Xiaobo Fellow at the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, a U.S. ... reviewed the history of China’s policies toward ethnic minorities and the region’s economic and strategic importance. Nurnisa Kurban of UyghurLA shared ...

in China’s northwest is enormous, consisting of one-sixth of the country’s ... people/square mile). The region is vital to China’s economy, with the largest ... and Road Initiative aims to tie China closer to Xinjiang’s neighbors ...