When we think of China's transformation, we think of the glitz and glamor of cities like Beijing, Shanghai or Shenzhen. Yet another equally significant transformation happened w/o much fanfare - the restoration of China's desert. The Loess Plateau is once again lush and fertile.
THAILAND IMPOSED DEATH SENTENCES on two Uyghur bombers yesterday – and showed that China got it right on dealing with terror attackers.
Turkic separatist terrorism is now feared in multiple countries—but NOT in China, where a program of vocational and language training for Uyghur radicals has dropped mass terror attacks to zero for eleven years.
Peaceful, ethnically mixed Xinjiang is now one of the world’s top tourism centers, with 300 million visitors a year.
This is a huge achievement, given that Uyghur separatists had been committing random acts of terror in China since at least 1990, with hundreds of innocents killed over multiple attacks across two and a half decades.
But this has flipped 180 degrees. Xinjiang is at peace. The last mass casualty terrorism incident was in October 2015, when Uyghur knifemen killed at least 16 people.
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STIFF POLICING
How did China solve its problem? By stiff policing and compulsory vocational training for people associated with radicalism.
The NED (a CIA regime-change spin-off) worked with BBC and other western news organizations to rebrand the program as “atrocities”, implying, without evidence, that “millions” had been locked into “concentration camps” and even murdered.
But that has been well debunked, and it’s now impossible to avoid the hard fact that the Chinese system deradicalization system has worked.
One can just look and see, as millions of visitors do every year. While in the past, visitors were almost all Chinese domestic tourists, these days more than five million international tourists tour Xinjiang every year. Today the Chinese Uyghur community is peaceful, with rising rates of health and wealth. The population is growing in size and in proportion to other ethnic groups.
Uyghur longevity in China, at 77 years and rising, has significantly overtaken that of native Americans in the US, at just 70.1 years. Uyghur longevity is now close to that of white Americans, which is 78.4 years.
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COMPARE CHINA AND OUTSIDE
That’s inside China’s borders.
But Uyghur separatists elsewhere?
As we mentioned, China solved its problem in 2015, but outside China the problems simply continued unabated:
- In 2015, Uyghur separatists bombed the Erawan Shrine in the centre of Bangkok, Thailand, killing 20 people and injuring 120.
- In 2016, Indonesian authorities arrested Uyghur terrorists working with the Eastern Indonesia Mujahidin, a terrorist group affiliated with Islamic State.
- After a pair of extremist suicide bombings in Brussels, Belgium, in March of 2016, China expressed willingness to work with European countries to combat terrorism. The offer was ignored.
- In 2017, a Syrian ambassador warned that 5,000 Uyghurs were fighting in Syria for jihadist groups. Other analysts had different estimates—but all agreed the fighters existed.
- In 2019, Four Uyghurs convicted of terror-related offenses in Indonesia were deported to China.
- In 2020, risk analysts warned that ISIS-Khorasan had started working with the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. This group was known as TIP, for Turkistan Islamic Party.
- In 2021, an ISIS-K fighter using the kunya “al-Uyghuri” attacked Shia Muslims in Kunduz, Afghanistan.
- In 2022, ISIS-K members made a shooting attack on a hotel in Kabul used by Chinese travelers.
- In 2025, the Economist reported that the rebels storming Syria in 2024 to topple Bashar al-Assad included fighters who “had roots in the Chinese region of Xinjiang and were members of the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), a group which aims to establish an Islamic state spanning Xinjiang and other parts of Central Asia”.
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STORY CANNOT BE TOLD
There are plenty of other examples, but the basic conclusion should be clear from those examples.
China’s program to eradicate terrorism among its ethnic minority population and create a positive, low-crime community, has been remarkably successful.
Unfortunately, this story simply cannot be told to the world.
Look up the topic on Google, and you get link after link to the debunked NED/ BBC narrative of “millions” in “concentration camps” in China instead.
Ask AI programs for information, and all of them regurgitate the debunked NED/BBC fiction too.
Getting the truth out there is as challenging as ever.
@DanCollins2011 These are Uyghur bombers according to Thailand police. The same extremists China was dealing with but Western media cries human rights violation.
@ChinaVideos1@LUOXIANG_PMTQ The guy is probably in jail serving a long sentence. That is how they hold bad officials accountable. Otherwise they will never learn.
@MinMin89485072 If they want to bully him they could have arrested the guy already. I appears to me the disabled guy probably didn't want to leave where he was - sitting on the street.
Canteens for workers, the elderly, and others are available all over China
Sometimes they're free, sometimes they are from 1 to 30 RMB ($0.18 to 4 USD).
🇨🇳🇲🇽 ¡Hermana, ya eres mexicana! Mujer originaria de China confiesa su amor por los taquitos y el mole, y apuesta por la victoria de México en el partido inaugural. ⚽🔥
#RFmx#Imperdible#SomosLocales
🇨🇳🇲🇽 ¡Hermana, ya eres mexicana! Mujer originaria de China confiesa su amor por los taquitos y el mole, y apuesta por la victoria de México en el partido inaugural. ⚽🔥
#RFmx#Imperdible#SomosLocales
@gregtaniguchi Why do you care, bro? You are a total fake. You speak as if you care about the people of China therefore you want to "help" them by talking down on the government. All you do is trash the Chinese people. The government is made of millions of Chinese from top Chinese Universities.
@hausi258532@ChinaVideos1 If you want bad people or criminals to be punished call the police. Don't post these videos and expect changes. The police is there to enforce the laws.
@gregtaniguchi@Sharroh45@ICEgov@grok You don't know anything outside your own bubble. Go travel the world and see how other people live. X is available everywhere. There is a thing called VPN.
@JustWalkinBye@WarrenVsCCP More rich people, OK. Why is that good for the bottom 50% of the population? Who is looking out for them? Who will pay for their medical bills and long term care when they get old? You?