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CHINA | S05 02 - How Tiananmen is being repeated in Xinjiang
Published 4 years, 7 months ago
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For decades Australia has taken the approach that when it comes to China; we can criticise their human rights record without risking our trading relationship.
We told China we disapproved of their crackdown on students at Tiananmen Square in 1989, but continued to sell them iron ore.
Xi Jinping has made it clear that the arrangement has now changed, as he simultaneously takes the lessons Beijing learned at Tiananmen, and applies them to a crackdown on Muslims in his country's far west.
Guests:
Rose Tang, 1989 Tiananmen Square protester
Alim Osman, president, Uyghur Association of Victoria
Kevin Rudd, former Australian Prime Minister
Yaqiu Wang, researcher, Human Rights Watch