Why? Answers can be traced to prevailing economic and geopolitical pressures; nations fear the economic hit they will likely take if they challenge or sanction China for its ethnic cleansing of the Uyghur people. China is an economic superpower, and nations across the world rely on it heavily for imports, investment, and trade. China's economic hegemony abroad has enabled it, as its stature grows, to deepen its genocidal authoritarianism at home.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 562