition to a new "national security" law proposed by Beijing which would threaten the city's autonomy and the civil liberties of its residents.


4:49 AM - May 24, 2020 · Eastern District, Hong Kong

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The protesters, most of whom could be seen donning masks, were hit with tear gas less than an hour after the start of the demonstrations which resulted in at least 120 arrests - including 40 of which were people accused of blocking Gloucester Road. A water cannon truck was also deployed according to SCMP."

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Beijing unveiled details of the law on Friday, which would most likely grant the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s security services jurisdiction over matters in Hong Kong - which drew condemnation from Taiwan, the United Kingdom, the EU, Australia, Canada and the United States, according to the report. It also drew immediate protest from opposition lawmakers.

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Perhaps the thread title should be "Trump starts Cold War with China"

 

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Perhaps the thread title should be "Trump starts Cold War with China"  

Maybe if these commies were less like Stalin or Hitler ...

earlier PBS ! :

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/uighurs/
At least 1 million Uighurs have been interned since 2017 in more than 85 identified camps within Xinjiang-- an autonomous region in Northwest China, according to Western reports.

Back in February  ( seems like a million years ago) :

https://apnews.com/bcbf0108163c692e0dcab51bf5d3dca9
Boston Uighur woman champions her father’s release in China
By AYSHA KHAN
February 14, 2020



BOSTON (RNS) — Samira Imin can’t stop thinking about the times her father took her horseback riding.

She remembers how her father, a prominent Uighur publisher and historian named Iminjan Seydin, would always spoil her and shelter her from her mother’s scoldings. She thinks of the time she went out alone as a teen living in China’s Xinjiang region and became lost, and Seydin began frantically calling around to find her, then cried when she finally returned home.

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Now, months after she learned that Chinese officials were holding her father in a detention camp for Uighur Muslims before arresting him over charges of extremism, Imin says it’s her turn to become her father’s protector and bring him back home.

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Her father, a 54-year-old professor of Chinese history at the Xinjiang Islamic Institute and founder of the Imin Book Publishing Co., has not been seen since May 2017.

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Now, Imin is publicly demanding Chinese officials release her father.

“If I don’t speak up, things may get worse,” Imin said. “If I do speak up, then at least the world knows that my father has a daughter in America.”

In December, she published a public letter addressed to the Chinese government, pushing officials to reveal any evidence they had against Seydin and explain why they did not appoint him an independent lawyer, hold a public trial and allow advocates from Human Rights Watch to investigate the case against him.

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She has posted videos testifying to his detention and arrest, documented his case in a database of Uighur detainees led by an independent researcher and spoken to English and Uighur -language media about his work.

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China’s government has long claimed repressive measures in Xinjiang were necessary “de-radicalization” initiatives in response to threats from Islamist militants and violent separatists in the region. The intense surveillance and suppression of religion in Xinjiang, a ramping up of China’s ongoing Sinicization efforts, is critical to promote unity and harmony, officials say.

Until recently, Imin believed much of it.

“I was a product of that indoctrination, too,” she said, noting that she had attended Chinese school. “Until I woke up and realized how they are.”

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https://www.dw.com/en/imprisoned-uighur-professors-release-shows-how-beijing-forces-loyalty/a-53524800
Imprisoned Uighur professor's release shows how Beijing forces loyalty

After disappearing for three years into a Xinjiang prison, Uighur professor Iminjan Seydin has been suddenly released. Now, he is denouncing his daughter's search for answers as "anti-China."
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Hundreds of Uyghur intellectuals are among the thousands of people who have been imprisoned or put into Xinjiang's re-education camps by the Chinese government over the past three years.

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On May 4, Imin was tipped off by friends that her father had appeared in a video published by the Communist Party mouthpiece China Daily. It was the first time she had heard anything from him since he disappeared in 2017.

"I felt like the whole thing was surreal, and I wanted to cry but couldn't really cry," said Imin. "I wasn't sure if I should be happy, because I didn't know what my dad was going to tell me in the video."

When she finally gained the courage to click on the Twitter link, she saw that her dad was a lot skinnier and had a shaved head.
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It appeared that her father had been freed from prison. However, his message in the video sounded bizarre.

"Recently some overseas anti-China forces deceived my daughter into claiming that I was under illegal detention," Seydin said in the video. "This is deception and nonsense. I'm very well, healthy and free."

Seydin asked Imin not to trust the "deceptive rumors" and stop spreading false information about "his detention" abroad.

He emphasized that without the party and the government, he would never had been a professor or had a rewarding life, adding Imin also had the party to thank for studying abroad.

"All these things would have been impossible without the care of the party and the government to our family," Seydin said.



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Maybe if these commies were less like Stalin or Hitler ...

Largest, fastest growing economy on the planet . . . .
Not entirely sure that China has a "communist" govt - - >

Sure it claims to be communist, but the liberals claim to be liberal and they are the worst fascists, the socialists claim to be for the people when they are for the bankster classes, . . . I could go on about any political party ;-)

The comical part, is the one sure fire thing that we can label China is "nationalist".


Last, do you now support the Muslims ?
Do you where a "I LUV ISLAM" t-shirt ?



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Oh mao would be proud ,.......   are U CCP ?
Yeah it's all one big joke on who ?   Oh its not racial ... for the Han versus the non-Han  ?

Uighur 's are are a total mix of racial identities on othe silk road ... being muslim for the ccp is a problem of not being atheist and not being Han ...   I'm against repression  geez  ( I should say Jesus since I'm a Christian )

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/43ancients/02files/The_Mummies_of_Tarim_Basin.html

The Mummies of Tarim Basin - Xinjiang Province of China

The first Tocharian Nordic mummy found in 1989: a White female with long blond hair, finely preserved by the arid desert atmosphere of the Taklamakan desert. Based on her partially dismembered limbs and gouged out eyes, archaeologists believe she was a sacrificial victim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps

"Not entirely sure that China has a "communist" govt " - really ?  So there IS NO CCP ? Really ?

He emphasized that without the party and the government, he would never had been a professor or had a rewarding life, adding Imin also had the party to thank for studying abroad.

"All these things would have been impossible without the care of the party and the government to our family," Seydin said.



https://www.thenational.ae/world/asia/return-of-the-repressed-1.540537?videoId=5770738884001
Return of the repressed

The big idea China's harsh tactics in Xinjiang have only stoked Uighur rage. Joshua Kurlantzick on why Beijing can't quit the iron fist.



Return of the repressed
The big idea China's harsh tactics in Xinjiang have only stoked Uighur rage. Joshua Kurlantzick on why Beijing can't quit the iron fist.
China's harsh tactics in Xinjiang have only stoked Uighur rage. Joshua Kurlantzick on why Beijing can't quit the iron fist.
July 17, 2009

China's harsh tactics in Xinjiang have only stoked Uighur rage. Joshua Kurlantzick on why Beijing can't quit the iron fist. In the past two weeks, the vast western Chinese province of Xinjiang has been rocked by some of the deadliest riots in China since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949. The spark was supposedly a brawl at a factory in eastern China in late June between Han Chinese and Uighurs, which left two Uighurs dead. A week later, Uighurs - an ethnically Turkic Muslim minority who have historically resided in Xinjiang - stormed through the streets of Urumqi, the provincial capital, burning Chinese stores and attacking Chinese residents of the city with clubs and other makeshift weapons. Some local Chinese claimed the Uighurs were stoning Chinese to death.

Largest, fastest growing economy on the planet . . . .
Not entirely sure that China has a "communist" govt - - >

Sure it claims to be communist, but the liberals claim to be liberal and they are the worst fascists, the socialists claim to be for the people when they are for the bankster classes, . . . I could go on about any political party ;-)

The comical part, is the one sure fire thing that we can label China is "nationalist".


Last, do you now support the Muslims ?
Do you where a "I LUV ISLAM" t-shirt ?

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Just think.
This is the bottom line.
Nationalist, and Anti-Muslim.


The previous cold war was a farce started by the west to continue the "war time economy".
I think deep down you want to be on the right side of the truth, because that is real patriotism.
Body bags with some mothers son, just to top up some corps spreadsheet is just plain wrong.



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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hundreds-arrested-hong-kong-protests-erupt
"Revolution Of Our Times": Hundreds Arrested As Hong Kong Protests Escalate

Wed, 05/27/2020 - 12:15

Over 300 people were arrested in Hong Kong on Wednesday during demonstrations over national security legislation which would put the semi-autonomous city further under Beijing's boot.

Protesters planned to gather at the city's Legislative Council during a debate on a related law which would criminalize insulting China's national anthem - though security forces stopped them before they could get that far.


https://twitter.com/amcoren?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1265568916316860417&ref_url=https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hundreds-arrested-hong-kong-protests-erupt

My #CNN crew and I getting pepper sprayed in #HongKong during the protests over #NationalSecurityLaw. Another #HongKongProtester arrested  taking toll to over 240 today
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"criminalize insulting China's national anthem"

Nationalism, yet again.



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