In a recent London Telegraph article titled, “The British travel bloggers ‘sugarcoating’ China’s Uyghur problem to the delight of Beijing,” readers are told that “more than one million Uyghurs are believed to be detained in re-education camps,” in Xinjiang and that Western tourists traveling to the region and seeing no evidence at all of this or other claims made by the Western media for years, are simply toeing the line of the Chinese government for clicks and cash.

To refute what tourists have seen with their own eyes and relayed through their travel vlogs, the Telegraph quotes Daria Impiombato, “a cyber analyst” at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) who claimed, “vloggers with large platforms had a responsibility to inform themselves and to be sceptical.”

By “inform themselves,” the ASPI analyst almost certainly means toeing the line of the US government ASPI itself helps define because unlike the tourists the Telegraph obliquely smears throughout its article but ultimately admits, “there is no suggestion any of the vloggers are acting at the behest of the Chinese government or receiving its money,” ASPI receives the bulk of its funds (PDF) from the US government, other Western governments, and Western arms manufacturers (PDF) like Lockheed Martin, Thales, Saab, and Boeing.

China Responded to Very Real, Very Extensive Terrorism…

For years, the US government, mainstream Western media outlets, and a large network of US government-funded organizations – including ASPI – have attempted to perpetuate the myth of a “Uyghur genocide” taking place in China’s western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. This followed years of US government-sponsored separatism and terrorism that shook the region, spread across both China and the rest of Asia, before spanning half the globe and reaching battlefields in Syria.

In 2014, the BBC would report on the vicious terrorism plaguing China:

In June 2012, six Uighurs reportedly tried to hijack a plane from Hotan to Urumqi before they were overpowered by passengers and crew.

There was bloodshed in April 2013 and in June that year, 27 people died in Shanshan county after police opened fire on what state media described as a mob armed with knives attacking local government buildings.

At least 31 people were killed and more than 90 suffered injuries in May 2014 when two cars crashed through an Urumqi market and explosives were tossed into the crowd. China called it a “violent terrorist incident”.

It followed a bomb and knife attack at Urumqi’s south railway station in April, which killed three and injured 79 others.

In July, authorities reported an attack on government offices in Yarkant, leaving........

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