7.2.1.2. Xinjiang model camps for foreign media (新疆外媒示范营)
Starting in 2019, China officially invited foreign journalists to some of their model camps to show how happy people were.
It is hard to understand why they did this, as it just made everything worse for them, because everything was so obviously fake, and it actually allowed glimpses in some of the horrors. Why would a bunch of adults be playing games and learning useless stuff rather than be with their families working to earn money?
Online commentators have compared such camps to:
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Nazi model concentration camps which foreign people were invided to see, e.g. commented by the BBC itsef
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allowed a Red Cross visit in 1944
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0194445/plotsummary 1944 Nazi propaganda film about it
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZt92quVOsg contains a soccer match scene from it
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7nAfaLlqkE shows some scenes of children eating happily
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Paradise Camp (1986) is an Australian documentary about it
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Examples:
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2018-10-24 https://mobile.twitter.com/HuXijin_GT/status/1055013584806256644 (GitHub reupload archive) 2 minute video by Hu Xijin 胡锡进, editor-in-chief of the Global Times (环球时报, CCP media), showing happy women in a concentration camp playing ping-pong and dancing in the exercise area. Notice the similarity with the Theresienstadt videos, which also show sports events.
