Time 100 Profile of Chinese Dictator Xi Jinping Omits Genocide: ‘Rewriting How the World Works’

China’s communist dictator Xi Jinping received a coveted position on this year’s edition of Time magazine’s list of 100 most influential people, receiving a profile crediting him with “rewriting how the world works” that omits any mention of the ongoing Uyghur genocide.

Xi, widely considered China’s most powerful dictator since Mao Zedong, has been engaging in the erasure of indigenous communities in occupied East Turkistan – via the use of slavery, forced sterilization, and the wholesale destruction of historic and religious sites – for nearly a decade. The evidence of widespread imprisonment of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Turkic groups in concentration camps in East Turkistan has diminished since China claimed that the camps, dubbed “vocational training” centers, had “graduated” its victims. But as recently as this Thursday, evidence from human rights groups and defecting officers indicates that the subjugation has simply been made less visible, rather than eliminated.

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