Offtopic. I'm now to the point where I reflexively close a tab if a model dialog pops up and obscures the content. Why do so many sites insist on annoying their users these days?
Please don't miss the irony of you complaining about full screen modals on an article discussing xenophobic genocide. You may experience some down votes for venting your first world problems at a poorly chosen time.
That all depends on your perspective. Xinjiang used to be where the Dzunghar Mongols lived. The Uyghurs are just the people who filled the vacuum.
I'm sure I'll get downmodded to hell for pointing this out, but what's happening in xinjiang right now is a mass internment, with terrorism as the casus belli. It might turn into ethnic cleansing in the near future. It's unlikely to turn into genocide, and it's definitely not right now.