Last week’s lethal fire in Urumqi, whose death toll is widely believed to have been exacerbated by the government’s pandemic control policies, set off a nationwide wave of mourning gatherings and anti-lockdown protests. Western...
Uyghur intellectual Ilham Tohti has been serving a life sentence for separatism since 2014. Widely known during his career as a moderate voice aiming for productive dialogue between Uyghurs and Han within China, the scholar and...
Responding to rising incidents of violence in Xinjiang and elsewhere in China, authorities in 2014...
Al Jazeera reports that Chinese authorities have turned back thousands of Myanmar refugees fleeing...
Chinese authorities have for the past 20 months been engaged in a controversial crackdown on...
In order to promote assimilation, authorities plan to send a steady flow of Uyghurs to live and...
The New York Times reports that a Kashgar court on Monday sentenced 58 people for their...
Sumit Galhotra at The Committee to Protect Journalists reports on jailed Ugyher scholar Ilham...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
In the wake of a deadly attack by knife-wielding assailants in the Kunming train station, and amid...
A heavy influx of Han immigration has long been a major source of ethnic tension in Xinjiang....
Al Jazeera reports on a Chinese flag installed in a mosque in Aksu, western Xinjiang Autonomous...
The BBC reports that following days of unrest in the Xinjiang region that included an attack on a police station in Hotan on Friday, Chinese officials have increased operations by enacting a twenty-four hour patrol of the...
Little more than a year ago, there was talk of Myanmar (also known as Burma) as a “Chinese California”, offering China a west coast onto the Indian Ocean. Now, Coke and Pepsi billboards glare at each other across...
At least four people were killed by police during a riot in Hotan, Xinjiang today. From the Los Angeles Times: Authorities in the western frontier city of Hotan opened fire on a mob after it attacked a police station, set it on...
The New York Times provides the historical, political and social context behind the recent protests in Inner Mongolia: …The ethnic Mongolian protests that have swept a number of cities in recent weeks are a sobering...
AP reports on the ongoing protests in Urumqi following reports of a string of syringe attacks. Five people have been killed in the protests: Deputy Mayor Zhang Hong reported the casualties at a news conference in the city,...
The interplay between local identity, state policy, and economic change is at the core of the violent events in Tibet in 2008 and Xinjiang in 2009. The Chinese government’s predicament in finding a workable policy in response is...
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