State-backed tourism booms in China’s troubled Xinjiang

Chinese language vacationers throng the bazaars of previous Kashgar, munching mutton kebabs and absorbing closely commercialized Uyghur tradition — a part of a authorities push to remold the troubled Xinjiang area right into a vacationer paradise.

Kashgar, an historic Silk Street oasis, was extra just lately on the entrance strains of Beijing’s sweeping anti-terrorism marketing campaign within the northwestern area.

The town’s outskirts are nonetheless pockmarked with services that the ruling Communist Get together as soon as known as vocational colleges however Western researchers describe as extralegal detention camps for Muslims — with the US linking them to insurance policies of “genocide.”