🚨🇨🇳🤩Pepe Escobar's Xinjiang: What Western media NEVER shows you
@RealPepeEscobar reveals the REAL Xinjiang—where ancient Silk Road heritage meets 21st century development. His ground report completely dismantles Western narratives. Thread 🧵
A foreign guest in Xinjiang during a live cross-border interview with an overseas host. When asked about Middle Eastern issues, they almost entirely went off-topic, instead repeatedly praising Xinjiang's development achievements.
Do you know that Urumqi in Xinjiang is the world's most remote city from the ocean? But look at this!
China has been investing massively in Xinjiang. Once defined as a border area, Xinjiang is now the central hub of Eurasia and the Belt and Road Initiative.
About 200 years ago, during the Qing Dynasty, China exported a large amount of inexpensive porcelain, silk and other raw materials to the West, but rarely imported Western goods (the self-sufficient peasant economy model did not require imports), so it obtained a huge trade surplus (especially with Britain, France and other countries), and the flow of silver to China made the West dissatisfied. They thought of a good way: selling opium to the Chinese, and the large amount of imported opium offset the trade surplus. When the Chinese government was ready to ban the opium trade, Western robbers launched two invasion wars against China. This is the shameful "Opium War" in Chinese history (a total of two times), and all Chinese people will never forget that history.
Today, 200 years later, China has manufactured the most comprehensive and extensive commercial products in the world with large-scale machines and manpower and exported them to the world. Western robbers are once again ready to use hegemony and war to reverse the situation, isolate, blockade and "tariff stand" China. Will the humiliating history repeat itself?
1.4 billion Chinese people will not agree. The Communist Party of China understands this truth. Surrender and kneeling cannot exchange for dignity and equality. Only when you are strong can you have the right to speak.