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China slams ABC over Xinjiang report, universities investigate claims
Two Australian universities say they will review ties to Chinese tech companies implicated in rights abuses in the semi-autonomous region, while the Chinese embassy says the ABC’s Four Corners programme used ‘absurd logic’.
Susan Rice calls Chinese diplomat ‘racist disgrace’ after Twitter tirade
China’s deputy chief of mission in Pakistan took aim at the United States, prompting former national security adviser to call for him to be sent home.
Saudi Arabia and Russia among 37 states backing China's Xinjiang policy
(This July 12 story corrects ambassador's name in the final paragraph)
Is China preparing to shift policy on Xinjiang?
Chinese officials and state media claim ‘interim success’ in troubled region, paving the way for possible work conference this summer.
Exclusive: West, Japan rebuke China at U.N. for detention of Uighurs
Nearly two dozen countries have called on China to halt its mass detention of ethnic Uighurs in the Xinjiang region, the first such joint move on the issue at the U.N. Human Rights Council, according to diplomats and a letter seen by Reuters.
The world needs to pressure China over the plight of the Uighurs | Peter Irwin
International pressure on China could stop the oppression of Muslims in Xinjiang, says the World Uyghur Congress’s Peter Irwin
Uygurs reflect on 10th anniversary of deadly riots in Xinjiang
Riots in July 2009 began as a peaceful protest by Uygur students in Urumqi demanding answers about the killing of two factory workers 4,000km away but descended into violence that left 192 dead.
Chinese government loads surveillance app onto phones of visitors to Xinjiang: report | CNN
China's far-reaching security network is targeting tourists, with border guards secretly installing a surveillance app onto the phones of visitors to Xinjiang, according to a joint report by several major international media organizations.
Chinese border guards put secret surveillance app on tourists' phones
Software extracts emails, texts and contacts and could be used to track movements
Xinjiang camps defended at UN human rights forum
Vice-governor Erkin Tuniyaz responds to international criticism of internment centres.
Pence’s speech, likely critical of China, postponed ahead of G20 meeting
The address, scheduled for Monday, would have been delivered just days before Trump and Xi meet in Japan and as hopes rise for progress in the trade war.
US sanctions over Xinjiang ‘ready to go’ except for Treasury hold-up
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is ‘delaying action’ favoured by others in Trump administration because of concerns it will disrupt trade talks.
Belgian diplomat searches for ‘missing’ embassy Uygurs
Belgium says a diplomat will try to ensure that mother and four children are safe after they left the embassy under murky circumstances.
Beijing sees ‘consensus’ with UN on Xinjiang but rights groups object
UN counterterrorism chief Vladimir Voronkov not expected to make statement after visiting region last week.
UN counterterrorism chief visits internment camps in Xinjiang
Undersecretary general is highest level UN official to visit far western region, which rights activists have described as an open prison.
UN counter-terror tsar visits Xinjiang where Uighurs held in huge numbers
Activists say official visit risks affirming China’s narrative that camps thought to hold a million people are not an abuse of human rights
Huawei tells UK parliament it is not bound by Chinese spy laws
Telecoms giant says legal advisers confirmed company has no obligation to work with Beijing.
African swine fever is endemic in Tibet and Xinjiang, UN body says
The virus that causes the African swine fever is now endemic – or generally present – in China’s Tibet and Xinjiang regions, according to a report by the United Nations’ Food & Agriculture Organisation.
The German Data Diver Who Exposed China’s Muslim Crackdown
Research by Adrian Zenz, a born-again Christian anthropologist working alone in a German suburb, thrust China and the West into one of their biggest clashes over human rights in decades, after he showed how China built internment camps and surveillance networks and recruited police officers to run them.
China pushes inter-ethnic marriage in Xinjiang assimilation drive
China's fractious far-west region of Xinjiang has changed its university entrance exam rules to give children from mixed families a leg-up on other students, in what experts say are the latest efforts to erase a mostly Muslim ethnic culture. Following a flare-up in violence in 2014, Chinese authorities have rolled out draconian security measures across Xinjiang in recent years, from banning long beards and Islamic veils to placing an estimated one million mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in internment camps. Chinese officials describe the facilities as voluntary "vocational education centres" where Turkic-speaking people are taught Mandarin and job skills in a bid to steer them away from religious extremism.
