Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure Series. 2026: Xinjiang Province Red Tour. Photos and commentary. The REAL Chinese people you do not know!
Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure Series. 2025: Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian and Shaanxi Provinces’ Red Tour. Short videos with transcripts, captioned photos, articles and commentary. The REAL Chinese people you don’t know!
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Short intro to Xinjiang by Jeff
Xinjiang is huge, 17% of the country’s landmass, 1.66 million square kilometers (China’s total land area = 9.6 million), which is three times the size of France, or bigger than Alaska in North America. It is mostly desert, mountains, basins and high plateaus, with a few beautiful lakes. Weather is harsh here. When we arrived on 5 August, the temperature was 41 degrees. In the winter, it can drop to minus twenty.
For our one-month Red Tour adventure in Xinjiang, we will get a far west as Aksu and as far south as Korla. It is already starting out as an amazing lunar cycle.
The Uyghur people in China are members of the Turkic language group, of which there are many derivatives, starting in Turkey, of course, and there’s a swath going from there to the east through South Central Asia. They are, at varying degrees, mutually understood, from 0 to maybe 75%, depending on the dialect. For example, Turkish and Uyghur are 30% mutually comprehensible.
So Uyghurs are, in fact, Turkic people.
Xinjiang’s population is 26 million, 58% Muslim. The capital is Urumuqi. It has four million residents. Hami has 670,000 citizens. Shihezi, Karamay, Korla, Yining and Aksu are other cities we are visiting each have about 500,000 souls.
West to east, Xinjiang has common international borders with Pakistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia and Mongolia. Internally, it borders the provinces of Gansu, Qinghai and Tibet, north to south. It is now a hugely important nexus in Asia’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), connecting the rest of China with the rest of Mackinder’s Heartland. On that note,
Jeff J. Brown comments on Sputnik News- Putin: China’s Belt and Road Initiative ‘in Sync With Russia’s Ideas on Large Eurasian Space’. China Rising Radio Sinoland 231027
Not only industry and commerce, Xinjiang is a massive producer of high value crops, including a huge variety of fruits, vegetables and cotton. We see lush, green fields and orchards stretching kilometer after kilometer, thanks to one of the biggest water canal and irrigation systems in the world, starting in the Altai Mountains, over 400km away. The BRI has made it possible to ship large quantities of this produce all over Asia.
Amir’s sensible, revealing and biting comments comparing Muslim Xinjiang to the Judeo-West…
A Note on Security and Reclamation
Security is tight in Xinjiang; tighter than elsewhere in China.
In Western countries, you are hassled only at the airport. People get on and off the subway with no security check.
In all Chinese cities, you pass through security each time you ride the subway.
But in Xinjiang, you pass through security each time you enter a public place, whether a mall or an outdoor square.
The West wants to paint this sense of heightened security as some sort of surveillance police state. In truth, walking through an extra turnstile or passing one’s bag through a conveyor belt is simply a nuisance, not an oppression.
Moreover, the people manning security checkpoints are not uniformed police officers or army personnel. They are regular citizens. Within these public squares and commercial buildings, people carry on business as usual.
It’s worth noting that kids in American public schools pass through metal detectors; yet this does not stop school shootings. The heightened security in Xinjiang actually works. Whatever your take on “human rights,” the fundamental human right is safety. People in Xinjiang simply do not go around fearing for their lives.
Achieving this level of stability is a notable achievement in the aftermath of the War on Terror.
Remember the War on Terror?—the sustained propaganda campaign that began after the supposed terrorist attacks in NYC on September 11, 2001? Your memory may be a bit hazy since War on Terror propaganda ceased as soon as the Corona narrative took over.
The world’s attention span is finite. In 2020, the world had become far more interested in fearing a rather benign virus over a benign religion.
In short, what you are taught to fear is never your real enemy. It is cover for something else.
Make no mistake: propaganda is strong. At times, you simply have to ride out the current. China is not capable of overturning these propaganda narratives. They lack the global communicative infrastructure to take on what Jeff routinely calls the Judeo-Western BLPM (Big Lie Propaganda Machine). The BLPM convinces you (among many other things) that Muslims are to be feared, Xinjiang is some sort of terrorist breeding ground, and that North Korea is a veritable enclosed concentration camp.
I was disappointed in fact, in my earlier days in China, when I discovered real fear and suspicion of Islam among my Chinese comrades. (Even if you believe Osama bin Laden is some crazed lunatic, why in the world would he be interested in bombing Beijing??)
Chinese people, that is, had largely ingested the false notion that 9/11 has something to do with Islam, and that this negative force is capable of creating conditions of terror within China’s borders.
The propaganda is especially convincing if you consider that the following terrorist attacks actually did occur in China in the years prior to the fake global pandemic:
2008 — Kashgar truck/grenade attack — 16 killed
2009 — Ürümqi riots — 197 killed
2011 — Hotan police/government attack — 18 killed
2011 — Kashgar attacks — 18 killed
2012 — Yecheng knife/axe attack — 15 killed
2013 — Bachu/Selibuya attack — 21 killed
2013 — Shanshan/Lukqun attack — 35 killed
2013 — Tiananmen Square vehicle attack — 5 killed
2014 — Wushi attack — 11 killed
2014 — Kunming railway-station attack — 31 civilians killed
2014 — Ürümqi railway-station bombing — 3 killed
2014 — Ürümqi market bombing/vehicle attack — 43 killed
2014 — Shache/Yarkand attacks — dozens killed
2014 — Luntai attacks — dozens killed
2015 — Baicheng coal-mine attack — 16 killed
Of note is that prior to 2001, Islamic terror was not even a credible talking point in the minds of Chinese people. Don’t you find that a tad convenient? What do you think is really going on here?
What I mean is, Islam has been around in China for centuries; and yet, Islam is suddenly some sort of boogeyman for the first time in Chinese history during precisely the years that the US is waging its fake War on Terror!
And notice also: after 2016, there has been no significant threat from “Islamic terrorists.” China has managed to defeat not any Islamic scourge, but a Judeo-Western propaganda scourge. All that was required was the persistent application of rather common-sense monitoring protocols.
Grand speeches by President Xi or anyone else calling out Judeo-Western lies are not the answer. The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), the administrative body assigned the task of consolidating hold over China’s borders in Xinjiang, implemented an effective strategy. Rather than raising hysteria over the presence of Islam in China (or seek to eradicate it in any way), the XPCC proved that the only way to fight against fake propaganda is via persistence and tenacity. In short, don’t even attempt to take on the BLPM directly: just wait for the propaganda storm to blow over.
Simple and rather non-invasive public interventions solved the problem! The authority of the XPCC was enough to push back the imperialists from fomenting terrorism. China is not interested in Xinjiang becoming another version of Northern Ireland in the 1960s. The XPCC bypassed hysterics to implement effective common-sense controls that saved Xinjiang from becoming like Ukraine, Iraq, or Syria today.
Make no mistake: Ukraine, Iraq, and Syria will continue to be hellholes for the next century. Xinjiang has been spared. I believe the XPCC should submit a report to the United Nations on how exactly to fight Judeo-Western false-flag propaganda terrorism. This is the real global threat. Besieged regional governments the world over who find themselves geographical pawns of Western-led terrorist plots would be wise to follow the XPCC example.
In short, there is no such thing as “Islamic” terrorism; Islamic terrorism has always been a fabrication of Western imperialist hegemonic goals. The War on Terror was cover for Western-backed destabilization efforts.
Muslims in Xinjiang simply do not care about waging some sort of global Jihad! They are happy living their lives in peace and security. Funny now that the world at large no longer cares about the War on Terror, acts of “Islamic” terror in China have disappeared. Haha!
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