China's "1984" What was this large complex with its 16 watchtowers that the authorities were so desperate to stop us filming? “It's a re-education school,” one hotelier told us. “Yes, that's a re-education school,” another shopkeeper agreed. “There are tens of thousands of people there now. They have some problems with their thoughts.” China's hidden camps
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51