Radio War Nerd EP160—Xinjiang Surveillance State + WWI Poetry

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Radio War Nerd EP #160 — Xinjiang Surveillance State + WWI Poetry rwn_ep_160.mp3 Recorded: December 6, 2018 Guest: Vadim Mikhailov It's very hard these days to sort the propaganda from the truth about China's surveillance state & re-education camp crackdown in the western province of Xinjiang, targeting the Uyghur people of southern Xinjiang. In episode 149, guest Carl Zha offered up a deep forensic analysis that both confirmed reports of large-scale re-education camps and repression, and also debunked the more hyperbolic and hysterical propaganda exploiting an already dire enough situation. This episode, the War Nerd talks to a recent visitor to Xinjiang, "Vadim Mikhailov" (a pseudonym to protect the author), who reported his personal experiences in a recent article, "A Week in Xinjiang's Absolute Surveillance State".  At 1:18:00 after the break, the War Nerd breaks down World War One poetry, nation by nation. We discuss Kipling, Hardy, Apollinaire, Stevens, Seeger, Cendrars, Lissauer, Yeats, Bontempelli, Akhmatova... Read Vadim Mikhail's article, "A Week in Xinjiang's Absolute Surveillance State" published in Palladium magazine.