Sean Roberts

The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority

(New Books Network) In today’s new episode, we speak with Sean Roberts about his brand new book The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority (Princeton University Press, 2020).…

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Majlis Podcast with Sean Roberts: The Repercussions Of Beijing’s Policies In Xinjiang

(RFE/RL) China’s campaign against Uyghur nationalism, branded by Beijing as separatism, has abruptly spiked in the last two years and spread beyond just the Uyghurs. […] On this week’s Majlis podcat,…

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Roberts: The Belt and Road is part of the reason that there’s such an urgency to clean up the Uyghur population in Xinjiang at the present moment

(CNN) Every day, US-based Uyghur journalist Gulchehra Hoja tries to call her family in the Chinese region of Xinjiang. Sometimes she tries up to 20 different numbers, just hoping that…

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The biopolitics of China’s “war on terror” and the exclusion of the Uyghurs

(Critical Asian Studies) Abstract: This article provides an overview of People’s Republic of China (PRC) counter-terrorism policies targeting Uyghurs since 2001 when the state first asserted that it faced a terrorist…

Украинский конфликт и будущее многовекторной внешней политики Казахстана

Казахстан добился наибольших успехов среди всех среднеазиатских республик в выстраивании сбалансированных отношений с крупнейшими международными игроками. В Астане казахскую внешнюю политику называют «многовекторной», подчеркивая таким образом стремление республики к установлению…