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Post by pieter on Jul 20, 2019 5:53:15 GMT -7
One of the last communist dictatorships in the world tries to erase, annihilate, and transform the ethnic minority of Turkic ethnic Uyghurs, originating from and culturally affiliated with the general region of Central and East Asia.Four Uyghur inmates of Hotan prefecture's Lop county detention camp, with their names written in Uyghur, are (L-R) Mamtimin, Eziz Haji Shangtang, Eli Ahun Qarim, and Abdulla Haret. A fifth man, Abduleziz Haji, has also been identified.The Uyghurs have been recognized as native to only one region, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Advocates of Uyghur independence call it East Turkestan. They are considered to be one of China's 55 officially recognized ethnic minorities.Uyghur girl in Turpan, Xinjiang, ChinaThe Uyghurs have traditionally inhabited a series of oases scattered across the Taklamakan Desert comprising the Tarim Basin, a territory which has historically been controlled by many civilizations including China, the Mongols, the Tibetans and the Turkic world. The Uyghurs started to become Islamised in the tenth century and became largely Muslim by the 16th century, and Islam has since played an important role in Uyghur culture and identity.
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Post by pieter on Jul 20, 2019 7:58:41 GMT -7
Friends,
This text is a text written by Amy Woolfson for Jewish News, the leading web portal for British Jews and a Jewish newspaper in the United Kingdom. I put my own sentence in the beginning to make it more general. The original start is: "
The Jewish people don’t need to be warned about genocide. We know it doesn’t happen overnight. We know it starts with a culture being demonised, and with hate and repression becoming normal. Then people start disappearing. That’s what is happening today in China.
I add to Amy's words, we Americans and Europeans don’t need to be warned about genocide. We witnessed the Armenian Genocide (1915 – 1917), the Holodomor (1932 – 1933), the Holocaust (1941–1945), the Intelligenz Aktion against Polish intellectuals ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligenzaktion ), the ethnic cleansing of Poles from certain area's in Poland by the Nazi's and the Sovjets, and the fact that 3 million Roman Catholic Poles died during the war, because they were (West-) Slavic Untermenschen (Subhumans), the Cambodian Killing Fields of the Khmer Rouge (1975 - 1979), the Bosnian War (1992 – 1995) with the Srebrenica massacre (11–22 July 1995), the Rwandan genocide (7 April – 15 July 1994) and last but not least the Rohingya genocide (9 October 2016 – January 2017). We know it doesn’t happen overnight. We know it starts with a culture being demonised, and with hate and repression becoming normal. Then people start disappearing. That’s what is happening today in China. It is estimated that over a million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities are being detained indefinitely in ‘re-education’ camps in China’s western Xinjiang Region.
Maoism, the political and military ideology of the Communist Party of China, and the present leadership and idolisation of the present Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), President of the People's Republic of China (PRC), and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) is forced on the Uyghur people. Next to Maoism "Xi Jinping Thought", Xi's political philosophies is forced unto the the Uyghur people. Xi's political philosophies are part of the Party Constitution. "Xi Jinping Thought" can be described as "the "Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era".
The flag of Maoism
Xi himself has described the "Xi Jinping Thought" as part of the broad framework created around Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, a Dengist term that places China in the "primary stage of socialism". In official party documentation and pronouncements by Xi's colleagues, the Thought is said to be a continuation of Marxism–Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the "Three Represents", and the Scientific Development Perspective, as part of a series of guiding ideologies that embody "Marxism adopted to Chinese conditions" and contemporary considerations.
A slick tool for teaching “Xi Jinping Thought” has become the most popular smartphone app in China, as the country’s ruling Communist Party launched a new campaign that calls on its cadres to immerse themselves in the political doctrine every day. Xuexi Qiangguo, which translates to “Study powerful country”, is now the most downloaded item on Apple’s domestic App Store, surpassing in demand social media apps such as WeChat and TikTok – known as Weixin and Douyin, respectively, in mainland China.
The "Xi Jinping Thought" app has become the most popular smartphone app in China
The goal of the "Xi Jinping Thought" is not to launch a new cold war with the West, or to export China’s political model. Rather, Xi wants to shore up the authority of the party-state within his country, including by ensuring that Chinese are not exposed to liberal-democratic ideas.
Classes in Marxism have long been compulsory in Chinese universities, normally welcomed by tired students as an excellent chance to catch up on their rest. But now students and workers alike are suffering a new imposition: the need to study Xi Jinping Thought. The ideas of Xi, China’s most personally powerful leader since Mao Zedong, are increasingly mandatory and have even been enshrined in the country’s ever-changing constitution.
A central element in the Xi Jinping Thought is ensuring Communist Party of China leadership over all forms of work in China. Next to that following "socialism with Chinese characteristics" with "people as the masters of the country" is important in the point of view of Xi Jinping. Governing China with Rule of Law is important important according to Jinping. To "Practice socialist core values", including Marxism, communism and socialism with Chinese characteristics is extremely important to the general secretary and President of the Chinese Communist Party and China. Next that the strengthening of the national security and to make sure that the Communist Party of China has "absolute leadership over" China's People's Liberation Army are important to Xi Jinping.
Meeting of the Chinese communist party in Beijing
The Uyghur people people are indoctrinated in Chinese internment camps with a mix of traditional Maoism and "Xi Jinping Thought".
The range of people detained in the camps, from elderly women, to intellectuals, and celebrated artists, undermines the official line that they are being detained in order to receive training in the official Chinese state ideology; "Xi Jinping Thought". They are being detained as part of a wider effort by the Chinese government to subdue and erase Uyghur culture.
Chinese blogger documents the construction of 31 new mass re-education camps in Xinjiang since the ‘People’s War on Terror’ began in 2016.
Who are the Uyghurs? They are a Turkic minority, ethnically and culturally very different from China’s Han majority. The majority of Uyghurs – around 11 million – live in Xinjiang, but there are significant communities in central Asia, Turkey, Germany, and the United States. There is a small Uyghur community here in the UK too. Many Uyghurs practise Islam, and do not speak Mandarin as a first language. Since 1949 the Uyghur homeland has been a part of the People’s Republic of China. Decades of Han migration and discriminatory policies towards Uyghur people have led to tensions and sporadic violence.
Repression of Uyghurs has escalated massively since 2016. The Chinese Government say that they are responding to extremism in the Uyghur community. It is true that some Uyghurs have gone to fight in Syria. But the Chinese Government’s response to this has been to punish millions of people, many of whom have been labelled ’extreme’ for such things as refusing to eat pork, or speaking to a relative overseas.
Life for Uyghurs outside the camps is bleak too. As well as the constant fear of being taken away, the Chinese Government have banned many expressions of Uyghur culture. The Uyghur language is being removed from schools and public spaces. Mosques are empty. Neighbourhoods are being bulldozed.
What can we do? As human beings we have a special responsibility to bear witness to what is happening, and to speak up whenever we can.
Cheers, PieterSources: blogs.timesofisrael.com/jews-must-speak-up-for-the-uyghurs-in-china/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping_Thought
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Post by Jaga on Jul 20, 2019 8:04:29 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jul 20, 2019 9:03:45 GMT -7
Chinese video's about "Xi Jinping Thought" from a Chinese state philosophy and ideology point of viewRobert Lawrence KuhnRobert Lawrence Kuhn (born 1944) is a public intellectual, international corporate strategist and investment banker. He has a doctorate in brain research and is the author and editor of over 25 books. He is a recipient of the China Reform Friendship Medal, China's highest award; he is a long-time adviser to China's leaders and the Chinese government, to multinational corporations on China strategies and transactions, and is a frequent commentator on the politics, economics, business, finance, philosophy and science of China. He is a columnist for China Daily and South China Morning Post and appears on the BBC, CNN, China Central Television, Bloomberg and other major media. Kuhn is the creator and host of the CCTV/CGTN News show Closer to China with R.L.Kuhn. Kuhn is the creator, writer and host of the public television series Closer to Truth, which presents scientists and philosophers discussing fundamental issues (cosmos, consciousness, philosophy/religion). His essays are featured on LiveScience.com and Space.com.
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Kuhn was awarded the China Reform Friendship Medal by President Xi Jinping and Chinese leaders at the celebration of the 40th anniversary of China’s reform and opening up (December 18, 2018). The medal, China’s highest award, honors 10 foreigners who facilitated China’s reform and opening up over the four decades. Five of the foreigners are living; Kuhn is one of two Americans. For 30 years, Kuhn, with his long-time partner Adam Zhu, has worked with China’s state leaders and advised the Chinese government.
During the 19th Communist Party of China National Congress (October 2017), Kuhn was interviewed extensively, including multiple times on CNN, BBC World News and BBC World Service, CGTNand CCTV, and he was quoted extensively. His full-page, in-depth analyses of the 19th Communist Party of China National Congress were featured in China Daily to open the Congress ("Historical Starting Point for New Stage of Development")[9] and to close the Congress ("New Era on the Road to 2050").
Kuhn has written on President Xi Jinping's "core" status in the Communist Party of China ("Why China needs Xi Jinping as its core leader") and the elimination of term limits for China's presidency ("Xi Jinping's power has a purpose—one person to see China through its development plans").
Kuhn provided the live commentary on CNN during President Xi Jinping's policy address in Seattle on September 2, 2015, during Xi's state visit to the US. Kuhn spoke at the launch ceremony of Xi's book, entitled Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 8, 2014. Kuhn writes on Xi's Four Comprehensives political theory of governance, and on understanding the Communist Party of China (CPC).
In 1989, he was invited to China by the director of the State Science and Technology Commission, Song Jian, whom Kuhn considers his mentor. Since then he has worked with China's senior leaders and advised the Chinese government on international, policy and business matters.
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Post by pieter on Jul 20, 2019 9:10:28 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jul 20, 2019 9:27:21 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jul 20, 2019 9:38:31 GMT -7
The BBC tries to speak to a woman trying to run as an independent candidate in China's district elections. The BBC is blocked from entering the house by Chinese police officers in plain clothes blocking the road off to the BBC crew, while the BBC had contact with the Chinese dissident woman via her front door and window, before she was cut off from contact with the foreign journalists. This is part of the official state philosophy: "to shore up the authority of the party-state within his country, including by ensuring that Chinese are not exposed to liberal-democratic ideas."
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Post by pieter on Jul 20, 2019 9:57:48 GMT -7
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