Bloomberg New Economy: When It Comes to China, Biden is Trump 2.0

It’s a mistake, says the Anglo-French legal scholar Philippe Sands, to “fetishize the names we give to acts of horror.”

A leading authority on genocide, Sands laments that the focus on that particularly fraught term draws attention away from other acts of mass atrocity. And that whether you call it “genocide” or “crimes against humanity” or something else, in his view China’s treatment of its Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang is more simply referred to as “wrong and criminal.”