Report: China Has Renamed Hundreds of Uyghur Villages, Towns

Report: China Has Renamed Hundreds of Uyghur Villages, Towns
Above: View from Tashkurgan fort, Tashkurgan, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. Image copyright: Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Contributor/Corbis via Getty Images

The Spin

Anti-China narrative

China has been guilty of crimes against humanity in relation to the Uyghurs for years, and the renaming of Uyghur cities and villages is just another blatant move to erase the Uyghurs' existence. The international community must step up its efforts to hold Beijing accountable for its atrocities in Xinjiang.

Pro-China narrative

This report is just another bout of misinformation produced by an organization sympathetic to nations that have a bone to pick with China. The CCP is performing counterterrorism actions in Xinjiang in order to protect its national security. The US, its friendly human rights organizations, and other aligned countries should stop making false claims against China.

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