Xinjiang University President Tashpolat Tiyip Sentenced to Death in Secret Trial
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It's a complex thing, as I know, there's too many media misleading, in both side.
Well, let us examine this possibility by reading the article.
That was in 2009 and according to the featured article, in 2010 he was promoted to the President and Vice Secretary of the Communist Party of Xinjiang University and he only recently disappeared in 2017.
So I am guessing it would be rather unlikely.
>It's a complex thing, as I know, there's too many media misleading, in both side.
This is also something of a problem in the commentary, it would appear.
I'm in HK and a democrat, sure, but these angelic freedom fighting tales abroad are as misleading as the diabolical black hand rhetoric of the mainland media.
As most human movement, there's a gaussian distribution between two extremes, and the two extremes makes the most noise (because extreme noise brings shocked readers) while most ignore and live on.
"I pressed them further, asking if they could think of anything that may have made him a target. After a long pause, one of his students stated: “the only thing that I can think of is that he used to begin his public statements with a brief greeting in Uyghur language, usually for less than thirty seconds, before he led school meetings in fluent Chinese. Maybe this is why (he was taken).”
Or who just promoted Uyghur language and culture, or didn’t cheer the Party on loudly enough:
https://thediplomat.com/2018/10/turn-in-the-two-faced-the-pl...
EDIT: Do you think I’m exaggerating?
From the link:
“To be more precise, [two-faced] is a castigatory definition that Chinese politicians are using to highlight the “failure” of Uyghur intellectuals to manifest their unwavering and unambiguous allegiance to the CCP.”
“In this sense, Uyghur intellectuals are forced to remain in the black and white world for their very survival; and in so doing, they are forced to abandon and denounce their own deeply rich culture against their will.“
E: I didn't claim you were exaggerating? It takes very loose definitions to rationalize the levels of detainment happening in Xinjiang.
Articles that praised Tiyip’s achievements are now being systematically deleted from the internet. His name and legacy are being erased, even from the list of presidents of Xinjiang University. Ironically, Sheng Shicai, the Guomindang leader who ruled Xinjiang from 1933-1944, who was described as one of the most evil traitors by the Communist Party, is still listed as a president of the school from 1942-1944. Yet, there is now no trace of Tashpolat Tiyip’s name.
Almost a caricature of an authoritarian approach to dealing with an undesirable.
-- Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism"
Timely as ever.
Upon further digging, I did find more information this notion of 'two-faceness' from an article in 2017, around the time he was arrested:
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang-security/f...
In a commentary published by the official Xinjiang Daily on Monday, Yasin Sidik, a senior official from Kashgar city in Xinjiang, urged fellow ethnic Uighur cadres to “bravely stand at the forefront against separatism”.
“We must stand out and reveal ‘two-faced’ people, thoroughly seize bad elements out from the masses, clean them out,” he said.
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What ultimately motivates Xi and the Party? What are their objectives?
Are they simply doing whatever they think will increase China's relative power? And they think unity — suppression of multi-culturalism and dissent — will serve that interest? Or have they gamed out a strategy for 50 or 100 years that's more subtle, and this totalitarian BS is just a phase they'll outgrow?
" 1. The centrality of the party, keeping the party in power for the long term, as well as Xi's power within the party;
2. Consolidating the internal unity of the country;
3. Maintaining sustainable economic growth to ensure a continued increase in Chinese living standards, breaking though the "middle-income trap," while balancing now against a parallel requirement for environmental protection now demanded by China's urban elites;
4. Keeping China's 14 bordering countries in a benign, and preferably supine state;
5. On China's maritime periphery, projecting its regional naval and air power, politically fracturing U.S. alliances in Asia, and ultimately removing the United States from the immediate region militarily;
6. Leveraging its economic power across China's vast continental periphery, causing Eurasia, and in time the Middle East and Africa to become accommodating to China's economic, foreign policy, and security interests;
7. and Reforming parts, but by no means all, of the post-war international rules-based order over time to better suit its interests, and to better reflect China's domestic values rather than those of the post-war consensus. "
Good luck with that y’all, I have no dog in this clown show of a fight.