A heavy hand in Xinjiang
China has long had an uneasy relationship with the Uighurs, Muslims who constitute a majority of the population in the western province of Xinjiang.
showing that the principal aim of authoritarian regimes is to maintain their control. This is nothing more than dictatorship under a different name. Human rights cannot be sacrificed this way; they must be held higher than the existence of any political regime, China acts in violation of the UN Charter and human rights conventions to resolve "national conflicts" rather than implementing democracy and protecting human rights. For specifics please refer to the Charter for Permanent Peace and Development.