Within the very controversial Chinese Government today, more than one million Uighur Muslims are being thrown into internment camps. The Chinese Government has been trying to hide this since 2017, but through satellite images, the rest of the world has caught a glimpse of the huge atrocity and systemic injustice that is occurring at the hands of the Chinese Government today. 
When analyzing this situation, it is important to ask who are these oppressed peoples and why is this happening. The Uighur people are an ethnically Turkic people who mostly adhere to Islam, live within the Xinjiang province, and identify closely with other central Asian nations like Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan, where significant numbers of Uighurs live also. They do not speak the traditional Chinese Mandarin and are not ethnically the same as most of the Han Chinese that are the majority within China. The Uighur people have for economically thrived over the course of the centuries through trade routes across the Central Asian Steppes like the famous Silk Road. Now you may be asking, why is this substantial minority of 11 million people within China being persecuted by the government there. To put it simply, it is due to there religion. The Chinese Government has deemed that many of the radical terrorist attacks that have occurred within the Xinjiang province by Uighur radicals, are due to the Islamic faith and therefore it must be repressed. Initially the Chinese government in Xinjiang began to outlaw common Islamic practices, like a man growing out his beard or women wearing veils, but then the destruction of mosques began. After this the President of China announced that the religions of China must be “Chinese-oriented” and must adapt themselves to a Socialist society. Thousands of Han Chinese people began to move to the area as more and more Uighurs were rounded up and thrown into what the Chinese Government is calling “reeducation centers”. These camps are forcing these minority peoples to learn to become more Chinese and to renounce their faiths. These camps have also been claimed to violent with regular beatings being performed upon the prisoners. With this information it is easy to see the Chinese Government is performing a serious injustice upon a minority group within its borders and it is systemically from the top down. 
Within the realm of this class, it is seen that this situation within Xinjiang, China, is a rather extreme showing of Simone de Beauvoir’s concept of Other. These Uighur muslim people are being cast out as Other, simply due to their religion, ethnicity, and lack of Chinese. They are being cast out and oppressed on a grand scale that truly exemplifies the concept of Other. This systemic injustices is subjugating a minority group, is not respecting its cultural differences, and it blatantly trying to oppress this group of people, and through this it is seen what a true systemic injustices looks like, that we can hope ends peacefully and never happens again.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/uighurs/
This above is a link that gives a thorough summary of what is going on within this situation, which I found very helpful.
Hi George,
Thank you for bringing attention to this serious injustice in Xinjiang, China. I agree with you that this is a case of casting a people group out as the Other. I also think that the Uighur muslim people could be considered a subaltern group. Their voices are clearly being oppressed as they have been forced into these camps and told to renounce their religious faith and traditions against their will. It frustrates me to hear about issues in the world like this one where it feels like I have no control over the horrible atrocities at hand. I think the first step is to spread awareness, so I really appreciate your post.
Thank you for bringing attention this crisis in China. For far too long, china has been a place where groups are “othered”very easily and this unfortunately is happening again. I found the quote from Xi to be very interested where you quoted him says that China must be China-orientated because it resembles the situation here in America with the whole oriented education bill, yet thankfully we have not progressed into throwing outliers into interment camps. Thank you again for you wonderfully written post!