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Points I found most valuable from the article: > Introducing the report, Secretary of State Tony Blinken said President Biden would put human rights at the cen

Points I found most valuable from the article: > Introducing the report, Secretary of State Tony Blinken said President Biden would put human rights at the center of U.S. foreign policy. > The report finds that more than one million mainly Muslim Uyghurs were held in detention camps in China’s Xinjiang region, with some subjected to forced sterilization, rape, forced labor and torture. > He also acknowledged that the U.S. had work to do at home on human rights, including in combating systemic racism, but would face those challenges in the daylight, unlike autocratic countries.

dundarious 6y ago
The "million in detention" claim is based on Adrian Zenz' questionable work, where he took the percentage of people per village in camps from 8 Uyghur testimonies (totaling ~2000 in camps), and extrapolated out to the entire region. I have no doubt the police state in Xinjiang is brutal to my Western conception, but given the recent history for the US in particular to compile dodgy dossiers filled with "encouraged" testimony from a handful of sources, I'm skeptical and would absolutely not take the million figure as fact.