How China Turned a City into a Prison

Re:How China Turned a City into a Prison by yumraj on Thursday April 04, 2019 @12:31PM (#19574224)

> I also encourage you to talk to some Chinese around you who are first generation immigrants

Fair enough. May I respectfully ask if you yourself, as a Chinese, have reached out to any Uighur, Tibetan, or other minorities to understand their viewpoint and explore if this is a reality being reported or just propaganda?

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Re:How China Turned a City into a Prison by theseadroid on Thursday April 04, 2019 @12:52PM (#19574462)

I have very limited interactions with Uighur or Tibetan so I said I'm not expert on the issue.

This guy has traveled in the Xinjiang/Xizang area and might give you some basic idea what that region is like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5t2sLWuYyc (the first video of his travel within China videos, there's no playlist I think)

If you know enough Mandarin, you can probably find some Uighur Tibetan people on Chinese social media like douban.com

Also some westerners live in the Lijiang / Dali region where there are many Tibetans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijiang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dali_City

I've never been but heard they are nice to visit.

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Re:How China Turned a City into a Prison by deogeo on Thursday April 04, 2019 @01:24PM (#19574831)

> you can probably find some Uighur Tibetan people on Chinese social media like douban.com

The heavily surveilled and censored Chinese social media, that are filled with paid PRC posters? Sounds much more trustworthy than the Times.

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Re:How China Turned a City into a Prison by yorwba on Thursday April 04, 2019 @02:06PM (#19575310)

Social media may be subject to surveillance and censorship, but that doesn't stop people from discussing openly about posts being "harmonized" or certain keywords being "sensitive". There's no reason to suppose that finding genuine Uyghurs or Tibetans on there would be impossible.

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