Mesut Ozil, China and the failure to look closer to home before letting politics overtake sport
Still, he is right about China. Beijing’s treatment of the Uighurs is disgusting. The programmes of Sinofication in the ethnic-minority regions of the world’s most populous nation are brutal and repressive. Much of the criticism directed at Arsenal is because most people in the UK agree that the Chinese conduct in Xinjiang is vile. The majority of people claim to want to keep politics out of sport – except when they agree with those politics.
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