Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide

Yes - we know this. We've known this for a long time.

The question is what now? Western nations have shown no political will to stand up to China.

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> having an excuse to go to war with China

I don't see any evidence of that. The current administration is pretty friendly towards China.

(China would lose though. Just block the oil and coal supply routes)

This is something that future generations are going to look back at with a lot of shame. It's going to end up being in textbooks as another thing where students wonder why we were OK with genocide happening under our noses.

In the US at least, we are not taking this problem seriously enough. There's a lot of acknowledgement that something bad is happening, but not a lot of clear coordination on an international scale to actually stop it. I am generally a non-interventionist, but this is an area where we need to get more involved and we need to be more forceful about pulling the economic and social levers that we have at our disposal.

It still feels like we're just treating this like "problematic" behavior from a contentious ally, rather than a genocide. At least in the US, we are still not really grappling with the gravity of that word.