<Thread> The new Economist heralds Canada’s leadership in bringing 15 countries together in a global effort to challenge China over the mass detention of one million Uighurs. 1/6
The countries (which don’t include the U.S.), sent a joint letter requesting to meet Xinjiang governor Chen Quanguo, who oversees the detention of one million Uighurs in “re-education” camps. 2/6 reuters.com/article/us-chi…
Chen also administers the mass digital surveillance of millions of other people, amid allegations of religious suppression, a clampdown on free speech and movement and evidence of live organ harvesting. Beijing bristled at the request for a meeting. 3/6 cbc.ca/news/politics/…
The Chinese population is largely unaware of the Uighur tragedy happening in their country, having long ago given up freedom and privacy for shiny toys and capitalism, and turning China into nothing short of a digital dystopia. 4/6
While Russia has sowed chaos in the US and Britain for over two years, China has climbed the global ladder and may have even triumphed, but as every student of the Art of War knows, victory without moral authority is almost always, fleeting. 5/6 hongkongfp.com/2018/08/01/tra…
The Uighurs tragedy has shown the world why China is neither ready nor morally fit to lead. By contrast, the Canadian-led effort to expose the tragedy is another courageous stand by a government which has shown itself unafraid to tackle the biggest issues of our time. /End
