China's Surveillance of Uighurs

China has an extensive surveillance apparatus in place against Uighur separatism:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/opinion/sunday/china-surveillance-state-uighurs.html

At the same time, China has started talks to open its own military base inside Afghanistan, in the Wakhan Corridor, to prevent infiltration/exfiltration by Uighurs:

http://www.news18.com/news/world/worried-about-militant-infiltration-china-in-talks-over-military-base-in-remote-afghanistan-1649155.html