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Chinese academics claim US has started cold war with China
Survey offers a glimpse into China’s perception of its growing rivalry with the US over the South China Sea, Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong.
Why do Muslim states stay silent over China’s abuse of the Uighurs? | Nick Cohen
Nations that claim to be defenders of the faith offer no protest to the concentration camps
China’s Go West plan fails to capture the imagination of foreign firms
China’s latest blueprint to bolster its western provincial economies has been met with indifference by foreign firms, fatigued by a series of regional development plans.
China's hidden partner in suppressing the Muslim Uighurs – the US | Sean R Roberts
It’s been revealed that Trump encouraged the mass internment of Uighurs. But the US complicity goes back to 9/11, says author Sean R Roberts
China, India reinforcing border positions, satellite images show
There is ‘credible evidence’ that both sides have added firepower in Galwan River valley, International Institute for Strategic Studies says.
How many of us wear clothing made by forced Uygur labour?
With US legislators debating laws to deter the use of forced Uygur labour in China, and the garment industry in crisis after coronavirus, now is the time for apparel brands to pressure Beijing, a rights advocate says.
Chinese scientists say tough new fibre could be used to build moon base
Team developed high-performance construction material from artificial lunar dust that could potentially be made using volcanic rock on site.
US Senate passes Uygur Human Rights Policy Act
The Senate passes legislation that would pave the way for targeted sanctions against government officials in China over alleged human rights abuses.
China sends Uygurs from Xinjiang camps to other parts of country
Inmates who have undergone compulsory re-education programme to be moved other parts of China under job placement scheme delayed by Covid-19 outbreak
Uighur-rights group gearing up for legal battle with U.K. over Huawei and 5G. Canada could be next
Lawyers for Uyghur Rights said Huawei’s involvement in the repression of the ethnic group should cause Canada to reject their application to participa...
UK government urged to ban import of Chinese cotton 'made using Uighur forced labour'
Named in submission of evidence to HMRC are some of UK's best-known high street brands, including Ikea, H&M, Muji and Uniqlo
Uygurs abroad face mental health crisis over relatives’ plight in Xinjiang
Activists say that if even if Beijing’s crackdown can’t be stopped, steps can be taken to address the ‘secondary trauma’ of those who have fled.
US public’s opinion of China hits 20-year low, Gallup poll says
Survey finds only a third of US citizens regard China favourably, hitting late-1990s lows and a point below Gallup’s figures after 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
UN rights boss due in Xinjiang soon, China says as credibility issue lingers
Visit to camps for Muslim minorities that China calls ‘training centres’ must give full access, Michelle Bachelet’s office says, but negotiations have stalled.
China’s green zombie fungus helps fight African locust swarms
An insect-killing fungus has been turned into a mass-produced biopesticide that will face its biggest challenge in East Africa.
American Company Sold DNA Analysis Equipment to Security Officials in Xinjiang, Documents Show
In 2015, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Public Security Bureau announced it planned to purchase equipment from the U.S.-based biotechnology company Promega for the purpose of
China detains Uighurs for growing beards or visiting foreign websites, leak reveals
Database known as the ‘Karakax list’ shows people sent to internment camps for reasons such as ‘minor religious infection’
Britain slammed for inviting US-blacklisted Chinese firm to security fair
Surveillance giant Hikvision said to be linked to internment camps in Xinjiang.
US lawmakers push for investigation of China Daily
Lawmakers say the English-language daily plays ‘important role in China’s foreign disinformation campaign’, while China Daily describes itself as a ‘channel for information exchanges between China and the rest of the world’.
UK minister met surveillance firm accused of enabling Uighur abuses
Facial recognition firm SenseTime and government discussed use of AI in universities
1.5 million Muslims are in China’s camps — scholar
Adrian Zenz is a researcher at the European School of Culture and Theology in Korntal, Germany. Last year, he played a pivotal role in documenting…
Photos of the Day: Views of Urumqi and Kashgar
Last month, I took a trip to Xinjiang — specifically, Urumqi and Kashgar. My trip was booked for 10 days, from January 27 to February 5…
‘The night is thick’: Uyghur poets respond to the disappearance of their relatives
Poetry has a long and proud tradition in Uyghur culture. But it is being threatened in Xinjiang, where the Chinese state has been attempting to re-engineer Uyghur society by silencing and eliminating Uyghur cultural thought.
After year-long stint in detention camp, Uyghur footballer Erfan Hezim signs with new Chinese club
The China Sports Column is a The China Project weekly feature in which China Sports Insider Mark Dreyer looks at the week that was in the China sports world…
Ankara to Beijing: Xinjiang is ‘a great shame for humanity’
Image: From recent protest in Brussels against China’s re-education camps for Uyghurs (AFP) The government of Turkey has strongly condemned China’s treatment of Uyghurs in an…
The future of Uyghur cultural — and halal — life in the Year of the Pig
Up until 2018, Lunar New Year celebrations were conspicuously absent from Uyghur society. Today, it is the largest cultural event of the year — for the wrong reasons.
Conditions are worsening for foreign journalists in China
Last year, foreign journalists in China saw the greatest level of surveillance, interference with sources, and visa denial or control in recent memory, with the…
Kazakhs to leave, but who will speak for the Uyghurs?
NPR reports: China is letting more than 2,000 ethnic Kazakhs drop their Chinese citizenship and leave the country, according to Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry. The Associated…
The latest grim news from Xinjiang
Darren Byler writes on The China Project that “Uyghur ‘patriotism’ in China’s Xinjiang region now requires the active disavowal of the Uyghur way of life…
The ‘patriotism’ of not speaking Uyghur
Urumqi No. 1 Primary school, 2018: Uyghur script “disappeared.” Photo by Joanne Smith Finley Uyghur “patriotism” now requires the active disavowal of the Uyghur way…
Indonesia and the Xinjiang internment camps
In “Elite maneuvering, the Uyghur crisis, and Indonesian politics,” Tom Pepinsky annotates a Twitter thread that looks at the Indonesian government’s difficulties in criticizing the…
Forced labor in Xinjiang camps
Emily Feng of the Financial Times reports that Xinjiang’s internment camps have begun forcing their detainees to do manual labor making textiles and other products. Excerpt: In…
Spying on the Uyghurs
“Spying on the Uyghurs: A first-person account from a Han Chinese student” is the title of a translated essay on the Taiwan Gazette by a…
‘As if you’ve spent your whole life in prison’: Starving and subdued in Xinjiang detention centers
When Chinese state authorities prepared to release Gulbahar Jelil, an ethnic Uyghur woman born and raised in Kazakhstan, they told her that she was forbidden to…
Ningxia to learn from Xinjiang ‘experiences in promoting social stability’
Since China’s mass detention of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang was first documented in detail earlier this year, observers have wondered and worried about where the…
Xinjiang and talk of ‘concentration camps’
The Central Asia Program at George Washington University is organizing an event called Symposium on China’s Mass Incarceration of Uyghurs on November 27. Speakers include…
15 Western ambassadors raise concerns about Xinjiang in letter
A significant development in the international response to the situation in Xinjiang: A group of 15 foreign ambassadors in China, all from Europe other than…
People’s Daily on forced homestays in Xinjiang
State media is reporting on China’s nightmarish program of forced homestays in Uyghur homes in Xinjiang. This is from the Global Times: Until September 2018…
Mass relocations in Xinjiang
Xinhua News Agency reports: About 160,000 farmers and herders in the poverty-stricken areas of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region will be relocated to ensure…
Xinjiang: A homestay program for forced cultural assimilation
Yesterday, there were two well-documented new reports about the internment camps and other abuses being perpetrated in Xinjiang: Ben Dooley of Agence France-Presse reported on government…
