Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims

So, who is brave enough — or powerful enough — to actually try to really do anything about this problem?

China is the ultimate “too big to fail” problem, right?

The documents released here describe high level directives from Xi Jingping, and some quotes on how family members should be told of detained relatives. Presumably there must be many other documents detailing design and construction of the large scale facilities that would be needed for the number people being detained; these might shed more light on the actual scale of what is happening. The documents so far could be describing programs that target 100’s of people, not the millions claimed elsewhere.

I don't understand why the BDS movement against Israel gets so much attention when stuff like this, or worse, regularly occurs in China. I have been making an effort to reduce what I buy from China recently, which is difficult in electrical engineering. I hope others consider the same. We need a BDS (Mainland) China movement.

It's quite shocking how blatantly China discriminates against everyone but Han-Chinese, yet doesn't even get a mention on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativism_(politics)

Just anecdotally, every Chinese from China I've ever met has an obsession with how great China is. They always refer to ancient history. I'm pretty sure the communist party is coopting their history and cultural to create some sort of civilizational euphoria for the people, to achieve their goals. It really can't end well. It's funny because Americans will say America is the best country on earth, but they don't actually 100% mean it, like they know other places aren't bad too.

> Leaked CCP files reveal crimes against humanity (reddit.com)

Given a link to a Reddit article that merely links a www.nytimes.com I expect a flag asap.

Which is exactly what I assume the OP troll/Propagandaest wanted, else they would have linked the original article with the proper title.

Maybe these recent developments in the Chinese culture and psyche can be described as Han superiority complex much like Nazism. Victim mentality, belief in one's racial superiority, and willingness to do away with any ethnicities and cultures unlike your own. Maybe we need a term for this so we can identify and talk about it. Hanzism?

Fascinating article.

I didn’t realize this all started because of terrorist attacks,

> In 2014, little more than a year after becoming president, he spent four days in the region, and on the last day of the trip, two Uighur militants staged a suicide bombing outside a train station in Urumqi that injured nearly 80 people, one fatally.

> Weeks earlier, militants with knives had gone on a rampage at another railway station, in southwest China, killing 31 people and injuring more than 140. And less than a month after Mr. Xi’s visit, assailants tossed explosives into a vegetable market in Urumqi, wounding 94 people and killing at least 39.

> Against this backdrop of bloodshed, Mr. Xi delivered a series of secret speeches setting the hard-line course that culminated in the security offensive now underway in Xinjiang. While state media have alluded to these speeches, none were made public.

Xi’s speech was enlightening too,

> In several surprising passages, given the crackdown that followed, Mr. Xi also told officials to not discriminate against Uighurs and to respect their right to worship. He warned against overreacting to natural friction between Uighurs and Han Chinese, the nation’s dominant ethnic group, and rejected proposals to try to eliminate Islam entirely in China.

> “In light of separatist and terrorist forces under the banner of Islam, some people have argued that Islam should be restricted or even eradicated,” he said during the Beijing conference. He called that view “biased, even wrong.” “We say that development is the top priority and the basis for achieving lasting security, and that’s right,” Mr. Xi said. “But it would be wrong to believe that with development every problem solves itself.”

> “In recent years, Xinjiang has grown very quickly and the standard of living has consistently risen, but even so ethnic separatism and terrorist violence have still been on the rise,” he said. “This goes to show that economic development does not automatically bring lasting order and security.”

The NYT did a great job reporting the situation.