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[Link] U.S. Boycotted Olympics Before, and It Didn’t End Well
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
The U.S. is staging a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics to protest China’s human rights abuses of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. The full effect remains to be seen.
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[Link] Mass Resignations at Scientific Journal Over Ethically Fraught China Genetics Papers
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
Eight members of the editorial board of a scientific journal have resigned after it published a slew of controversial papers that critics fear could be used for DNA profiling and persecution of ethnic minorities in China.
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[Link] The faux anti-imperialism of denying anti-Uighur atrocities
Read: 17/5/2021 www.aljazeera.com
Why are some Western ‘anti-imperialists’ determined to whitewash China’s well-documented crimes against the Uighurs?