Olympic athletes are not committing war crimes or violence as suggested by the agitprop posters.
Olympic athletes are not committing war crimes or violence as suggested by the agitprop posters.
Perhaps living under a censorious regime creates such gullibility, & obliviousness to metaphor & sarcasm?
(Separately: prosecutions of the Australian soldiers involved in the incidents Mr. Zhao "symbolized" are still possible – but as far as I can tell, none of the incidents involved the slitting of children's throats, as in his graphic photorealistic rendering.)
Such is life here in America...
If you're used to a system in which the courts assume the prosecutor is always right and so the judge's only task is to decide the sentence, then a trial with rules of evidence, burden of proof, etc., will seem very slow.
CCP policy and behaviour towards Xinjiang shows a clear intent to eradicate Uighur culture, possibly the Uighur people, on the part of the CCP state. Simlilarly for Hong Kong, Tibet. A warcrime by an Australian soldier is being dealt with as a matter of military discipline.
There is no equivalency between the two. Pretending that a crime is equivalent to state genocide is classic "wolf warrior" trolling.
A better equivalency would be between what's happening with the Uighurs and what happened to Australia's first nation people in the nineteenth century. Modern China does have more than a little in common with those old European colonial empires.
But the Irish remained the top ethnicity in Ireland and their population increased fast for most of that period, so I have no clue what the IRA were going on about.
Can we go there and freely discuss the situation with residents, without minders nearby?
Can they freely practice their relgion? Can they leave? Can they choose not to have regime loyalists stay in their homes? (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/11/30/uninvited-guests-k...)
Escapees report differently, & fear retaliation against their remaining family: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/04/uy...
Wire me $1000 and I'll produce video testimony of an Asian-looking person alleging literally any atrocity you want by China/Russia/Iran.
Unverifiable testimony not made under oath and grainy Google Earth screenshots are simply not reliable evidence in the current year.
As for actual evidence, PRC publishes their census data online for everyone to see. If you don't believe that, you can look up "Ürümqi street" on YouTube and get a ballpark figure for how many Turkic people and cultures are represented there. If you still think there is Holocaust 2.0 going on in Xinjiang, you are ideologically poisoned beyond reason.
Why is your first thought creating hoaxes for pay rather than collecting honest testimony?
Why is your go-to source “PRC census data” rather than any evidence of actual freedoms to live without minders, travel, speak, practice religion?