China-Uyghur Conflict Spills Into Oz

An Australian named Jeff Daniels made a documentary called The 10 Conditions of Love. It is about exiled Uyghur leader Rebiya Kadeer. The film is going to be shown at the Melbourne film festival in August and Kadeer will be there at the screening.

China, obviously, is not happy. It first demanded that the film not be screened. When organizers rejected the "request", the Chinese government pressured its own filmmakers to withdraw their films from the Melbourne film festival. It's all nicely summed up here.

I don't know if China realizes that its bullying is actually helping the Uyghur cause. No doubt the Chinese government will bus in Chinese immigrants from all over Australia to the film festival, hand them red Chinese flags, and make them "protest" against that splitist (my favorite word of the month) Kadeer.

CNN Australia coverage


The 10 Conditions of Love trailer