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9 months, 1 week ago

Some still need to know more about Xinjiang

A convoy of students winds their way across a dramatic snowy landscape from Xihexiu town, Yecheng county, Kashgar prefecture in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, to their primary school. HU HUHU/MA JIABING/FOR CHINA DAILY At a time when discussions about China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region are often laced with political prejudice in Western countries, University of Cologne professor Felix Wemheuer's …

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10 months ago

Xinjiang: Why are "they" crying wolf again?

China Daily

Performers dance at the grand bazaar in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, January 23, 2023. One claim is that the construction of a joint test track in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, by Volkswagen and the Chinese company SAIC, was constructed using "forced labor." Even worse is that the US House has just passed three bills on China's …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Attacks won't scare me off from Xinjiang research: Australian scholar

China Daily

Maureen Huebel plans to travel to Xinjiang to do research in 2024. Maureen Huebel, a Melbourne-based scholar who has been the target of online harassment for debunking Western mainstream narratives about the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, said she would not back down in her research. "The more opposition I got, the more determined I became to complete my project," Huebel …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Microsoft's Bing AI toes CCP’s line, says Uyghur women's testimonies of forced sterilisation fabricated

Firstpost

Microsoft’s Bing AI seems to be biased to follow Chinese propaganda, especially when it is asked about the Uyghur ethnocide. — Adrian Zenz March 26, 2023 Zenz took to twitter to share his entire conversation with Bing AI, during which Bing steadfastly declined to talk about or debate the sterilisation of Uyghur women because it believes Chinese propaganda. The Uyghur …

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1 year, 9 months ago

US House panel on China highlights abuse of Uyghurs in second hearing

India Today

A new U.S. congressional committee on China held its second hearing on Thursday, highlighting what Washington says is an ongoing genocide against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China's Xinjiang region. Rights groups accuse Beijing of abuses, including forced labor, mass surveillance and having placed 1 million or more Uyghurs - a mainly Muslim ethnic group - in a network …

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2 years, 3 months ago

China fumes over UN report citing ‘serious human rights violations’ in Xinjiang

Hindustan Times

The Chinese government reacted furiously to the release of a report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on 31 August, calling it "wholly illegal and invalid". The report is titled "OHCHR Assessment of Human Rights Concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China". Furthermore, the OHCHR report found that China's policy has put "undue …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Xinjiang leak sheds new light on China’s ‘re-education’ camps

The Hindu

A leak of thousands of photos and official documents from China's Xinjiang has shed new light on the violent methods used to enforce mass internment in the region, researchers said Tuesday. But the trove of police photographs and internal documents — sent to Mr. Zenz by an anonymous source who hacked into official databases in Xinjiang — add to evidence …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Xinjiang leak reveals extent of Chinese abuses in Uighur camps

Al Jazeera

A leak of thousands of photographs reveals more details about the internment of Uighurs, but China calls it ‘lies’. The files, obtained by US-based academic Adrian Zenz, were published as UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet began a long-awaited and controversial trip to Xinjiang where Beijing is accused of “crimes against humanity” for its treatment of the Uighurs. “It’s much …

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3 years, 6 months ago

China policies ‘could cut millions of Uighur births in Xinjiang’

Al Jazeera

Amid accusations of genocide from the West, new report says China’s policies could cut up to 4.5 million births of Uighurs and other minorities in Xinjiang. Chinese birth control policies could cut between 2.6 to 4.5 million births among the mostly Muslim Uighur and other ethnic minorities in southern Xinjiang within 20 years, up to a third of the region’s …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Things to Know about All the Lies on Xinjiang: How Have They Come About?

China Daily

A colorful performance is presented for tourists in Korla City's Awat Township in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on April 10. ・ Zenz is a so-called "senior fellow for China studies" with the far-right Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, an organization established by the US government in 1983 and is known for preaching regime change. ・ In September 2018, Zenz …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Things to Know about All the Lies on Xinjiang: How Have They Come About?

China Daily

A colorful performance is presented for tourists in Korla City's Awat Township in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on April 10. ・ Zenz is a so-called "senior fellow for China studies" with the far-right Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, an organization established by the US government in 1983 and is known for preaching regime change. ・ In September 2018, Zenz …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Narrative on Xinjiang a too-familiar playbook

China Daily

SHI YU/CHINA DAILY In recent months, some in the West have launched a new round of smear campaign against Xinjiang-"concentration camp", "forced labor", "compulsory sterilization" and "genocide". But again, the evidence of "chemical weapons" turned out nothing more than a staged video directed by the White Helmets, a group funded by US and British intelligence agencies. Add the fact that …

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4 years ago

Uighurs forced to eat pork as China expands Xinjiang pig farms

Al Jazeera

Former detainees claim that the forcible feeding of pork is most rampant in re-education camps and detention centres. “China is using and will use different tactics to force Uighurs and other Muslim population to eat pork,” Sautbay said. ‘Normalising’ the forbidden Arslan Hidayat, a Turkey-based Uighur rights activist and secretary-general of the Uyghur Revival Association, told Al Jazeera that whether …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Curse of Being Uyghur Muslims in China's Xinjiang

News 18

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is China’s largest administrative region in northwestern territory. And while over a million Uyghur and other ethnic Muslims are incarcerated in internment camps, China says ‘sinicisation of Islam’ has matured since it was put forward as a concept by Jinping in 2015. Six months later, in July 2019, China came up with a theory that …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Deep Dive | It's Tibet's turn for Xinjiang-style Sinicisation model

India Today

China is coercing increasing numbers of rural labourers in Tibet to move off their lands and into military-styled training centres where they will be turned into factory workers. Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke at a Communist Party meeting recently on Tibet’s future governance, saying Beijing must build an “impregnable fortress” to maintain stability in Tibetan Autonomous Region and Tibetan associated …

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4 years, 3 months ago

China’s Xinjiang government confirms huge birth rate drop but denies forced sterilization of women

CNN

Hong Kong CNN — Chinese officials have officially acknowledged birth rates in Xinjiang dropped by almost a third in 2018, compared to the previous year, in a letter to CNN in which they also denied reports of forced sterilization and genocide by authorities in the far western region. Zenz said that these actions fell under the United Nations definition of …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Adrian Zenz's lies on Xinjiang's population debunked (6)

China Daily

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo published a press statement titled "On China's Coercive Family Planning and Forced Sterilization Program in Xinjiang" on 29 June 2020. One research report, written by Adrian Zenz and titled by "Sterilizations, IUDs, and mandatory birth control: The Chinese Communist Party's campaign to suppress Uygur birth rates in Xinjiang", was published by Jamestown Foundation in …

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4 years, 4 months ago

Women in Xinjiang shine a light on a campaign of abuse and control by Beijing

CNN

CNN — Zumrat Dawut said she was forcibly sterilized by the Chinese government for having one too many children. A US State Department report in 2019 said there had been reports of sexual abuse inside the detention centers, as well as by male Chinese government officials sent to stay with families across Xinjiang. On the International Day for the Elimination …

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Some still need to know more about Xinjiang

Xinjiang: Why are "they" crying wolf again?

Attacks won't scare me off from Xinjiang research: Australian scholar

Microsoft's Bing AI toes CCP’s line, says Uyghur women's testimonies of forced sterilisation fabricated

US House panel on China highlights abuse of Uyghurs in second hearing

China fumes over UN report citing ‘serious human rights violations’ in Xinjiang

Xinjiang leak sheds new light on China’s ‘re-education’ camps

Xinjiang leak reveals extent of Chinese abuses in Uighur camps

China policies ‘could cut millions of Uighur births in Xinjiang’

Things to Know about All the Lies on Xinjiang: How Have They Come About?

Things to Know about All the Lies on Xinjiang: How Have They Come About?

Narrative on Xinjiang a too-familiar playbook

Uighurs forced to eat pork as China expands Xinjiang pig farms

Curse of Being Uyghur Muslims in China's Xinjiang

Deep Dive | It's Tibet's turn for Xinjiang-style Sinicisation model

China’s Xinjiang government confirms huge birth rate drop but denies forced sterilization of women

Adrian Zenz's lies on Xinjiang's population debunked (6)

Women in Xinjiang shine a light on a campaign of abuse and control by Beijing