This trend will obviously be accelerated as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. A million Muslims were put in camps and are living under this extraordinary surveillance, and it is deeply disturbing. Very few other countries wanted to make a fuss about this, including many Muslim countries, for fear of angering China. The European Union now is completely blocked from saying anything negative about China because just one country like Hungary or Greece can say, “No we’re not going to offend China because we’ve got an infrastructure project at their funding,” and that’s it.

