• Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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    2821 days ago

    What do you propose as the proper way for China to deal with violent religious reactionaries? Maybe they should’ve focused more energy on a decades long occupation of Afghanistan that accomplished literally nothing except a vast amount of grifting.

    • bitofarambler
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      220 days ago

      The decades-long occupation pretty much never works and just engenders more revolution, so I wouldn’t recommend that route.

      also, the “violent religious reactionaries” is a bit of a leap from the sheer volume of detainees.

      I think the violent ones should be dealt with much differently than the non-violent activists, but they are apparently treated the same.

        • bitofarambler
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          120 days ago

          absolute minimum is around half a million detainee in total (ccp numbers until 2019), and most outside estimates place the number closer to 1-2 million uyghur detainees.

          Bear in mind that this is not some static equation, mass detainment started almost 10 years ago at this point and has been occurring for a decade. with detainment ongoing and the CCP long having stopped sharing specific information, it’s going to be hard to get specific numbers past 2019(the half a million number) for years to come.

          • @BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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            20 days ago

            And where did you get those numbers?

            with detainment ongoing and the CCP long having stopped sharing specific information,

            Source?

            most outside estimates place the number closer to 1-2 million uyghur detainees.

            Source?

            it’s going to be hard to get specific numbers past 2019(the half a million number) for years to come.

            Where did you get the half a million number?

            it’s going to be hard to get specific numbers past 2019

            You were able to assert “absolute minimum is around half a million” though, so you must have been able to get those specific numbers somewhere. Where did you get them?

            • bitofarambler
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              120 days ago

              you’ll have to look through the other comments for the sources, I’ve had to drop that same source like four times now.

      • KuroXppi [they/them]
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        20 days ago

        The decades-long occupatio

        Wdym occupation. Xinjiang (formerly Xiyu) has been incorporated territory of the PRC since its foundation, and part of China since (conservatively) the Tang dynasty.

        Edit: i misunderstood the comment

      • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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        420 days ago

        Ok, so the violent religious reactionaries needed to be dealt with, but with a more nuanced approach. What should it be? What would be faster and gentler, but also effective?