🎥 Xinjiang, China

Dec 26, 2024

The Xinjiang Province—formally the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region—is China’s largest province; it’s larger than France. It is extremely rich in ethnicity and cultural expressions thanks to its role and history as a meeting point of both the old Silk Roads and the present Belt and Road Initiative. It borders eight neighbouring countries and has amazingly beautiful natural scenery.

Here is a succinct description of Xinjiang, as found in “DeepChina: “Over the past two millennia, this region has witnessed the convergence of Chinese, Indian, Persian, Arab, and even ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, creating a rich mosaic of political, religious, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural interactions. Islam is now the dominant religion in Xinjiang, Buddhism was once the preeminent faith here.”

This Xinjiang Video Library does not express any standpoint concerning the repeated US/Western accusations about gross human rights violations taking place in Xinjiang, including genocide, concentration camps, forced labour, etc., disseminated by politicians and media.

Regrettably, that is probably the main – perhaps even only – thing Westerners, in general, associate with when hearing the word “Xinjiang”. However, it is also 25 million people, their fascinating history, contemporary development and immense diversity just described so well by DeepChina. A crossroads of civilisation.

Rather few Westerners have visited Xinjiang; it’s supposed to be physically dangerous or politically incorrect, so the library below gives priority to independent Westerners who actually have visited Xinjiang and share their impressions.

Please also take a look at the TFF Library on Xinjiang, which has lots of articles, background analyses, and commentaries. It also includes TFF’s various reports and a report from TFF Board members’ visit to Xinjiang in September 2024.

More videos from and about Xinjiang are to be posted regularly. Stay tuned!

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