The Economist says the United States was wrong to designate China's ongoing use of prison camps and forced sterilization of women in the Uighur population as "genocide."
The Friday article, published in the British magazine's editorial section, said that ongoing population control efforts in Xinjiang do not meet the United Nations definition of genocide. By declaring that the Chinese Communist Party engages in genocide, the article argues, Washington diminishes the meaning of the term.
"China’s persecution of the Uighurs is horrific: It has locked up perhaps one million of them in prison camps, which it naturally mislabels ‘vocational training centers.' It has forcibly sterilized some Uighur women. But it is not slaughtering them," the article states. "By accusing it of genocide instead, in the absence of mass murder, America is diminishing the unique stigma of the term…. It accomplishes nothing to exaggerate the Communist Party’s crimes in Xinjiang."
The editorial does not mention new reports of systematic rape in forced labor camps, nor does it acknowledge comments made by Chinese Communist Party leadership that Uighur Muslims are comparable to "malignant tumors" and that their faith is like a "communicable plague." Even further, it ignores accounts from camp survivors that Chinese officials kill newborn Uighur children....
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On a probably unrelated note we saw this at the New York Times on January 4:
In a Topsy-Turvy Pandemic World, China Offers Its Version of Freedom
And Disney, owner of ABC News, filmed last year's Mulan practically within sight of the camps.
I think this is what the term corporate media refers to.
For non-corporate media see:
Oddly enough:
