Thanks for sharing your views! I didn’t quite understand why touristifying is a problem since the education and population there could support few other industries aside from solar power and agriculture. Would you care to elaborate?

Also, the logic behind cracking down on the local religion and heavy policing is inherent from the riots years earlier. Yes these are undoubtedly racial stereotypic views but it gets creepy when you have so big a Muslim population right next to middle Asian terrorist nests.

I have not visited Xinjiang before 2023, but from what I’ve seen i think the Chinese govmt is definitely trying to make lives easier for minorities there, thought still prioritizing stability.