When Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Chairman of Pakistan Senate Defense Committee, went to Xinjiang 5 years ago, “there were at least 2 or 3 major incidents of violence or terrorism” every week. However, in his latest travel to the region right before the outbreak of COVID-19, “there was not a single incident reported of terrorism, of violence, of people being killed”.

Author | Lydia Liu

Video | Keane

Editor | Jerry