24 May 2022, 6:48 pm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/nz0g306v8c/china-tainted-cotton
Well... the "evidence" here comes from excerpts from public media in China.
Make up stories by relying on translations taken out of context.
"military corps" is the abbreviation of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps that went to Xinjiang in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. The place of work later became a special administrative unit. This is the main agricultural area.
Nothing to do with militarization.
"Mobilize" and "Organize". political term. The meaning is "encourage" and "arrange/provide support".
The last paragraph of the original Chinese text here compares picking cotton to panning for gold. Because picking cotton in China is quite a lucrative job. Ten years ago, during the cotton ripening season, there would be a special train to take farmers from the Central Plains to Xinjiang to pick cotton. This is seen as an opportunity to make money.
The real meaning of the second paragraph: Focus on low-income families... Carry out a survey on the difficulties of workers who pick up cotton... Let those families who need to be transferred can be transferred... Workers whose physical fitness is not up to standard are not allowed to transfer.
Since no one will live in the cotton fields, the cotton picking season will require a train ride to work.
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Chinese whistleblower exposes torture of Uyghur prisoners in CNN interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PjkwylN7q0 1：59
The blue Chinese character on his epaulette is "公支".
But the correct spelling is "公安".
The actor has actually become a "witness" in more cases and has given some contradictory testimony.
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1UQ4y1S7Ea?spm_id_from=333.337.search-card.all.click
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Found something interesting.
Joining the fight against Isis would be a huge test for China
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“So it is far from evident what China could offer militarily if it joined the anti-Isis coalition. Equally, it is hard to see the US or west Europe accepting money, the usual principal ingredient of Chinese collaboration – taking subsidies from Beijing for the fight against terrorism hardly seems politically palatable. But there is a strong reason why the People’s Republic will want to keep involved, in the form of its long-running struggle against Uighur Muslims in its huge western territory of Xinjiang. Beijing insists that the recurrent violence there is the work of fundamentalists and extremist agents crossing from the republics of central Asia.
Heavy security measures have failed to stop the attacks, which have taken scores of lives this year. Last week, Chinese state media reported that security forces had killed 28 alleged members of a group accused of slaying 16 people on an attack on a Xinjiang coal mine. This followed a series of assaults in recent years blamed on Uighur extremists, including the deaths of 33 people at a railway station in south-west China at the hands of knife-wielding assailants in 2014. Beijing says that Uighurs have joined Isis in the Middle East and that 200 of them arrested in Thailand last year, half of whom were subsequently sent home, were heading for Syria, but no evidence of this has been made public.
Heavy security measures have failed to stop the attacks, which have taken scores of lives this year. Last week, Chinese state media reported that security forces had killed 28 alleged members of a group accused of slaying 16 people on an attack on a Xinjiang coal mine. This followed a series of assaults in recent years blamed on Uighur extremists, including the deaths of 33 people at a railway station in south-west China at the hands of knife-wielding assailants in 2014. Beijing says that Uighurs have joined Isis in the Middle East and that 200 of them arrested in Thailand last year, half of whom were subsequently sent home, were heading for Syria, but no evidence of this has been made public.
Isis Uighurs threaten ‘rivers of blood’ in China
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A gruesome Isis video depicting Uighur fighters in Iraq calling for attacks on China has raised concern that the Asian nation could become a target for jihadist groups, even as Beijing stages mass military manoeuvres designed to quell separatist sentiment in the restive frontier region of Xinjiang.
The graphic video denouncing ‘evil Chinese communist infidel lackeys’ came from the Iraqi arm of the militant group, according to Site, a US-based company that tracks jihadis and white supremacist activities online. Reuters, which first reported on the video, independently confirmed the translation.
The graphic video denouncing ‘evil Chinese communist infidel lackeys’ came from the Iraqi arm of the militant group, according to Site, a US-based company that tracks jihadis and white supremacist activities online. Reuters, which first reported on the video, independently confirmed the translation.
AP Exclusive: Uighurs fighting in Syria take aim at China
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Since 2013, thousands of Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority from western China, have traveled to Syria to train with the Uighur militant group Turkistan Islamic Party and fight alongside al-Qaida, playing key roles in several battles. Syrian President Bashar Assad’s troops are now clashing with Uighur fighters as the six-year conflict nears its endgame.
China’s proxy war in Syria: Revealing the role of Uighur fighters
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The Uighur militants had reportedly moved into Syria following a Chinese-backed Pakistani campaign against their bases on the borders with Afghanistan. The Pakistani military claimed they had assassinated the group’s leader, Abdul Haq, in 2010. The Pakistani Defense minister went further during a visit to China last year, to declare the al-Qaeda linked group members have either been killed, or have left Afghanistan somehow.
Only a few years ago, Uighur fighters' activities in other countries were accused of waging proxy wars for China.
At any one time, did they really ask about the self-identity of the objects they depicted?
Uighur Extremists Joining ISIS Poses a Security and Economic Headache for China’s Xi Jinping
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The report would seem to confirm what has long been suspected — those slick ISIS recruitment videos have struck a cord in Xinjiang. Uighur militants have historically been drawn to holy wars, previously in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and now Syria, Iraq and Turkey. Uighur extremists have also used bloody tactics to agitate for greater autonomy domestically. Following a spate of bus bombings and attempted plane hijackings in the 1990s and 2000s, in October 2013 a blazing car was driven into Beijing’s iconic Tiananmen Square — the birthplace of the People’s Republic — in an attack that killed five and injured dozens. On March 1, 2014, eight knife-wielding assailants ran amok at Kunming’s train station in Yunnan province, leaving 29 civilians and 4 perpetrators dead.
The Growing Importance of Global Islamic Extremism to China
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The third and most recent phase, beginning in 2014 and continuing until today, is domestically associated with incidents such as the March 2014 incident, when a group of Uighurs killed 33 people at a railway station in Kunming, Yunnan province.Notably, the attack was followed by a declaration that jihad attacks are planned for other locations in China as well, a break from the typical focus on separatism in Xinjiang. On the international level, this phase is associated with the rise of ISIS and its proclamation of the Caliphate. While China has traditionally been threatened by a predominately domestic separatist movement, it appears that the war in Syria and the global influence and attention of the Islamic State has given China’s domestic terror groups the opportunity to expand and network with other groups in China’s regional neighbors.
Before 2009, any link between Uighur separatists and the al-Qaeda network was questionable. However, following the 2009 Guangdong incident and subsequent disturbance, al-Qaeda took notice of China and threatened the nation for what may be the first time…
The declaration of the Caliphate by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2014 … names multiple nations as enemies, including China. Subsequent issues of Dabiq and its successor magazine, Rumiyah, were released in the Uighur language…
Additionally, al-Qaeda followed the Islamic State announcement with its own condemnation of China in its magazine Resurgence. This threat may be more significant to China because the Turkestan Islamic Party is now believed to have stronger links to al-Qaeda and China is becoming increasingly concerned with connections between its Uighur populations and radical groups in its Central Asian neighbors.
Uighur leaders and spokesmen fear this propaganda which, along with other tactics, may be working. As Uighurs are under immense pressure to exit China, they may be persuaded or tricked into joining a radical Islamic group. One Uighur activist, Seyit Tumturk, stated in an interview at the end of 2017, ‘We (Uighurs) are losing the de-radicalization battle.’ Uighur community representatives in Turkey also state that some of those who have left China are being enticed by Uighur members of the Islamic State into joining the militant group and travelling to Syria…
Before 2009, any link between Uighur separatists and the al-Qaeda network was questionable. However, following the 2009 Guangdong incident and subsequent disturbance, al-Qaeda took notice of China and threatened the nation for what may be the first time…
The declaration of the Caliphate by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2014 … names multiple nations as enemies, including China. Subsequent issues of Dabiq and its successor magazine, Rumiyah, were released in the Uighur language…
Additionally, al-Qaeda followed the Islamic State announcement with its own condemnation of China in its magazine Resurgence. This threat may be more significant to China because the Turkestan Islamic Party is now believed to have stronger links to al-Qaeda and China is becoming increasingly concerned with connections between its Uighur populations and radical groups in its Central Asian neighbors.
Uighur leaders and spokesmen fear this propaganda which, along with other tactics, may be working. As Uighurs are under immense pressure to exit China, they may be persuaded or tricked into joining a radical Islamic group. One Uighur activist, Seyit Tumturk, stated in an interview at the end of 2017, ‘We (Uighurs) are losing the de-radicalization battle.’ Uighur community representatives in Turkey also state that some of those who have left China are being enticed by Uighur members of the Islamic State into joining the militant group and travelling to Syria…
I won't say that all the reports are accurate. But it is very interesting to see how the media narration swings with the change of national strategy. Is there any difference between this and "CCP mouthpiece"?
The lack of a lot of information does not come from an "opaque China"(so that some Westerners think that the Chinese live in North Korea) implied in the narrative, but is deliberately concealed. They knew it from the beginning.
The victims of terrorism, the Chinese, including the peaceful Uighurs, have not received even equal sympathy. The "Uighurs whom some people need", whether purely geopolitical or because they look whiter, have received so much attention.
Or Uighurs are just some kind of prop whose voice has been erased - it is not difficult to interview a random Uighur. I am sure I have read Uighur complaints about how religious extremists suppress them to express their own culture.
The time has come to test whether "equality" is a political demand or a real demand.
When systematic racism occurs at the international level rather than within a country, will it be accuse?
