Category: China

OK fine, it’s not Genocide… now what?

Last week the Economist spent a thousand words explaining to us why, techincally, what the Chinese are doing to the ethnic Uyghurs is not genocide. Their argument is that a genocide requires that the offending regime be actively slaughtering people. Otherwise it’s just (gasp!) “persecution.” On the one hand, I think this a weird hill… Continue reading OK fine, it’s not Genocide… now what?