I want to believe her, but again:

"Her story, first told to the Dutch Uyghur Human Rights Foundation, is difficult to verify. It is hard to take photos inside detention facilities and there is little documentation. But details match accounts by other camp detainees and research into coercive birth control practices."

This person's story is heartbreaking, but it is merely a thread in an investigation if hard evidence isn't there. The DURF, when you go to their website (https://www.duhrf.org/who-are-the-uyghurs/), is run by five apparently anonymous individuals. They have links to other organizations, one of which I know has at least some leadership linked to American regime change projects.

I'm Jewish. I can't stand authoritarian regimes or concentration camps (hence my objections to the current US regime). However, I don't want to be lead by the nose into another war or brutal sanctions regime that kills hundreds of thousands or millions (as has happened many times in the past) because I didn't ask for evidence when it mattered. If China is really doing this stuff, show me hard evidence.

> If China is really doing this stuff, show me hard evidence.

What exactly is "hard evidence" to you?

The point of evidence is to get at the truth, and standards that are either too low or too high both fail to achieve that. The former admits lies; the latter denies truth, which can be thought of another kind of lie.

Your skepticism is well placed, but if retaliation against your family/extended family can take place, I can see why they might have chosen to stay anonymous. Regarding the links with the other organisation, if these are really responsible for regime changes, I can see why they might want to fund their activities but that doesn't prove CCP's innocence.

Though five decades back but US administration ignored the blood telegram[1] when a genocide of millions happened and they supported the regime who did it, so they definitely are not some white knights as well.

It would be hard to get hard evidence I think, there have been videos of prisoner transfers between these camps, satellite footage of these structures but CCP can always spin a different story about them.

Anyway war is something no one should indulge in unless it threatens their own sovereignty, it is not worth it.

I would say sanctions are reasonable though with the evidence we have seen, considering the other things as well which I had mentioned in my original comment.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_Telegram:_Nixon,_K...

BTW, just the fact that China is hiding something in Xinjiang and Tibet and we don't know what exactly is enough to impose sanctions.

There's no presumption of innocence here, it is not a criminal court.

Keeping up with the tradition to invade countries off invented suspicion of WMD.

I doubt most sane people are asking for an invasion.

Most people do not want any war, even if it is against CCP. However the current administration seems to be pushing for at least a limited skirmish. US airforce planes have been flying 100 miles off the coast of major Chinese cities. It is less reported in US news outlets though.

US spy planes flying near china is definitely not new, nor limited to this administration:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident

You're not wrong. Though following your line of thought, US sacking Beijing isn't new or limited to this administration either https://thediplomat.com/2015/06/when-americans-ruled-beijing...