I'm not in the least absolving the center of moral culpability for what is being done to the Uyghurs, but the information problem with Hong Kong (which is being handled at the highest levels) is hardly likely to be unique. This complicates our understanding of what's happening.
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In Xinjiang, the CCP also seems to be much more reliant on technical solutionism and 'big data' surveillance they are enamored with, possibly to circumvent unreliable intermediaries and be able to control everything centrally. This is not a factor in Hong Kong
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The other lesson of Hong Kong is that as a regional administrator, you can deceive Xi Jinping and friends for a very long time, even when they are paying close attention to you, as long as you tell them what they want to hear. That lesson is unlikely to be lost on functionaries.
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Anyway, these are all just recycled insights from Gogol's "The Inspector General" in 1836. Majoring in Russian literature pays off again! https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3735/3735-h/3735-h.htm …
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If you're greenshifting for your superiors in the Chinese Communist Party, is that called redshifting?
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I'm not frightened of going there but not sure yet how I could do so in a constructive way.
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