I don't think China should get a pass on their 'reeducation' camps that imprison an entire population just because the US and Western forces see China as a threat to their hegemony. I think both China and the US deserve their fair share of criticism, and it is possible to do both at the same time. I think it's probably necessary too. The US obviously deserves great attention as its global organs steer much of the world's totalitarian trends, but I don't think China gets a pass here either. One of the interesting things is that China is basically a huge success when it comes to the stabilization of a pathological state, and specifically I mean in the social acceptance of full political control over its people and the integration of State ideology into life at the family level. We can see the movers and shakers working on implementing this model all over the world now in various forms.
But what if that view is colored by your own culture, and seeing freedom differently, if only a bit?
I've never lived in the US, but I did live in China. And I asked about a hundred of people what they thought of their government. Only ONCE did I notice one person being uncomfortable with the question, and he said "we can't say anything, it's bad". All the other times, the reply was along these lines: "China is a big country, and there are too many of us. The government keeps us together, there is unity in spite of the hundreds of ethnicities. No, it's not perfect, but I love China and feeling Chinese. We may not be able to criticize the government, but we can do whatever else we want". I wondered at times whether it was simply patriotism or part of the "brain-washing", but then I saw half of my students and friends planning on going abroad, or on forming their own companies, thinking for themselves. And people in rural areas seemed just as happy going about their lives. If the government was THAT tyrannical, it wouldn't allow that. It's not just that the Chinese workers are all "exploited working ants", or they would lack the creativity that we are witnessing in their economy. And the poor working conditions, when present, were imposed by private companies, not the government.
Maybe this is like discussing two types of narcissistic families, to put it simply:
US/West: the family without boundaries, with parents that create snowflakes, full of freedom. Common result: the kids live in the attic, and are not very responsible. Some have it better than others in terms of emotional support.
China: a family with 15 kids, where the parents are "cold" and "harsh". Common result: the kids are messed up too, but they learn responsibility and hold a job. Others lack self-confidence and don't do much with their lives.
In both cases, what the children grew up with is the "normal", and they don't consider it abuse, lack of freedom, etc. Some see, process, etc. Others don't. It ultimately depends on their "substratum", karma, what they decide to learn, etc.
If in that numerous family described above, one of the children were to start playing with a neighbor (US influences) that stirs up rebellion, the father would set some boundaries. Sure, it wouldn't be as extreme as a "reeducation camp", but there would still be measures taken. Ideal? No. But would you let the kid bully his mother and his siblings just to protect his "freedom", when you know he is being influenced and not thinking for himself? It's not so easy.
Maybe the analogy is oversimplistic. But I think that bringing this up just because some people are "pro-China" doesn't quite cut it. Those people seem to be few and far between in the West. Sure, maybe some are going overboard in thinking that China will "save the world", but they would cling to anything or anyone regardless, just because they need hope and a new authority figure.
Finally, I wonder if we're not giving too much credit to human beings here, in regards to their desire for agency. In one way or another, the big majority of people seem to want and need an authority of some sort. Ideally it would be a religion as taught by Paul, say, and a fair system. But it's not. And anarchy is not the solution. So, I think it's going a bit too far to expect "freedom" to work in idealistic ways.
And then, there is the problem of gigantism that Lobaczewski talked about. It's never easy in such a big country. Maybe there is true evil perpetrated towards some of the Uighur, but then you have to wonder, why them, and not the other 120 or so ethnic groups? Is it as simple as the Chinese government oppressing them for the fun of it? If so, then why is it that when you go to several other regions where nobody complains, everybody seems happy to write mandarin while keeping their culture and language too? Maybe XinJiang is where all the corrupt politicians are, but I doubt it's that simple.
And the lockdown argument doesn't really hold water either, I think. The WHO had something coming for a while, with its "possible scenarios reports" that read exactly like what is going on in the West right now. They didn't need the Chinese to set an example. BUT, at least the Chinese were direct: Obey, contain the virus, we're done. In the West, we keep getting orders that are like shifting sand. Maybe we'll have another lockdown next week, or maybe you'll have a curfew, or perhaps three masks. That is even more destabilizing, IMO. I'm not saying that lockdowns are good, of course. BUT, in the Chinese case it may have come as less of a shock, and it was short-lived and NOT done at a national level. They probably freaked out when they saw it had come from the US. And now, they aren't doing what the West is doing. Yes, it's a "one-world government" when it comes to vaccines, travel bans, etc. But in that sense it becomes useless to "blame" one side or the other.
And all this discussion would be irrelevant in a "multipolar world" anyway, because by the time that is even more set in place (say, if the US economy were really to collapse), Putin, Xi JinPing and their buddies would be gone, and who knows what changes that may bring? This is an STS world, after all, so it's unlikely that something better would exist.
Anyway, just some thoughts, FWIW.
I thought I'd made it clear that I do NOT think there is a genocide going on. But I do think it is clear that that CCP in Xinjiang is hyperpolicing, criminalizing what in my mind should not be criminal behavior, and utilizing an advanced surveillance state to keep the population in check and root out the smallest deviations, beyond what in my mind is reasonable. In the process, many innocent people get detained or arrested, sometimes for months or years. In my opinion, that much has already been uncovered, and that's what I base my thoughts on. It's not that the CIA is doing a poor job exposing it, they're just doing what they always do - whether or not there's anything to their accusations or not - which is creating the most headline-catching narrative that will suit their agenda, regardless of the facts. 
