Commentary In late January, chairman of the German Bundestag’s Committee on Foreign Affairs Norbert Röttgen and U.S. Republican Rep. Anthony Gonzalez published a letter signed by 70 other elected officials from G7 countries about the urgent need to co-ordinate and respond to Beijing’s various transgressions against the international order. The letter (among whose signatories are 13 Canadian MPs and six senators) cites the Chinese regime’s aggressive co-opting of international institutions for its own ends and escalating belligerence toward it neighbours, such as Taiwan and India. Coinciding with Holocaust Remembrance Day and pertinent to ongoing debates in Canada about the matter, the letter also stresses the need to hold the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to account for its campaign of repression against the Uyghur population in Xinjiang—deemed a genocide by both the Trump and Biden administrations. Pointing to the the vile treatment of the Uyghurs, including internment, food deprivation, forced …