In recent years, Western countries, the United States in particular, wielded the club of “human rights” to smear China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and vilify the country’s governance of the region, accusing the Chinese Government of human rights abuses.
But these accusations do not reflect the actual situation in Xinjiang.
In essence
China has repeatedly stated that Xinjiang-related issues are not about human rights, ethnicity or religion at all, but about combating violent terrorism and separatism.
Separatists, in an attempt to split and control Xinjiang, engaged in violent and terrorist acts of sabotage for a long period of time. This badly undermined local