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This week on TikTok: China’s diplomacy in the Middle East and the arrest of Guo Wengui
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Uyghur women have been disproportionately singled out for abuse in Xinjiang
March 8 is International Women’s Day and the month of March is Women’s History Month. But there’s been nothing for Uyghur and other Muslim women to celebrate in Xinjiang.
This week on TikTok: Xinjiang’s basketball struggles and North Korea’s tumultuous relationship with China
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Abduweli Ayup is writing books for exiled Uyghur children
Exiled linguist Abduweli Ayup is publishing books for children with the aim of ensuring the Uyghur language and cultural traditions never die despite the most repressive efforts of the Chinese state.
Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan — and beyond
Xinjiang’s history as a penal colony and then a high-tech laboratory has resulted in one of the most sophisticated and all-encompassing surveillance networks in the world to be deployed there. Other places may be next.
Former champion Xinjiang Flying Tigers quit Chinese Basketball Association
The Flying Tigers, which won the CBA title in 2017, have abruptly abandoned China’s professional basketball league with one month to play.
A search engine for disappeared Uyghurs
Uyghur exiles searching for loved ones are closer to answers thanks to a new internet search tool with access to more than 700,000 classified police records leaked from China last year.
Uyghur economist Ilham Tohti has been in prison for more than nine years now
He was a professor who worked within the Chinese state system to advocate for better treatment of the Uyghurs. His reward was a sentence to life in prison.
Visit of top Xinjiang official to London, Paris, and Brussels canceled after uproar
Erkin Tuniyaz, the most senior Uyghur Party official working for the Xinjiang government, was supposed to visit at least three European capitals. The trip was ‘postponed’ after a multinational, cross-party hue and cry.
U.K. court throws out Uyghur forced labor lawsuit but plaintiffs call the judgment an ‘important vindication’
Activists and a former victim of internment and forced labor sued the British government for failing to act on reports of forced labor in cotton supply chains. They lost the case, but say the wording of the judgment was an “important vindication” for persecuted Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities.
Canada, a new Uyghur homeland
The Uyghur diaspora is celebrating Canada’s recent decision to accept 10,000 Uyghur refugees in the next two years. For them, there is finally hope of building a solid future.
The Uyghur Tribunal one year on: Has anything changed?
One year has passed since a panel of ordinary citizens in the U.K. declared a genocide to be unfolding in the Uyghur homeland, but much of the world still has to act on its implications.
Uyghurs condemn World Muslim Communities Council delegation to Xinjiang
The love affair between Beijing and Muslim leaders deepened last December with a rare visit by Xi Jinping to Saudi Arabia. Then over the New Year, a group of Islamic dignitaries came to Ürümchi, supposedly to see for themselves how well their beleaguered Uyghur brethren are being treated by the Chinese government.
Is the Turkish government going to stand up for Uyghurs, or will economic interests win out?
As Turkey heads into an election season, officials are promising that the country will not extradite Uyghurs to China. Can they be trusted?
Editor’s note for January 9, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Is the Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act working?
Half a year after Washington enacted a set of laws intended to prevent products of coerced labor from entering the U.S. market, supply chains in the solar power and apparel industries are snarled up, but it’s uncertain if the Uyghurs themselves have seen any benefit.
Afghanistan inks an oil deal with China, but the Taliban and Beijing don’t really trust each other
The Taliban-led administration has signed a contract with a Chinese company to extract oil from the Amu Darya basin in northern Afghanistan. But recent attacks on Chinese nationals and other marks of instability will likely make Beijing proceed cautiously.
Anti-lockdown and anti-government protests all over China after deadly Xinjiang fire
Protests against COVID restrictions have broken out in major cities all over China.
Xinjiang under COVID lockdown as Party Congress looms
Xinjiang has again imposed restrictions on outbound travel, while other places in China are clamping down on COVID to ensure a smooth, virus-free Party congress.
Why it’s hard to purge U.S. supply chains of forced labor | Live with Lizzi Lee
Eliot Chen, a staff writer at the Wire China, explains how goods with ties to Xinjiang are still up for grabs in U.S. stores — despite Washington’s ban on forced labor.
