A masked protester joins a march of ethnic Uighurs in Brussels in April asking the European Union to call upon China to respect human rights in the Chinese Xinjiang region. (EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images) Sam Brownback, the U.S. ambassador for religious freedom, is pressing the Trump administration to impose sanctions on Chinese leaders associated with the…
PHOTO: Mr Howard said responding to Chinese assertiveness was “absolutely critical”. (AAP:Joel Carrett) China could use its 1 million expats in Australia to help grow its influence and power in the region, former prime minister John Howard says. Speaking in London on a panel discussion about the Five Eyes intelligence network, Mr Howard said “Chinese assertiveness” was…
Host, Tariq El-Amin is joined in studio by Dr. Timothy Grose, an assistant Professor of China Studies from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana to discuss the Uyghur (pronounced We-gor) Muslims of China, an ethnic minority of Turkic descent who have been forcibly detained–in what amounts to internment camps designed to strip them…
Already one of the most policed places on earth, Xinjiang saw security spending balloon last year China’s construction of a vast, all-seeing police state in its fractious far west has triggered a government spending spree worth billions to firms providing a hi-tech network of cameras and “re-education centres”. The surveillance machine in Xinjiang region has…
Evidence of a vast system of “re-education camps” in Xinjiang is growing even as the Chinese government continues to deny their existence. The camps are estimated to hold as much as 10 percent of the Uyghur population. They are closely related to what is probably the world’s most sophisticated citizen surveillance operation, documented last year in December by the…
More than 70 religious leaders from Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region attended a four-month training in Beijing, vowing to introduce the experience of sinicizing Islam to the region troubled by religious extremists. The session included courses and site visits to cities like Quanzhou in East China’s Fujian Province and Qufu in East China’s Shandong Province, China…
Villagers can spot suspicious circumstances on TV set at home and report to authorities ○ China’s mass surveillance network, the largest in the world, expands into rural regions ○ The project, using artificial intelligence (AI), facial recognition and big data, helps reduce crime rates in the countryside, which is short of security forces A worker is maintaining…
An elderly Uyghur man prepares to get his beard massaged at a barber shop in the city of Aksu, July 17, 2014. AP Photo More than two dozen Uyghurs have died in “political re-education camps” in one county of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), according to officials from the area, who said most…
The hands of a Muslim, who was released by Chinese authorities, are shown on June 26, 2018. Photo courtesy of China Aid Association Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang are detaining Muslim ethnic minorities en masse and subjecting them to torture and brainwashing to honor the ruling Chinese Communist Party and renounce the…
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) are rapidly constructing crematoria staffed by dozens of security personnel, according to local officials, amid concerns over the eradication of ethnic Uyghur funeral traditions. Between March 2017 and February 2018, the XUAR government listed 5-10 million yuan (U.S. $760,000 to $1.52 million) tenders for contractors to…
