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The Xinjiang Lie

While this is old news in 2024, the western media is still talking about it and it seems that some people haven't caught up yet. Whenever there is a discussion about China, the US state department crafted narrative on Xinjiang is repeated again and again. So, if you aren't caught up yet, that's okay, let's catch you up.  Any honest look into this situation must begin with a crucial fact. If you look at the Global Terrorism Database , as of 2024, there have been 288 recorded terrorist attacks in China since 1989. When I initially looked into this a few years ago there was around 254 terrorist attacks, with a significant portion of them specifically in Xinjiang. People often understate and overlook how deep these problems ran in the area and how bad it was there for many years due to Islamic extremism. These weren't some minor attacks by irrelevant groups, but mass terror inflicted by multiple groups with various sources of funding and training. (we will get into this...