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Xinjiang Analysis
medium.com
A very comprehensive, well-referenced piece which thoroughly and concisely addresses the major myths and media distortions of Xinjiang. This article is ideal for people who are on the fence or laboring under misconceptions as it doesn't assume knowledge and it also lays out the case against NATO bloc propaganda in an accessible manner.
This is the somewhat infamous "50 vs 22 split" letter to the UN Human Rights Council which has 50 countries supporting China's actions in Xinjiang, and it contains the signatures from the majority of official Muslim countries and Muslim majority countries.
This is an official resolution from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation which directly addresses Xinjiang in certain parts. The OIC serves as "the collective voice of the Muslim world" and works to "safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony".
www.buzzfeednews.com
Tursunay Ziyawudun has since amended her claims about her experience in a Chinese reeducation center numerous times, with each becoming more outrageous, more scandalous, and more barbaric with each retelling as her handlers have encouraged her to exaggerate her story again and again to push their desired narrative. Take an extremely critical view of this article but also take note that Ziyawudun is a major source of "intel" on the reeducation centers and if you hear her name come up remember that she is an incredibly unreliable^*^ witness and her claims should be viewed with extreme skepticism. ^*^Although she is very reliable for the Xinjiang misinformation complex
Buzzfeed News recent discovery ["Blanked-Out Spots On China's Maps Helped Us Uncover Xinjiang's Camps"](https://outline.com/L9a2qg) turns out to have much more, and much less, to the real story. Numerous people have investigated these claims and found that [there are no "gray tiles" to be found and where they were alleged to be covering up so-called camps instead there were typical buildings including a residential apartment](https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1199460.shtml) and there was no censoring of the satellite images to be found ([original tweet thread here](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1299386623390617601.html), more [here](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1298972946564870145.html).) Note that BuzzfeedNews is a highly awarded team of investigative journalists including Pulitzer prize winners and a reporter in the White House press pool and is not the main Buzzfeed site, so this isn't just some trash-tier hack who is in a race to the bottom against The Daily Mail but instead it's *supposed to be* reputable journalism. The absolute state of western journalism when a random person on twitter has more ethics and is more diligent than a trained, experienced team of professionals with the resources of an entire organization at their fingertips. And *this* is supposed to be the best evidence that they can come up with to "prove" that the camps exist? Maybe the blank spaces were inside them all along, in the places where the reporter's brain and journalistic integrity is supposed to be?
archive.is
"Uygur exiles angered by pre-Ramadan beer festival in China's Xinjiang" but what is the rest of the picture? It seems strange that people halfway around the world would be outraged by the mere thought of a festival happening in Xinjiang. [According to Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang#Religion), 2/5^ths^ of the local XUAR population are not Muslim. More than that, the Xinjiang region is famous for its alcoholic beverages with Uyghurs specializing in the production of Kvass (a naturally fermented low-alcohol beer), Xinjiang black beer, and a wine known as [museles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museles) which has been produced in the region since the 4th century B.C. and which continues to be important economically to the region even today. A Uyghur expat being offended by the production, sale, and consumption of alcoholic beverages in Xinjiang (especially considering the ethnic and cultural diversity of the region) is an aspiring petty theocrat who ignores their own history and betrays their own culture who is the absolute epitome of a snowflake.
