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Originally Posted by opendoor
Given the current climate and massive increase in anti-Asian sentiment recently, people would do well to consider how rhetoric plays into and feeds that. That doesn't mean we can't and shouldn't be critical of the Chinese government and their human rights abuses, but just as we saw with Islamophobia in the '00s, when people are whipped up into a frenzy over geopolitical tensions it doesn't take much to spill over into racism and xenophobia.
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I have not seen that hear, in fact I've heard the opposite, its not the people, its the government.
Canada Sanctions 4 senior officals over the genocide
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/can...959080?cmp=rss
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Canada joined the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union today in placing sanctions on Chinese officials suspected of involvement in a years-long campaign of persecution against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in China's western Xinjiang province.
In a statement announcing the sanctions, Global Affairs Canada accused the four high-ranking officials of participating in "gross and systematic human rights violations" in Xinjiang.
The statement said mounting evidence shows the Chinese state is responsible for arbitrarily imprisoning more than one million people on the basis of their religion and ethnicity, and for subjecting them to "political re-education, forced labour, torture and forced sterilization."
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he four officials Canada is targeting with asset freezes and a travel ban are:
- Chen Mingguo, director of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau.
- Wang Mingshan, secretary of the political and legal affairs committee in Xinjiang and former director of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau.
- Zhu Hailun, former deputy party secretary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
- Wang Junzheng, secretary of the party committee of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
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