> It's not about race but rather their patriotism towards China.

Please explain, then, why race is a category used to reduce a person's numeric "trustworthiness score" in China. If one is ethnically Uighur instead of Han or if one has received religious education then one is deemed by the government as "less trustworthy" -- not because of behaviour or evidence of a crime but simply because of ethnicity.[1][2][3]

Since this score is used to determine whether freedoms are restricted (e.g. travel, communication, and forced "re-education"), it is racism.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/thousands-chin...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/opinion/china-re-educatio...

[3] (TFA) https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/05/31/china-has-turn...