Writing in El País today, Moisés Naím condemns the silence of the Muslim world in the face of Chinese repression of the Uighurs and contrasts it with the indignation produced the the publication of a few cartoons in Denmark. Readers will be able to figure out for themselves the relevance of all this for the themes with which this blog mainly concerns itself. The following is my translation of Naím’s article.
Continue reading ‘Deaf, Dumb and Blind: Muslim Reactions to the Uighur Tragedy’
Reading the Dalai Lama’s description of Tibet transformed into a “hell on earth” as a result of the Chinese occupation got me thinking about Chas Freeman again. But let me leave it to Michael Weiss to explain why.
Some scholars and activists are making the case that the “mingong” - migrant workers who gravitate to the wealthy cities from poor inland provinces - are subjected to a form of apartheid in the People’s Republic of China enabled by the hukou system.
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