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The Chinese government threatens to respond “in kind” to any sanctions imposed over Xinjiang. Far enough. It should sanction anyone who is detaining a million or more Uyghur/Turkic Muslims to force them to abandon Islam, their language and their culture.

Beijing's latest Xinjiang "defense": We may have detained 1+ million Uyghur/Turkic Muslims, separated countless children from their parents, and imposed a highly intrusive surveillance state, but it's ok because we lifted people out of poverty. #NotWorthIt 

Beijing is using access to the Chinese market to press international companies to censor themselves or even to support its horrible repression of Uyghur/Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang. Companies should avoid the huge reputational risk of such complicity.

The Chinese government is deploying its trolls and partisans to demonize and threaten online people overseas who conduct research into Beijing's unspeakable repression of Uyghur and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang, such as this Australian researcher.

China’s cover-up of its severe repression of Uyghur/Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang is "the biggest international propaganda campaign on a single topic that [one expert] had seen in her 25 years of researching the Chinese propaganda system."

The Chinese government has been using Kazakhstan's economic dependence to silent protests about Beijing's severe repression of ethnic Kazakhs (and Uyghur/other Turkic Muslims) in Xinjiang. Activists and victims in Kazakhstan are no longer safe.

The Chinese government evidently thought it could throw around the word "terrorism" and the world would accept its massive, indiscriminate persecution of Uyghur/Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang. In fact, no one seems to be buying it. Condemnations are mounting.

For Beijing's detention centers for Uyghur/Turkic Muslims: "anyone from Xinjiang who had travelled abroad was to be presumed guilty: 'If suspected terrorism cannot be ruled out, then a border control should be implemented to insure the person’s arrest.'”

The Chinese government can't even keep its cover stories straight about its horrible persecution of Uyghur/Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang. First there were no internment camps. Then they were voluntary “boarding schools.” Now Beijing is fighting "terrorism."

The Chinese government's large-scale coercing of Uyghur and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang "to pick cotton by hand has spurred a global reaction with Governments and big businesses calling for a ban on cotton imports from China."