Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia

An absurdly ironic look at the situation in Xinjiang, the province in western China where the rule of the Communist Party is (sometimes) challenged by Uyghur separatists and militant Islamists. Judging by this travelogue, the Chinese government has turned Xinjiang (including its smaller towns) into a surveillence state almost literally similar to the fictive futuristic nation of Oceania in George Orwell´s novel "1984". Or is it Eastasia?

After reading this, I´m beginning to understand how China has so succesfully managed to stop the COVID pandemic! It must be hard even for a bat retro-virus to penetrate this iron-bamboo curtain. The traveler has nothing to say about the claimed Uyghur genocide, though. Or maybe he does, if you read his piece very, very carefully...

Is this our future if China takes over the world? 

A week in Xinjiang´s absolute surveillence state