North American citizens may have forgotten about actions taken by their own government against indigenous peoples in 'modern' times. (Which preceded those of Germany, Japan and China.)
When the Chinese track down and capture the thousands of Uyghur militants that the US/Turkey helped relocate to the middle east (mainly Syria/Iraq to assist in regime change operations) they are doing the world a favor.
This article is behind a paywall but I expect a significant % of the seized Uyghurs fall into the category "recently trained by ISIS, Al Qaeda, Al Nusra, TIP etc..."
The alternative is for China to let these trained Uyghur fighters/terrorists in the middle east (many with newly issued Turkish passports) eventually flood Europe through various refugee/immigration programs... but I'm quite sure this UK newspaper would be singing another convenient anti-Chinese tune if that were allowed to happen
All true and we can now play a game of quoting American vs European/American history (plenty of genocides in either). But that doesn't make the present-day crimes of the CCP any less heinous or horrible.
I am pretty sure that CCP is less heinous and horrible comparing to those acts. This is exactly why I am strongly against labeling anyone Nazi without really comparing their actions. Westerners love to use terminology they are familiar with, 'colonism', 'slavery' and 'genocide'. I don't know what's the purpose of using these words rather than stating facts, personally I feel that they want to make themselves look good by associate these words with Chinese investment in Africa, Chinese factory and now Xinjiang.
Of course it doesn't make the crimes less heinous. If anything it makes them more heinous, because they failed to learn from those mistakes. Their statues will also be torn down.
Just like what happened with Nazi Germany, nobody will do anything until it starts impacting them.
China is too smart to directly attack the US and its allies. At least currently. In twenty years, things may be different.
It's worth noting that the US' history of interventionism hasn't been great. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan... But that's probably not the strategy it would choose to take.
It is strikingly similar to the build up to world war 2. China is the modern day Nazi Germany. They're no better. I know that people don't want to compare anyone to them because they were so bad, but China as it exists today is that bad, it is not an overstatement.
Or it's the same old-fashioned method of painting a dreadful picture of the perceived enemy. They are not necessarily similar, you are just told something about them in the same way.
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This article is behind a paywall but I expect a significant % of the seized Uyghurs fall into the category "recently trained by ISIS, Al Qaeda, Al Nusra, TIP etc..."
The alternative is for China to let these trained Uyghur fighters/terrorists in the middle east (many with newly issued Turkish passports) eventually flood Europe through various refugee/immigration programs... but I'm quite sure this UK newspaper would be singing another convenient anti-Chinese tune if that were allowed to happen
UYGHUR MILITANCY IN AND BEYOND SOUTHEAST ASIA: AN ASSESSMENT (2017) - https://www.jstor.org/stable/26351495
And how come we give a free pass to American politicians that choose to ignore this behavior?
The world feels backwards.
China is too smart to directly attack the US and its allies. At least currently. In twenty years, things may be different.
It's worth noting that the US' history of interventionism hasn't been great. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan... But that's probably not the strategy it would choose to take.