A little-known Canadian publisher’s glowing review of the Xinjiang region offers insight into Beijing’s propaganda machine

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Open this photo in gallery: An alleged detention facility with a sign reading 'Use history as an example to build the future' in Kashgar, in China's northwestern Xinjiang region, on July 15.PEDRO PARDO/AFP/Getty Images When foreign journalists visit Xinjiang, the northwestern region of China where Beijing has been accused of widespread human-rights abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities, they tend to have a hard time. Reporters have been tailed by police, blocked from conducting interviews and even physically assaulted. When The Globe and Mail’s Nathan VanderKlippe visited the region in 2017, he was detained and had his laptop seized....