My partner is Lebanese and one issue that has consistently come up with any discussion of Marxism (and honestly the online left as a whole) is Uyghur genocide denial. Essentially, they see it as proof of (white) western leftists being hypocrites and having a glaring Islamophobia problem. I’m inclined to defer to them, but at the same time, I’ve found myself often politically aligning with MLs on other issues, and I know very little about Chinese internal politics or the Uyghurs myself, so I would greatly appreciate being able to get an understanding of what the ML perspective is.
I think I also talk at length about ETIM and Xinjiang in this piece, though it’s not the focus: https://criticalresist.substack.com/p/independent-ngos-and-whitewashing. The World Uyghur congress is also an important player in the narrative: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/World_Uyghur_Congress