Debate Goes Dark in Beijing: The Guardian

China’s human rights violations with regard to the ethnic Turkic minority of the Xinjiang province attract international criticism. The Chinese government’s detention of Uighurs into concentration camps was the subject of a segment of a US Democratic presidential debate. China refuses to acknowledge the criticism, and a live CNN broadcast of the debate “went dark in Beijing,” reports the Guardian, shedding light on the government’s official policy of denial and information repression. According to Chinese officials, reports that the country is currently holding more than a million Uighur people in detention camps are “fake news.” The Chinese ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, argued that the camps are “education and training centers.” Censorship and denial do not eliminate questions from other nations about the rising superpower. –YaleGlobal