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what the fuck are you talking about lmao
Uyghurs, Tibet
How come the Dalai Lama is in India?
How come millions are in ‘reeducation’ concentration camps in Xinjiang
Regarding the treatment of Uyghurs in China, you're in conspiracy theory territory. The best and most comprehensive resource I have seen so far is Qiao Collective's Xinjiang: A Resource and Report Compilation. Qiao Collective is explicitly pro-PRC, but this is an extremely comprehensive write-up of the entire background of the events, the timeline of reports, and real and fake claims.
I also recommend reading the UN report and China's response to it. These are the most relevant accusations and responses without delving into straight up fantasy like Adrian Zenz, professional propagandist for the Victims of Communism Foundation, does.
Tourists go to Xinjiang all the time. You can watch videos like this one on YouTube, though it obviously isn't going to be a comprehensive view of a complex situation like this.
As for Tibet, they dramatically prefer being liberated from feudalism and a slave-driven economy. The Dalai Lama is a sex pest that was backed by the CIA, and the torture that was common in Tibet is no more.
Read Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth. Here's 2 excerpts:
Selection two, shorter: (CW sexual violence and mutilation)
Turn off right-wing media and actually pay attention to what China's actually like.
I don’t consume right wing media like say Fox or the like. Citing an exclusively pro PRC report as being comprehensive is rich. Sounds like your media diet could use some work too. Bet you frequent the global Times. And i have spent a lot of time working IN china. Have you even been there?
Calling Dalai Lama CIA controlled sex pest rather than being honest about Chinas oppression of these people, causing them to flee to Dharamshalla. (where ive also spent time with them there maybe you should too).
Anyways thanks for the reminder of ml censorship machine i had forgotten. So long
I cited the UN report, alongside China's official response, as well as a comprehensive report with many sources, and a long-form article by an established historian. You cited nothing, and pulled words out of your ass that go beyond the official US State Department propaganda line on China, to the point that it minimizes the centuries of massacres, genocide, slavery, and colonialism committed by the US Empire.
Do some self-crit, there's a difference between anarchist critique of China and parroting far-right talking points, conspiracy theories, and minimizing the crimes of the US Empire just to do a whataboutism for China on an excellent post about the crimes of said US Empire.