Morally I think the treatment of the Uighurs is pretty awful, geopolitically it's irrelevant. Made obvious by the indifference to it even in the Islamic world. And if you think American behavior is determined by the plight of the Uighurs rather than anxiety over losing its hegeomnic position, I have a bridge to sell you.

And yes people have prematurely talked about the end of the dollar mostly for ideological reasons, but now the situation is very different. If you had told me a few years ago that over the course of weeks France will settle gas trades in the UAE in Yuan while Iran and Saudi Arabia restore relations brokered by China with Washington sidelined I would have looked at you funny. This time the world has changed. It's not gonna happen tomorrow or next year, but if the US continues to weaponize its economy to enforce its own politics on other countries, it's a matter of when and not if.