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I’ve shared this book on Tumblr a thousand times but that’s because it’s the most effective and concise debunking of the “Tiananmen Square massacre” (chapter 3 for that) and the “Uyghur genocide” (chapter 10 for that) I’ve read.

Here are some samples from each chapter respectively:

The book is formatted in a way that it is possible to read these chapters as standalone. Although I do highly encourage anyone who reads the book to go through it in order if they can.

In the Xinjiang region specifically, there are around 380 labour camps which run off Uyghur or other ethnic minority's labour. Denying the genocide would be to deny sources such as the Bureau of International Labour Affairs, Human Rights Watch, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. 39 countries have agreed that the labour camps are harmful and that China should free Uyrgur people who were wrongfully imprisoned.

I mean no harm, but denying that there's a genocide in China doesn't help anyone, especially not the Uyghur people. The Human Rights Watch goes into detail about the human rights the Chinese labour camps have violated.

First off, a BBC article on vocational training in Xinjiang. What does it say? It says that China defends their educational programs in Xinjiang, but that the US and unnamed "human rights groups" have accused them of being a cover for forced labor, and that they have sanctioned by the US. The article cites another BBC article about the sanctions, which briefly provides another mention of unnamed "human rights groups". It also mentions that the US-based non-profit the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, or ICIJ, released supposedly "leaked documents" which Western media claim prove the existence of secret internment camps where Uyghur Muslims are imprisoned indefinitely, and ends with a mention of Adrian Zenz's claims that women in Xinjiang are being forcibly sterilized.

The "leaked documents" the ICIJ has dubbed the "China Cables" were initially reported as having been sourced from anonymous "exiled Uyghurs", but were later revealed to have been sourced by Adrian Zenz who got in touch with a Uyghur woman and Dutch citizen named Asiye Abdulaheb, who Zenz claims is in possession of over 25,000 such files, the provenance of which is unknown. It is ironic to note that if we are to believe these documents are genuine and unaltered, then they directly contradict the claim that detainees are prevented from having contact with family members, since the very first document of the "China Cables" explicitly states that students in training centers are required to have contact with their families at least once a week.

The next link is an NBC News report citing (alongside the ICIJ documents previously mentioned) the UK-based Amnesty International's claims of "crimes against humanity" being perpetrated in Xinjiang, as told by anonymous "witnesses" outside the country who claimed to have seen various abuses committed during their time in Xinjiang. This is not the first time Amnesty International has given their seal of approval to supposed eyewitness claims regarding atrocities being committed by a designated enemy of the West. In 1990, Nayirah al-Sabah gave testimony before the US Congress claiming she witnessed 15 babies being pulled out of incubators and left to die by Iraqi soldiers during the invasion of Kuwait. Amnesty International infamously claimed to have not only confirmed the testimony of Nayirah al-Sabah but in fact confirmed the deaths of over 300 babies in incubators at the hospital in question. This was later revealed to have been a gross fabrication, as the hospital did not have even 100 incubators at the time, and Amnesty was forced to retract their report. But the damage had been done, and the testimony was used to great effect to manufacture consent for the Gulf War in the US.

The third link is to a report from the US-based Human Rights Watch which also alleges "crimes against humanity" in Xinjiang, however HRW is even more aligned with US state policy than Amnesty, including having endorsed the right-wing coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia in 2019 which installed Jeanine Áñez into the presidency, whose administration persecuted left-wing politicians and labor organizers, including the murders of protestors against the coup. The fourth link is to a page on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum website repeating the same claims as above, but citing no sources.

The fifth link is to a map from an Australian state-funded think tank the Australian Strategic Policy Initiative, claiming to show the locations of alleged "detention centers" in Xinjiang. The ASPI is directly funded by not only the Australian Department of Defence, but also the US Department of Defense, as well as US arms manufacturers Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. The ASPI also has close ties to members of the conservative Liberal Party of Australia. Much of the data used for the map comes from an "investigation" of satellite data conducted with the help of US news outlet Buzzfeed and the USAGM-backed Open Technology Fund, which had previously been part of US operations alongside Radio Free Asia and the NED to provide ideological and material support to anti-government protests in Hong Kong. The Buzzfeed report alleged that many supposed "camps" were suspiciously blanked out on Baidu Maps, however at least one person on Twitter was able to view these areas on Baidu with no issue, and even identified one of the "camps" as an apartment complex. Other sources of data include alleged "leaked documents" sourced by Adrian Zenz.

The sixth link is a report on Xinjiang from the Bureau of International Labor Affairs, an office of the US Department of Labor, a US state agency. It cites Adrian Zenz multiple times, as well as a report from the US foreign policy thinktank the Center for Strategic and International Studies which cites Zenz multiple times, the ASPI, and a report from the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice at Sheffield Hallam University, which also repeatedly cites Zenz and the ASPI. Helena Kennedy herself was a founding co-chair of the anti-PRC Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, which has close ties to the Republic of China and is funded by the NED and the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy.

The seventh link is a repeat of the third link.

The eighth link is a statement from the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which is the head of US intelligence operations. It repeats the same US government narrative regarding Xinjiang, without citing any sources, and mainly focuses on enumerating the many sanctions the US has levied against China.

The ninth link is a link to the "China cables" published by the ICIJ and cited by the aforementioned BBC article.

The tenth link is to a joint statement to the UN signed by representatives of 39 countries, mainly Western countries with a few small West-aligned nations, condemning alleged misconduct in Xinjiang. This was one of many statements signed by nations from or aligned with the global North criticizing China on the subject of Xinjiang. However, a larger bloc of nations primarily composed of nations in the global South and most notably including a large portion of nations representing the majority of Muslims in the world have consistently countered these statements with joint statements of their own, asserting that China's conduct in Xinjiang has been acceptable and denouncing Western-led attacks on China's sovereignty under the guise of "human rights". This is consistent with a report from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation commending China on their treatment of Muslim citizens in China, as well as a delegation from the League of Arab States who visited Xinjiang and praised China's efforts to develop the region and curb extremism. Why, if China was genuinely persecuting Muslims, would this disparity exist? Are we to believe that the entire Muslim world is ready to sell out their religious brethren for a piece of Chinese foreign investment, but the Western nations who have repeatedly bombed Muslim nations for material gain are simply genuinely concerned with the wellbeing of Muslim citizens in China and have no ulterior motive whatsoever?

The eleventh link is a repeat of the third link, and the twelfth link is a repeat of the sixth link.

None of these links support your claim that there is "in fact" a genocide occurring in Xinjiang or anywhere else in China. It's the same old Western propaganda narrative that was being criticized in the posts you were responding to, and it's clear you didn't bother to read any of the resources we gave.

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