Xinjiang Native Speaks Out: “Western Media Jeopardizing Uyghurs Interests”

Dan Cohen speaks with Gordon Gao, an ethnic minority and Xinjiang native on the realities of life in Xinjiang, Western media coverage and US-China tensions.

Dan Cohen
By Dan Cohen
China Uyghur Feature photo

WASHINGTON -- Dan Cohen speaks with Gordon Gao, Director of Strategic Research at Tsinghua University Endowment Fund in Beijing and a native of Urumqi in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Gao discusses growing up as a Mongolian ethnic minority in XUAR, and how the propaganda war against China hurts Uyghur interests, but will ultimately

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NED-Funded Uyghur Separatist Network and CAIR Director Rally Around Cold War Propaganda

At a March 30 demonstration at the Chinese Embassy, the U.S.-funded Uyghur Separatist Network was joined by prominent Muslim figures. “Behind The Headlines” correspondent Dan Cohen spoke to participants and examined their claims.

Dan Cohen
By Dan Cohen
CAIR Uyghur Feature photo

WASHINGTON — On March 30, demonstrators gathered outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington, calling on the U.S. Congress to pass the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention and Human Rights Protection Acts. This legislation would ban the import of products alleged to be made from forced labor in China. It also authorizes President Biden to sanction

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China’s Crackdown Turkic Muslims Could Be It’s Achilles Heel

China’s campaign in Xinjiang is effectively enabled by the silence, driven primarily by a desire of governments, many of which are deeply indebted to China, to preserve economic relations, and allows it to largely ignore criticism by Western nations, human rights groups as well as the Uyghur Diaspora.

Dr. James M. Dorsey
By Dr. James M. Dorsey
Chinese Muslims Human Rights

A list of 26 predominantly Muslim countries considered sensitive by China reflects Chinese concerns that they could reinforce religious sentiment among the People’s Republic’s Turkic Muslim population with potentially far-reaching consequences if the Islamic world were to take it to task for its crackdown in Xinjiang, the most frontal assault on

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The Uyghur Militant Threat: China Cracks Down and Mulls Policy Changes

China is forcing its Uyghur population into re-education camps at home and launching it’s first foreign military intervention in decades to make sure they are defeated in Syria.

Dr. James M. Dorsey
By Dr. James M. Dorsey
In this Nov. 4, 2017 file photo, Uighur security personnel patrol near the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang region. Ng Han Guan | AP

China, responding to United Nations criticism, academic and media reports, and an embarrassing court case in Kazakhstan, has come closer to admitting that it has brutally cracked down on the strategic north-western province of Xinjiang in what it asserts is a bid to prevent the kind of mayhem that has wracked countries like Syria and Libya. The

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China May Join Government of Syria in Idlib Offensive Against US-backed Rebels

Were China to join the Idlib offensive it would allow Beijing to secure the destruction of the Uyghur presence that Turkey helped to foment, while also pressuring Turkey to relinquish the portion of Syrian territory that it is currently occupying.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Soldiers with the People's Liberation Army at Shenyang training base in China, March 24, 2007. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. D. Myles Cullen, U.S. Air Force. (Released)

DAMASCUS, SYRIA -- China’s ambassador to Syria, Qin Qianjin, recently told Syria’s Al Watan news service that the Chinese military may soon join the conflict as the Syrian government, along with its allies, sets its sights on retaking the parts of Syria that remain under the control of extremist groups, specifically Syria’s Idlib province.

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China’s Strategy In Its ‘War On Terror’: Jobs Not Drones

The Chinese government is employing a unique strategy to reduce the threat of terrorism in its historically unstable Tibet and Xinjiang autonomous regions. By providing new jobs and better housing, the government has managed to quell the threat of separatism.

Caleb T. Maupin
By Caleb T. Maupin
Chinese workers sew clothes at a garment factory in Wuqia town, Kuqa county, Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, 27 September 2016. (Photo: Imaginechina/AP)

WASHINGTON -- (Insights) -- On March 1, 2014, eight men and women wielding knives attacked passengers at a train station in southwest China’s city of Kunming. The attackers, wielding long-bladed knives, killed 31 people and injured 143 others. Four of the attackers were killed by a SWAT team at the scene, while another three were executed in March

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