Chinese state media rebuts NYT article on Xinjiang

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Beijing tries to wrest control of the media narrative on its policy to build re-education camps, which it calls vocational training centres, in its far-western region..... an interviewee said her 10 months in an "education centre" had helped her perfect her Mandarin and pick up sales knowledge [compare this with our ITE?]

a New York Times article last Saturday that said the ruling Chinese Communist Party had placed nearly half a million children from the region into boarding schools to "assimilate and indoctrinate them from an early age"

the Times said, noting that as many as a million ethnic Uighurs and Kazakhs have been held to date

Political observer Jo Kim said Chinese officials have found it perplexing and frustrating as to why the United States and European Union countries largely sympathise with the Uighur separatist movement and seldom address the terrorist attacks that China has suffered at the hands of extremists, such as the Urumqi riots in 2009 and another in Kunming in 2014.

Relate also to qns on treatment of minority races...Note the Uighurs are muslims (different from the majority Han Chinese of mainland China) and have been fighting for independence from China much like Tibet.
Regarding treatment of minorities, compare this with Singapore, India (controversial new citizenship law), Myanmar (Rohingyas), Malaysia (recent controversy to introduce Jawi writing in non-islamic schools)

Qns:
1. To what extent does the media influence our perception of reality?
2. Is regulation of the press desirable? (Cam. 2017)

3. How far should countries have relations with others whose human rights record is poor? 
(Cam. 2019)