Instruction
Please answer this question in approximately 500 words.
Imagine that you are an advisor to the incoming president, Joe Biden. Your task is to report on the situation faced by the Uighur minority in China (3-4 sentences only), and recommend a course of action (you must state clearly which of the following options you recommend, and why:
a. do nothing
b. non-military US intervention (such as economic sanctions)
c. US military intervention
d. putting international pressure on China using the United Nations (explain what you would do--"ask the UN to intervene" is not the right answer)
Your boss gives you a link to an overview of the situation: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-22278037 (Links to an external site.)
In your report, you must use (identify using bold and include in your reasoning) at least five of these concepts drawn from the course:
1. sovereignty
2. non-intervention
3. military intervention
4. humanitarian intervention
5. universal human rights
6. Security Council
7. veto power
7. International Criminal Court
8. crimes against humanity/genocide
9. liberal democracy
10. commercial liberalism
Example (do not reuse): "Any US intervention would be perceived as an assertion of hegemony, and in any case would be doomed to failure in the long term." Each correctly used concept is worth 1 point.
You are welcome to use other concepts. You are also welcome to draw on any sources within or outside the course. No citations are needed.