Övervakningskameror, vakter i varje gathörn och regelbundna förhör av invånarna. DN besökte Xinjiang och hamnade i en orwellsk värld.

Un cirujano en Guangzhou, China, extirpó con éxito un tumor pulmonar a un paciente en Kashgar —a 5000 kilómetros de distancia— utilizando un robot quirúrgico controlado a distancia.#China

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This work was supported by the Science and Technology Plan of Kashgar Prefecture under Grant KS2024013, by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program under Grant 2019QZKK030701, by the program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61731022, by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant XDA19090300, and by the Research Development Fund of Zhejiang A & F University under Grant 2025LFR040. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if you modified the licensed material. You do not have permission under this licence to share adapted material derived from this article or parts of it. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation...

[The above photo is of the Kashgar night market, taken by the database curator in April 2018… Gene Bunin needs your support for Xinjiang Victims Database Work

[The above photo is of the Kashgar night market, taken by the database curator in April 2018… Gene Bunin needs your support for Xinjiang Victims Database Work

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The train from Ürümqi to Kashgar rattles through the night like it's settling an old grudge with the tracks. Somewhere past midnight the heater gives up