Tesla opens showroom in Xinjiang, China despite global condemnation over human rights abuses of Uyghurs


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Tesla, the trillion dollar electric car manufacturer, announced on Chinese social media that it has opened a showroom in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. It's the California-based company's first service centre in Xinjiang which is home to millions of Uyghurs. The United Nations has identified them as a repressed group. In a nutshell The arrival of Tesla in Xinjiang, a vast region in the northwest of China , is controversial as it comes amidst years of campaigning by human rights groups and western governments over the treatment of Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim minority. Both the US and the EU have...