We know. That is the inescapable fact about the Chinese Communist Party’s treatment of the country’s inmates. It is not what is happening there. It is that we know about it. We know about a million people in mind-control camps. The extermination of ancient cultures, languages, and religions. The kidnapping of children. Mass population control backed by a new system of high-tech surveillance that makes the Telescreen of George Orwell’s novel 1984 seem like a mild intrusion. We know about it all. We know about the “harvesting” of organs from political prisoners—state-sponsored butchery, to give it its real name. We know about the cover-ups—of Tiananmen Square, of the Cultural Revolution, of the Great Leap Forward, of the occupation of Tibet. We know about the environmental degradation.
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Edward Lucas: Why is Eastern Europe silent on China
Protesters run from police at the bus terminal at Hong Kong International Airport on Sept. 1, 2019.
