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16 Dec, 8 tweets, 8 min read
US politician and Western MSM started new round of campaign accusing China using millions of #Uyghur slaves to work on #Xinjiang cotton "plantations". Reports source none other than Adrian Zenz, originator of million Uyghurs in concentration camp story. A thread debunking Zenz
Adrian Zenz, @VoCommunism “researcher” came out w new report purportedly w evidence of #Uyghur slave labor used to produce cotton in #Xinjiang.

‘Evidence’ 1: because Uyghur majority region in Southern Xinjiang employ local labor!!!
Zenz claims China replacing Han migrant labor in #Xinjiang with local #Uyghur in order to meet its local poverty alleviation program MUST mean Uyghurs are slaves!!!
I am old enough to remember 2014 Reuters report quoting @hrw @bequelin that Han migrant cotton pickers take jobs away frm local #Uyghur, deserve to be bombed at Urumqi train station.
Immediately after April 30th 2014 bombing by Al Qaeda affiliate Turkestan Islamic Party at Urumqi train station that targeted seasonal Han migrant workers coming to #Xinjiang to pick cotton, then @HRW’s @bequelin said the bombing was “powerful symbol” of anti-colonial struggle
By Zenz’s own admission, PRC gov realized that cotton picking jobs were going to Han migrant workers rather than local #Uyghurs and took measure to remedy that. He also provided no evidence for his insinuations internment tied to cotton picking...
Center of Zenz’s claim abt #Uyghur slaves picking cotton on #Xinjiang ‘plantation’ is coercion. However he doesn’t actually provide proof! The quoted Chinese text does NOT mention CCP cadre acting like “security staff”, just “eat, live, study, work” with workers!
Zenz report designed to echo history of slavery on US cotton plantations by using terms like “Plantation owners”. Nvr mind u can’t own land in PRC! All land belongs to the state under Chinese socialism. farmers do own the right to work on allotted land that can pass down family

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15 Dec
Trying to name my kid, I looked up Zha family generation names. Chinese families traditionally use a character from a poem to denote each generation. Poem for 查 Zha Clan: 秉志允大继嗣克昌,奕世有人济美忠良,传家孝友华国文章,宗英绍起祖德载光
Great-Grandpa is 查济眉. 济is his generation name. 4 generation frm him is covered by phrase 济美忠良. I am 良generation 良字辈, same generation as martial arts novelist Jin Yong 金庸, full name 查良镛, who is my 族兄 Clan brother.
What I realized that Grandpa didn’t strictly follow the generation naming rule. His children are 忠generation 忠字辈. But he swapped char 忠 (loyalty) to homophone 中 (China) and put it last, so Dad and Uncles would’ve patriotic name like 建中(build China) etc
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13 Dec
As someone who actually grew up in China in 1980s, I can actually talked abt how commemoration of Nanjing Massacre changed inside China. I will make a thread
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1985 was a pivotal year in Sino-Japanese relations. On the 40the year of Japanese surrender, Japanese PM Yasuhiro Nakasone visited Yasukuni shrine for the 1st time after WW2 Japanese war criminals had been enshrined there in 1978.
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13 Dec
Reminder that @ggreenwald wants a nuclear war with China👇🏼
People wants me to seriously respond to @ggreenwald’s ridiculous take. Of course US weapon manufacturers don’t really want a war w China! Their grift is to hype a China threat to justify spending on their weapons not actually destroying US Empire in 15 min in a real war
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We just came back from hospital w heavy heart. Shitake passed away last night. Susu (left) Big Mac (right front) and Mochi (right back) all have seizures and couldn’t stand or move. They’re now on sedatives and IV
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11 Dec
Communist guerillas had been fighting a insurgency on Hainan Island since 1927 aft Chiang Kai-shek purged Communists. Communists established deep jungle base by rally indigenous Hlai 黎 people and became main resistance force agst Imperial Japanese Army in WW2. Maybe he defected.
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Aft WW2, US brokered peace btw Communist and KMT in China required CCP forces withdrew frm Southern China. Hainan Communists respectfully refused order frm Mao77 to abandon their native island, continued armed resistance. By 1950, there're 7k guerilla fighters on Hainan ImageImage
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10 Dec
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Reading the @axios “expose”, it’s clear Fang Fang’s only crime is that she is a Chinese woman. ImageImage
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