This is either incredibly based or incredibly dishonest depending on whether you chose to believe it is true. The reality, like always is a little more complex. The party has publicly been encouraging intermarriages, via financial subsidies for newly married couples.
https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1318013014235402240
Inter ethnic marriages had been on a downward trend according to the 2010 census. Uighur-Han interrmarriages are only 1% of household (5% for Kazakh-Han marriages) which had been a substantial decline since 2000. This is emblematic of the attempt at social withdraw from the
wider Chinese state-society by Uighur society as a whole. The reaction by the Party can be seen as an expansion of the state to reabsorb them back into the mainstream, i.e. any attempt at social separatism won't be tolerated. The idea that you can just wander into Xinjiang and
get assigned a government mandated Uighur meinu/waifu, while entertaining, is in light of the the dubiousness reliability of atrocity propaganda and no actual evidence of such, most likely untrue. What is more interesting is that the neoliberal rag at the Economist is willing to
put it in to print despite the absolute paucity of evidence. Especially lovely is the fact that there isn't even an author to blame.
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