WEIRD HOW LITTLE ATTENTION THIS IS GETTING WORLDWIDE: Leaked Documents Show Xi Jinping’s Secret Speeches About China’s Uighur Crackdown.
U.S, most European countries and Japan have officially called for the camps to be shut down, but China’s allies in the U.N. have pushed back, issuing their own statement in support of what they called “counter-terrorism and de-radicalization measures.” The countries who defended China include Russia, Belarus and Serbia, along with some Muslim-majority countries Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, CNN reported.
The strongest response so far has come from the U.S., which in October put visa restrictions on Chinese officials and blacklisted Chinese tech firms with links to government surveillance of Uighurs. But the Trump administration’s effort to condemn the mass detention has been complicated by trade negotiations, and some have criticized the president for not speaking out more directly against China.
On the other hand, one of my liberal friends was complaining about Trump “shitting on China,” so I guess he can’t win. If we had a more competent intelligence and foreign policy apparatus, we might be doing more about this, but it’s quite clear that we don’t, and not even certain that efforts to do more wouldn’t be sabotaged by the bureaucracy.