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Further evidence, if any is needed:
"The use of lethal force on the Berlin Wall was an integral part of the East German state's policy towards its border system."
"The Stasi took charge of "corpse cases" and those injured while trying to cross the border, who were transported to hospitals run by the Stasi or the police where they would recuperate before being transferred to Stasi prisons. The Stasi also took sole responsibility for the disposal of the dead and their possessions. Bodies were not returned to relatives but were cremated, usually at the crematorium at Baumschulenweg. Occasionally the cost of the cremations was covered by the victims themselves using money taken from their pockets.[25]
Stasi officers posing as policemen would inform the relatives, though not before trying to obtain "valuable pieces of information on the border violation". Deaths would be stated as being due to "a border provocation of his own causing", "a fatal accident of his own causing" or "drowning in a border waterway". Every border death was investigated in detail to identify how the attempt had been made, whether there were any vulnerabilities in the border system that needed to be remedied and whether anyone else had been involved. If necessary, the family, relatives, friends, colleagues and neighbours were put under surveillance."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_at_the_Berlin_W...
Many similar cases.
Welcome to Xinjiang in China’s north west.”
One of many such reports.
https://www.ft.com/content/ac0ffb2e-8b36-11e8-b18d-0181731a0...
I’d ascribe no more legitimacy to similar laws made by an unelected, authoritarian government with a history of kidnapping, torturing, and killing nonviolent dissidents. I’m privately amazed that the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights is now a subject of controversy. Why do we believe the Chinese Communist Party when it says, “China is special, and the Chinese people do not deserve basic human freedoms?”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-says-its-ge...
But on March 10, back in China, the police took his sister, Adila Bekali. A week later, on March 19, they took his mother, Amina Sadik. And on April 24, his father, Ebrayem.“
“Six million Jews have been relocated by the German government for the purpose of poverty reduction.”
"Authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China relocated 461,000 poverty-ridden residents to work in other parts of the region during the first quarter of the year, in what a Chinese expert on Friday said was a bid to improve social stability and alleviate poverty."
How kind of the government to forcibly separate families and relocate Uighurs to camps where there culture is eradicated, all in the name of poverty alleviation.
Here is another quote, with a link to a longer, more detailed article from a less-biased source (the Global Times is run by the Chinese Communist Party):
"Asked to comment on the camps, China’s Foreign Ministry said it “had not heard” of the situation."
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/china-s-xinjiang-p...
The cost/benefit equation there seems pretty clear. As a competitor state, his much would YOU pay for the next U.S. President’s private Facebook message history? A million dollars? A hundred million? Trade deals in the billions could be at stake.
It carries a stripped-down AR-style carbine, and makes shots at what looks like 50-100 yards with sufficient accuracy.
Perhaps you’d use shotgun shells loaded with rock salt, so any overshoot into a crowd would be less-than-lethal.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzungar_genocide [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Great_Campaigns
https://www.npr.org/2015/06/23/416736883/race-conscious-admi...
From an idealistic standpoint, America supports the notions of state sovereignty and the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea simply out of principle. Like Apple’s stance on customer data privacy, the U.S. government defends freedom as a matter of pragmatism first, and then talks up the altruistic angle :)
Could you elaborate on this? My impression was that China has recently been bullying its neighbors, particularly Vietnam and to some extent the Philippines, over oil and gas deposits in the South China Sea. I can't imagine that's great for regional stability.
I also wonder if many Americans would want China to take on a leadership role with respect to Taiwan. I doubt the Taiwanese would take such a view.
Manning, by the way, leaked an enormous unredacted cache of documents pertaining to active, ongoing military operations. This leak very likely resulted in the deaths of anti-Taliban and anti-Islamist informants and cooperators. Not all leaks are good at all times for all people, and some confidentiality rules exist for good reason.
Admittedly, this sort of technique wouldn’t work well for human subjects.
https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-kill-switch-monero-going-war...
Devil's advocate: what makes ROE any better if they're approved by China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, for example? Western European-descendent values and cultural norms are a global minority. You might not like the ROE favored by Indonesia in East Timor, or by the Saudis in Yemen, or by Sudan in Darfur.
If all Chinese people developed a habit of using Facebook, perhaps they could openly criticize aspects of both the U.S. and Chinese governments, instead of just the former.
EDIT: I'm not surprised to see downvotes when the top-voted comment on this link (which is about a Chinese company getting into the U.S., and has nothing directly to do with Google or Facebook being blocked in China) is essentially, "And you are lynching Negroes" [0].
If anyone would care to disagree with words, I'd love to hear your reasoning or relevant experience.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes