There are several (OK, much more than several) pieces I have been keeping in open browser tabs, so I could write about them some day. In part since I am fearing they will become buried and I haven't done an assorted links post in a while, below are several of the pieces below with links and an excerpt.
1. "Myanmar woman escapes Chinese captors after 6 years" by Todd Pitman, Esther Htusan, and Dake Kang:
2. "Muslim Governments Silent as China Cracks Down on Uighurs":
3. "Inspired by #MeToo, student activists target inequality in China" by Sue-Lin Wong and Christian Shepherd:
4. For the fourth and final slot, I am going break with the link-sharing traditions and instead share a series of related tweets, the latest of which just caught eye:
1. "Myanmar woman escapes Chinese captors after 6 years" by Todd Pitman, Esther Htusan, and Dake Kang:
When she entered China surreptitiously in September 2011, there were no border guards, no checkpoints. They walked across a shallow creek in broad daylight.
In Yingjiang, after eating a bowl of noodles for breakfast at a local restaurant, Marip Lu began to feel dizzy.
Soon, her vision blurred. Then everything went black.
When Marip Lu regained consciousness, she was slumped on the back of a red motorcycle racing down a highway, a chubby Chinese man holding onto her with one hand.
Rubbing her eyes, she saw rivers and flower parks flashing by. Then things she'd only seen in movies: twinkling skyscrapers with vast crowds walking between them like ants.
When she reached for the phone in her purse, she noticed it was missing along with her Myanmar identification card and the handful of Myanmar kyat — worth only a few U.S. dollars — that she'd brought.
Suddenly, she understood. She'd been tricked, then drugged. And now, she was being trafficked.
2. "Muslim Governments Silent as China Cracks Down on Uighurs":
Almost three weeks after a United Nations official cited “credible reports” that the country was holding as many as 1 million Turkic-speaking Uighurs in “re-education” camps, governments in Muslim-majority countries have issued no notable statements on the issue. The silence became more pronounced this week after a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers urged sanctions against senior Chinese officials. . . .
The silence on Uighurs contrasts with outrage last year when some 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled clearance operations by the Myanmar military, which the UN has since likened to genocide. One big difference between the two cases: Myanmar’s economy is 180 times smaller than that of China, which is the top trading partner of 20 of the 57 member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
3. "Inspired by #MeToo, student activists target inequality in China" by Sue-Lin Wong and Christian Shepherd:
They use code words to evade government scrutiny. They communicate on messaging apps using end-to-end encryption. On the heavily-censored messaging platform WeChat, they send images of articles, rotated and distorted with shapes and squiggles that can trip up text recognition functions.
When online censors tried to scrub a letter Yue posted on WeChat in April about being pressured by her university, fellow students used blockchain technology to ensure it remained accessible.
4. For the fourth and final slot, I am going break with the link-sharing traditions and instead share a series of related tweets, the latest of which just caught eye:
The inimitable @azadessa's weekly column in South Africa's paper, Independent Media, has just been cancelled because he wrote a piece on China's internment of the Uighur minority.— Melissa Chan (@melissakchan) September 6, 2018
This is @azadessa's full post with the news of his cancelled column because he wrote about China's internment of Uighurs.— Melissa Chan (@melissakchan) September 6, 2018
In it, he asks: "Is this where the continent's future relationship with China is headed?" pic.twitter.com/z4daDgO8Xe
This is the article that broke the dragon’s back pic.twitter.com/gEawFBu5qt— Azad Essa (@azadessa) September 7, 2018
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