If you were to loosen up the country a bit, the consequences would be terrifying.’
When the interviewer draws similarities to Mr. Liu’s trilogy, in which Australia’s population is enslaved and find that they prefer totalitarianism to democracy, Liu implies that she has been brainwashed by the West and that she, ‘with [her] inflexible sense of morality, was the alien.’
In an interview with the New Yorker last summer, when asked about the ongoing atrocities in [Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region], Mr. Liu parroted [Chinese Communist Party] talking points accusing all Uyghurs of being terrorists, then stating, ‘If anything, the government is helping their economy and trying to lift them out of poverty…