China also has a "one child" problem. For decades to control population explosion they imposed a policy that people could only have one child. Parents decided to kill girls because in Chinese culture they are a burden while sons are cherished. So they have a large surplus of men now.
So now they send soldiers (presumably unmarried) to go live with these Uighur soon-to-be widows. Kill the males, give the females to their loyalists it seems.
“So now they send soldiers (presumably unmarried) to go live with these Uighur soon-to-be widows...”
Sounds strategically tactical with total assimilation as the goal.
If the Chinese are in fact using their armed services to implement the beginning stages of this assimilation, these armed services would in all probability be under orders and would therefore be “forced” into full compliance with issued directives.
Didn’t England attempt this same strategy with the Scots?