• 小莱卡
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      you see, these 2 are equally as bad because a german that doesn’t speak a word of mandarin and has not ever visited china provided me a satellite picture of a big building and wrote a fan fiction about it.

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        ? The UN has thoroughly investigated and concluded that the ‘Uyghur genocide’ is a fabrication https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ohchr-assessment-human-rights-concerns-xinjiang-uyghur-autonomous-region I suggest you read it rather than have it filtered through biased western media orgs, and I trust their investigation a lot more than those from countries like the US that have a vested interest in painting China as negatively as possible

        Even if the propaganda were true it would constitute a crime against humanity not a war crime, unless you consider the ETIM terror campaign a ‘war’

        • @Juigi@lemm.ee
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          Chinese shills don’t even read their own posts.

          Fucking disappointing to see lemmy to be taken over by ccp sympathizers.

          Next people here are gonna explain how students in Tiananmen Massacre deserved what they got.

          Cya lemmy it was nice for a time!

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            That has no mention of a war that has China as a belligerent, can you specify which war you think these crimes are occurring as part of? and specify them?

            • @Devorlon@lemmy.zip
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              I’m agreeing with you, the CCP hasn’t commited any war crimes, just “serious human rights violations”

              • ClathrateG [none/use name]
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                Ok, but there is a difference between the two, and no one here said China hasn’t committed serious human rights violations, they have and I condemn it like I condemn all serious human right violations including those committed by the US and it’s allies, domestically and in the numerous recent and ongoing invasions, wars and conflicts they’ve started, in addition to their war crimes

          • @davel@lemmy.ml
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            It’s true, your screenshot shows no war crimes. You failed at sarcasm.

            • @Devorlon@lemmy.zip
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              11 month ago

              I was agreeing with them, I posted the conclusion to show people they’ve not commited war crimes, just “serious human rights violations”. Sorry if my intentions didn’t come through in my comment.

        • @j_overgrens@feddit.nl
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          A fabrication? Did you even read that pdf? I quote:

          Serious human rights violations have been committed in XUAR in the context of the Government’s application of counter-terrorism and counter-“extremism” strategies. The implementation of these strategies, and associated policies in XUAR has led to interlocking patterns of severe and undue restrictions on a wide range of human rights. These patterns of restrictions are characterized by a discriminatory component, as the underlying acts often directly or indirectly affect Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim communities.

      • IHave69XiBucks
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        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiEhITvJuyE

        You can watch this and look for any evidence of your claim. You wont see any. Or you can take my word for it when i tell you i literally spoke to a uyghur from Xinjiang on XHS the other day and they were chillin enjoying life.

        Either way maybe dont just take the word of whatever Western Media mouthpieces tell you?

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            well documented genocide.

            source?

            the UN, it addition to numerous countries including those with a Muslim majority population have investigated and concluded that the claims of genocide are a fabrication

            The claims of genocide that appear in western media can be traced back to single source; Adrian Zenz a german christian fundamentalist who is on a self described ‘holy war to destroy China’ and writes books such has ‘Worthy to Escape: Why All Believers Will Not Be Raptured Before the Tribulation,’

            Do you really believe this nutjob is a more reliable source on events in Xinjiang than the UN’s Office of Human Rights?

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                Please read the entire article and don’t just cheery pick the things that fit your pre-conceived notions

                Stop moving the goalposts, my claim is that their is no genocide, the only source you quote alleges serious human rights violations, that while obviously terrible(and I condemn them, just as I condemn the US’s similar but greater and larger in scale abuses committed at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, CIA blacksites etc), are not synonymous with genocide

                Which sources on that page present evidence of genocide? if any such source exists why didn’t you quote them?

    • @TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
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      Yeah, not really comparable when it comes to war crimes. If someone wanted to conflate a topic that makes both countries look similarly bad in an honest light, it would be the treatment of ethnic minorities.

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        That would not be an honest light. China actually takes their affirmative action seriously and not just pays lip service to it while continuing to enact genocidal policies like the US still does on the indigenous peoples of the mainland and occupied Hawai’i which has been gentrified and settled to the point of being unlivable for most of the locals.

        The claims of China’s abuse of ethnic minorities are a scam espoused by the same people profitting off the genocide in Palestine. Anybody who takes the evidence seriously instead of treating accusations as trustworthy because of the volume of them doesn’t understand (or chooses to ignore) how the US propaganda machine has always worked.

        People still on that “China genocide” bs are about as ridiculous as people claiming Iraq had WMDs into the Obama years. It’s a level of gullibility so big that it has to be voluntary.

        • @TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
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          enact genocidal policies like the US still does on the indigenous peoples of the mainland and occupied Hawai’i which has been gentrified and settled to the point of being unlivable for most of the locals.

          And the same has been said about tibet, inner Mongolia, and xinjiang. I mean you can look at Chinas own census data and see that han Chinese are migrating to cities in xinjiang, displacing ethnic minorities to move away from their cultural cities.

          The claims of China’s abuse of ethnic minorities are a scam espoused by the same people profitting off the genocide in Palestine. Anybody who takes the evidence seriously instead of treating accusations as trustworthy because of the volume of them doesn’t understand (or chooses to ignore) how the US propaganda machine has always worked.

          You are conflating the accusations of genocide in one region with the accusations of ethnic discrimination. Even in that grey zone article it is conflating the study from some weird neocon group with all investigations into ethnic discrimination in China.

          Han chauvinism is an established concept that even Mao took aims to curtail. Something they are still combating considering there has only been one ethnic minority to serve in the central committee in the last 35 years.

          An actual criticism that I have about Xi is that he is a bit culturally conservative. The belt and road initiative utilized a lot of han centric language and the current central committee is notably the first committee that has no women serving on it in the last +25 years.

      • @volodya_ilich@lemm.ee
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        the treatment of ethnic minorities

        You mean the US having the highest prison population in the world, to the point of 1 in 5 black men over 30 having been to jail at some point of their lives?

    • @nomy@lemmy.zip
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      Ultimately we have more in common with a normal Chinese person just trying to live their lives than any of us do with our ruling classes. I’m sure those same ruling classes would rather us be less aware of that fact.

    • @ChillPenguin@lemmy.world
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      Idk why there’s such a pissing match in this post. Like honestly. Both our governments are shit. Why is this even a debate as to whose government is committing war crimes more? Your comment is the best comment here by far.

      • Dessalines
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        If a serial murderer told you that their victims were actually much worse than they are, would you believe them?

        Yet the source of pretty much all anti-china atrocity propaganda is the US and its orgs like the victims of communism foundation. They want you to believe every single country they hate, China, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, etc… are guilty of the same crimes they are. Why do you believe them?

  • @Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    They are both wrong.

    The correct way is to argue passionately that your country has committed the MOST war crimes/genocides/human rights violations. Ya know, bragging rights.

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    The worst accusation you could make about China’s alleged warcrimes are how neutral they are in regards to Israel. They also sell guns to both sides of the Kashmir conflict, which isn’t great. They have sold guns to Israel in the past as commerce, but that’s a far cry from the west simply giving Israel weapons and intelligence for free.

    Whereas the USA invades a new country on average every 1.5 years and has over 800 overseas military bases. China hasn’t had an active overseas military conflict since the Vietnam war. This isn’t a comparison at all.

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      Hasn’t China also sold drones to Indonesia for use in West Papua? I think that might’ve stopped, though, but I’m not sure.

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      One of the most frustrating things that I see so commonly, is that when there is criticism of the Chinese government, it is almost always redirected into whataboutism about the US.

      I’m not from the US or China. My views are that both these governments are terrible, though I admittedly am not very informed about China. But these kinds of non-responses do not help.

      Edit: I do realise that this meme itself sort of sets up the comparison, but I just wish we could analyse the actions of each government independently, without making excuses for one by pointing fingers at the other.

        • 小莱卡
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          It will get funny when the “im not american” @aussie.zone user turns out to be Australian.

        • @Kacarott@aussie.zone
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          I’m sorry, is it discouraged to be self aware? It is very common to have preconceived ideas about things based on media/whatever, however I am trying to be self aware enough to realise that this view isn’t based on very much research, which is why I’m trying to re-evaluate it.

          Surely it is far more arrogant to assume I have no ill-informed views, and that I have never been affected by misinformation.

          • @dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            You’re arguing with tankies. You are attacking China in their eyes. You are fighting a losing battle because you cannot convince them China has major faults and blemishes and systemic issues like the US.

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              I don’t think that’s a useful framing. The central thesis of most “tankies” is that the version of the PRC that exists in the minds of Westerners and the version that exists in reality are fundamentally different, and that this is largely due to a concerted effort by western countries to depict China in a negative light exclusively. That does not mean that there aren’t serious problems with the PRC, or that it doesn’t have a long way to go, but admitting to having a negative stance without doing much investigation means that they should investigate, rather than contribute to a miasma of other ill-informed takes.

      • 小莱卡
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        Please don’t tell me that you’re from Australia 😂

      • @volodya_ilich@lemm.ee
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        My views are that both these governments are terrible, though I admittedly am not very informed about China

        Rofl. Lmao even

    • sunzu2
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      I think calling situation in Xinjiang as a war crime was sloppy…

      Should said genocide and the meme stands

      • @BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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        I didn’t know there were people still seriously trying to sell the “Uyghur genocide” propaganda nonsense. Mainstream media gave up on it years ago, and Israel showing what genocide actually looks like mostly put the last nail in the casket for all but the most committed sinophobes.

        • @1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
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          Israel are showing us what genocide actually looks like

          There’s levels of genocide - Uyghur is definitely one, Israel on Palestine is one, so was US on First Nations, then you’ve got the ones previously in the Balkans, Rwanda and the Caucasus which make all of those look like child’s play

          • @Grapho@lemmy.ml
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            If it is definitely one, you might be able to post incontrovertible evidence of it, and not just an ASPI report linking to Adrian Zenz or a satellite photo of a building they pinky swear is a death camp?

            • 小莱卡
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              adrian zenz blurry satellite photos of random buildings have more weight than tourists filming their experiences in Xinjiang for these dummies.

              • @Grapho@lemmy.ml
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                China has paid a hundred trillion xibucks for thousands upon thousands of travel bloggers to film life around Xinjiang, plus hundreds of thousands of paid actors (in the enormous autonomous region where a genocide is taking place at the same time).

                I can’t believe you sheeple can’t see the obvious truth.

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              incontrovertible

              The issue is, genocide deniers are very keen to dispute any readily available facts - Holocaust, Armenian Genocide, Holodomor, etc deniers, along with flat earthers and other far-fetched conspiracy believers are willing to reject swathes of evidence and released documents that show intent and execution; I could link you interviews with Uyghurs saying they were forceably steralised or reeducated from respected sources (and am happy to) but it seems like you’ve already made your mind up so will just be selectively blind when reading them

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                A simple “no” would have sufficed.

                Gaza, one of the poorest, most heavily policed and militarily surveiled regions in the world, managed to have incontrovertible truth of genocidal intent from day one. Years of slander from the MIC (profiting off that same genocide) about Xinjiang, a place anyone can go visit right now, which has had multiple outside probes, not a single piece of evidence.

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                  Thanks for proving my point that you reject even being offered evidence because you don’t want to see something that challenges your worldview.

                  I could’ve spent time compiling a list, but you’d either ignore it or say it’s a biased source because it’s non-chinese or something.

      • 小莱卡
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        there are like a billion youtube videos of people traveling in Xinjiang and finding nothing wrong.

    • deaf_fish
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      Na both are right. All countries have blood on their hands. It’s honestly not a good comparison.

      • 小莱卡
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        sure the united states has comparable blood on their hands as China 😂 aight buddy

        • deaf_fish
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          I mean if you want to count down to the individual blood cell spilled of course is going to be different. But the pressures that make the US do horrible stuff are the same pressures that make China do horrible stuff are the same pressures that make any country do horrible stuff.

          • 小莱卡
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            Who the fuck pressures the US to invade countries abroad ?

            • deaf_fish
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              The wealthy and the powerful. Nobody else is interested in sticking their neck out. Those that are, are influenced by propaganda that is controlled by the wealthy and powerful.