Why is China committing Uyghur genocide in Xinjiang?

To clear their path for One Belt One Road

Maps cut through the rhetoric

Xinjiang is a massive region larger than Mongolia

China& #39;s planned route to the Arabian Sea is key for their Westward expansion - and strategically located next to the India-China border, not to mention their largest oil supplier Iran, and of course, Afghanistan.

Welcome to Great Power politics

Of course, as always, China can& #39;t do any of this if we decouple and stop underwriting them