World Uyghur Congress which allegedly represents the &quot;collective interests of the Uyghur peoples&quot; is funded by the National Endowment for Democracy and it&#x27;s president is living in the US.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;World_Uyghur_Congress" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;World_Uyghur_Congress</a><p>So please don&#x27;t tell me there is no interest. If the US government was impartial then they would at least refrain from funding this group as it is not their business to interfere in internal conflicts of foreign countries without UN resolution.<p>&gt; it&#x27;s pretty insulting to their culture to imagine they&#x27;d be freely and happily assimilating Han Chinese culture<p>China has pretty strong minority rights and the Uyghurs even have their own autonomous region.<p>But aside from that: No one will happily assimilate. The strong will always crush the weak. Did the native Americans happily assimilate? I heard there were 100 million of them before the settlers came. Where have they gone?<p>Edit: Nowhere did I insinuate that they would happily assimilate. Aside from that, this is not only a thing that authoritarian regimes do.<p>In the EU it currently seems as if every politician is thinking about how to assimilate the Muslims. Trust me, no one is going to ask them if they want to assimilate.<p>They will be forced. And this in a full fledged democracy.