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Re:My Experience Working and Living in China by thevagrant on Saturday March 12, 2022 @07:29PM (#30656598)
What is the real situation? Do you live in Xinjiang? Curious to hear what's really going on.

I've seen videos from Xinjiang taken by Chinese themselves and the content appears alarming. It's a misunderstanding?

Re:My Experience Working and Living in China by AsceticBear on Saturday March 12, 2022 @08:34PM (#30656979)
I am not in Xinjiang, but I have some friends studying in Xinjiang. I remember that some bloggers went to Xinjiang to shoot videos on youtube, which are more authentic. The security maintenance in the area may be stricter, but there is no such thing as forced labor.
Re:My Experience Working and Living in China by philliphaydon on Saturday March 12, 2022 @08:40PM (#30657019)
You mean the YouTubers who were shuffled around together to specific areas, restaurants, etc and who all show the exact same things?

They are not authentic.

Re:My Experience Working and Living in China by AsceticBear on Saturday March 12, 2022 @08:50PM (#30657081)
Then the best way I can think of is to let the local people in Xinjiang judge. Moreover, the Xinjiang issue is really sensitive, and I hope everyone will not fan the flames. Another question, I don't quite understand why Western countries always like to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries. Because they are developing better, they should go to other countries to play the role of savior?
Re:My Experience Working and Living in China by philliphaydon on Saturday March 12, 2022 @08:55PM (#30657122)
If people were allowed to go to Xinjiang without having people block them, follow them, take their cameras and memory cards, threaten them, etc. and freely allowed to move around and interview people etc and take photos and ask questions. Then one of 2 things would happen. Either it proves all the information and eye witness reports we currently have. Or it shows everything in Xinjiang is fine.

But the fact no one is allowed to freely investigate Xinjiang only enforces that someone is going on and the CCP is trying to hide it.

Re:My Experience Working and Living in China by CogitoCogito on Saturday March 12, 2022 @09:15PM (#30657231)
> Another question, I don't quite understand why Western countries always like to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries.

China does this constantly and they do it quite openly.

Re:My Experience Working and Living in China by pertymcpert on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:43AM (#30658341)
> Moreover, the Xinjiang issue is really sensitive,

Can you not see the issue with what you wrote? It's like you've almost made the mental connection, but you're not self aware enough to realize the last part.

Re:My Experience Working and Living in China by randomhodler84 on Saturday March 12, 2022 @09:01PM (#30657154)
They will never be allowed to speak the truth. Why is it so sensitive… because genocide is bad for business (if the world finds out).

The world wants to interfere because genocide is a crime against humanity. Every rape, every murder, every torture. It is unacceptable, and so is denying it.

Re:My Experience Working and Living in China by honkdaddy on Sunday March 13, 2022 @06:06AM (#30659804)
_Every_ time I try to have a conversation with a Chinese person about Xinjiang, they talk themselves into a corner and then lamely point at “the West” and all its apparent sins and meddling, as if there’s somehow any equivalence.

There is a literal genocide happening in your country and you are complicit. Shame, shame, shame on you.

Re:My Experience Working and Living in China by randomhodler84 on Saturday March 12, 2022 @08:50PM (#30657088)
Everything you are being told is a lie. Nothing you read or hear is true. You cannot trust the local media.