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Interesting thread by David Fishman. There are more examples/threads in the replies, but they seem to be pushed by Sinophobes and Anti-China folks, so I'm not linking them.

David is a great person to follow on Twitter, btw. His threads on renewable energy in China are fascinating to read.

On this topic, it's sad. I don't think the government needs to be doing this. Domes, minarets, the green color scheme are all beautiful and as Chinese as anything else. As is laid out in the thread, and lied about by all others, this hasn't impacted prayers and celebrations and actual Muslim existence in China. So, it's only purpose seems to be to make the buildings "look" more Chinese which you really don't need to do. If skyscrapers and glass buildings can be Chinese, then so can domes and minarets.

What the article says is, of course, horrible. But even if you believe it, it is parents who put their kids in conversion camps. The only part where the govt. comes in is with the assertion that some people heading these "schools" are members of the CCP (which has over 90 million members so c'mon). There are two other articles in this series but they are paywalled so can't talk about them.

Here is a good article covering LGBTQ+ news in China (positives and negatives).

Here is some direct rebuttal by someone more educated.

All this kind of coverage in Western news does is make certain conservative voices within the Global South associate lgbt rights as "western" and hurt marginalized people within.