We know today that Xi Jinping had made the decision to change the policies in Xinjiang, so in( late 2014) they were preparing the crackdown, it was just the fact that we didn't know back then.

Ursula Gauthier

Ursula Gauthier is a French journalist and sinologist. Gauthier was a reporter in China for L'Obs. In December 2015, her visa was not renewed and she was forced to leave the country after she published an article about Uyghurs in Xinjiang which Chinese government officials disapproved of. A Chinese government Foreign Ministry spokesman suggested Gauthier's article "openly supports terrorist activity, the killing of innocents and has outraged the Chinese public."

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