China Tries to Counter Xinjiang Backlash With ⦠a Musical?
The movie is part of Beijingâs wide-ranging new propaganda campaign to push back on sanctions and criticism of its oppression of the Uyghurs.
A Chinese government propaganda sign with slogans reading âForever following the Partyâ and âChinaâs ethnicities, one familyâ in Aksu, Xinjiang, last month.Credit.Ng Han Guan/Associated Press
April 5, 2021, 11:01 a.m. ET
In one scene, Uyghur women are seen dancing in a rousing Bollywood style face-off with a group of Uyghur men. In another, a Kazakh man serenades a group of friends with a traditional two-stringed lute while sitting in a yurt.
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