Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "Major leak has provided an 'unprecedented view' into the Communist Party of China" video.
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@patbrown5833 "firstly, the whole ughyur genocide thing is a charade invented by Adrian Zenz"
Pictures and all, eh? Neat trick. No, with the MSM, the federal bureaucracy, Hollywood, and the Internet gatekeepers in the tank for China an ANTI-CHINA HOAX wouldn't have a snowballs chance in hell.
"it would literally be impossible to run a country with over a billion people without it being authoritarian"
Firstly, that doesn't explain how India is becoming more democratic and open even as it begins to pass China in population. Secondly, if China can't avoid being an oppressive hellhole because of its size, that is an excellent reason to break it up, rather than acquiescing to it's acquisitive demands for more territory and more subjects.
Ultimately, to those charged with defending China's neighbors in Asia and the Pacific Rim, preventing the CCP from expanding it's hell to engulf their citizens is a more pressing issue than how or why China is oppressive. Communism/socialism is a common thread in totalitarian regimes (not all totalitarians are communist, but all communist governments are totalitarian), not country size. I'm sure you have a different excuse for Cuba, if anyone were foolish enough to listen.
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@patbrown5833 You haven't made points (arguments) you have simply made diametrically counterfactual statements (assertions).
China doesn't even deny the existence of the "reeducation camps" anymore, they just accuse the natives of "terrorism". International rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have documented the abuses:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/uighurs-accuse-china-mass-detention-torture-landmark-complaint-n1239493
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-uighur-group-oppression-labour-camps-us-sanctions-human-rights-abuse-a9634396.html
https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/china-oppression-uyghurs-history/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2020/03/05/china-moves-uyghur-muslims-into-forced-labor-factories/
As for pictures, I was not talking about the standard regional establishing shots you find in any documentary or news story, I was talking about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEkliuqQo-g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMkHcZ5IwjU
Since you seem to be denying the inhumanly repressive nature of the CCP regime, I will pile on with the organ harvesting from political prisoners:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/11/16/china-covers-up-killing-of-prisoners-to-harvest-organs-for-transplant-new-report/
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-harvesting-organs-of-uighur-muslims-china-tribunal-tells-un-2019-9?op=1
China has territorial disputes with all it's neighbors because China seeks to expand and conquer.
There is no comparison between India's democracy and the CCP's kleptocracy that favors the latter objectively. My point that the CCP is oppressive because it is communist, and not because it is big, stands the historical test. And, as I said, to China's neighbors why is not important. China is making no bones about being an existential threat to the whole region. If they're not trying to hide it, why should you?
Democracy means the people choose their leaders. That doesn't happen in Cuba at all. There is no democracy in Cuba. Cuba is murderously oppressive, and the Cuban exile community in Florida is all the evidence you need. They risked their lives fleeing Cuba in homemade boats, inner tubes and inverted roofs. You don't do that if your life is fine where you are:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Cuba
https://www.cubacenter.org/articles-and-events/2016/4/27/continued-oppression-of-the-cuban-people
https://www.cubacenter.org/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/18/political-repression-raul-castro
Now, for your future enlightenment, THOSE are POINTS. Arguments, documentation, evidence. Not spouting wild assertions that everybody including yourself knows are false.
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