More than 2 million Chinese Uighur Muslims have been thrown into a vast network of concentration camps. There, they have been stripped of their cultural identity, forcibly sterilized, used in rape-prostitution networks, and then deployed as slave labor. The Uighurs’ plight has rightly been identified by the U.S. government as a genocide.

Beijing won’t stop, even after being discovered, but the Xi regime hasn’t quite figured out how to defend its indefensible conduct.