| This is an OZY Special Briefing, an extension of the Presidential Daily Brief. The Special Briefing tells you what you need to know about an important issue, individual or story that is making news. Each one serves up an interesting selection of facts, opinions, images and videos in order to catch you up and vault you ahead. WHAT TO KNOW What’s happening? A Turkic-speaking Muslim minority, Uighurs have long been the odd ones out in China — despite official ideology casting them as equal citizens. Their homeland in the western Xinjiang province is a strategic, resource-rich region to which Han Chinese have been increasingly attracted in recent years. That’s sparked ethnic tensions, which the government has routinely blamed on the Uighurs and used as justification to create a massive surveillance state. It has allegedly put as many as 1 million Uighurs, one-tenth of the group’s Chinese population, in detention. Why does it matter? Uighurs report being forced to recant their religious beliefs and even tortured in the camps, to which one can allegedly be sent for offenses like holding strong religious beliefs, planning trips abroad or observing Uighur funeral customs. And while China denies that it’s curtailing religious freedom or reeducating anyone, U.S. officials are starting to take notice: Sen. Marco Rubio has called for action, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the U.N. have both criticized China’s conduct. So far, though, neither the U.N. nor the U.S. has taken any concrete actions to attempt to put an end to the reported human rights abuses. | 