{"id":138742,"date":"2019-05-11T10:46:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T16:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138742"},"modified":"2019-05-11T10:46:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T16:46:56","slug":"sinification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/11\/sinification.html","title":{"rendered":"Sinification"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">China&#39;s in the US news largely over tariffs and trade wars that Trump is bombasting us into. But China&#39;s guilty of more profound crimes than currency manipulation or refusing to cater to the US President&#39;s publicity needs. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v4XlP1P4hD\">https:\/\/t.co\/v4XlP1P4hD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ***Dave Hill (@Three_Star_Dave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/status\/1126670478532169731?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>China&#8217;s in the US news largely over tariffs and trade wars that Trump is bombasting us into. But China&#8217;s guilty of more profound crimes than currency manipulation or refusing to cater to the US President&#8217;s publicity needs. https:\/\/t.co\/v4XlP1P4hD<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not that US hands (or other nations, for that matter) have been clean in the past when it&#8217;s come to indigenous populations who &#8220;need&#8221; to be managed, pushed out of the way, or made more like &#8220;us&#8221;. But China&#8217;s doing it right now, in front of everyone&#8217;s eyes, and most of the concern is focused instead on trade and tariffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is in a campaign to literally tear down the cultural heritage of the Uighurs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,10,108,740],"tags":[1475,723,1847],"class_list":["post-138742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tweets","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-history","category-race-racism","tag-china","tag-nt","tag-uighurs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/uighur-mosque.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136028,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/01\/guess-trump-doesnt-need-farm-vote.html","url_meta":{"origin":138742,"position":0},"title":"I guess Trump doesn&#8217;t need the farm vote","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 1-Apr-18 9:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Surprising absolutely nobody (except maybe the President of the United States), China is retaliating on Trump's Chinese aluminum and steel tariffs with 15% tariff on American fruits and nuts (China is the third largest importer of such items, or at least has been) and 25% on pork and other goods\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/american-and-chinese-flags.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":139029,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/04\/the-new-cold-war-with-china.html","url_meta":{"origin":138742,"position":1},"title":"The new Cold War with China","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 4-Jun-19 6:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Team Trump's actions toward the PRC are becoming more aggressive.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/economy"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/tiananmen-square-protester-tanks-1989.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/tiananmen-square-protester-tanks-1989.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/tiananmen-square-protester-tanks-1989.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/tiananmen-square-protester-tanks-1989.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":132485,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/02\/china-announces-it-will-ban-the-ivory-trade-by-the-end-of-the-year.html","url_meta":{"origin":138742,"position":2},"title":"China announces it will ban the ivory trade by the end of the year","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 2-Jan-17 4:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"That's welcome news, though enforcement will be an interesting challenge. 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