#uyghurs — Public Fediverse posts

The Chinese government relies on dancing ethnic minorities to project normalcy. Last year, it brought dancing #Uyghurs to #Japan.

For @mekongreview.com, my latest unpacks the propaganda of '#Xinjiang Week' https://mekongreview.com/xinjiang-week/ #China

What an argument. #China, which produces solar panels partly through exploitation of #Uyghurs and their homeland's natural resources, can somehow support the #green transition in a region where #Indonesia is exploiting #Papuans and their resources.

Another way to put this - #Chinese cheap panels, produced via colonial exploitation, and help Indonesia further its colonial exploitation in #WestPapua

How is this desirable in any way?

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/china-s-chance-papua-bolster-indonesia-s-green-credentials

"B-b-but what about the Han/Soviet Man's Burden???"

https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2022431/b-b-but-what-about-the-han-soviet-man-s-burden

#TNI #TransnationalInstitute is a group that mostly releases great reports, analysis, etc, on #techgiants, #capitalism #resourcecolonialism #labor etc

But when it comes to #China, they'll somehow willingly publish pro-CCP propaganda-lite, factually dubious BS like this, romanticizing the #Mao era, regurgitating South-South solidarity talk points & of course, ignoring the #CCP's glaring similarities to Israel in its treatment of #Uyghurs #Tibetans & #HongKongers

https://www.tni.org/en/article/from-global-anti-imperialism-to-the-dandelion-fighters

@jifi and, i will add, #Uyghurs, #Tibetans, West #Papuans, #Kashmiris, #Balochis and so many others also being oppressed.

I meet, in Japan, many people who care about #Ukraine but not #palestine.

Among too many Asian so-called "leftists," those are care about #Gaza but not Ukraine.

And, sadly, people everyone who care about either of those situations, but don't care about #Papuans #Uyghurs #Tibetans #Kashmiris or others facing oppression in Asia.

The Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South (#CASAS) & the #Europe-based Transnational Institute (TNI) are holding a conference in #China that, among others things, has "#Colonial/#extractive #capitalism across land/labour" & "#feminist approaches" on the agenda.

Will #Tibet & #Xinjiang #Uyghurs, or #Chinese feminists, be discussed at all?

Disappointed, especially, in #TNI, whose mission is to built a" just, democratic & sustainable planet."

https://peasantjournal.org/news/draft-programme-critical-agrarian-studies-in-the-21st-century-international-conference/