At a time when China is celebrating the values of Olympism and using the Winter Games to try to promote its image in the world, the broadcast Tuesday evening on Arte of the shocking documentary on the drama of the Uighurs could not have been more badly timed for Beijing. .
The fate of this Muslim minority in Xinjiang has prompted a number of Western countries, including the United States, to a diplomatic boycott of the Games.
But inside the ultra-controlled "bubble" of athletes and in front of international cameras, there will be no demonstration of solidarity by athletes or the public with the Uighurs or with the Tibetans and Mongols, other oppressed minorities. .
Xinjiang, a restive province of China's "Far West"
The documentary directed by and François Reinhardt and Romain Franklin, clinically dissects the repression carried out by Beijing in Xinjiang, a restive province of the Chinese “Far West”, populated mainly by Turkish-speaking Muslims.
Beyond the fate of the Uighurs, this says a lot about the state of mind of the new emperor Xi Jinping...
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