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China’s crackdown on the Uighurs: A carefully researched study of Beijing’s repression in Xinjiang

  • October 19, 2020
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(Financial Times) A newly renovated hall in the largest museum in Urumqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang region in China, hosts an installation that makes little sense for a…
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The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority

  • September 14, 2020
  • Sean Roberts
(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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Roberts: Uighur’s attachment to their traditional lands and ways of life is seen by China’s Communist Party as a risk to the successful implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative

  • January 3, 2020
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(VOA) While the international attention on China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang has focused mainly on ethnic and religious issues, Beijing’s economic development plans in the strategic region also play…
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Roberts: The “terrorism” label on Uyghurs has taken on a certain kind of “dehumanized” connotation

  • April 19, 2019
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(Michigan Daily) Since the late months of 2017, news media has increasingly published more information about the detainment of ethnic minority groups in China’s “re-education” camps. These internment camps have been…
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Roberts: The situation in Xinjiang led to a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy of Uyghur militancy

  • March 29, 2019
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(Radio Free Asia) A number of ethnic Uyghur Muslims have trained and fought with Islamic insurgents battling the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria in the hope of using their experience to…
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President Nazarbayev’s Resignation | Commentary by Jones, Junisbai, McGlinchey, Roberts, and Schatz

  • March 22, 2019
  • PONARS Eurasia
Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, made a brief statement on March 19 announcing his resignation. PONARS Eurasia members provide context and viewpoints. Pauline Jones (University of Michigan) Although the exact timing was…
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Roberts: The Chinese state needs to be in complete control [in Xinjiang] and so they just keep hammering the nail harder

  • December 19, 2018
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(CSM) The Pakistani businessman braved the rugged Karakoram Highway, crossed the freezing Khunjerab Pass, and spent an hour undergoing security at China’s border to reach the city of Kashgar, in…
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Majlis Podcast with Sean Roberts: The Repercussions Of Beijing’s Policies In Xinjiang

  • December 11, 2018
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Roberts: We felt it critical for the scholarly community to also take a stance on this issue

  • November 27, 2018
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(Yahoo News) A global coalition of nearly 300 scholars on Monday called on Beijing to abolish its “transformation through education” campaign against China’s ethnic Uygur population, and appealed for increased diplomatic…
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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

  • November 16, 2018
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