You haven’t heard because they are very good at being quiet about what they do. Google Uighur, then google further since you now know what to look for.

At this point I'm treating any information coming from Western sources as propaganda and definitely questionable. It wasn't always like this, but that's what the last couple of years have made me think.

As such, I'd need other sources than Western media to tell me what to think about what happens to the Uighurs (whom I'm sure do not have an easy life, far from it).

Good for you. Don't assume other sources aren't propaganda, though. In fact, they're probably worse.

Chinese sources will be devoid of any information which can put a bad face on the party even in the second order effects.

It sounds like you're saying that, because you can't be certain of the truth presented by Western media, you're just going to assume that everyone be going on in China is just a-okay.

Maybe go ahead and find those alternate news sources, explain why you believe they are accurate, and present a conclusion?

You will be downvoted and ignored for 'whataboutism' but what you say is still true and one of the many many reasons why many people in the western world do not follow, appreciate or even accept the US as quasi leader.

I guessing you haven't read much of Chinese history? They killed tens of millions of their own people.

If the choice is between the US or China running the world, I'll pick the US, every. single. time.

> I guessing you haven't read much of Chinese history

Objectively speaking, the US history of genocide, slavery and global warfare and terrorist sponsorship even before becoming an uncontested hegemony hardly makes it look better.

> If the choice is between the US or China running the world, I'll pick the US, every. single. time.

Sure, but I would bet that you might just be privileged enough to live nearby the US inner economic circle.