China is rounding up Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province and holding them in concentration camps. In these camps, Uighurs are subject to all sorts of tortures, including brainwashing and forcible sterilisation of Uighur women, to make them more Chinese.

Days after a group of 22 nations signed a letter addressed to the president of the UN Human Rights Council and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights calling on China to end its massive detention program in Xinjiang, a group of 37 countries submitted a similar letter in defense of China’s policies.

Those that signed the first letter, criticizing China, were: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK. Signing the second letter, in defense of China’s policies, were: Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Belarus, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Gabon, Kuwait, Laos, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe. If you’re surprised that the first letter was signed by mostly democratic secular Western countries and the second letter was signed by some Muslim-majority countries, you should not be.

Ultimately, it looks like no one cares, probably because China has always been careful to keep its human rights abuses to itself and there has been so much effort and resources expended in the West to push the idea that “Muslim = bad” that it’s difficult to suddenly reposition them as victims. The reporting of the Rohingya massacres at the hands of Buddhists in Myanmar had the same problem.