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filoria@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

EU reaches deal on forced labour ban, with China’s Xinjiang in its sights

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EU reaches deal on forced labour ban, with China’s Xinjiang in its sights

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filoria@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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Provisional agreement would target sectors and regions profiting from state-imposed forced labour based on database drawn up by European Commission.
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    Adrian Zenz, a German researcher at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, whose work on Xinjiang has been widely-cited by Western legislators, said it would be better to have “no legislation” than what the EU has proposed

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    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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      Since not everybody is familiar with what an utter fraud Zens is, here’s a quick summary on this quack.

      Zenz is a born-again Christian who lectures at the European School of Culture and Theology. This anodyne-sounding campus is actually the German base of Columbia International University, a US-based evangelical Christian seminary which considers the “Bible to be the ultimate foundation and the final truth in every aspect of our lives,” and whose mission is to “educate people from a biblical worldview to impact the nations with the message of Christ.”

      Zenz’s work on China is inspired by this biblical worldview, as he recently explained in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. “I feel very clearly led by God to do this,” he said. “I can put it that way. I’m not afraid to say that. With Xinjiang, things really changed. It became like a mission, or a ministry.”.

      Along with his “mission” against China, heavenly guidance has apparently prompted Zenz to denounce homosexuality, gender equality, and the banning of physical punishment against children as threats to Christianity.

      Zenz outlined these views in a book he co-authored in 2012, titled Worthy to Escape: Why All Believers Will Not Be Raptured Before the Tribulation. In the tome, Zenz discussed the return of Jesus Christ, the coming wrath of God, and the rise of the Antichrist.

      The fact that this nutcase is being paraded as a credible researcher on the subject is absolutely surreal, and it’s clear that the methodology of his “research” doesn’t pass any kind of muster when examined closely.

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        :zenz:

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