The very much religious basis of terror in Xinjiang, and an error of judgement...

The political spin and memetic pseudo-informational narrative construction that China has to deal with from a hypocritical West is some of the worst in the history of the modern world. The CPC has the problems and faults of any enormous bureaucratic organisation, including corruption in the form of bribery and graft. However, the CPC and China are polite and humanistic enough to give enormous concessions to what is really, objectively, very damaging religious bigotry and fundamentalism that has affected their citizens in Xinjiang and Yunnnan provinces.

For a start, they have not used invasions, bunker-busting bombs, and tank warfare to handle the very real problems of religiously inspired and motivated terror. That is: the usual modus operandi and approach of the US.

It is abundantly clear that archaic, atavistic, deeply intrinsically-bigoted, religious, memetic narratives are very much the basis of the terrorism that was going on in Xinjiang from the 1990s to at least 2016.

Recently, however, came this astonishing diplomatic concession from recent Chinese State media:

Presumably they mean that, generally speaking, terrorism does not just come from religious and ethnic groups. However, there is simply no doubt that terror in Xinjiang has been squarely due to Islamic fundamentalism. The data is unequivocal and unmistakeable, and cannot be realistically interpreted in any other reasonable way: terror in Xinjiang has been plainly religiously motivated.

The CPC has the right, and the responsibility, to prevent such fundamentalist religious memetic infections from harming its citizens.

US MIC-owned ASPI recently commissioned research into whether cyber warfare - including social media based soft-power examples thereof - are as dangerous as nuclear threats. If social media influencers, hackers, and cyber warfare units can induce political and social conditions that can precipitate wars and bloodshed, then so much more can highly influential and deeply socially-embedded atavistic, archaic, intrinsically bigoted (obviously) religious doctrines (they have been used to do this for much longer than the Internet has been around).

It is clear that, not only is there no evidence of genocide in Xinjiang (and little to no evidence of cultural genocide), but that religion is undeniably a factor in terror in Xinjiang since the 1990s. To deny this is clearly irrational, and exemplifies the discursive and mental gymnastics that ensue when religious bigotry is protected as religious freedom, with all of the conceptual and factual equivocation that entails.

Why the soft-pedalling?

There seems to be a very recent adjustment in various elements of China's foreign and domestic policy and disposition - or at least in the tone and inferences of Chinese state media in relation to certain topics. It is quite possibly due to the fact that Joe Biden is Catholic, and that China is trying to repar ties with the US, even while the CPC is forced to respond to sustained militarism and threats from the US Department of State.

Recently the US State Department tried to backpedal from its lawyers' findings regarding Xinjiang genocide...

Then, recently, this highly regrettable error from the CPC (albeit at province level):

It is no secret that Communism has a strange historical aversion to homosexuality. Clearly, according to the article, opinion is divided in China about homosexuality - certainly among academics (who, like administrators, are highly regarded in Chinese society.) However, if China has too few women: homosexuality is not the reason. Nor was the one child policy. The reason is the kind of atavistic religionist, and religio-cultural, memetic narratives that lead to such things as terror in Xinjiang, and female infanticide. Without these harmful and damaging memetic religio-cultural narratives already in place, the one child policy would not have caused, nor been correlated with, female infanticide in China.

There has been only one glimmer of hope regarding female infanticide in China. Let us hope it turns out to be what these researchers thought it was:

If China continues to control and limit delusional, bigoted, fundamentalist religio-cultural narratives, there will be no more domestic demographic gender imbalance, and there will be no more Islamic terror. Both outcomes are nothing but good news.