These are guys are Washington professionals. I don't have any concrete insights on the situation in Xinjiang. However as far as I can tell it is a lot more st

These are guys are Washington professionals. I don't have any concrete insights on the situation in Xinjiang. However as far as I can tell it is a lot more stable there than was 10-15 years where you had the Xinjiang riots and the series of terrorist attacks that followed. What has changed though is the US-China relationship which has gone from corporation, including in military matters in the Xinjiang/Afghanisation border region, into a full-on propaganda war. Also notice the use of the term "East Turkistan" which generally is a designation that is used by people who want a breakup of China into multiple smaller nations. Needless to say this is an aggresive stance.