> Every country probably has a signature few cases of prosecution that may provoke our indignation.
A “few signature cases”??
I completely agree that what China is doing is completely wrong, immoral and bordering on genocide but let’s not swing too far the other way here.
The US has used the prison system to persecute black people en mass for the past 70 years. Look at differing rates of incarceration and length of sentences.
On top of that, the reason that the US has the highest prison population is because of the war on drugs, which the US has long used as an excuse to persecute minorities, whether they are black, Hispanic, Chinese or Mormon.