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China uses old tricks in new Xinjiang propaganda campaign
Under renewed pressure from around the world, the Beijing PR machine is deploying enormous resources to depict a positive image of Uighurs in Xinjiang - but the West is not buying it.

Michael SmithChina correspondent
Apr 8, 2021 – 5.22pm
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China this week subjected the Canberra press gallery to a two-hour propaganda blitz designed to counter the backlash against its treatment of ethnic Uighur Muslims.
It was an uncomfortable reminder of my trip two years ago to Xinjiang, where I witnessed a nine-day parade of non-stop smiling, singing and dancing Uighurs prepared with scripted narratives about how good life was under the Chinese Communist Party.
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Uighur dancing demonstration put on for travelling media: one of many such displays organised to show the region’s Uighurs, Kazakhs, Tajiks, Kyrgyzs and other ethnic groups are all thriving under Beijing’s rule. Michael Smith
The video, titled Xinjiang is a Wonderful Land, screened in Canberra is just a snapshot of the extraordinary amount of resources at the Chinese government’s disposal when it is determined to deliver a message.
In July 2019, I was part of a group of international journalists invited by the state to tour Xinjiang on what was billed as a “fact-finding mission”. We were closely supervised at all the times and could only speak to the Uighurs our government minders introduced us to.
On the rare occasion another journalist and I snuck out of our hotel room to have a look around, we were tailed by plainclothes security agents.



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The focal point of the trip were visits to what our hosts called “vocational training centres” where sunflowers grew in courtyards, biscuits were baking in the kitchen and classrooms were full of Uighurs of all ages chanting phrases in Mandarin.
Like the people in the video screened in Canberra this week, the “students” we were allowed to interview had scripted stories about about their desire to “kill pagans” and make bombs before their salvation from a life of extremism.
It was a piece of theatre on the scale of the 1998 Jim Carrey movie The Truman Show, set in an idyllic, but fake, US town with a cast of thousands. Like the journalists in Canberra this week, I didn’t believe a word of it.
The Chinese Embassy news conference this week was part of a new global campaign to push back against growing international condemnation of the treatment of 11 million ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang. Last week, China released a musical in cinemas called “The Wings of Songs featuring elaborate Bollywood-style montages of minorities in colourful dress.
While videos like this might resonate with a domestic audience, they are never going to wash with cynical Western journalists. They cannot visit Xinjiang unsupervised and the few who do, such as the BBC’s Jon Sudworth, are harassed to the point where they have to leave China.
China’s campaign has also extended to smearing critics of its policies in Xinjiang. Vicky Xiuzhong Xu, an outspoken journalist and analyst for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) who has been documenting the treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang, has been the target of a vicious tirade of abuse on social media and in Chinese state media.
Chinese ambassador to Australia Cheng Jingye says claims of human rights abuses in Xinjiang amount to disinformation.
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The biggest insult from China’s propaganda push, though, is to the Uighur people themselves. Australian Uighurs quite rightly want the Chinese Ambassador Cheng Jingye to meet them and answer some questions about their relatives back in Xinjiang.
The most disturbing aspect to that trip to Xinjiang in 2019 was the realisation it was the Uighurs themselves who were being used as props in an elaborate piece of Communist Party theatre designed to convince the world that Xinjiang is indeed a wonderful land.
 
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Students from Xinjiang Pamir mountain primary school use 3D print to make their traditional musical instrument, the Tajik Eagle Bone Flute,. Now even in the remotest corner in Pamir mountains, kids can access to top notch teaching facilities and equipment. Knowledge is power.

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Under pressure over Xinjiang, China takes aim at overseas Uighurs, academics
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Erkin Tursun is seen speaking on a video shown at a news conference on Xinjiang-related issues, in Beijing
Cate Cadell
Fri, April 9, 2021, 4:39 PM·4 min read


By Cate Cadell
BEIJING (Reuters) - At a crowded press event on Friday in Beijing, Chinese officials aired a video of a thin Uighur man with a shaved head, wearing an oversized uniform and speaking directly to the camera.
"I will try my best to change myself and receive the leniency of the party and the government," says the man, Erkin Tursun, a former TV producer who, the officials said, is serving a 20-year sentence in Xinjiang on charges of "inciting ethnic hatred, ethnic discrimination and covering up crimes".

Tursun, almost unrecognisable from photos shared online before his 2018 arrest, is addressing his son, who now lives abroad and has publicly advocated against Tursun's detention, which he says is arbitrary.
It was one of over half a dozen such segments showing Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority in the western region, pleading with relatives abroad to come home and stop speaking out against China and the ruling Communist Party.
Such press conferences have become a staple of Beijing's widening campaign to defend its Xinjiang policies amid mounting Western criticism, including U.S. sanctions and accusations of genocide, as Beijing prepares to host the 2022 Winter Olympics in February.
China for months has increasingly pushed back against global criticism of its Xinjiang policies, including with explicit attacks on women who have made claims of abuse.
Last month the United States, the European Union, Britain and Canada imposed sanctions on Chinese officials over human rights abuses in Xinjiang. China retaliated with its own sanctions.
Some big Western brands like H&M, facing boycotts in China over their previous statements on Xinjiang, are struggling to strike a balance between consumers in the world's second-largest economy and public opinion at home.
Beijing's propaganda campaign, which has included 11 media briefings in the capital since December, has repeatedly included efforts to discredit overseas Uighurs who speak to media.


China has also conducted overseas press events, including one this week in Canberra, released state media documentaries and a musical movie, invited diplomats from friendly countries including Iran, Malaysia and Russia to visit Xinjiang, and promoted sympathetic foreign YouTubers and news sites.

It has also targeted individual overseas think tank analysts, journalists and academics with sanctions, amplifying critical social media comments and aggressive state media coverage.

Officials in China's Foreign Ministry and the Xinjiang government say the efforts are necessary to counter "lies and slander" released by a network of "anti-China forces" abroad.

'DADDY, WHEN WILL YOU COME BACK?'

Uighurs living overseas have said videos of relatives, often produced by Chinese state media outlets, are staged.

"The piece is basically pushing a narrative that it is us Uighurs overseas who suddenly abandoned our families, which is laughable," said Australia-based Mamutjan Abdurehim on Twitter in March after a Chinese state broadcaster released footage of his family in Kashgar.

On Friday, Chinese officials shared clips of Mamutjan's daughter, sitting beside her grandparents.

"Daddy, when will you come back? We all miss you," she said.

United Nations experts and researchers estimate over a million people, mostly Uighurs, have been detained in a vast network of camps throughout Xinjiang since 2017. China initially denied the camps existed but has since said they are vocational centres and that all the people who had been there have "graduated".

During Friday's event, officials took aim at databases set up by overseas activists who have documented the names and details of people caught up in China's camp system.

The officials said they had confirmed the identities of 10,708 people listed in the overseas databases but said over 1,300 people on the list were "completely made up," while over 6,000 are living "normal lives."

The officials said 3,244 people listed on one database were serving judicial sentences inside Xinjiang "for crimes of endangering public security in Xinjiang, terrorism and other crimes."

They said 238 had died of illnesses and other causes.

Overseas rights groups and some relatives of people detained in Xinjiang say they have not been given details of their relatives' whereabouts or sentences. Xinjiang courts do not make public the vast majority of rulings or case details.

(Reporting by Cate Cadell; Editing by Tony Munroe and William Mallard)

 
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The USA and Turkey have successfully shaped Islamic sentiment against China ,They spend a lot of money to train terrorists and send them to Xinjiang
Watch this video
They did that against the soviets but today’s Muslims saw how America supports Zionists and what they did in Islamic countries so nobody buys their fake Muslim love anymore
 
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Who is the nobody here?

Majority muslims in Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey as well as majority muslims in the world condemned China's treatments of Uyghurs,....
 
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Students from Xinjiang Pamir mountain primary school use 3D print to make Tajik Eagle Bone Flute

Students from Xinjiang Pamir mountain primary school use 3D print to make their traditional musical instrument, the Tajik Eagle Bone Flute,. Now even in the remotest corner in Pamir mountains, kids can access to top notch teaching facilities and equipment. Knowledge is power.

Tajik mountain kids taking 3D printing class

Chinese video bu Chinese youtube account

clearly propoganda and fake
 
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The USA and Turkey have successfully shaped Islamic sentiment against China ,They spend a lot of money to train terrorists and send them to Xinjiang
Watch this video

Newsbud really? its a anti-US channel

this is not credible
 
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The USA and Turkey have successfully shaped Islamic sentiment against China ,They spend a lot of money to train terrorists and send them to Xinjiang
Watch this video
The U.S. regime has been caught blatantly lying to promote war and terror and harm against populations of majorly Muslim countries, has been caught abusing, raping, torturing and brainwashing Muslims in American internment camps on U.S. and U.S. occupied foreign soil left and right, blackmailing and pushing them to become terrorist pawns to destablizing Muslim countries especially near China and training and arming murderous radicals killing hundreds of innocent Muslims, children and women each, openly stealing ressources from Muslim countries and so on.

Yet their own population is so uneducated and indoctrinated with U.S. state propaganda lies and revisionism turning Americans into the greatest victims and saints on earth, that even when they are pushed to at least stop denying plain facts liko these U.S. torture camps, they still wont see any issue trusting that very same genocidal regime making up the same template of silly lies about job programs in Muslim regions dealing with increasing development and automation to justify acts of repression and violence against the very same people "for freedom of Muslims" for the fifth time in a row.
 
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They also did that against Israel, creating a fake Palestinian state to malign the tiny nascent Jewish state.You all fell for it....

I love crazy statements, you can basically say anything and there will be someone to believe you, especially in the ummah where literacy, logic,sanity, are unknown words.
 
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