re: #26 Eric The Fruit Bat
They’re going to have private talks about their shared ‘Islamic’ problems-problems which each country made themselves, BTW….
The Chinese government has enacted some very repressive laws regulating the Uighur minority in Xinjiang. No niqab. No long beards. No marriages outside civil authority. No observing Ramadan if you are in public office.
China Law Translate has the whole set of edicts here. chinalawtranslate.com
Essentially, Beijing is trying assimilate the Uighur into Han culture, just as they are trying to eliminate Tibetan culture and Buddhism. Anything seen as a threat to the primacy of the Party is considered a threat to a “harmonious society.”