Ben Shapiro on China’s Oppression of its Ugyhur Minority

The Uyghur situation is shockingly under covered. Oh my God. Well, it demonstrates that when people said never again, they were full of crap. They're just full of crap. I mean, it's just not true. This is one area where the United States should absolutely be taking a leading role. It is obvious that China is an nefarious actor. China has been stealing our technology. The Chinese government is attempting to extend its rule of tyranny over Hong Kong. They just subjected 7.5 million people to their direct tyranny in violation of trading. And the response has basically been muted from the Western world. And did you see that video of the Chinese ambassador in Britain being asked on the BBC about that tape? No, I didn't. It's fantastic. So the BBC interviewer shows him the tape of the people being pushed onto trains, right? And he says, what is this? And the Chinese ambassador says, I can't see it. I'm not sure what you're talking about. He's literally saying that the screen is huge. It's right behind him. Like he's looking right at it. And he acts as though he can't see it. And then he starts talking about the natural beauty of the region. Right? And he won't deal with it. He won't explain what it is. And the rest of the world is just like, well, you know, this is where, you know, in the sporting world, the story that's under covered in the sporting world is the blowback that the NBA gave to Daryl Morey, the Houston Rockets GM for saying free Hong Kong. Right. You can't even get anybody in the NBA to condemn China while China is subjecting a million Uighurs to abject slavery. Mark Cuban just had an exchange with Ted Cruz the other day where he was going after Cruz for something and Cruz said just, you know, he questioned Cruz, Cruz's balls or something and Cruz came back and said, well, do you have the balls to condemn China? And Cuban said something like, well, you know, I don't want to I don't want to get involved in the internal affairs of another country. I thought, well, that's that is not an internal affairs question. It's one thing to say I don't want to get involved in the tax rates of other countries. Another thing to say, shaving people's heads, shipping them on trains to concentration camps where you force them into labor and or sterilize them. That seems like not an internal issue that you're not allowed to criticize. Really? That's a big one. But the China thing is so crazy because so many so many business interests have this connection with them. And so much of the money that they generate is because of China. I mean, the NBA films, there's there's so much so much of our culture that cow ties to China. We're so connected to them. And that's one of the things that we really found out from this pandemic is how many things are built there, how much of our medicine, how much we rely on China. It also demonstrates the lie of the idea that if you trade with somebody, then they're going to liberalize. Yeah, that was that was something that was pushed over the last 30, 40 years real hard, which is we'll help them out economically. We'll have mutual trade. It'll be good for both of us. And they'll liberalize because once they realize it's good to be part of the world economy, then they won't be tyrants anymore. And instead, they just took all the chips off the table and said, no, actually, I'm going to double down on this and we're going to get more tyrannical, not less. I mean, she is the most powerful Chinese leader since now. It's incredible.