Over a million Uighurs in China are imprisoned in concentration camps, being brainwashed to talk about how they love Chairman Xi, as well as starved, sterilized, tortured, raped, and, killed.

Those outside the camps are subject to total tracking and control.

Uighurs outside China say they can no longer reach their parents or their children, nor find out where those are.

Ironically, China's wealth has bought the support of governments that claim to defend Muslims.

I disagree with the claim made by an interviewee that imprisonment in Guantanamo is nothing compared with imprisonment in those concentration camps. The two have a lot in common.

The article reports about Chinese people who defend the oppression and totalitarian control of Uighurs to be "patriotic" Chinese. This reminds me of the Americans who defend US wars to be "patriotic" Americans. Just as Americans are inclined to assume their superiority to other nations, so are Chinese, who have long called other peoples "barbarians".

Both peoples need to learn to resist that misguided idea of "patriotism". A true patriot wants per country to deserve respect, not extort it through bullying.