Originally posted by seer
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After 9/11, China was given a green light, and this is where they've come to since.
It's absurdly difficult to get a reporter into the region. China won't allow it at all, except for Potemkin visits, but it's just barely possible to come in from Kazakhstan to the north or from Kashmir to the south. Even then, a westerner would stand out, so it's necessary to recruit locals, putting them at significant risk, and we still can't get their reports until they've made it back out of the country.
That's where much of Sintash's on-the-ground reports have come from, which is why he knew where to look in the satellite pics from google earth.
And similarly for reports from organizations like Human Rights Watch.
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