Abstract of the Ongoing Monograph: Genocide is “the crime of crimes,” yet claims about it often contradict its legal definition and far from meet the criminal standard of proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Politicians, media and NGOs, plus separatist groups globally, assert genocide. Most fail to present even a prima facie case of genocide’s sine qua non, the intent to destroy a protected group, reflecting the claim’s use as a stratagem to enhance the claimant’s position in an inter-state conflict or intra-state ethnic strife. The claim about China’s Xinjiang is not based on the mass killings always associated with genocide, but on a bloodless enforcement of birth limits for minorities in 2017-2021 that resembled those that China’s Han majority had experienced for decades, plus temporary family separations of some minority children. Examining the claim, which impels Western sanctions and incites anti-Chinese racism, we find it empirically unsound and incompatible with legal and common concepts of genocide.