China is cracking hard on the uyghurs. But they have double the children the Han in Xinjiang have, and thousands of Han are living what in the end is a poor remote region with few opportunities. Unless China starts outright killing them off, they'll eventually win.https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1033585097251778560 …
Total numbers only matter in a total war, WW2-like situation. The battle here is about who has the will to occupy Xinjiang for the long term. 1.4 billion Han do not have it.