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China and Pakistan deepen their ‘friendship’ with a new bus service connecting both countries
That particular region has been a bone of contention between India and Pakistan for years now. I…
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McKinsey held a lavish corporate retreat in Kashgar miles from where the Chinese government is imprisoning up to one million ethnic Uighurs
Indeed, at the Kashgar retreat, McKinsey consultants spent their time discussing their work with st…
Rachel Premack
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China is testing all 5 million residents of a city in Xinjiang after one person tested positive for COVID-19
More than 2.8 million were tested by Sunday night, Reuters reported. Kashgar is a major city in Xin…
Bill Bostock
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My wife was detained, released, and disappeared again in China. Here's my message on behalf of my people, the Uighurs.
The author, Mamutjan Abdurehim, is a Uighur father from Xinjiang — the Chinese region synonymous wi…
Mamutjan Abdurehim
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China is reportedly sending men to sleep in the same beds as Uighur Muslim women while their husbands are in prison camps
It is almost impossible to hear from Uighurs in Xinjiang, as any communication with journalists or …
Alexandra Ma
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Photos show huge expansion of Chinese facility where Muslim minority say they are persecuted and forced to sing hymns to Xi Jinping
Rights activists accused China of keeping 1 million Uighurs in such camps. This number may even be …
Alexandra Ma
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China used a file-sharing app to round up 40,000 Uighur Muslims for prison camps, a startling insight into how it oppresses people via technology
China also makes tourists visiting the region install invasive software that downloads their texts …
Alexandra Ma
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Leaked drone footage purports to show Xinjiang prisoners blindfolded and tied up
Uygur is an alternate spelling for Uighur, the majority-Muslim ethnic minority living in Xinjiang. …
Rosie Perper,Rosie Perper
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China is locking up its Muslim minorities, and pushing Islamophobia to get Europe to do it too
Ethnic Uyghur members of the Communist Party of China carry a flag past a billboard of Chinese Pre…
Alexandra Ma
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China is repressing an ethnic Muslim minority on an unprecedented scale - here are their excuses for imprisoning people
Thomas Peter/Reuters A police officer checks a Uighur man's ID documents in Kashgar, Xinjiang, i…
Alexandra Ma
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Before-and-after photos show how China is destroying historical sites to monitor and intimidate its Muslim minority
"What they've done to Kashgar breaks my heart - back in the 90s it was a wonderful time-capsule of …
Alexandra Ma
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China's air pollution dropped dramatically after coronavirus lockdown
There is often a pollution dropoff in China around specific celebrations and events. Factories and …
Shona Ghosh
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China includes parts of Arunachal Pradesh in its updated map
Arunachal Pradesh, a hill state in the Northeast bordering Tibet, was part of British India in…
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This map shows a trillion-dollar reason why China is oppressing more than a million Muslims
Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, the charge d'affaires at Pakistan's embassy in China, told the state-run Globa…
Alexandra Ma
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Beijing says it's 'very rude' 15 countries and the UN to ask them about detaining 1 million Muslims
"We hope that as ambassadors, they can truly fulfill their responsibilities and obligations, play a…
Alexandra Ma
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How a Chinese region that accounts for just 1.5% of the population became a testing ground for the most intrusive police state in the world
"This strong rise in 2017 [arrests] is consistent with all the other securitization measures, inclu…
Tara Francis Chan
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14 seconds of undercover footage reveals the shadowy, sinister reality of China's 21st-century police state
This is the scene in VICE News's new documentary on the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, the mos…
Alexandra Ma
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China is reportedly tracking ethnic minorities by sticking QR codes with their personal information on their front doors
A Uighur who left Xinjiang in 2017, identified by the pseudonym Nurmuhemmet, told Human Rights Watc…
Alexandra Ma
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US residents are reportedly detained in China's prison-like detention camps for Muslims, where people have to pledge allegiance to Xi Jinping to get food
It comes after Sam Brownback, the US's Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, tol…
Alexandra Ma
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China okays massive re-education camps for Muslim minorities after denying the camps exist
China previously denied that such camps existed. Shortly after a United Nations panel said it had r…