Anti-Terrorist Policy of the People's Republic of China in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region – a Reason for International Intervention in the Internal Politics of China?

The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China is a conflict-ridden and complex territory that acts as a subject of political, economic, confessional and other discussions. The social policy of the Chinese government is becoming the subject of international controversy and a reason for foreign interference in the internal affairs of the state. The relevance of the study lies in the study of the first case of foreign interference in the domestic policy of a major world power under the pretext of solving global humanitarian problems since the beginning of the "openness reforms". In the proposed article, after linguistic and descriptive, factual analyses, an assessment of the results of the interstate and inter-institutional polemics of 2020-2022 in the field of human rights protection in the framework of the development policy of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is proposed. In May 2020, the «Guidelines of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council for the Development of the Western Region» were published, in which the policy of its development was adjusted. The party's interest in the vast territory of agricultural land rich in minerals is explained not only by the economic benefits, but also by the socio-political instability of the district.  Some measures of work with the population are the result of a reaction to terrorist acts carried out in the region and theoretically may violate human rights, which arouses interest from the international community. US President Donald Trump signed the law «On Human Rights Policy towards Uighurs» (2020), which should regulate the violation of the rights of one ethnic group in the XUAR by imposing sanctions on specific individuals. It is determined that in the Russian-language literature, the anti-terrorist policy of the People's Republic of China is considered as an object for analysis, is evaluated as an independent ethnic social phenomenon and is insufficiently studied as a tool for regulating international relations.