It was a text that caused a stir. “Beyond hate and anger – after the successful campaign against terrorism and Islamism, Beijing wants conditions in Xinjiang to return to normal,” was the title of the 2023 “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” (NZZ) in the commentary by sinologists Thomas Heberer and Helwig Schmidt. Glintzer about the situation in the Chinese region, where around ten million people from the persecuted Uyghur minority live. Many things are changing for the better: after “sensational reports” about forced labor and internment camps with which Beijing wanted to combat Islamist terrorism that threatened “the internal security of the whole of China,” “clear signs of a return to ‘normality’ can be seen.”
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