A useful educational video about China’s persecution of the Uyghur which the regime justifies as a fight against terrorism. Stalinists outright deny the persecution, claiming it is anti-communist propaganda. But they also campaign for the Chinese occupation of Tibet, arguing it is a move to free Tibetans from feudalism. Following the regime, some Stalinists may eventually acknowledge the persecution of Uyghur but posit it as a fight against terrorism just as they argue that Russian, Iranian, & Hezbollah military intervention in Syria is to free the country of terrorism.
How China is crushing the Uighurs
Our film about how and why China is crushing its Muslim Uighurs was one of our most watched in 2019 https://econ.st/35Co8Q4
Posted by The Economist, Asia on Friday, December 27, 2019