Facts about Xinjiang, EP2🧵

2. Not all Uyghurs are Muslims.
It's common to associate Uyghurs with Islam, as many Uyghurs are Muslim. However, it's important to recognize that not all Uyghurs follow the same religious beliefs. On top of that, for those Uyghurs who are muslims, they tend to be more secular in comparison with people from other conservative islamic regions. Some mainstream media, they intentionally portrayed Uyghur people as conservative Muslims who are very religious, for example...

In recent years, my hometown Xinjiang has somehow become one of the most controversial topics on the internet.

But, IMHO, 99% of ppl who seem to care about XJ actually don't know much about it.

I'll be launching a project called "Facts about Xinjiang".

Today is EP1🧵 1. There is another province, or more accurately, province-level entity within Xinjiang, called Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, XPCC for short.

The XPCC is a unique state owned economic and semi-military organization in Xinjiang. It has administrative authority...

For most ppl who don't know much about the history of East Turkistan Republic(ETR), let us take a glance at it: Ehmetjan Qasim, the de facto leader of ETR in 1949, was a COMMUNIST himself. He studied at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East, Moscow in 1936 and...

https://twitter.com/ETNational/status/1735104401176408229

was a member of Communist Party of Soviet Union. In fact, the "2nd East Turkestan Republic" was a satellite state of the Soviet Union. It was established during the Ili rebellion backed by the Soviet Union against the Kuomintang government of the Republic of China in 1944...

I’ve creating contents about #Xinjiang for more than 2 years and I’ve come to a conclusion that “very few people genuinely wanna know what’s going on in Xinjiang and really care about the well-being of XJ people.” Most of those who “stand up for the Uyghur” are just attention seekers and opportunists. They either side with western MSM accusing “China’s brutal oppression in XJ” or side with Chinese state media claiming “everything is perfectly fine in XJ.”

This was me years ago when I was traveling in India, notice the "save Tibet" shirt with snow lion flag? I got it in Bylakuppe which is the second largest exile-Tibetan settlement in India. Yeah, I used to be a anti-CCP lib who stood up against CCP's "oppression" in #Tibet.😂 &1 In short, I was brainwashed by anti-#China media and "overseas #Chinese democracy activists". I had exposed to tons of videos, articles about Tiananmen square protests and "human rights abuses in Tibet". I had also read Dalai Lama's biographies and firmly believed that Tibet &2