I've explained my views on Xinjiang so many times I'm not sure what more I can say at this point. I generally agree with David Brophy's take as Alex laid it out below.
This guy that Bob Wright interviewed the other week seemed both knowledgeable and reasonable https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/61757 My takeaway was they are fairly brutally encouraging cultural assimilation but the actual genocide allegations are overblown out of the cpc extending the one / two child policies from the Han and urban populations to the non-Han and rural populations that had previously been exempt. As for the prison camps there seems to be a bit of a spectrum of treatment with perhaps tens of thousands suspected of fundamentalism / terrorist sympathy being locked up in prison, while a much greater number perhaps more than a million have been forced or strongly encouraged to attend these vocational training camps with different people having different lengths of stay / ability to come and go. And then afterwards there’s “strongly encouraged“ movement of the retrained people to new factories. I would think the encouragement / enforcement spectrum would be affected by different local governments and individual families vulnerability to persecution by the state.
It’s been a little while since I watched it so take my summary with a grain of salt and watch, or I guess sign up to yet another substack and read Wright’s transcript
Wish some commentary was included on Xinjiang, I'm struggling with understanding where the truth ends and propaganda begins. Thanks Derek
I've explained my views on Xinjiang so many times I'm not sure what more I can say at this point. I generally agree with David Brophy's take as Alex laid it out below.
Fair, thanks!
This guy that Bob Wright interviewed the other week seemed both knowledgeable and reasonable https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/61757 My takeaway was they are fairly brutally encouraging cultural assimilation but the actual genocide allegations are overblown out of the cpc extending the one / two child policies from the Han and urban populations to the non-Han and rural populations that had previously been exempt. As for the prison camps there seems to be a bit of a spectrum of treatment with perhaps tens of thousands suspected of fundamentalism / terrorist sympathy being locked up in prison, while a much greater number perhaps more than a million have been forced or strongly encouraged to attend these vocational training camps with different people having different lengths of stay / ability to come and go. And then afterwards there’s “strongly encouraged“ movement of the retrained people to new factories. I would think the encouragement / enforcement spectrum would be affected by different local governments and individual families vulnerability to persecution by the state.
It’s been a little while since I watched it so take my summary with a grain of salt and watch, or I guess sign up to yet another substack and read Wright’s transcript
Well this was very helpful, I’ll make sure to watch that. Thanks!