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As far as propaganda goes, this is really something. Let's be clear about what China is actually doing in Xinjiang. 1/ https://twitter.com/Chinamission2un/status/1343985069795516416
The PRC is currently estimated to be interning more than a million Uyghur Muslims in "reeducation camps" designed to eradicate their beliefs and culture. 2/ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang-rights/1-5-million-muslims-could-be-detained-in-chinas-xinjiang-academic-idUSKCN1QU2MQ
Thousands of these captive Uyghurs have been conscripted into what amounts to forced labor. 3/ https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/china-83-major-brands-implicated-in-report-on-forced-labour-of-ethnic-minorities-from-xinjiang-assigned-to-factories-across-provinces-includes-company-responses/
China has likewise carried out a policy of forced sterilizations and other coercive measures designed to suppress birth rates in Xinjiang and reduce the Muslim population there. 4/ https://jamestown.org/product/sterilizations-iuds-and-mandatory-birth-control-the-ccps-campaign-to-suppress-uyghur-birthrates-in-xinjiang/
Chinese authorities have also implemented policies designed to break up Uyghur families, and to separate Uyghur children from their parents. 5/ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-48825090
These actions amount to violations of the 1948 Genocide Convention, which prohibits "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." END/ https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.1_Convention%20on%20the%20Prevention%20and%20Punishment%20of%20the%20Crime%20of%20Genocide.pdf
The real question, as always, is what the world is prepared to do about it... and what is the United States?
