As many of the rest of the following posts will be on ethnic unity, I wanted to post these photos that I took in Xinjiang. Ethnic unity is the heavily propagandized virtue, and I often came across walls painted with propaganda messages. This propaganda is becoming increasingly important as ethnic unity breaks down, and interethnic violence spreads, as it is in Xinjiang at this moment.

So I found this painting telling:

The Chinese originally said “Ethnic Unity,” but, as the wall has been partially destroyed, the word “Unity” is falling apart.

And I’ll leave it at that.