The human rights atrocities in China are next level. When we say next level, we mean truly next level. In truth, China is just one big human rights catastrophe. The U.S. State Department reports that in China:

 

“Significant human rights issues included credible reports of: arbitrary or unlawful killings; disappearances; torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment; involuntary or coercive medical or psychological practices; arbitrary arrest and detention by the government including, since 2017, of more than one million Uyghurs and members of other predominantly Muslim minority groups in extrajudicial internment camps, prisons, and an additional unknown number subjected to daytime-only “re-education” training; acts of transnational repression against individuals in other countries; serious restrictions on freedom of expression and media freedom, including unjustified arrests and criminal prosecution of journalists, lawyers, writers, bloggers, dissidents, petitioners, and others, and restrictions on internet freedom; restrictions of religious freedom; instances of coerced abortions and forced sterilization; trafficking in persons, including forced labor; prohibiting independent trade unions and systematic restrictions on workers’ freedom of association; and significant presence of some of the worst forms of child labor.”

 

All these human rights abuses are abominable, but what the Chinese government is doing in Xinjiang to over one million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities – including mass detention, intense surveillance, forced labor, and forced sterilization – must be stopped at once. Its actions are at best crimes against humanity and at worst genocide (China denies all allegations, claiming the vile facilities their victims are subjected to are “vocational training centers”).

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