It has been 60 days since @AbiyAhmedAli declared #WarOnTigray. 60 days on, the war still rages across Tigray & the region is still under almost full communication, banking and transport block out. From the limited info that comes out, millions of people are starving 1
The emotional toll of the #WarOnTigray
— Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel (\u1270\u12bd\u120b\u12ed) (@TeklehaymanotG) December 9, 2020
It has been 36 days since @AbiyAhmedAli\u2019s regime in Ethiopia declared #WarOnTigray. The entire region has been on complete lockdown for over five weeks; including no banking, telecom, power, transport services. (1)
Ethnic profiling: travel restrictions have been placed on #Tigrayans across #Ethiopia.
Impoverishing Tigray:
https://t.co/tXioNiQ10u
Zenith Oil factory in Shire:
https://t.co/NQLIXQIJFm
Addis Pharmaceutical Factory in Adigrat (reportedly completely looted and destroyed) https://t.co/BsV3Vuq533
One way the other, we will make them pay.#Almeda Textile Factory in #Adwa destroyed by #Eritrea and #Ethiopia armies. pic.twitter.com/XW2vrhbvVx
— Tigist (@tigistAA) December 26, 2020
Dictator @AbiyAhmedAli announced that he has executed 16 retired #Tigrayian military officers that were arrested from their home in Addis Abeba,#Ethiopia.Condolences to their families & loved ones.#TigrayGenocide #StopWarOnTigray @UN @hwr @KenRoth @IntlCrimCourt @ABlinken
— Gidena Mesfin Kebede, PhD (@gidenamesfin) January 2, 2021
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Let's begin with some of the things you have said about Xinjiang, notably absent from your more recent media appearances, but still present in your blog about your 2014 biking trip.
Prove it...
— Jerry's China (@Jerry_grey2002) December 30, 2020
Without quoting Adrian Zenz who's never been there or exiles and criminals who seek asylum or cash for their stories or perhaps some satellite images of shopping centres and factories with fencelines.
You can't show any evidence that this is true https://t.co/wiozJIjusH
The following is taken from an ongoing list I keep of people who have been to Xinjiang and written/spoken about their experiences. It is separate from the testimony of detainees and their relatives I also keep. Jerry is on this
Jerry, your article for CGTN, as well as your various Medium pieces, belabor themselves to emphasize the smoothness of your time in Xinjiang. Why did you leave out so many details from your log of your 2014 trip? They seem relevant.
For example, would CGTN not let you speak about Shanshan, the town that evidently disturbed you so much?
![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqnpUVYXIAAYkeB.jpg)
Why, pray tell, after noting how kind and hospitable Xinjiang police were to you in 2019 for CGTN—and how you were never told where you could or could not go—would you omit these details?
![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eqnpo_ZW4AExtWC.jpg)
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This New York Times feature shows China with a Gini Index of less than 30, which would make it more equal than Canada, France, or the Netherlands. https://t.co/g3Sv6DZTDE
That's weird. Income inequality in China is legendary.
Let's check this number.
2/The New York Times cites the World Bank's recent report, "Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations Around the World".
The report is available here:
3/The World Bank report has a graph in which it appears to show the same value for China's Gini - under 0.3.
The graph cites the World Development Indicators as its source for the income inequality data.
![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DsVOm2EVYAET8R9.jpg)
4/The World Development Indicators are available at the World Bank's website.
Here's the Gini index: https://t.co/MvylQzpX6A
It looks as if the latest estimate for China's Gini is 42.2.
That estimate is from 2012.
5/A Gini of 42.2 would put China in the same neighborhood as the U.S., whose Gini was estimated at 41 in 2013.
I can't find the <30 number anywhere. The only other estimate in the tables for China is from 2008, when it was estimated at 42.8.