My partner is Lebanese and one issue that has consistently come up with any discussion of Marxism (and honestly the online left as a whole) is Uyghur genocide denial. Essentially, they see it as proof of (white) western leftists being hypocrites and having a glaring Islamophobia problem. I’m inclined to defer to them, but at the same time, I’ve found myself often politically aligning with MLs on other issues, and I know very little about Chinese internal politics or the Uyghurs myself, so I would greatly appreciate being able to get an understanding of what the ML perspective is.
I mean they were literally fighting US sponsored terrorism in the region. The approach they chose to combat it was to educate people and provide them with jobs improving their standard of living. This led to mass deradicalization leading to Xinjiang we see today. BadEmpenada video has absolutely terrible framing of the whole thing in my opinion.