Hi Kerry, sorry about the long delay getting back to you - what experience do you have in China?
I've lived here 18 years, seen the reductions in poverty, watched as pollution and crime almost disappear and seen thousdands of kids go to university. I've also travelled extensively, talking with Uyghurs in their homes - unless you have that kind of experience, you're probably reading too manty sensational news headlines and not very critically either. I suggest you listen more to people who are on the gorund, rather than reporters copying stories from researchers who have never been to China. Yuo may just leanr something