Better Xinjiang security boosts safety, tourism

Should there be tight security that leaves no space for extremism and terrorism or lax security in the name of freedom? This is a question that has become pertinent to many countries today given the risks of terrorist attacks. In the United States and Europe, citizens have chosen the former. Likewise in China.

Not least in the Xinjinag Uygur autonomous region where most residents - along with the majority of Chinese people in other parts of China - have put safety first. However, it seems those working for Human Rights Watch disagree.

That explains why, despite tourists who have visited the region saying they felt safe, it has called for sanctions on China, pointing a finger at the government's strict security measures in the region.