- Type:
- Book Chapter
- Author:
- James A. Millward
- Published:
- 2023
- Publisher:
- ANU Press
Xi Jinping, the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC), toured eastern Xinjiang on a four-day 'investigative tour' 考察调研 in mid-July -his first visit to the Uyghur region since 2014.On the surface, the trip and its public messaging do not appear to differ much from those of previous general secretaries of the Communist Party of China (CPC) during their visits to Xinjiang.Flanked by Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region party secretary Ma Xingrui 马兴瑞, Xinjiang governor Erkin Tuniyaz, and other officials, Xi took in cultural, economic, and tourist sights, stopped off at a village, reviewed the military, and sat as a guest in a Uyghur home.He engaged in 'informal chats' with common folk, like the Bingtuan (aka Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps or XPCC, 新疆生产建设兵团) farmer who just happened to be working in a cotton field when Xi showed up.Xi spoke of Xinjiang's fantastic development, stability, progress, and prosperity, and of its core position on the Silk Road Economic Belt.And he repeated the mantra that 'since ancient times, Xinjiang has been an inseparable part of our country'.In that way, then, the official Xinhua images and reporting of Xi's
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