1/ Have been thinking a lot about how the US right mobilized their support for Hong Kong protesters and the Uyghur people as a trope to foster their anti-China agenda, which diverges attn away from domestic injustices and US's complicity in human rights violations.

2/ The GOP’s supposed support for these movements often perpetuate a binary that is unhelpful in understanding how human rights violations in China and the US are interconnected. e.g. The US's War on Terror inspires similar racialized discourse from China against the Uyghurs

3/ As forced labor among Uyghur people come to light, we must also consider the long history in the US of using prison labor, both marginalize racialized populations. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-labor-in-america/406177/

4/ Leftists in the US who aren’t familiar with the Chinese context may hesitate to support the HK movement or the Uyghur people bc of they don’t want to risk parroting conservative talking points.

5/ Meanwhile, when folx from those movements express appreciation for the GOP’s support bc so few others have explicitly demonstrated solidarity, they then get demonized as right-wing and illegitimate. See @rosemarieho_ 's piece on the tension in HK: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/democrats-hong-kong-autonomy/

6/ There are no easy answers to any of these, but one thing is certain: binary logic is counterproductive. Our enemy's enemy is not always our friend when marginalized folx transnationally are struggling against similar systems of oppression.