According to the Economist (December 12th issue of 2020), China's holding seminars on how to handle ethnic minorities that won't comply with government orders: send them to "retraining cities" in Xinjiang! China's invited leaders of African countries to attend them. Those Westerners who've peeked in these places have spotted signs around "Labor is glorious!" "Serve the country!"--that kind of thing.
Now it's true that China's doing some wonderful things: leader in solar paneling production, its banks lending to African countries to build infrastructure, despite the fact that it is continents away. But camps for the Muslims for being different and not themselves "model citizens of China" just shows how intrusive the government has become throughout its mainland.
How these "redeemed patriots" will be years after their reeducation--whether they will become catatonics or simply, automatons--remains to be seen for now. But the education they are receiving might just be affecting their human brains adversely, and to be sure, brings to bear methods of dealing with others that are contrary to the freedom of the human spirit.
Shame on those who convinced Beijing to tout such methods that monitor their own people, simply because they profess a religious faith.
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