China defends Xinjiang crackdown after massive document leak China on Monday vowed it would "never be soft" in its crackdown in Xinjiang, after a massive leak of government documents shed new light on the mass detention of Muslims in the far-west region. Over 400 pages of internal papers obtained by the New York Times showed that President Xi Jinping ordered officials to act with "absolutely no mercy" against separatism and extremism in Xinjiang. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also confirmed that a Chinese carrier sailed the Taiwan strait "in accordance with international law". IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES