idk, i think individual racism is definitely a thing in china, but i kinda doubt things are occurring in any way that the west says it. the uighur autonomous region was once an independent soviet that chose to join with china rather than the USSR. they have their own governing body, are legitimately autonomous, and the police force and facilities are all locals. so, if this is a genocide, its being carried out on uighurs by uighurs.

xinjiang borders afghanistan, which as you know has lots of terrorist groups with american funding in them. its only natural that theyd spill over the border. there were numerous terrorist attacks in xinjiang with casualties in the thousands. idk how youd even go about fixing such a nationalistic threat without improving material conditions, and that would be things like education, jobs, and infrastructure development. china built highspeed rail, much to their detriment, to xinjiang, so i think they're at least giving it a go. in fact i saw a video around 2016 about some american railmakers scoffing at the idea and saying that its so inefficient and unprofitable to do so.

all in all? i'm just glad they aren't full on carpet bombing the region ala the west