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China views this is a matter of NatSec. Right or wrong they view it this way and states spare nothing at this. The extremely bad news is that China has virtually unlimited resources, in money, tech and manpower. And no one can stop them. Not via war, not via UN. Even if they hire a minder for every 2-3 Muslims the Chinese Gov will probably do it. But tech has made their job very easy.

My guess is that they think that by flooding the place with Han Chinese and making their (Muslims) lives miserable, they will break them.

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And they probably will, sadly. It just takes time. If you remove their cultural identity through mixing of cultures, erasure of "non-sanctioned" cultures, then over time it will happen.

When displaying your non-Han-ness becomes something that will lead to you being imprisoned or denied jobs/housing/food, gradually all that will remain is Han.

There are definitely other, more humane ways to make the indigenous population join the melting pot. China should really look at how Hawaiians were integrated. aside from the initial war, there wasn’t that much bloodshed.

Eh, just because they throw the broad label "national security" on the project doesn't mean it has limitless value to them.

At the end of the day, the CCP is rather obviously optimizing for maintaining its rule. An economic slowdown caused by multilateral UN sanctions would pose a far greater threat to the CCP rule than the Uighurs ever have.

The problem is that the world generally doesn't pay that much attention to global human rights issues and citizens of developed countries currently care more about the money they're making from China than its human rights (and other) violations anyway.

Agree with your second paragraph though.

Sanctions...who's asking for them? No one. China would take everyone's econ down. USA placed sanctions on Iran, BUT, Saudis agreed to produce more oil for example.

With the amount of money China has and the size of their "enemy" limitless is the right word. Let's not forget that China has built 50 MILLION apartments just to do something. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=china+emp... All they have to do is blacklist them: behave like a Muslim and your doors are essentially closed...no jobs, credit etc etc.

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