"With this type of propaganda theory in place, we're now able to channel the 'potion' to every single cell, thereby curing the disease of religious extremism" - Qiu Wenping and Zhang Weiwei explain why the "China model" is superior to the West's in dealing with terrorism.
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Citing Xinjiang as an example, Zhang says that unlike the West, which has a dismal track record in dealing with terrorism and rehabilitating terrorists, China has been able to identify and solve the root cause of the problem.
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What is the root cause for terror, you may ask? Poverty, of course! This episode heavily implies that by forcing millions of Uyghurs and other minorities into "vocational camps", they were saved from the talons of religious extremism.
Excerpts from Qiu Wenping:
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Excerpts from Qiu Wenping:
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"One of the distinguishing features of the Chinese system is our Communist Party's ability to successfully reach out to every cell of society... For 20 years, beginning in the 80s, Xinjiang was under a state of ideological chaos, engulfed in terror and religious extremism.
"How do you reclaim control of thoughts and ideological foundations after you've lost control of them? Our system has developed a significant advantage... and over the years, 19 provinces and cities across the country have banded together for the 'Xinjiang Aid' 援疆 program,
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“...and with this type of ideological propaganda in place, we are now able to channel the "potion" to every single cell, thereby curing the disease of religious extremism."
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Zhang Weiwei, Dean of Fudan University's China Research Institute, is a CCP member and celebrity professor, who was the lead discussant in a Politburo Central Committee study session in May on "telling the China story well". See my thread from yesterday:
https://twitter.com/GeringTuvia/status/1452602726332968961?s=20
Qiu Wenping is a researcher of religion and religious elements in BRI countries at the Shanghai Institute of Social Science (SASS), one of China's oldest think tanks overseen and funded by the Shanghai Municipal Government.
He is also a Fudan Development Institute visiting scholar and a frequent commentator on party-state television on Xinjiang, Islam, terrorism, and the Israel-Palestinian conflict. It may surprise the reader to learn that Qiu has made overtly antisemitic remarks on the record.
Editing note of tweet number 6: the key term xuanchuan sixiang 宣传思想，should be translated as "propaganda theory/thought", not "ideological propaganda"
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