China’s Ministry of Public Security has initiated a new campaign against online rumors following Xi Jinping’s call for a “security barrier” around the Chinese internet. At The South China Morning Post, Kawala Xie reported on the...
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...
On September 1, 2008, retired CCP cadre Liu Tiancheng published an essay on his personal blog about a trip to the southern part of Xinjiang decades earlier. The essay appeared as a special column in China News Digest (华夏文摘) the...
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...
Recent months have seen increasingly sharp reprisals against prominent critics of Xi Jinping’s leadership. Law professor Xu Zhangrun was fired by Tsinghua University in mid-July after a brief detention and his earlier...
Ten years ago on July 5, 2009, riots broke out in Urumqi, Xinjiang, in response to a conflict...
Amid an ongoing security crackdown in Xinjiang that has included the controversial use of a...
As evidence mounts of detention camps holding up to one million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims...
The following essay was posted on Weibo by a student from Inner Mongolia, under user name...
At The New York Times, Javier C. Hernández and photographer Gilles Sabrié present a guided tour of...
CDT translation contributor Alicia translates a propaganda song that she found to be ubiquitous...
Human rights NGO Amnesty International has released an “urgent action” call for the...
Responding to an increase in violent incidents in Xinjiang and elsewhere in China, authorities...
As many Chinese—encouraged by official media—see their country as the target of foreign plots,...
Authorities in Xinjiang have since May 2014 been waging a “war on terror” in response...
Chinese authorities have for the past 20 months been engaged in a controversial crackdown on...
Radio Free Asia reports that writer, historian, and frequent critic of China’s ethnic...
Reporting on Monday’s trial of leading rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, The New York Times’ Edward Wong...
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