After years of brutal repression, China's Communist Party tries to turn Xinjiang into a tourism hotspot
China gave the ABC a tightly controlled tour of Xinjiang. Here's what we saw
My father visited western China in the early 90s, it was an absolute mission to get that far west back then. And it was a real back water. Very poor but he loved it, he absolutely loved it said the people and the food was amazing.
That's the general sentiment I've seen a lot. China was really going places and dramatically improving until Xi turned up
It's the system that is the issue. Without checks and balances if it wasn't Xi it would just be another guy with a different name.
I believe Deng Xiaoping had two successors lined up last being Hi Jintao, so a dictator was always going to seize power when xi came on.
So you can replace until Xi showed up with until anyone showed up that term.
Sounds like a wonderful trip. Hopefully there will be emancipation during our lifetimes
You father must be hungry to appreciate the "famine" food.
He said the food in China was awful back then in general so it wasn't hard to beat.
Mass tourism dilutes locals in any city or region
But I am sure that ain't what the goal here is...
Xipooh wouldn't so that to the undiserable ethnic "residents"
This is the best summary I could come up with:
On the streets of historic Kashgar, a desert oasis in Western China known as the cradle of Uyghur culture, a brand new "Ancient City" is in the midst of a tourist boom.
For several years, the region of Xinjiang has been shut off from most of the world's media, amid a highly secretive government campaign to stamp out extremism amongst the Uyghur population and other Muslim minorities.
When a knife and explosive attack on Urumqi train station overshadowed President Xi Jinping's trip to the province in 2014, he ordered officials to "strike hard" against terrorism.
Since then, a chorus of academics, researchers, journalists and legal scholars have meticulously documented widespread abuses at the hands of the government, including mass internment camps, forced labour and birth prevention policies.
Describing such claims as "absurd", Peter Irwin said the UHRP has documented the destruction of thousands of mosques and upwards of 1,500 cases of Uyghur Imams and other religious figures who have been detained or disappeared.
The Chinese Communist Party's big tourism push for Xinjiang is another blow to members of the Uyghur community around the world who have been unable to speak to their families back home, let alone visit them.
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That's some gumption.
Just ignore the existence of terrorist group that keeps stabbing citizens and setting off bombs. Pretend that Xinjiang is not an automous zone with its own governance. Condemn China for using prison labor even though the US has the largest prison labor population in the world. Get mad because the belt and road initiative is improving a region cut off from resources for so long. Brain broken Western media.
Condemn China for using prison labor even though the US has the largest prison labor population in the world
You genocide deniers are the only ones who think this is an either-or situation.
Most people who are even just inclined to the left condemn both, as should you, but you clearly don't give a shit about defending oppressed people, unless you can use them as a debate tool to help you lick other oppressor boot.
So despite what you like to tell yourself, you have no moral high ground to be judging others from, genocide denying bootlicker.
More whataboutism from yet another whiny ignorant tankie. Cry more
So, are these “Western media” in the room with us right now?
Like you are pretending that imprisoning a substantial portion of an ethnic group isn't just racist genocide?
The "ethnic group" in question are arrested because they're associated with Turkistan Movement. A terrorist organization that believes Xinjiang belongs to Turkistan. While members of this terrorist organization are Uygher Muslims, they also attack Uygher Muslims and are arrested by Xinjiang police, which employ Uygher Muslims. Half of the region is Uygher and they're trying to handle a terrorist situation.
You're right! We need to do something about all those terrorists lining the streets of Xinjiang. We all must band together to rid the world of this vile, evil scourge called the CCP!
They'll be lined up against the wall soon enough.
Tankie or CCP bootlicker?
Is that not the same thing?
But no one is ignoring the existence of China?
Filthmontane
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