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On the ground in Xinjiang
Amid the concerted Western effort to accuse China of crimes against its Uighur population, LIU XIN set out to discover what ordinary Uighurs in China’s far-western region think about their lives and life prospects

ARE Uighurs in Xinjiang happy about their lives? 

I tried to find the answers to this question on my first trip to China’s far-western region in April. 

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