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'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.

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Of course, as always, China can't do any of this if we decouple and stop underwriting them
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