Both the Taliban and the former government of Afghanistan have aided in China’s transnational repression efforts to silence Uyghur dissidents, a joint report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) and the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs revealed this month…
China Attempts to Silence Western Companies On Xinjiang…
“The Uyghurs, like the Tibetans, and other minority groups in China, have been the victims of Chinese political and ethnic imperialism. The Chinese government has attempted to assure the political unification and integration of, especially, Tibet and Xinjiang by a policy of ethnic and cultural “sterilization.”…
JoeBama Holds First Phone Call With Xi, Both Sides Offer Vastly Different Accounts Of What Was Said
Nearly a month after his inauguration and more than three months since the presidential election, Joe Biden held his first call with Xi Jinping since entering the White House…
Top EU Official Slams Volkswagen As ‘Complicit’ in Chinese Oppression…
The chair of the European Parliament’s delegation for relations with China, Reinhard Bütikofer, has slammed Volkswagen for not confronting China over its treatment of the Uighur minority in a region where the German carmaker has a factory. China’s crackdown on the Muslim Uighur community in Xinjiang is rapidly rising up the political and trade agenda. […]
Leaked Chinese Government Documents Prove Muslims Are Being Detained in Massive Numbers…
There’s now substantial evidence – in the Chinese government’s own words – that they are detaining Muslims in massive numbers. 403 pages of internal documents have been leaked to the New York Times that describe a clampdown in Xinjiang – a resource-rich territory located on the border of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia – where […]
Security Cameras and Barbed Wire: Living Amid Fear and Oppression in Xinjiang…
The small bedroom is frozen in time. The two little girls who used to sleep here left two years ago with their mother and now can’t come home. Their backpacks and school notebooks sit waiting for their return. A toy bear lies on the bed. Their clothes hang neatly in the closet. The girls’ grandmother […]
How China Turned a City Into a Prison…
New York Times foreign correspondents Christopher Buckley, Paul Mozur and Austin Ramzy visited Kashgar, China, in October of 2018. They put together this report detailing the surveillance state put in place to monitor every movement, every activity, every transaction the Uighurs make. It’s a powerful illustration of the lengths in which communist China will go […]