We often hear about China's "Century of Humiliation", with discussions on Western platforms being extremely superficial and lacking in any background.

I thought I'd share examples that illustrate why it still resonates with Chinese people.

1st up, Six Steeds of Zhao Mausoleum. Zhao Mausoleum is where the 2nd Emperor of Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, is buried.

He is a revered character in Chinese history, widely regarded as one of the greatest Emperors, who started one of the greatest dynasties, both in terms of material wealth and cultural impact.

With the recent relaxation of Dynamic Clearance controls in China, I see many posts concerned about what may happen.

Unsurprisingly, the Western media has now jumped on the "China's not ready" bandwagon, salivating at the prospect of a high body count.

Here are my thoughts. First, let's set some parameters:
1. The overriding concern would be to "flatten the curve" (see graph). Arguably, the whole 3 year period of Covid 0 is an extreme form of flattening the curve. Lockdowns, mass testing and track & trace are very effective methods of doing this.

There's been much discourse about China's Covid policies.

This is a small thread to share Australian statistics on Covid mortality, as data to consider if you want to argue for full reopening.

Covid continues to be a health threat that requires responsible decision making. As background, let's note that Australia is a top performer in the West when it comes to Covid management:
- It closed to tourists for 2 years
- It had one of the longest lockdowns (Melbourne, 262 days)
- It utilized extensive testing and quarantine practices during 2020/21

This is a thread to question the latest UN report on the Xinjiang situation.

There's a lot of suspicious elements in the report that calls into question its objectivity and legitimacy.

Given the report itself references tweets, I hope the UN will respond to this thread.

https://twitter.com/UNHumanRights/status/1565102245468831744

1. Who wrote this report?

Assuming that the report was released simultaneously with the QT above, then the report was released at 12:20am Geneva time on 1 Sept and 6:20pm US EST on 31 Aug 2022. This means Bachelet's term was technically over. The OHCHR is located in Geneva...

This is a thread to examine the ASPI report on Cultural Erasure in Xinjiang:
aspi.org.au/report/cultura…

I will focus on the problems in the methodology and statistics, rather than the conclusions and examples, but it would follow that those are wrong, due to the bad methodology. Before diving right in, let's note that even ASPI recognizes on p5 that for many mosques, the dome and minarets are very recent additions, which automatically destroys the narrative that "traditional" culture is being eliminated because domes and minarets are being removed now.

I want to try something a little different this time. Instead of looking at a particular document, I want to look at a particular claim: “cultural genocide”.

This claim is frequently made, but when examined in detail, it is even more baseless than the genocide claim. "Cultural genocide" is often used as an easier-to-prove alternative to genocide. But, there are many cultural elements which are thankfully gone, e.g. virgin sacrifices to the gods. Therefore, a value judgment is required to prove this claim, which is not required for genocide.

Upon the request of @missioncritica, I'll analyze the arguments presented in this ICIJ report:
icij.org/investigations…

This report is another example of an article giving evidence that doesn't support their narrative. The author must be hoping that people won't realise this. The leaked documents included in the article DO reveal more information about how the re-education centres are run, fully confirming that they are indeed re-education centres used as part of an anti-terror campaign, and not as concentration camps as part of a genocide campaign.

After examining many flawed pieces accusing China of genocide in XJ without providing much evidence, I want to examine a report that actually does present convincing evidence of genocide in Myanmar against the Rohingya people, as a comparison of quality. ohchr.org/Documents/HRBo… There are four aspects I would like to highlight, which are in direct contrast to the "Uyghur genocide" reports (hereon referred to as UG reports) I've read.

1. Right from the start, this report states the methodology used and the standard applied to accept evidence.

ASPI's "Uyghurs for Sale" report is often used as the basis for forced labour and even "can now buy Uyghur slaves on Taobao" claims. Let's have a look at the contents and see whether the claims are supported by evidence.
aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs…

@CarlZha @Jerry_grey2002 @Xi_Fan First, let's note a few hilarious parts, as indicators of quality. The first and second footnotes indicate that accuracy is not a concern of this report. Would you accept any report that calls all minorities "hispanics", and uses the words "prison" and "school" interchangeably?

Here, I want to examine an article by Byler that is repeatedly used to push a Uyghur forced marriages narrative: supchina.com/2019/08/07/uyg…

It is at least cited by Amnesty Jun 2021, New Lines Inst Mar 2021, HRW Apr 2021 & Campaign for Uyghurs Oct 2020 (respective screenshots below) Before we even start looking at the article, let's have a think about the narrative. It goes: "Han Supremacist China is trying to dilute the culture and bloodline of the Uyghurs, by forcing Uyghurs (mostly women) to marry Hans." Consider the logical fallacies of this narrative:

*sigh* What's with these articles about how ineffective Chinese vaccines are?? They don't even do some basic comparisons and statistical analysis...so, let me do it for them.
reuters.com/world/asia-pac… Indonesia indeed uses mainly Chinese made vaccines: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_…

Recently, Amnesty International released a report on the situation in Xinjiang, recommending that China "immediately release all persons held in internment camps or other detention facilities – including prisons – in Xinjiang...". This is my review of it. xinjiang.amnesty.org First, let's look at the title and note 2 important things:
1) It doesn't use the word "genocide"; and
2) It doesn't use the word "Uyghur".

Instead, it refers to 3 potential Crimes Against Humanity (CAH) and Muslims as a whole.

@BadChinaTake Firstly, let me commend you for trying to have an evidence based discussion on this. In this thread, I want ask some clarifying questions. I hope we can keep things civil.

https://twitter.com/BadChinaTake/status/1382941128249462784

Satellite Imagery article: wokeglobaltimes.com/5d34bc453be548…

You say it would not be surprising if there are errors. Have you ascertained what is their error rate? Should we not double confirm sites as camps, before reporting them as such, i.e. “innocent until proven guilty” principle?

There's a new report out on the Uyghur genocide issue, purporting to show credible evidence of genocide. This time, there's finally a discussion on the intent of state action, with references! Let's take closer a look at this section in the report:

…c3hdi6ss66vpc-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/upl… The section on intent start on page 35, and there are a number of cases used as references. I will focus on Bosnia v Serbia and Croatia v Serbia, because they discuss the issue of proving state intent directly and in the most amount of detail.

This is a thread to examine Adrian Zenz's report on birth control in Xinjiang (XJ). He has complained that people attack his credibility rather than his work, so I will attempt to examine his analysis and claims on their merits. This will take some time... jamestown.org/wp-content/upl… S0.0: Editor's note includes a fundamental misunderstanding of Chinese language and intentions. 中华民族 is interpreted to mean a uniform "Chinese Nation-Race". However, the Chinese government's definition includes all 56 races within Chinese borders. baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%B8%AD…

This is a thread to examine below report from Campaign for Uyghurs, including evidence presented in the report. There will be 3 main sub-threads, S for Section of Report, R for References provided, and C for my Conclusions. This will be long...

campaignforuyghurs.org/wp-content/upl… S0.0: Description on page 2 of cover image is incorrect. The image comes from a 3 day event on de-radicalization or anti-extremism, which was held across multiple locations in XJ. Participants included religious figures who gave speeches. Source: web.archive.org/web/2018082015…

Epic rant @DanielDumbrill, congrats on the 100k, and looking forward to the Xinjiang video. One topic that I would be interested to hear more of is the missing evidence if there is in fact a genocide happening in XJ. My thoughts below.

via @YouTube What would you do if you were being persecuted for your religion or race? Run!
Therefore, if there is a large scale persecution of Uyghurs, with 1m in camps already, then I would expect a majority of the population to be seeking refugee status in neighbouring muslim countries.

After interacting with anti-China people recently, I summarize CCP’s powers according to them in this thread. Please help add more where appropriate @DanielDumbrill @Jingjing_Li @GerhardtJvdM @thecyrusjanssen @Jerry_grey2002 @theo_fletcher @steelmuslim @CarlZha @BarrettYouTube 1. Successfully brainwashed at least 95% of their 1.4b population (more efficient than God)
2. Able to create a new virus and direct it to attack their opponents
3. Able to control rainfall in order to drown Southern Chinese villages