Good reasons why we should fear China - Drew Forrest argues that concerns about the Asian giant stem from its miserable human rights record and not the fraudulent notion of ‘sinophobia’
China is the foremost global representative of the latter. In effect, those who favour transplanting its methods to South Africa are calling for the scrapping of our liberal-democratic Constitution.
was invaded in 1949 and an uprising by Tibetans — China calls it an “armed rebellion” — 10 years later was crushed with great loss of life. , Kazakhs and other Muslims have reportedly been detained or imprisoned, many in re-education camps, amid allegations by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch of crimes against humanity including systematic mass surveillance and religious persecution.
Conditions in wider China are not markedly better. In its 2021-22 report, Amnesty International complained of the harassment and intimidation of human rights lawyers and activists; unfair trials; arbitrary, lengthy detentions; and torture and other ill-treatment of those exercising human rights, including free expression.
RSF notes that the media industry is almost entirely controlled by the state and the Communist Party, and that each day the party’s propaganda department sends detailed notices to all media that include editorial guidelines and censored topics.
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