Even taking the cherry-picked history [1] and denial of Uyghur genocide at face value, this is simply yet another in a long line of articles that boil down to:

Your history is evil, therefore you do not have a right to self-defense [2].

[1] The author never asks himself how a country the size of China came to be 91.6% Han-Chinese, nor does he mention the Taiping Rebellion, the bloodiest civil war in history at 20 million dead, that overshadows the Opium Wars and cannot be blamed on the West.

[2] Against e.g. Chinese soft power/influence and economic exploitation of various forms.