How Uyghurs became so good at English
They had help from famous black Americans
When president xi jinping visited the region of Xinjiang this month, he painted China as a tolerant, multi-ethnic country. Never mind that after Mr Xi’s last visit, in 2014, China launched a campaign of mass detentions and unprecedented surveillance to quell resistance among local Uyghurs. More than 1m of them have been detained, often simply for being devout Muslims.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Lessons from Malcolm X”
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