According to official figures, China has about 25 million Muslims, about the number in Yemen and Uzbekistan, twice the number in Tunisia and nearly 50 per-cent more than in Syria. At a first glance, this is an impressive number, but a closer look shows that Muslims account for less than two per-cent of China’s total…
As recently reported in the press, since Spring 2017, hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and other minority Muslims in Xinjiang have “disappeared” into “political re-education centres,”euphemistically labelled mäktäp (Uy. schools) by frightened locals. Their purported crimes vary from travelling abroad to study (or having a relative who did so) to having Western social media apps on their phone. Most…
To suppress views of China that it does not like, the party is trying to replicate its domestic censorship on a global scale, says Isabel Hilton This is a guest contribution to our debate: Should the West worry about the threat to liberal values posed by China’s rise? KISHORE MAHBUBANI urges “Western minds” to seek…
