Xinjiang: Beijing hits back with propaganda campaign
“China is mounting an increasingly sophisticated counterattack to criticism of its policies in the restive, heavily Muslim region of Xinjiang, courting foreign media and running opinion pieces abroad as it seeks to spin a more positive message,” reports Reuters. Other new reporting related to the crisis in Xinjiang:
- “How is Abdukerim Rahman surviving without his books?” asks Amy Anderson in another horrible but necessary piece of reportage.
- ChinaFile has a list of the Fortune 500 companies doing business in Xinjiang.
- Latvia-based website Meduza has published a story titled An internment camp for 10 million Uyghurs: Meduza visits China’s dystopian police state.