I am researching how to cross into China from Kyrgyztan and some travel pages are something else.

Look at this shit, just look at the url even: https://caravanistan.com/east-turkestan/

And the forum on the same site is just full of normal people being like: "Yeah, I am a muslim and all the uighur borderguards were very friendly."

Also noone there apparently gives a fuck about it anyway. The biggest problem in Xinjiang for foreigners seems to be finding a hotel in Kashgar that will take them.