 Complete the following phrase:  A region on the northwestern periphery of China which is inhabited by ethniclinguisticreligious minorities, Xinjiang has been said by Raffi Khatchadourian to have never seemed fully within the Communist Partys grasp. Part of Xinjiang was once seized by Czarist Russia and it also had a short period of independence. Traditionally the Peoples Republic of China has favored an assimilationist policy towards minorities with the help of the mass immigration of Han Chinese into minority lands. After the 