To foreigners, the foreign media in particular, who have misinterpreted or even exaggerated the security measures China has taken in its Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, an editorial of China Daily published on Wednesday said that only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.

As outsiders, they do not appreciate that tight security measures are badly needed to prevent the country’s far-west from being turned into an abyss of chaos. The terrorist attacks that have taken place there in recent years, and the ones committed elsewhere in the country by terrorists from that region, portends such a possibility, the editorial said.

"Some Uygurs, who harbor the intention of splitting the region from China and turning it into an independent country, spread false stories about how their fellow residents are suffering and being detained or arrested due to draconian security measures. They consider smearing the image of China and its government in this way to be part of their mission," it said.

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