Chinese President Xi Jinping has made a rare appearance this week in the troubled Xinjiang region, his first visit there in more than eight years and his second trip in two weeks with the aim of demonstrating national unity after make a tour of Hong Kong, while seeking to extend his government.
In the early hours of Friday, the state media published about 1.5 minutes of images from central China television showing Mr. Xi in government offices, a museum, classrooms and a shopping area in the capital. Xinjiang, Urumqi. Mr. Xi was greeted by musicians and dancers traditionally dressed by members of the predominantly Muslim Uighur minority, a target ethnic group of what the United States and other Western governments say is a vast program of forced assimilation.