China’s Xinjiang Messaging to the Global South in Action

Liu Yongfeng is an official at the Chinese embassy in Egypt

Diplomats from African and Asian countries are currently on a Chinese government-organized tour of the Xinjiang region. 

Official Twitter accounts and the Chinese state press provide a glimpse of these diplomats’ role in Chinese counter-messaging operations amid ongoing controversy over the mass incarceration of the region’s Muslim Uyghur population. 

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