vadaga wrote:AFA Xinjiang
Vice TV did a couple nice documentaries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7AYyUqrMuQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFJ5zXjdD5U
AFA your friends 'speaking shit about the government on Wechat' and the peaceful demonstrations against the govenrment which are so ubiquitous - post some screenshots. I am skeptical having not found any hits on the first page of Baidu news when I searched '和平游行 中国' . Also please post some links to mainland Chinese news broadcasts that are critical of the government.
Although my many years here in China I’ve never been to Xinjiang, however one of my favorite restaurants in Dalian is a Muslim restaurant own by a guy from Xinjiang, his business is going very well and he is a friendly man and always in a good mood. Yes, it doesn’t say much about the Uyghurs life in Xinjiang, but from him I don’t get the impression of that there’s a bad situatio+n specific toward Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Can you point out ow big the Uyghur and Kazakh population is compared to the Han population in Xinjiang? Is the Muslim population much bigger there than that of other religious “followers” and seculars
Three years ago I had some business to attend in Sweden where I had to visit the Chinese embassy. When I left the embassy to take the buss back to downtown Stockholm I was accompanied by another embassy visitor, he was from Xinjiang and was working in Sweden on a three year contract at a time(if I remember right), we had a good chat and he recommended me to visit Xinjiang cause it’s a beautiful place. He didn’t mention any specific troublesome situations in his homeprovince, he talked about his home village and his family which he was to go back to visit.
As I said, not much of info on the general situation there to go on, however it’s my firsthand info on Xinjiang(Ok, there’s one much bigger source of info on Xinjiang I have, but it goes back to 30 years ago, however I will not go into that now )......Anyway I rather go by this than some “Vice-TV” set propaganda agenda “reports”
I’ve mentioned it before elsewhere, I witnessed two rather big demonstrations in Dalian, no violent whatsoever and as I heard from friends the demonstrations had some of their issues settled to their favors....when I say witnessed I mean I just happen to pass by those areas on my way to do things I regard as interesting, I’m not that guy who flash up a camera every now and then so from me no pics of peaceful demonstrations.