"Peasant woman! Begin to fight for your rights, trampled into the ground!"
Soviet propaganda plackard from Uzbekistan, then Uzbek USSR, 1927.
Whether people in the West like it or not, socialist countries had their own version of modernization, which includes emancipation.
Was women emancipation by the Soviets forced, in some instances? Sure. Was it eventually successful? Partially.
Was it the same as Western "missionary" complex? Not really, as it had nothing to do with religion.
It had mistakenly assumed that religion is evil though, which was it's mistake.
But this way or another, modernity kicked in and stayed.
Many women, for example in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, wanted the emancipation - and some were killed by local aqsaqal, traditional men for participating in "emancipating" activities.
There's quite heavy price they paid to enjoy at least a bit more equality with men.
But the autocratic socialist measures aren't concerned with western schizophrenic complex, born out of erasing entire cultures and trying to justify that in the past by "bringing the civilisation to barbarians". Former USSR states or China mostly don't have PC culture.
The policies PRC successfully applied in Xinjiang today are positive, and are part of modernization. XJ is also the place where there was a very acute need of the local communities (still stays so, and in independent CA countries, too) for more emancipation.
But whatever 🇨🇳 does, keeping in mind it doesn't understand the Western mindset well, it'll be blamed "genocidal" and "colonialist" for using essentially similar methods to that of early USSR (minus the purges and civil war, of course). Lack of PC language isn't helping either.
China's not at fault. Noone in the sane mind can comprehend the civilisation that wiped entire cultures, then tried to justify it by "civilisation", then pretended it "protected" them (when there's 5% of them left) and created entire fake "multiculturalism" to frame it.
So recent "baby making machines" tweet is rude and sexist from the western perspective, and created a buzz on Twitter, but it's really a clash of different mindsets produced by the different modernity.
CN really doesn't understand the West, for sure. But should it be concerned?
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Lol, of course it is not investigative journalism.
"Investigative journalism" is a couple of SJWs from Vice, parachuting in XJ for a day and making an untruthful, sensationalist "documentary" about XJ, claiming they were "followed everywhere", lol. That's journalism alright.
Or maybe Aspi's satellite imagery "investigators" is a good example of investigative journalism? Hahah. Yeah.
Then, I guess extrapoliting leaked data from one XJ village on all XJ is good journalism?
I'll take accounts of visitors and guests of XJ like myself, telling truth over "investigative journalism".
Say, in Finland Somali women migrants were having average ~7 kids per person in the nineties, when refugees from Somali started arriving. Now, it's ~4 kids per person.
It's only good for emancipation and health. Finland's quite proud of that.
It's typical fake western "justice" nonsense, twisted identity politics reasoning.
If China is emancipating Muslim women, it must be "racism" and "genocide", right?
These tweets are always the same. Vibrant centre for community, sure. Also, it is exactly in religious circles and among locals who frequently traveled to other Central Asian countries where the extremism and radicalism has spread to the point terror acts would happen regularly.
Western journalists and human rights advocates are obsessed with portraying China as "North Korea", successfully omitting nuance about history of the region and downplaying the role radicalisation has played in the de-radicalisation that followed.
Basically, they just successfully apply to feelings and empathy and craft the false narrative of a "genocidal China", knowing that noone in the West knows anything about XUAR.
A very typical convo btw two eastern European ppl, with a negative view on both Russia and a Mongol-Turkic domination.
Me, when I hear "Russia is more like a Golden Horde":
GOLDEN HORDE 😍
I'd rather hang out with Tokhtamysh than the Romans.
Most Russians and Ukrainians I know who studied history of Russia properly know that early medieval Rus was heavily mixed with kipchak Turk, then very influenced by the Golden Hordes politics and approach to conquest. Most of them think it's turned RU more "barbaric".
Tourist, of course often inner Chinese tourists but in some areas also international visitors is a source of income for the locals. The simplest example is a "40 RMB. horse ride" that many Kazakh herders are providing as a tour attraction.
New Chinese tour companies emerging recently in XJ are helping to do the same as generally the deradicalisarion campaign does: to tackle deep gap in income btw. (especially total) ethnic minorities and population in other parts of China.
Banning apps war is just a part of a more multipolar world. It's expected. Russia is talking about possible bans on some western sites (I think it's unrealistic for now, though).
It's political, and regular ppl affected by it should simply learn to use VPN/APN or whatever.
Not saying it's convenient, it's not, just saying don't be naive: if we don't have one hegemon world, which is definitely good, we won't have one same even cyberspace.
Western internet has to decline in order for western info hegemony to decline.