February 5 of this year marked the 27th anniversary of the Ghulja Massacre. On that day in 1997, hundreds of people gathered in Ghulja, a county-level city in northwest Xinjiang (also known as Yining county, in Chinese), to...
The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August was never an ideal scenario for the Chinese government, and it was even worse for Afghanistan’s Uyghur minority. In the security vacuum left by the U.S. withdrawal, China is now...
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...
A newly released report by more than 50 global legal and China experts has found that the Chinese government’s actions in Xinjiang have violated every single provision of the U.N. Genocide Convention. Published by...
On Saturday, The New York Times published a report by Austin Ramzy and Chris Buckley based on 403 pages of leaked documents on China’s ongoing mass detention campaign in Xinjiang. The 24 documents include speeches by Xi...
Ten years ago on July 5, 2009, riots broke out in Urumqi, Xinjiang, in response to a conflict...
Amid a long-running security crackdown in Xinjiang, ethnic Uyghurs living abroad have been...
Responding to rising incidents of violence in Xinjiang and elsewhere in China, authorities in 2014...
Since 2014, as part of a nationwide crackdown on terrorism, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region...
Lawmakers in Xinjiang this week passed the first region-wide legislation aiming to combat...
Human Rights Watch has criticized China’s new counter-terrorism law for its potential to...
In 2014, Beijing launched a “people’s war on terror” in response to increasing...
Following a deadly knife attack in Pishan county, Xinjiang on February 14 and amid an...
A deadly knife attack in Xinjiang’s Pishan county last week, in which eight people including the...
At the South China Morning Post, Teddy Ng reports on a fatal attack in Pishan county, Xinjiang on...
Reuters’ Christian Shepherd reports that two CCP officials in Xinjiang have been placed...
The Chinese embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan was attacked on Tuesday when a car armed with an...
Chinese authorities have long claimed that the Islamic State is actively recruiting Muslim Uyghurs...
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