By accumulating all the power to himself, #XiJinPing personalizes politics & weakens #China’s institutions – including those which the @nytimes calls ‘unusually strong institutions, bound by strict rules and norms.’https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/world/asia/xi-jinping-china.html …
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#Chinese surveillance state, increasing#humanrights abuses including#crackdowns have become shockingly fast, brutally precise and tragically routine.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/opinion/sunday/china-surveillance-state-uighurs.html …Show this thread -
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@RepEliotEngel: I am very concerned by reports that the#Chinese government detained relatives of#Americans working for@RadioFreeAsiahttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/china-detains-relatives-of-us-reporters-in-apparent-punishment-for-xinjiang-coverage/2018/02/27/4e8d84ae-1b8c-11e8-8a2c-1a6665f59e95_story.html?utm_term=.8e54da98d5d5 …Show this thread -
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A: Massive detention camps in China’s Western
#Xinjiang province where an estimated 120,000 Uighurs are being held by authorities for “re-education.”https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/detentions-01222018171657.html …Show this thread -
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@RepEliotEngel: We should welcome the rise of a#China that#respects its people & contributes to global stability & prosperity, but oppose#China’s efforts to subvert the rules-based order and deny basic human rights. This is why#US leadership matters.Show this thread
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