dailiangren

I grew up in Jiangsu province of China. I heard some very nice stories about people in Xinjiang from my neighbours who had worked in Xinjiang for some time. I also heard some very bad stories about certain group of people from Xinjiang. It's hard to agree with you that 'a massive apathy amongst Chinese towards Xinjiang' --- as an ordinary Chinese, I want a peaceful country, and no terrorists, and I love diversity.

I am not sure you are telling the full story. It seems to me different sides have different interpretations w.r.t the 'universal suffrage' as in the joint declaration.

When you refer to some resources, you'll have great responsibility to check their factuality (especially for this kind of sensitive topic), otherwise, you are wasting your efforts on making your points and the reader's time for reading and even worse misleading the audience largely.