As China begins to ease its “zero-COVID” policy in response to a successful protest movement that swept the country — a protest quite literally sparked by a horrific apartment fire that left many dead and injured — we should celebrate the success of this movement while continuing to put pressure on China’s totalitarian regime. After all, the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights abuses did not start during the pandemic, nor will they end with it.
For years, thousands of Uyghurs living in Xinjiang have been subjected to a horrifying genocidal sinicization project. Nury Turkel, the chairman of the United States International Religious Freedom Commission and a Uyghur activist himself, describes this in his recent book, No Escape.
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