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China Threatens Taiwan: “Independence Means War”
China’s similar warnings about Hong Kong and the Uyghur went unheeded. Will the world listen this time before it’s too late?
“One China”
Once again, China is proving itself near impervious to international pressure.
World outcry over the Chinese Communist Party’s treatment of indigenous Uyghur Muslims was sufficient to drive Chinese authorities to the rare step of actually allowing BBC journalists to report on the Uyghur interment camps.
International pressure wasn’t enough, however, for Chinese officials to actually close the labor camps.
The interment camps, Chinese Communist Party officials insist, are merely “vocational training centers” and are the answer to a radical Islamist ideology that threatens Muslim co-religionists and members of other religions alike with religious jihad.
Human-rights watchdogs, of course, say otherwise.
Between razing mosques to the ground, classifying a broad range of traditional Muslim religious practices as extremist, and interring the Uyghur in reeducation labor camps; the Chinese Communist Party is having more and more trouble justifying these practices to international authorities concerned about human rights.