11.20.2019

Concentration Camps Operating Today - Anybody Care?

I just skimmed an article in the paper on the appeasement efforts against Hitler in 1938, titled "What Were They Thinking?"  This is the usual response we have today to Hitler: how could we have let that happen?

The sad thing is, we are doing it again.  Right now.

China is forcing thousands of its own Muslims into concentration camps against their will, separating families, in a mass effort at thought control, to stamp out Islam and replace it with faith in Communism and President Xi.  The New York Times recently documented it, with leaks from within China's government.

It is true.
It is a travesty.
And we are doing nothing about it.

Xi is a modern-day version of Adolph Hitler, only more effectively controlling the information flow and thoughts of his people.  China is showing other dictatorships that it is actually possible to censor the internet and more or less control what millions of people can read and see.  I admit Xi hasn't yet moved to the final solution, but the logic of his totalitarian governance makes it entirely probable.

Meanwhile, Xi traipses around the globe offering eager nations his seemingly endless capital to borrow to boost their economies.  Across the page from this article was Xi in Brazil shaking hands with its Trump-esque leader, who ran by denouncing China's human rights record.  Now he's taking their money.

Why do we not oppose this with the same vigor we did Communist Russia in the Cold War?
Perhaps we think that method backfired?  It led to mutual-assured destruction in an arms race.  Do we think the risk is too great?

A more likely answer is that we have joined economically with China.  I have friends and family that go there for work regularly.  Their employers have high-stakes joint ventures with Chinese companies.  We have believed the lie that Chinese business and the Chinese government are two separate and different things, under the illusion that China is becoming like America.  The opposite is true.  Just look at Hong Kong.

We should be willing to pay a HIGH price to stand against such an obvious violation of human rights going on in China.  The Chinese politicians are masters of feigning offense and threatening to remove market opportunities, to get us to tow their line.  We need to stop caving to their tactics and recover our moral compass.

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