Uighurs
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Uighurs is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 5 times across 5 issues between February 26, 2021 and April 15, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “ethnic-cleansed thousands of Uighurs and other Chinese Muslims”; “genocidal campaign against the Uighurs in Xinjiang”; “racism against Uighurs in China”. It most often appears alongside China, America, Xinjiang.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 5
- Issue count: 5
- First seen: February 26, 2021
- Last seen: April 15, 2025
Appears In
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- Your Book Review: The Accidental Superpower
- When Does Worrying About Things Trade Off Against Worrying About Other Things?
- Dictator Book Club: Xi Jinping
- Highlights From The Comments On POSIWID
Related Pages
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- China (4 shared issues)
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- America (3 shared issues)
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- Xinjiang (3 shared issues)
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- CCP (2 shared issues)
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- Hong Kong (2 shared issues)
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- Iran (2 shared issues)
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- New York (2 shared issues)
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- Poland (2 shared issues)
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- Shanghai (2 shared issues)
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- Soviet Union (2 shared issues)
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- Tibet (2 shared issues)
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- US (2 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
I was briefly confused about whether General Tao was the same person as General Tso, or, like, his vegetarian brother or something. I looked this up and found that these are both acceptable Romanizations of the name of General Zuo Zongtang, a 19th-century Qing dynasty official from Hunan Province. He had nothing to do with the chicken - in fact, Tso's descendants had never heard of the dish. A Taiwanese-American chef with Hunanese roots invented the chicken in New York and named it after a hometown hero. Wikipedia also informs me that General Tso reconquered Xinjiang for China and ethnic-cleansed thousands of Uighurs and other Chinese Muslims, so maybe he needs to be cancelled.
Inline links: Tso's descendants had never heard of the dish
Its historical geographic divisions have apparently held to this day, with the north controlling politics, Shanghai and central China forming an economic core, the south a perennial secessionist threat, and the interior ignored. (This book predates the genocidal campaign against the Uighurs in Xinjiang, though Tibet has suffered its share of atrocities.) Recent unification came about only after America took the threat of Japan away, and its economic rise coincided with its participation in America’s free trade network. With that change, “Instead of being raided for raw materials, China was guaranteed access to global supplies. The endless supplies of cheap labor that the Europeans and Japanese ruthlessly tapped now allowed China to generate its own goods for export, this time with the revenues flowing to the Chinese instead of overseas interests.”
Inline links: campaign against the Uighurs in Xinjiang
(6): Instead of worrying about racism against blacks in the US, we should worry about racism against Uighurs in China.
First, the power exertion. Minorities have faced especially brutal treatment. We’re all familiar with the plight of the Uighurs in Xinjiang (including concentration camps and forced sterilization). He’s continued oppressive policies against Falun Gong and Tibet, and ratcheted up state control of Hong Kong.
Inline links: concentration camps, forced sterilization
Biden is angry at China over something else (the Uighurs?) and wants to punish them.