Is China Committing Genocide? Behind the US Government’s Propaganda Campaign

The U.S. and its allies have declared China is guilty of genocide against Uighur Muslims. Behind The Headlines’ Dan Cohen examines the claim and the extremist figures behind the propaganda blitz.

Dan Cohen
By Dan Cohen
Uighur Genocide Feature photo

XINJIANG PROVINCE, CHINA -- Up is down. War is peace. And the U.S., Canada and the Netherlands have accused China of genocide. “This is forced labor, this is forced sterilization, this is forced abortions, ...the kind of thing we haven’t seen in an awfully long time in this world,” declared then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. To be fair, the

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Is Erik Prince Helping China Build Concentration Camps For Muslims?

One of America’s most famous private security contractors – and, incidentally, brother to President Trump’s secretary of education, has found himself caught up in China’s intermittent of up to one million Uighur Muslims.

ZeroHedge.com
By ZeroHedge.com
Erik Prince

As China's mass incarceration of members of its Uighur Muslim minority in its far-flung Xinjiang province has elicited condemnation from editorial boards of US newspapers to, more recently, the leader of one of the world's largest Muslim nations, one of America's most famous private security contractors - and, incidentally, brother to President

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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’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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