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China has built 380 internment camps in Xinjiang, study finds

theguardian.com

52 pointsdsr1211 comments

So this week, we got another round of recycled Adrian Zenz, who's now a Tibet expert as well, _and_ another round of recycled ASPI, coming back strong after round 1 landed them with a $135,909 bonus from Lockheed Martin after ASPI succeeded in convincing Australia to buy 800 million dollars of Lockheed Martin to "counter the China threat".

https://apac.news/aspis-strategic-funding/

Election year is coming.

> coming back strong after round 1 landed them with a $135,909 bonus from Lockheed Martin after ASPI succeeded in convincing Australia to buy 800 million dollars of Lockheed Martin to "counter the China threat"

Nitpick: according to your linked article, the timeline is reversed: Lockheed Martin supported them with $135,909 in 2018-2019 and will supply $800 million worth of anti-ship missiles as part of this year's defence spending plan.

A reminder of where the independent Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) gets all their funding:

Australian Department of Defense

US Department of State

Raytheon

Northrop Grumman

Thales

Lockheed Martin

BAE Systems

A reasonable person might enquire why so many global weapons manufacturers have such an interest in the work they produce.

A reasonable person might also ask whether the source of the funding has any bearing on whether or not the Chinese government is attempting genocide.

Thanks for pointing out.

Several things the articles says are happening in the Chinese camps are happening on the southern US border.

Does that make what China is doing any less awful?

No. The answer is no.

Any specific quote, or is it just the generic "The US jails people who broke US law and the Chinese jail people who broke Chinese law, so the US and China are mortally equivalent"?

Can't believe how biased western media is, calling the Vocational Educational Camps "internment camps". They just don't understand the cultural context of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

This feels like sarcasm but I honestly can't tell with fans of PRC's authoritarianism aka ""socialism" with Chinese characteristics" popping into various discussions about Chinese violations of human rights.

It was entirely sarcasm.

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