Opinion: How an American TV show captured the extent of Chinese repression
A boy wearing a blue mask with tears of blood takes part in a protest march of ethnic Uighurs in Brussels on April 27, 2018. By Rian Thum May 9 at 1:25 PM Rian Thum is a senior research fellow at the University of Nottingham and author of “The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History.”
The clip in question shows a Uighur woman on the witness stand of an American courtroom. She testifies that the Internet giant on trial shared her emails with the Chinese government. Her voice breaks as she says something familiar to nearly every Uighur: “My friends, my husband, two sisters, my brother are all in internment camps in Xinjiang.”
There’s something affirming about seeing your reality represented in fiction. For the Uighurs now trapped outside of their homeland — students, engineers and other professionals who could be sent to the camps if they return — the ignorance of their plight can lead to social isolation. It is difficult to persuade someone who has never heard of Uighurs that your relative is in a concentration camp.
For too long, it has been acceptable to treat Xinjiang as a peripheral, exceptional part of China. The Uighur story is left out of mainstream shows because producers and editors presume that audiences aren’t interested. One network news producer I spoke to laughed as she told me that the topic was obviously not suited to television.
CBS joins a growing list of major companies that have censored themselves to please China. United Airlines and the Marriott International hotel chain have changed the way they refer to Taiwan to appease the Chinese Communist Party. Hollywood films are routinely altered in the hopes of passing China’s censors.
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