Human rights in China
There has been a very powerful and convincing BBC documentary on show this weekend about how China is attempting to suppress religions and cultural minorities.
The Uighur Muslims have been particularly harshly treated with hundreds of thousands of men, women and children vanishing into re-education camps, but almost every group whose views are anything other than atheist supporters of the Communist government or whose ethnicity is other than Han Chinese has suffered a greater of lesser degree of persecution.
Details are given on the BBC website here.
There is no easy way to deal with the Chinese - I am not in favour of cutting trade links to repressive governments except in extreme cases, as part of a targeted, internationally co-ordinated strategy, or obviously, in wartime. But we need to recognise that the People's Republic of China is a highly dangerous and repressive regime which should be carefully watched.
The Uighur Muslims have been particularly harshly treated with hundreds of thousands of men, women and children vanishing into re-education camps, but almost every group whose views are anything other than atheist supporters of the Communist government or whose ethnicity is other than Han Chinese has suffered a greater of lesser degree of persecution.
Details are given on the BBC website here.
There is no easy way to deal with the Chinese - I am not in favour of cutting trade links to repressive governments except in extreme cases, as part of a targeted, internationally co-ordinated strategy, or obviously, in wartime. But we need to recognise that the People's Republic of China is a highly dangerous and repressive regime which should be carefully watched.
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