China’s Genocide Tourism Strategy 

August 19, 2024 | The Diplomat

This includes foreign visitors, and they are not just the usual crop of pro-China influencers for hire. Foreign tourists are visiting, taking in the message, and relaying it abroad – to the delight of China’s propaganda officers. Foreign tourism seems to have taken off from about 2023, when the top leader, confident in his victory, publicly sanctioned it. International tour companies began to offer Xinjiang tours, and private individuals can come, too.

Instead, they see Chinese commerce, alongside select tokens of a Disney-fied Uyghur heritage designed to suggest that Uyghurs once lived there. This same message is implied by the use of mosques as restaurants or tourist hotels (if they aren’t razed): There are no worshippers, religion is out, so new (Chinese) entrepreneurs have taken over. Meanwhile, Uyghur-owned restaurants, like the Miraj chain in the provincial capital of Urumchi, have been closed and the owner detained.

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