Soooooo – China might be committing crimes against humanity – discuss!
I’m a Socialist Communist lefty post marxist anarchist with radical environmental tendencies.
I’ve never felt any love to towards the Chinese, Putin OR the American Military Industrial Complex.
Putin is a KGB thug who probably bombed his own people in Moscow to start a barbaric war with Chechnya. He is homophobic beyond belief and he started a war in the Ukraine, so yeah – I hate the American Military Industrial Complex, but let’s not pretend Putin is an antidote to their corruption!
Sure, China has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty and that feat of Government should be celebrated and championed, but let’s not forget that beyond that incredible result you have a paranoid, aggressively authoritarian regime with mass surveillance powers that sells body organs, commits genocides and has devastated Tibet, Hong Kong and Xinjiang.
The bewildering amount of apologists for China in NZ is extraordinary, and it really shouldn’t be.
China is not our friend and they are not a friend to their own people…
U.N. says China may have committed crimes against humanity in Xinjiang
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- U.N. human rights office releases long-awaited report
- Says ‘serious human rights violations have been committed’
- China calls report ‘completely illegal and void’
- Report comes minutes before rights chief Bachelet’s term ends
…I like that it’s released minutes before the outgoing U.N. human rights chief resigned.
That’s how scared the UN is of China.
We can not pretend that our trade with China is sustainable if the are committing crimes against humanity!
Government doesn’t know if most of New Zealand’s imported solar panels made through slave labour
The Government doesn’t know if the majority of solar panels being imported into New Zealand have been made through forced labour in China.
Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta was told in May last year that officials didn’t know if technology coming onto our shores from China was produced in Xinjiang.
That’s the north-western Chinese province where human rights activists say more than 1 million Uyghurs are subject to human rights violations, including forced labour. A landmark report last year found nearly half of the global supply of a key component of solar panels is produced in Xinjiang, including through forced labour.
America’s private prison complex and its role in using prison labour is problematic enough, China is taking it to another level.
We need to urgently decouple economically from China.
We need to stop thinking of ourselves as economically global and think hyper regional.
We can’t pretend to be an ethical people if we are prepared to trade milk powder for our honour.
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So Jacinda is going to reject hear invitation to China?
NZ should clean up our own back yard first. And why and how did the Uyghurs end up in a communist country.
China thinks it can dictate every nuance of its citizens’ lives. I grow tired of governments trying to do that. Meddlers, nothing but endless meddlers trying to control things. We need law and order, of course, but at some point you are simply meddling for the sake of power.
The history of Xinjiang is long and complicated, but in a nutshell- China invaded and annexed it. Kind of like what it wants to do with it’s neighbors and islands of the Pacific.
When Emperor Xi mentioned the peaceful rise if China, he really meant, China will rise and have a piece of that country, and that country, that country over there…
China crimes against humanity… China apologists don’t care
China has had a system of reeducation camps for 70 years that is not new. What is new is Afghanistan bordering Xianjiang being run alternately by American terrorists and Taliban terrorists exporting islamic fundamentalist destabalisation. Just saying. Xianjiang is under surveilance communism only a bit more oppressive than the surveillace capitalism here. Witness the increase in surveillance here after terrorist incidents. China has Gulags and God knows you wouldnt want to be in one but as far as we know they are not death camps so is it really genocide? The reports are the reeducated get released after 2 or 3 years and then probably live a lie.
discuss?
Yeah, a UN inspired Pacific Leaders Forum under written by Water Resources, Food and Shelter. The South Pacific is one of the most exposed to Climate Change.
We need a common language, common currency, and common modes of transport buttressed by 3% military spending.
What happens to all those resources once the islands are overtaken by the waves. Iceland is reporting a glacier dump that will raise sea levels by a foot.
If that’s not enough cope-ium then consider what the government response will be when the hords of climate refugees start showing up along spaghetti junction just to seek otherly modern living environment.
Fucken do something for once in your lives woman.
Bear grills played out the battle of the sexes putting a bunch of woman and a bunch of men on an island and the woman totally packed it in in 24hrs. They couldn’t filter water, start a fire or kill for food. The dudes had all that in the first hour.
Still not unstanding the logic? Womam male about 80% of the consumer debt and men hold about 80% of the consumer debt. It is in no one’s best interest but the 1 percenters to destroy and atomise the atomic family y’know this woke cancel culture is all pushed by social media oligarchs.
China is still competing for our resources and they ain’t playing.
Men dominate major decisions in China. In the western world woman can wear pink hear, tits out, hair growing out and feminists call that liberation.
Cope-ium is one hell of a drug.
And the prize for most offensive Right wing apologist for Chinese abuse of the Uyghurs goes to:
“Most poignant for me is that it has recognised that some of the activities the Chinese government have been about preventing terrorist activity in Xinjiang,
The intentions of that are not significantly different to those of our own New Zealand legislation.” National’s foreign affairs spokesperson Gerry Brownlee
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/on-the-wrong-side-of-history-brownlee-labelled-naive-over-comments-downplaying-un-report-on-chinese-human-rights-abuses/ar-AA11nF3n?
P.S. That our anti terrorist law is not significantly different to China’s is a bit of a worry. The UN report critical of China’s anti-terrorism law – says it’s “vague and broad” and open to interpretation by officials.