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guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)
Wed Oct 9, 2019, 06:14 PM Oct 2019

US restricts visas for Chinese officials over 'campaign to erase religion' in Xinjiang

From the article:

The US has imposed visa restrictions on Chinese government and Communist party officials accused of being involved in the mass internment of more than a million Uighurs and other Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang province.
The restrictions, announced by the state department on Tuesday, come a day after the US commerce department imposed export restrictions on US companies preventing them from selling their products – particularly face recognition and other surveillance technology – to 28 Chinese entities, including the Public Security Bureau and firms involved in surveillance in Xinjiang.


To read more:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/08/us-restricts-visas-chinese-officials-uighurs-muslim-minorities

China has been engaged in a campaign that aims to eliminate religion among the Uighur Muslim population of Xinjiang Province. They cloak it in the language of "fighting terrorism", but it has the dual aims of both seizing resources and attacking religion.
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US restricts visas for Chinese officials over 'campaign to erase religion' in Xinjiang (Original Post) guillaumeb Oct 2019 OP
Crimes against humanity. Act_of_Reparation Oct 2019 #1
Is there a Disneyworld in China? guillaumeb Oct 2019 #3
As has been pointed out to you, yet you dishonestly keep ignoring... trotsky Oct 2019 #2
Because there IS an agenda. That's why. MineralMan Oct 2019 #4

Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)
1. Crimes against humanity.
Thu Oct 10, 2019, 06:37 AM
Oct 2019

After a couple of years, we won't stand for it anymore. No trips to Disneyworld for you, comrade!

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
2. As has been pointed out to you, yet you dishonestly keep ignoring...
Thu Oct 10, 2019, 07:11 AM
Oct 2019

the Chinese campaign against *every* group that it oppresses, is about political power, and eliminating threats to the party. There are many religious groups in China that don't face any internment or violence. There are many non-religious groups and people who do. If this were the simple effort to "eliminate religion" as you keep claiming it is, then neither of those statements would be true.

You know this, but you keep spreading falsehoods in order to promote your agenda. Why?

MineralMan

(147,575 posts)
4. Because there IS an agenda. That's why.
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 09:40 AM
Oct 2019

That's also why I have stopped responding in this group.

William Barr just ratified that agenda in his speech to the "values forum."

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