Is There a Tipping Point for China and Human Rights Violations???

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I hope that becomes a huge problem for the NBA. They are such hypocrites with this ****. 

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14 hours ago, Llevron said:

I hope that becomes a huge problem for the NBA. They are such hypocrites with this ****. 

I wonder if anyone on here (who normally watches basketball) will be boycotting the NBA over it? 

Edited July 31, 2020 by visionary

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I'll repost what John McCain said a few years ago:

 

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"When you look at history," McCain said, "the first thing that dictators do is shut down the press."

 

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Before we go cleaning other people’s houses we might wanna take care of our own house first!

Worked in China for 5 years, I been inside the beast and seen it’s entrails. Amazing place. A world of endless possibilities if you know the right people. They like Cash. Human Rights are not a top priority there. VIP still exists there, miss that. The Govt does what it wants in every regard. It’s a system of total control, with some appearance, if you have money, of freedom.

The people standing up to them would be the tipping point. Anything from outside or unnatural would not work there. Do not see that happening anytime soon there. 

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Confessions of a Xinjiang Camp Teacher

 

Qelbinur Sedik has witnessed wanton cruelty, gratuitous violence, humiliation, torture, and death meted out to her people on an unimaginable scale — but has been forced to keep the crushing secret until now.

 

When she first arrived in Europe, she was so traumatized she could barely speak about her ordeal. Then she found the Dutch Uyghur Human Rights Organization (DUHRO), where people patiently listened through her many tears. The DUHRO wrote down her story, calling it “Qelbinur Sidik: A Twisted Life.” Through it, she now feels ready to tell the world what she saw in the internment camps of Xinjiang.

 

This account is based on excerpts from the memoir and my own interviews with her.

 

From September to November 2016, Qelbinur’s school began selecting its best teachers, not only for teaching skills but for their political ideology and family background. She passed with flying colors.

 

On February 28, 2017, as Qelbinur recounted in her memoir, she was summoned to the town hall. She was told she would be teaching Chinese to “illiterates,” but strangely, for this mission she was made to sign a confidentiality agreement. A secret rendezvous was fixed for ‪March 1, at 7 a.m., where she was told to wait at a bus stop and call a police officer to pick her up.

Remembering the story as if it were yesterday, she described the scene awaiting her after her journey.

 

“We rolled up to a four-story building on the outskirts [of Urumqi], behind a mountain. It was surrounded by walls and barbed wire. We entered via a metal electric door. There were armed police officers, and a dozen employees, administrators, nurses, teachers, directors. I was taken to a control room,” she told DUHRO.

 

An employee shouted: ‘The lesson is about to start!’”

 

In front of her were CCTV screens on the wall where she could see 10 cells of roughly 10 people each. “They were plunged into darkness, their windows boarded up with metal plates,” she said. “There were no beds, just blankets on the floor.”

 

She made out a total of 97 prisoners, who had been locked up since ‪February 14.

 

“The adult pupils came into the classroom 10 by 10, chained hand and feet. 

 

The numbers in her classes dwindled daily. “At first, they were in good health,” she said. “I saw them wither away. Some couldn’t even walk anymore.”

 

‪On March 20, the first floor of the camp filled with new arrivals. Whereas her first group had been religious and often elderly, the second group were intellectuals, business people, or students whose Chinese was perfect. Their crime, it seemed, was consulting Facebook, banned in China.

 

Her educational mission was now beginning to make no sense at all. Her task with this group was to teach them communist songs and the national anthem.

 

She described how the students were humiliated as they were forced to enter the classroom on all fours, crawling under a chain that kept the door ajar. “I met their gaze; it was excruciating,” she remembers. Every hour she was sent another group of 100.

 

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Disney under fire for ‘Mulan’ credits that thank Chinese groups linked to detention camps

 

Disney is facing backlash after the final credits for its latest film “Mulan” thanked government entities in Xinjiang, the province where Muslims have faced human rights abuses.

 

The film had already generated controversy after its lead actress, Liu Yifei, recently expressed support for police crackdowns in Hong Kong, spurring talks of boycotts on social media.

 

That sentiment only increased after it came to light that Disney filmed scenes for the “Mulan” movie in China’s Xinjiang province, where Beijing is accused of detaining more than 1 million Uighur Muslims.

 

After releasing “Mulan” on Disney+, eagle-eyed viewers noticed a “special thanks” in the film’s end credits that named eight government entities in Xinjiang, including the public security bureau in the city of Turpan, where the country is allegedly operating more than a dozen “reeducation” camps.

 

The credits also thank the publicity department of CPC Xinjiang Uighur Autonomy Region Committee, an agency that produces state propaganda efforts.

 

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I want to watch that movie, but now I feel like i can't.  

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Five Republican United States senators have urged Netflix Inc to reconsider plans to adapt a Chinese science-fiction book trilogy into a TV series because they said the author has defended the Chinese government’s treatment of Uighur Muslims.

 

The Three-Body Problem and two sequels were written by Chinese author Liu Cixin. Netflix announced earlier this month it was turning the books into a live-action, English-language TV series led by D B Weiss and David Benioff, the creators of HBO megahit Game of Thrones. Liu serves as a consulting producer on the project.

 

 

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China destroys domes of famous mosques as cultural whitewash continues

 

China’s campaign to suppress Islam is accelerating as authorities remove Arab-style onion domes and decorative elements from mosques across the country.

 

Stark changes have been observed at the main mosque in Yinchuan, capital of Ningxia province, where most of China’s Hui ethnic Muslim minority live.

 

The bright green onion-shaped domes and golden minarets that used to soar into the sky atop Nanguan Mosque have all been pulled down. Golden Islamic-style filigree, decorative arches, and Arabic script that before adorned the mosque have also been stripped away.

 

What remains is unrecognisable – a drab, gray, rectangular facility with “Nanguan Mosque” written in Chinese, as shown in photos posted online by Christina Scott, the UK’s deputy head of mission in China, on a recent trip.

 

“TripAdvisor suggested the Nanguan Mosque in Yinchuan well worth a visit,” Ms Scott wrote on Twitter, along with ‘before and after’ photos. “Only this is what it looks now, after ‘renovations.’ Domes, minarets, all gone. No visitors allowed either, of course. So depressing.”

 

 

 

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Did China use microwave weapons on Indian soldiers?

 

Faced with a crack team of Tibetan mountaineering specialists and banned from gunfire under an old agreement, Chinese forces allegedly turned to their secret — albeit, some would say unethical — weapon, in their Himalayan standoff.

 

According to international studies expert Jin Canrong, Chinese troops used a “microwave” weapon to force Indian soldiers to retreat by making them violently sick, The Times of London reported.

 

The electromagnetic weapon, which cooks the human tissue of enemy troops, “turned the mountain tops into a microwave oven” and made the Indian soldiers vomit, Canrong told his students in Beijing.  

 

The weapon heats water molecules in the same way as the kitchen appliance, targeting water under the skin and causing increasing amounts of pain to the target from ranges of up to 0.6 miles away, The Times reported.   

 

The weapons are not intended to do any lasting harm, though concerns have been raised about whether they could damage the eyes or have a carcinogenic impact.

 

Jin even went so far as hailed the Chinese forces for “beautifully” executing the move which cleared out Indian troops without violating a ban on gunfire along the disputed Line Of Actual Control (LAC).

 

There was no indication whether Jin discussed the ethical implications of using such a weapon. However, it is the first known use of microwave weapons on a battlefield.  

 

According to The Times, the weapons were said to have been deployed in late August, weeks after a deadly brawl involving rocks and clubs which killed at least 20 Indian soldiers and brought the two nuclear-armed powers closer to war.

 

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On 11/17/2020 at 10:31 PM, China said:

Did China use microwave weapons on Indian soldiers?

 

Faced with a crack team of Tibetan mountaineering specialists and banned from gunfire under an old agreement, Chinese forces allegedly turned to their secret — albeit, some would say unethical — weapon, in their Himalayan standoff.

 

According to international studies expert Jin Canrong, Chinese troops used a “microwave” weapon to force Indian soldiers to retreat by making them violently sick, The Times of London reported.

 

The electromagnetic weapon, which cooks the human tissue of enemy troops, “turned the mountain tops into a microwave oven” and made the Indian soldiers vomit, Canrong told his students in Beijing.  

 

The weapon heats water molecules in the same way as the kitchen appliance, targeting water under the skin and causing increasing amounts of pain to the target from ranges of up to 0.6 miles away, The Times reported.   

 

The weapons are not intended to do any lasting harm, though concerns have been raised about whether they could damage the eyes or have a carcinogenic impact.

 

Jin even went so far as hailed the Chinese forces for “beautifully” executing the move which cleared out Indian troops without violating a ban on gunfire along the disputed Line Of Actual Control (LAC).

 

There was no indication whether Jin discussed the ethical implications of using such a weapon. However, it is the first known use of microwave weapons on a battlefield.  

 

According to The Times, the weapons were said to have been deployed in late August, weeks after a deadly brawl involving rocks and clubs which killed at least 20 Indian soldiers and brought the two nuclear-armed powers closer to war.

 

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https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/government-report-reveals-potential-cause-of-havana-syndrome-97228869609

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New report says at least 570,000 people in Uighur regions sent to pick cotton through China's coercive labor training in 2018

 

At least 570,000 people belonging to ethnic minority groups in Uighur regions were sent to pick cotton through China's coercive labor training in 2018, a new Center for Global Policy report found. 

 

"Xinjiang's total labor transfer of ethnic minorities into cotton-picking likely exceeds that figure by several hundred thousand," the report said. 

 

Human rights activists have been lobbying President Donald Trump to ban Chinese cotton over Xinjiang forced labor camps.

 

Earlier this month, the Trump administration banned cotton imports from the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), one of China's largest cotton producers, Reuters reported. 

 

However, activists have put pressure on Congress to pass the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.

 

That bill, which was introduced earlier this year says that companies would be required to make sure they are not sourcing products from the Xinjiang region. Reports have found that Uighurs, a Muslim-minority group, and other ethnic minorities in the region are forced to work in detention centers under hostile circumstances for little to no pay. 

 

In recent years, the Chinese Communist Party has constructed hundreds of prisons and detention centers in Xinjiang and the surrounding region.

 

Reports from the camps allege the forced consumption of forbidden foods in Islam, mass surveillance, and various other forms of psychological and physical torture.

 

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Lifting Self-Imposed Restrictions on the U.S.-Taiwan Relationship

 

Taiwan is a vibrant democracy and reliable partner of the United States, and yet for several decades the State Department has created complex internal restrictions to regulate our diplomats, servicemembers, and other officials’ interactions with their Taiwanese counterparts. The United States government took these actions unilaterally, in an attempt to appease the Communist regime in Beijing. No more.

 

Today I am announcing that I am lifting all of these self-imposed restrictions.  Executive branch agencies should consider all “contact guidelines” regarding relations with Taiwan previously issued by the Department of State under authorities delegated to the Secretary of State to be null and void.

 

Additionally, any and all sections of the Foreign Affairs Manual or Foreign Affairs Handbook that convey authorities or otherwise purport to regulate executive branch engagement with Taiwan via any entity other than the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) are also hereby voided. The executive branch‘s relations with Taiwan are to be handled by the non-profit AIT, as stipulated in the Taiwan Relations Act.

 

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