Liu is acting as a consulting producer for the series. Benioff and Weiss said the books were “the most ambitious science-fiction series we’ve read, taking readers on a journey from the 1960s until the end of time, from life on our pale blue dot to the distant fringes of the universe”, while Woo called it an “elegant and deeply human allegory”. Netflix announced at the start of September that Game of Thrones co-creators David Benioff and DB Weiss would be adapting the Hugo award-winning novel The Three-Body Problem and its two sequels, together with TV writer Alexander Woo. But according to former national security adviser John Bolton’s memoir The Room Where It Happened, Trump told Xi Jinping in 2019 that building concentration camps in Xinjiang “was exactly the right thing to do”, and the US president “didn’t want sanctions because of the China trade negotiations”. The decision to produce an adaptation of Mr Liu’s work can be viewed as such normalisation … In the face of such atrocities in XUAR, there no longer exist corporate decisions of complacency, only complicity.”ĭonald Trump signed the Uighur Human Rights Act into law in July, which will sanction Chinese officials over the mass incarceration of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities. “Sadly, a number of US companies continue to either actively or tacitly allow the normalisation of, or apologism for, these crimes.
“These crimes are committed systemically and at a scale which may warrant a distinction of genocide,” the US senators wrote to Netflix. Concerted attacks on the Muslim Uighur minority have been catalogued by human rights groups and western governments, even as earlier this summer China’s ambassador to the UK insisted the Uighur people live in “peaceful and harmonious coexistence with other ethnic groups”.
An Australian thinktank found this week that China has built nearly 400 internment camps in the Xinjiang region.
The senators, led by Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, said that the Chinese Communist party was “committing atrocities” in Xinjiang, “including mass imprisonment, forced labour, thought transformation in order to denounce religion and culture, involuntary medical testing, and forced sterilisation and abortion”.
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