Briefing | Apartheid with Chinese characteristics

China has turned Xinjiang into a police state like no other

Totalitarian determination and modern technology have produced a massive abuse of human rights

|HOTAN, XINJIANG PROVINCE

“THE prophet Sulayman approached his son and said to him, ‘I have received a message from God. I want you to circle the Earth and see if there are more people who are alive in spirit or more people who are dead in spirit.’ After a period the son returned and said, ‘Father I went to many places and everywhere I went I saw more people who were dead than those who were alive.’”

This article appeared in the Briefing section of the print edition under the headline “Apartheid with Chinese characteristics”

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