Uyghurs / Uighurs
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Free and Open Indo-Pacific/FOIP
Report exposes CCP human rights abuses throughout 2024
FORUM Staff A prominent Chinese economist disappeared after privately criticizing the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) weakening economy, The Wall Street Journal newspaper reported in September 2024. In mid-December, a Tibetan village chief died three days after his release from prison on charges of “endangering state security.” His crime, according to the Central Tibetan Administration, was championing preservation of the…
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PRC pushes propaganda, manipulated information about human rights abuses
Voice of America The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is using new propaganda campaigns to obscure its human rights abuses against Tibetans and Uyghurs. The PRC recently invited foreign bloggers to Xinjiang in northwest China, home to millions of Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority. It also inaugurated a communication center to produce content spreading PRC-favored information about Tibet, which…
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Human rights advocates, investigators document CCP’s transnational repression
FORUM Staff Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked intimidation, harassment and violence during CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping’s visit to San Francisco, California, sought to silence criticism of Beijing’s repressive policies. CCP supporters appeared to coordinate actions that ranged from stealing protest signs to beating demonstrators, according to investigations by The Washington Post newspaper, and the Hong Kong Democracy Council and Students…
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China changes Uyghur village names ‘to erase cultural and religious expression,’ group says
Radio Free Asia The People’s Republic of China (PRC) changed the names of about 630 Uyghur villages as part of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) campaign to stamp out ethnic diversity in Xinjiang, a human rights group found. The CCP aims “to erase the cultural and religious expression” of the more than 11 million predominantly Muslim Uyghurs living in the…
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CCP spreads false narratives about bioweapons to distract from party’s biometrics data collection
FORUM Staff The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) false claims that the United States is developing biological weapons are a core element of the CCP’s malign disinformation campaigns against the U.S. and its Allies and Partners. In fabricating such claims, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) purposely ignores its ethnic-based research involving the Roma peoples and Slavic minorities. In fact, the…
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Chinese surveillance, DNA collection companies highlight perils of Xi’s military-civilian fusion strategy
FORUM Staff The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) hired a company to surveil its detractors abroad, steal other nations’ data and promote CCP narratives on social media, according to February 2024 news reports. CCP authorities contracted the Chinese cybersecurity firm I-Soon to hack networks across Central and Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan to help the party-state control dissidents and repress…
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PRC’s residential schools aim to erase Tibetan, Uyghur culture, experts fear
FORUM Staff United Nations experts have warned that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is increasingly separating children from families with an expanding network of boarding schools. The institutions appear to demonstrate the CCP’s strategy of forced assimilation for Tibetan, Uyghur and other minority populations. In Tibet and in China’s northwest Xinjiang region, reports have documented the systematic closing of local…
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The CCP’s Political Warfare
Professor Kerry K. Gershaneck The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is waging existential warfare against the rest of the world. It is a war for global control, and the CCP aspires to win it without fighting — or at least without having to engage in major kinetic combat. The key to the CCP’s strategy is to ensure that target countries cannot…
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Calling Out Repression
FORUM Staff Forced labor of Uyghurs and other Indigenous minorities continues to fuel manufacturing in China’s Xinjiang region, according to a flurry of investigations, including a critical United Nations report. The research also reveals that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is largely acting through the state-run Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) to repress the ethnic groups. Although an increasing…
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CCP Shifts Oppression of Uyghurs from ‘Reeducation’ to Prison, Analysts Say
Radio Free Asia Two reports released by officials in Xinjiang — one by the region’s highest court, the other by a group of prosecutors — show the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) strategy for constraining the Uyghur population is shifting from so-called reeducation camps to prison. The reports, published in March 2022 on the official website of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous…
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