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Re:China Uses DNA to Track Its People. It Got Help from the ... by devoply on Thursday February 21, 2019 @12:49PM (#19218838)
As far as I know there was no fundamentalist terrorism in China due to the Uighurs. In the West we usually leave things alone that are not causing problems... Even if they have the potential to cause such problems. That's one of the reasons that one party authoritarian systems are wrong in that such systems are always worried about their stability and survival where more robust systems have no such worries. And that's why China will fail sooner or later because such systems come under control of strong men who then eliminate all of the survivability of institutions to consolidate power and then die and the system collapses or becomes dysfunctional.

However NSA shoveling all unfiltered data to Israel is in general an insane policy not in line with general liberalism.

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Re:China Uses DNA to Track Its People. It Got Help from the ... by subjoriented on Thursday February 21, 2019 @01:01PM (#19218958)
It's not specifically "the Uighurs" (that's like saying 'there was no fundamentalist terrorism in the US due to "the Muslims"').

It's much more about the region (Xinjiang) and particular fundamentalists groups present there. This happens to demographically correlate with the Turkic people in China's Northwest.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/01/the-islamic-state-pledg...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_China#Xinjiang

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Re:China Uses DNA to Track Its People. It Got Help from the ... by thaumasiotes on Thursday February 21, 2019 @12:56PM (#19218916)
There certainly is terrorism from the Uyghurs. Whether you want to call it "Islamic fundamentalist" or "separatist" terrorism doesn't really matter. The terrorists themselves call it "Islamic", which has ended up tainting the Hui by association in the minds of the Chinese. But you'll note that all the Western coverage of repressive practices complains about how steps are being taken specifically against the Uyghurs, who are the group making trouble. The government seems perfectly capable of distinguishing unassimilated Uyghurs from assimilated Hui, much more so than the general run of Chinese.

The Chinese government doesn't really go for publicizing terrorist attacks. We could learn from them, in that regard.

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