Minky Worden explains what is happening in China — and how we know
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On today's podcast, we sit down with Minky Worden, the Director of Global Initiatives at Human Rights Watch. Worden authored the 2008 book China's Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges and has previously lived and worked in Hong Kong as an adviser to the Democratic Party of Hong Kong chairman Martin Lee.
We chatted with Worden about the current human rights crisis in China, the state of press freedom there, how global organizations could respond in a helpful way and the opportunity to do something about it before the 2022 Olympic games in Beijing, China.
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| 1:05.5 | In today's episode, I am very excited to follow up on a Tangle newsletter from a few weeks ago where we discussed some of what was happening with the Uyghurs in China. |
| 1:16.2 | A BBC investigation has found evidence that China's policy of transferring hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities from northwest Xinjiang to factory jobs often far from home is |
| 1:29.1 | being used as a method of uprooting and assimilating the population we've seen |
| 1:34.3 | China's Muslim re-education camps the way the Chinese wanted us to see them on a |
| 1:39.1 | tightly controlled tour earlier this year he's just told me that Hamza's mom |
| 1:43.9 | went back to get her other four boys and was arrested. |
| 1:47.0 | They say they were never given a reason why. |
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