In contrast to my post yesterday about the unwillingness of some liberals to express any negative views of Muslim extremists, China has no such qualms, and there is no need to include the qualifier "extremist". There is a chilling story in the Wall Street Journal today about how the treatment of Uyghurs, written by Marco Rubio.
He claims that some one million people may be in "re-education camps" and many of them are from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Arrest rates for Uyghurs who are 1.5% of China's population, are running at 21%.
He sees the need for action, recommending the following" The U.S. should apply Global Magnitsky Act sanctions against Xinjiang Communist Party Secretary Chen Quanguo. A Politburo member, he first gained experience with repression in Tibet. His tenure as party chief in Xinjiang has coincided with the proliferation of re-education camps, and he is seen as an innovator in his dark craft."
I'm not exactly sure what this would accomplish. China doesn't react to outside pressure on internal matters, and this one has another side. There were a series of attacks on civilians where people where killed with knives and hatchets. China wants to avoid this kind of event as much as the U.S. There capability to monitor communications, track individuals, and financial transactions makes it difficult to hide in China. There are only a small minority of Muslims doing this kind of thing, but China does call it like it is. These are radical Muslim extremists and need to be stopped.
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