Current Affairs China and its treatment of minorities

[LostLegend]

China guilty of committing genocide against Uyghur people, tribunal finds

Sir Geoffrey Nice QC stressed there is no evidence of mass killings, but that China's policies in Xinjiang amount to genocide. It comes after China said the UK, Australia, Canada, and the US would "pay the price" for boycotting the Beijing Winter Olympics because of their concerns.

www.google.co.uk

 

[peteblue]

China guilty of committing genocide against Uyghur people, tribunal finds

Sir Geoffrey Nice QC stressed there is no evidence of mass killings, but that China's policies in Xinjiang amount to genocide. It comes after China said the UK, Australia, Canada, and the US would "pay the price" for boycotting the Beijing Winter Olympics because of their concerns.

www.google.co.uk

They can’t help themselves at the moment. Their first reaction is to threaten. They seem to be picking arguments with everyone……

 

[tsubaki]

bumped for this, which hasn't yet been picked up by more papers but does seem to tie in with talk of a sizeable economic problem growing over there:

Workers walk off Multiplex's £900m One Nine Elms job

Exclusive: Contractors have started leaving the £900m One Nine Elms site in London as Multiplex chases the developer for payment. Construction workers

www.constructionnews.co.uk

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

How the Ukraine war could boost China’s global finance ambitions

Sanctions on Russia highlight Beijing’s efforts to internationalise the renminbi

www.ft.com

 

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[Rita_Poon]

Apologies for this here, its about the most apt I could find...

SAS unit repeatedly killed Afghan detainees, BBC finds

Internal emails seen by the BBC show top special forces officers were aware of concerns over killings.

www.bbc.co.uk

grim this, and I suspect the tip of the iceberg.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Apologies for this here, its about the most apt I could find...

SAS unit repeatedly killed Afghan detainees, BBC finds

Internal emails seen by the BBC show top special forces officers were aware of concerns over killings.

www.bbc.co.uk

grim this, and I suspect the tip of the iceberg.

 

[Lobster Johnson]

Apologies for this here, its about the most apt I could find...

SAS unit repeatedly killed Afghan detainees, BBC finds

Internal emails seen by the BBC show top special forces officers were aware of concerns over killings.

www.bbc.co.uk

grim this, and I suspect the tip of the iceberg.

The word "China" doesn't even appear in that report...

 

[Rita_Poon]

"treatment of minorities" the Afghan thread is closed.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

"treatment of minorities" the Afghan thread is closed.

Start a new thread. You appear to blaming China for accusations levelled against the SAS. ?

 

[Lobster Johnson]

"treatment of minorities" the Afghan thread is closed.

Are afghans a minority in Afghanistan?

 

[Rita_Poon]

Start a new thread. You appear to blaming China for accusations levelled against the SAS. ?

I'm not brave enough.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

China on the Offensive

How the Ukraine war has changed Beijing’s strategy.

www.foreignaffairs.com

 

[Oddball]

Where is your evidence for all this?

Some western crony "journalism" no doubt.


While we're talking of concentration camps, btw, we all do know, I take it, that it was the British who invented them?

you talk about people falling for propaganda but what you have posted about Britain inventing concentration camps was actually Nazi German propaganda. Britain had nothing to do with the first concentration camps.

 

[dublinbluenose]

you talk about people falling for propaganda but what you have posted about Britain inventing concentration camps was actually Nazi German propaganda. Britain had nothing to do with the first concentration camps.

There was concentration camps during the boer war.