Thread by @measure7x, the source-laundering, propaganda echo chamber notwithstanding, at the end of the day [...]

the source-laundering, propaganda echo chamber notwithstanding, at the end of the day there are only 2 actual reports behind the 1 million+ Uighurs detained fabrications, both from spook shops- CHRD & Jamestown Fdn, both w/ laughable methodologies

none of that is new, but came across a WSJ profile on the author of the Jamestown report, Adrian Zenz, and just wanted to observe, he's a real piece of work

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-german-data-diver-who-exposed-chinas-muslim-crackdown-11558431005?mod=rsswn

https://jamestown.org/program/evidence-for-chinas-political-re-education-campaign-in-xinjiang/

The German Data Diver Who Exposed China’s Muslim Crackdown

Research by Adrian Zenz, a born-again Christian anthropologist working alone in a German suburb, thrust China and the West into one of their biggest clashes over human rights in decades, after he...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-german-data-diver-who-exposed-chinas-muslim-crackdown-11558431005?mod=rsswn

Born-again Christian anthropologist, working alone at a cramped desk, hunting down data in obscure corners of the internet to get the Big Reveal, skyrocketed to fame

basically same story as so many of those post-9/11 spook journos/'independent' intel outfits who dug up all manner of nonsense (beheading videos, etc) by penetrating isis through chatroom skillz and the power of google search

classic, always a side-gig that provides the $$ for the ops (as chiefly an internet sleuth, only really needs to cover internet service)

a man on a mission. sidenote: I wonder what the "korean-american" thing is about here. odd detail

btw, this is the end-times book ref'ed above, written by our Xinjiang sleuth

https://books.google.com/books?id=lRtSQB3HHJcC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Then he teamed up with ("caught the attention of") James Leibold. Leibold who apparently brought him on board at Jamestown. Leibold also involved in China Leadership Monitor, funded by Smith Richardson Fdn (what a list of grantees!)

Now on to the good stuff, 1 million... give or take 900k+. Actually, let's bump it up to 1.5 million, because why not.

the keyword here is "extrapolate", that's the secret ingredient to the methodology of Zenz's report & the CHRD report, and how you can arrive at any number you want

Even in the actual report, there's barely any indication of how this number was arrived at (and again we're promised more elaboration once we click through to the full report) https://jamestown.org/program/evidence-for-chinas-political-re-education-campaign-in-xinjiang/

And once you get to the longer report, it becomes pretty clear why they keep burying the actual sources and methodology. After a whole lot of bluster, we finally reach the promised land, and this is the entire relevant bit. LOL

To Zenz's credit, at least he tries to obscure the methodology and the pastiche of CIA front sources, unlike the other CHRD report, which basically just interviews 8 people and "extrapolates" from that (not really even exaggerating much here)

https://www.nchrd.org/2018/08/china-massive-numbers-of-uyghurs-other-ethnic-minorities-forced-into-re-education-programs/

nothing to add about CHRD that isn't already abundantly out there, but here's 2 pieces on CHRD fav, Liu Xiaobo:

Losurdo: https://www.voltairenet.org/article167356.html
Gowans: https://gowans.blog/2010/10/12/liu%E2%80%99s-nobel-prize-for-capitalism/

Liu’s Nobel Prize for Capitalism

By Stephen Gowans Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese dissident who was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, has been hailed as a champion of human rights and democracy. His jailing by Chinese authorities f…

https://www.voltairenet.org/article167356.html

More on Zenz's Jamestown report, which 'extrapolates' the 1mil from an article in Newsweek Japan. The author of this article is Naoko Mizutani, who herself has some interesting biographical background

https://www.newsweekjapan.jp/stories/world/2018/03/89-3_1.php

Reportedly barred from entering PRC in 2010, Mizutani is a major supporter of the US asset Rebiya Kadeer of the World Uyghur Conference (and was the guarantor for Kadeer's visa to Japan)

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-03/01/content_9520181.htm

A decade prior, Mizutani already acquired some notoriety in PRC by trying to undermine the testimony of a former Japanese soldier Shiro Azuma, who had confessed to his role in the Nanjing Massacre, detailing Japanese war crimes

https://books.google.com/books?id=dJTQ5_aOkOgC&pg=PA342&lpg=PA342&dq=mizutani+naoko+shiro+azuma&source=bl&ots=uQTBG-FQDd&sig=ACfU3U34DpTQZAPIU2rRIN3C53yYoQ1idw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjgyvWM2b_lAhWsd98KHVtEDFkQ6AEwA3oECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=mizutani%20&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=v0OdC6yEyp4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Interestingly, her great-uncle was also a war criminal and member of Imperial Japan's biological warfare Unit 1644 (the notorious Unit 731's sister unit in Nanjing)

^oops, link https://apjjf.org/-Frederick-R.-Dickinson/2543/article.html

In case her fascist allegiance was in doubt, she clarifies

https://adamcathcart.com/2010/02/28/sino-japanese-apprehension/ (I still need to find the original AP report excerpted here)

And here's the kind of thing Rebiya Kadeer got up to in Japan w/ other members of the World Uyghur Conference: paying their respect to fascist war criminals at Yasukuni Shrine

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-05/15/content_15290876.htm

Not surprising, considering the fascist background of the Japan Uyghur Association (member of WUC).

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Uyghur_Lobby/KYFiAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover

As so often the case, it sure is hard to find any reporting corroborating these imperialist fabrications about Xinjiang detentions from sources who aren't outright fascists or in bed with with fascists

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