Why Did Liberal Elites Ignore a 21st-Century Genocide?

For many elite institutions, victims only matter when they’re useful

Demonstrators raise banners in Tiananmen Square with the words “Truth, Compassion, Tolerance.” Over 30,000 Falun Gong adherents were arrested on the square from 1999–2000, many of whom were then sent to reeducation camps. (Photo used with permission from faluninfo.net)

In the world’s most populous country, over a million members of a religious minority have been detained without trial in reeducation camps. When they’re not performing forced labor and making goods for export, they are tortured, beaten, shocked with electric…