Last July, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went so far as to publicly label China's treatment of Uyghurs as the "stain of the century." Here's what you need to know about Xinjiang and what's been going on there. Xinjiang, officially named the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is a remote region in China's far west. It is home to about 11 million Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority that speak a language closely related to Turkish and have their own distinct culture. The suppression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang has also seen an increase in mass surveillance throughout the region.

Source: CNN June 19, 2020 09:00 UTC