jan 1, 2014 - Speeches

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While visiting Xinjiang in 2014, Xi warned of the “toxicity of religious extremism” and advocated for using the tools of “dictatorship” to eliminate Islamist extremism in a series of secret speeches. In the speeches. Xi did not explicitly call for arbitrary detention but laid the groundwork for the crackdown in Xinjiang.

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