Xinjiang: Is China Paying Young Vloggers to Portray ‘Happy Uyghurs’? | Taiwan Talks EP482

October 24, 2024 | Taiwan Talks

Travel videos from some young Western vloggers who traveled to China’s Xinjiang province paint a picture of a happy, harmonious Xinjiang, and several hold titles such as “This is the Xinjiang that Western media don’t want you to see.” The narrative that these videos build is in stark contrast to the story pieced together by international human rights groups, which report on forced labor and arbitrary detention in the region. Two years after former United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet’s report on human rights violations in Xinjiang was first published, is China succeeding in covering up the negative accounts of the region?

Our guests:

Tashken Davlet
Uyghur Human Rights Project Outreach Specialist

Tim Niven
Doublethink Lab Research Lead

Raymond Sung
Prospect Foundation Vice President

Read the full report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwA7fYFRdwk&ab_channel=TaiwanTalks