Playing into imperialist hands Foppe de Haan seems to have been taken in by the campaign to demonise China, argues Daniel Lazare In his article last week 1 Foppe de Haan has a problem with what I wrote last month 2 about US charges that China is engaged in genocide against 12 million members of the Turkic Uyghur minority in its western province of Xinjiang. Curiously, it has nothing to do with my argument that the charges are overblown nonsense based on dubious sources and “shifting and inconsistent” evidence. To the contrary, comrade de Haan quite agrees. He writes: We are all aware of how the US will weaponise and even create ‘human rights’ situations in order to further its goals, and that it has engaged in such actions almost constantly since World War II. As such, I obviously agree with [Lazare] that the capitalist countries are promoting this narrative for the usual reasons, via the usual avenues (eg, the National Endowment for Democracy).