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While I can't vouch for all the details in this item, I can state from direct experience that two years ago the Chinese were rounding up Uighurs in Shanghai and "deporting" them to Xinjaing. I actually saw it in action on the streets there.

"Xinjiang is now a totalitarian police state of historic proportions — it is widely cited as one of the most heavily policed places in the world today. Public security budgets have skyrocketed and futuristic surveillance systems have been pioneered in the region. As a result, over 20 percent of all criminal arrests in China happens in Xinjiang, despite the fact that the region contains only 1.5 percent of the country’s population."

"In the camps, officials seek to brainwash prisoners to disavow Islam and pledge loyalty to the Communist Party, and torture those who refuse."

"Arbitrary detentions without charge or trial are the norm for prisoners in these camps, and ethnically Kazakh Muslims have been “disappeared” in large numbers along with Uyghurs. Common “crimes” are “viewing foreign websites, taking phone calls from relatives abroad, praying regularly or growing a beard.” The widespread use of arbitrary detention is also being used as a tool to force Uyghurs abroad into silence."

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China’s re-education camps for a million Muslims: What everyone needs to know

Islam is *alphabetic* and, therefore, West, whereas the Chinese are *ideo/pictogrpahic* and, therefore, East. These are two fundamentally different Cultures (capital "C") with fundamentally different language technologies at the root of their 2000+ year formation. As a result, Islam cannot survive in China. Indeed, nothing "alphabetic" will survive.

As some might have noticed, Marxism is *also* Western. Accordingly, from 2004-2011 the Central Party School in Beijing -- where all CPC senior cadre are trained (modelled on the French ecole hierarchy) -- completely scrubbed Marxism of its Western traces and "Sinicized" it. This past May, I was in Beijing at the 2nd World Congress on Marxism to personally observe the results. The Western Marxists invited to attend were completely baffled at what had been done -- but happy for the free plane tickets.

Now the CPS is teaching Confucius and Laotze to these cadres -- while also proclaiming publicly that it will win the "War of the Robots" . . . !!

https://www.amazon.com/AI-Superpowers-China-Silicon-Valley/dp/132854639X

I was supposed to be back there a week ago but the CPC stopped my approval to discuss the "robot problem" with one of their researchers. It isn't clear if I will be allowed to return. Stories are circulating that "CIA collaborators" are being arrested and killed and I'm in their "system" as a "US spy." Now it is being reported that it was the Chinese (not the Russians) who actually hacked the election (or at least Hilary's closet servers.)

When Mao took over, many attempted to "simplify" the difficult Chinese writing system -- which is still foundational, as reflected in the general use of Chinese subtitles in Chinese movies, since the "accents" of many actors cannot be understood everywhere in China. That simplification then led to the teaching of the alphabet to Chinese children, so that they could use it for the Pinyin representation of the language. This is now the basis of Chinese use of Western technology, since smart-phones don't have "Chinese" keyboards. Perhaps that will be the next target?

There is no chance that China will allow itself to become a part of the "Global System" -- other than, as has now become headlines, to take advantage of it. As anyone involved in science/technology at the graduate-level knows, many (if not most) of the accomplished students in these fields are Chinese. In effect, our education system has become theirs. No, that does not mean that China is becoming like us. It means that they are "stealing" our ideas.

This presents many problems, particularly in the field of national security. This past Sunday's "60 Minutes" had a segment on two Chinese-Americans whose lives were upended on suspicions of them being Chinese spys. The most recent National Security Strategy (NSS 2018) introduced the topic of "National Security Information Base" for the first time. Everyone involved knows that China was the target. Whatever else you might think about Trump, he inherited a front-row seat for a world in massive conflict (largely ignored by the press which is, instead, obsessed with eliminating him.)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/NSS-Final-12-18-2017-0905-2.pdf

At the Center, we have concluded that their are *three* over-lapping "global operating systems": East, West and Digital. The TELEVISION-era notion of "One World" is totally defunct. Nobody takes the United Nations (or IMF/World Bank &c) seriously anymore. We have added DIGITAL because that's now the driver for *all* Cultures (capital "C" and plural) -- including the *new* one that wants to eliminate humanity (by "upgrading" it and "colonizing Mars.")

P.S. In the late-70s (when I was in my late 20s), I invented what was then the world's most accurate (in terms of representing the language) Arabic wordprocessor. It was called "The Diplomat." I became an expert in Arabic calligraphy but never learned to speak or read the language. NEC in Japan hired me to design wheels for their Spinwriter. The Saudi government invited me to help them standarize Arabic for computers (i.e. the equivalent of ASCII). I once spent $10,000 on a hotel bill in Riyadh, while drinking $100 Swiss grapejuice. One Thanksgiving, I was almost killed on the highway to Dhahran (leading me to propose over the phone to the mother of my children.)

As a result, I know a little about Islam. What is happening now in China is, from their standpoint, the only thing they can do and they will be ruthless in carrying it out. Any notion of there being a "family of man" should be re-examined. It's only going to get worse, as Sam Huntington correctly predicted 30 years ago but, alas, since ELECTRICITY *formed* our elites, he was ignored. "Globalism" is dead -- which is why Trump was elected. The "World Order" has already been remade. And, as they say, "Something's strange in the neighborhood! Who are you going to call?"