JSCh
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FYI, xinjiang is the largest Chinese administrative division in China in term of area, about 1.6 million km square(comparable in size to Iran). Only about 4.3% of Xinjiang's land area is fit for human habitation. That is why its population is so sparse even though Han Chinese have lived in xinjiang for hundreds of years.I was talking in reference to xinjiang demography mon ami, anyways I was crossing the line earlier out of emotion and start chatting this offtopic, in fact what you did was good as did was in your national interest I guess!
May be since you chine were so mean to us at UN today , may be ming you treat to me to some dim sum
All the good habitable land has historically already been occupied, so when Chinese government decided to develop xinjiang, they moved in people into area sparsely occupied before. This people include army(Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) and policy incentivized volunteer settler (some of them are like frontiersmen or ex-convict or politically-tainted undesirable). They toiled for decades and generations to turn waste land into farm, town and city.
That is why if you check the population area of Xinjiang, you would discovered that Uyghur and Han(the two largest ethnicity) are highly concentrated in different area. It is not that there isn't any friction, but by and large there aren't many because it is Chinese government policy to not encroach on area occupied previously(there could not be any other way obviously). And economically everyone in xinjiang benefited even though xinjiang is still one of the poorest region in China.
It is easy to stick a label and criticize others as the discussion topic of this thread shown. Especially if you control the forum and narrative. It would be good if all of us learn and think a little before criticizing others.