Behind the U.S.
anti-China campaign: The facts about Xinjiang
By Sara Flounders
December 23, 2019 "Information
Clearing House" - In
order to evaluate the claims of massive human rights
violations of the Uyghurs, an ethnic and religious
minority in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of
China, it is important to know a few facts.
Xinjiang Province in
the far western region of China is an arid, mountainous
and still largely underdeveloped region. Xinjiang has
significant oil and mineral reserves and is currently
China’s largest natural-gas-producing region.
It is home to a number
of diverse ethnic groups, including Turkic-speaking
Muslim Uyghurs, Tibetans, Tajiks, Hui and Han peoples.
Xinjiang borders five
Central Asian countries, including Afghanistan and
Pakistan, where more than 1 million U.S. troops and even
more mercenaries, contractors and secret agents have
operated over four decades in an endless U.S. war.
What is happening in
Xinjiang today must be seen in the context of what has
been happening throughout Central Asia.
Xinjiang is a major
logistics center for China’s ambitious Belt and Road
Initiative. Xinjiang is the gateway to Central and West
Asia, as well as to European markets.
The Southern Xinjiang
Railway runs to the city of Kashgar in China’s far west
where it is now connected to Pakistan’s rail network
under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a project of
the BRI.
The U.S. government is
deeply hostile to this vast economic development project
and is doing all it can to sabotage China’s plans.
