A set of reports published this week provide more detail about the brutality of repression against Uyghur women and the pervasiveness of forced labor in Xinjiang that taints global supply chains. Accompanying these revelations...
Open displays of rejoicing and Schadenfreude on Chinese social media after a destructive magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck western Japan on New Year’s Day have been followed by two new (and far sillier) incidents of xenophobic or...
In the month since China erupted in a series of nationwide public protests, incited by a deadly fire in Urumqi and fueled by anger towards harsh “zero-COVID” policies, those involved in the protest movement have...
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...
Last week, The Economist reported on conflict between government troops and local rebels...
In order to promote assimilation, authorities plan to send a steady flow of Uyghurs to live and...
Reuters reported on Wednesday on the fearful atmosphere among Kashgar’s Han Chinese community, following the series of attacks over the weekend in which 20 were killed. “People here feel genuine terror, we definitely...
National Geographic’s new series, “Seven Billion”, attempts to analyze the world’s population of seven billion people. According to it, the most typical person in the world is a Han-Chinese male. From...
In China’s Xinjiang, Han Chinese and native Muslim Uighurs live side by side, but time zones apart. From The Los Angeles Times: When communist China was formed in 1949, Mao Tse-tung decreed that everybody should follow a...
Howard French for the New York Times reports on the economic disparity and ethnic tensions that exist in many of China’s mixed communities. In Tibet and in neighboring provinces, like Qinghai, Gansu and Sichuan, where...
While protests against China’s policies toward Tibet erupt around the world, Philip Bowring for the International Herald Tribune discusses the greater ethnic minority “problem” facing the country. Non-Han...
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