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Sep 27, 2020, 16 tweets

Why No Western journalists ask questions related to social economic psychological pandemic impact of the fake story of #Uighurconcentrationcamps

The concentration camp story still remains in the stage of satellite image scrutiny. As if evoking "satellite" immediately knocks

2/some authenticity into the fake story. The Baidu map blank spots as proof of concentration camps was a joke. The blank spots turned out to be five-star residential area and e-commerce parks.
The Harvard study of satellite image of the Wuhan parking lot traffic as a proof

3/ that the virus began earlier was a hoax.
Hoax upon hoax. Western journalism and think tanks are more and more shameless. No wonder there're so many conspiracy theories out there. Nobody believes in anything anymore these days.

4/ After so many years of the concentration camp fake news, isn't time for journalists or citizen investigators to ask related questions?
Shouldn't investigative journalism dwell on the impact of the concentration camps on the local economy,
(Photos of real Uighur town Kashgar)

5/ destruction of social network and trust, general demoralization and depression etc? Shouldn't there be some serious derivative studies of the all round impact of the concentration camps? If I believed in the concentration camp story, I would be curious on the following.

6/
A/Implication of Covid19 for the concentration camps? How did Xinjiang achieve zero Covid19 cases?
B/ With 1-3m people locked up in concentration camps, ie, 10-30% of the Uighur population, whole villages, whole towns must have

7/ disappeared. What're these villages and towns? Why nobody talks about them?
C/Last year 200m domestic tourists visited XJ. Why would Chinese tourists visit a place where a big chunk of the population is locked up? The Uighur region of Kashgar, Turpan are especially

8/ touristic. Why everyone acted business as usual? Why hasn't concentration camp made a dent in people's morale?
What's the psychological impact?
Has there been any mass depression symptoms, mass suicides?

D/What's the impact on the local economy? GDP of Xinjiang grows

9/
9-10% a year. How is it possible? Now there are concentration camps in Xinjiang whereas there are no concentration camps in Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia. How come the GDP of Xinjiang is superior to that of those three countries combined? How can economic prosperity

10/coexist with concentration camps?

E/Who are locked up? What's the criteria? Does simply being Uighur qualify? The MSM don't report on the Uighur terrorist acts. If these were really ethnic uprising, can the killing of civilians be justified as means to the end?

11/ Why should the Uighur terrorism be termed ethnic uprising and the Oussama Bin Laden's movement termed terrorism? What's the difference?

F/ Are children locked up with their parents? If not, who takes care of these kids? What are the social psychological economic

12/ impact of locking up millions of people? Why isn't there any publicly visible signs? How did the Chinese government hide the concentration camps and people's reactions? Why are there children playing in the streets showing no visible signs of distress and trauma ?

13/ Why are so many adults still singing dancing in the streets?

G/ The Chinese government has been massively building infrastructure in Xinjiang. Infrastructure boosts economy. Why does the CPC promote locals' welfare on the one hand and massively persecute them on the

14/ other hand?

I can go in and on. The Western journalists shouldn't just repeat the concentration camp fake news. Shouldn't they delve a bit deeper by now? Obviously nobody believes the story. Nobody asks simple questions related to the social economic psychological

15/ pandemic implications. There questions can't be asked. If they're asked, the bubble of the concentration camp lie will burst.

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