Xi visits Xinjiang for the first time since the crackdown – Times of India

Beijing: Leader of China, Xi Jinpinghas . made his first visit to the western sector of xinjiang Since he started a campaign of mass detention of Uighurs there. His visit was a declaration of success in his years-long effort to suppress ethnic resistance, despite international condemnation. Xi’s four-day visit that ended on Friday focused on showing that Xinjiang had become united and stable under his leadership. Since his last visit in 2014, Xi has adopted drastic policies – widespread arrests, surveillance, indoctrination and mass arrests – to pressure the region’s Uighurs and other largely Muslim ethnic groups to recognize them as members of a Chinese nation. Labor transfer – accelerated. Communist Party,
“Every ethnic group in Xinjiang is an inseparable member of the great family of Chinese nationalism,” Xi said while visiting the heavily Uighur neighborhood of Xinjiang’s regional capital, Urumqi. xinhua news agency informed of. His published remarks did not mention the eradication of “extremism” and “separatism”, which officials have long cited as justifications for the party’s serious policies.
Chinese state media also showed Xi greeting a crowd of Uighur and Han residents; talking to students standing in focus at the main university in the area; and behold the cotton they grow Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, a paramilitary group whose products have been banned by the US due to coercion and forced labor. The visit comes two weeks after Xi’s rare visit Hong KongAnother area where Beijing has dramatically tightened its controls.