balance10: "We must stop our own companies from helping China build new evil empire"

Wednesday, February 6, 2019

"We must stop our own companies from helping China build new evil empire"

2-6-19 “It is zulum (injustice),” Ferida, a protestor, told Anadolu Agency. “They are being punished because they follow a belief that is different to Xi and his party. That is their only crime: their belief,” she added, referring to Xi Jinping, China’s president and all-powerful leader of the Communist Party of China. https://www.yenisafak.com/en/world/protest-held-in-london-against-oppression-of-uighurs-3473856
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2-6-19 “We must stop our own companies from helping China build this new evil empire,”

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said in a speech at the Hudson Institute. “This is the 21st century rope that capitalists will sell to hang themselves. China has a plan for the world, and it’s as concrete as the prison cells where it keeps dissenters,” Cotton said. ”Make no mistake: The brutal police tactics in Xinjiang are not just an assault on that province’s native people, although they’re surely that. They’re also an assault on the American-led world order and a disturbing premonition of an alternative world order — one controlled by the Chinese Communist Party and one that ends in Room 101.”

That last phrase was a reference to George Orwell's 1984, and it's not just Cotton who sees dystopian dangers in China's use of technology for domestic repression and foreign espionage. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/tom-cotton-china-is-building-a-new-evil-empire

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