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[Dolcevita]

What has this guy been smoking. Must be good.

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FEBRUARY 22, 20216:36 AMUPDATED 5 HOURS AGO
Britain to challenge China at U.N. over access to Xinjiang
By Reuters Staff

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will on Monday call for the United Nations to be given “urgent and unfettered” access to Xinjiang to investigate reports of abuses in the Chinese region.

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab will also mark Britain’s return to the U.N. Human Rights Council as a voting member by condemning the rights record of fellow council members China and Russia and will raise concerns about Myanmar and Belarus, his office said.

On China, Raab will refer to reports of abuses in Xinjiang, including torture, forced labour and forced sterilisation of women. “They are taking place on an industrial scale,” he will say, according to his office.

“The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, or another independent fact-finding expert, must – and I repeat must – be given urgent and unfettered access to Xinjiang,” he will say.

China has been widely condemned for setting up complexes in Xinjiang that Beijing describes as “vocational training centres” to stamp out extremism and give people new skills. China’s critics have called them concentration camps.

The United Nations has said at least 1 million Uighurs and other Muslims have been detained in Xinjiang.

Raab will also raise the “disgraceful” treatment of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, the crisis in Myanmar and the situation in Belarus. He will set out steps Britain has taken to address these issues, such as sanctions, and encourage others to follow.

Just remembered something about China and Canada, and what the movers and shakers in Canada think about the Meng Wanzhou and the two Canadians arrested by China situation.

There were many voices in Canada, that said Canada should band together with its friends and together they could change China's behaviour, in the hopes of getting the two Canadians out of jail. That is a sound idea, as Canada by itself has no leverage.

The G7 meeting just came and went. Where was the statement on prisoners or hostages or diplomacy with China? There was no statement from the G7. Canada got nothing. The G7 is Canada's best and most powerful friends. No soup for you. At the end, the only thing Prime Minister Trudeau could say was they were "reflecting" on the best course of action still to deal with China.

Holy crap. It is this bad for Canada.

Then on Monday, a few days later, the Canadian parliament will vote on some motion about Xinjiang, in the latest political grandstanding attempt.

That the G7 will not help Canada on the situation of the two Canadians in a Chinese jail, is something we will NOT read in the news. All we read is this empty gesture of a vote in parliament.

Wonder how the Chinese ambassador will attack this!?

WOW! The Anglos are becoming more like the Indian each passing day. They can take this as a compliment for following the lead of the biggest democracy on earth.

 

[Gatekeeper]

The United Nations has said at least 1 million Uighurs and other Muslims have been detained in Xinjiang.

When did the UN said that?

 

[OppositeDay]

When did the UN said that?

I think one Westerner who had worked with UN once said that.

 

[solarz]

When did the UN said that?

They didn't, it's a bald faced lie.

 

[crash8pilot]

When did the UN said that?

I think one Westerner who had worked with UN once said that.

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination interviewed 8 Uyghurs back in 2018 and arrived at the conclusion that the CCP had a million Uyghurs detained

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[Lnk111229]

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination interviewed 8 Uyghurs back in 2018 and arrived at the conclusion that the CCP had a million Uyghurs detained

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What kind of investigator can give conclusion just base on 8 ppl answer ? Why not asking thousand BLM supporter about Black ppl and see what happen?

 

[In4ser]

It's ironic in the US that more moderate voices are trying to use the Chinese threat to reunite the country because the one thing that extremes of the left and right hate more than China is each other. They don't believe what they believe is wrong or mistaken but rather it's the other side's supporters and policies that are holding them back.

The thing about making a stink about Xinjiang and Uyghurs is that it makes the West look bad too. By making the so-called issue of 'Muslim detention and reeducation' a topic of public discussion but it displays the powerlessness of their own governments to anything about it and it also generates a sort of admiration growing amongst far-right groups to emulate China's model.

By opening this can of worms they've also unwittingly created another pressure point and much like how discussions of Socialism on the Left and Civil War and the Right seemed like an impossibility a few years ago, the slow drip of frustration and bitterness fueled the politics to take a more radical approach. They've already let suspicion of ethnic Chinese in science and academia become part of unofficial government policy and this only naturally opens the doors to others too like Muslims too in the name of patriotism and national security.

 

[Dolcevita]

I think china should take this chance

Nah. CRUSH Australia first.

 

[OppositeDay]

It's ironic in the US that more moderate voices are trying to use the Chinese threat to reunite the country because the one thing that extremes of the left and right hate more than China is each other. They don't believe what they believe is wrong or mistaken but rather it's the other side's supporters and policies that are holding them back.

The thing about making a stink about Xinjiang and Uyghurs is that it makes the West look bad too. By making the so-called issue of 'Muslim detention and reeducation' a topic of public discussion but it displays the powerlessness of their own governments to anything about it and it also generates a sort of admiration growing amongst far-right groups to emulate China's model.

By opening this can of worms they've also unwittingly created another pressure point and much like how discussions of Socialism on the Left and Civil War and the Right seemed like an impossibility a few years ago, the slow drip of frustration and bitter fueled the politics to take a more radical approach.

Wait until the left pushes to accept Uyghur "refugees".

 

[Dolcevita]

What kind of investigator can give conclusion just base on 8 ppl answer ? Why not asking thousand BLM supporter about Black ppl and see what happen?

The kind of investigators paid for by the "National Endowment of Democracy".
Colin Powell would be proud.

In its mounting pressure campaign against China, the US is not only relying on CHRD for data; it is directly funding its operations. As

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and Ajit Singh

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, CHRD receives significant financial support from Washington’s regime-change arm, the

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