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

(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

(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

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

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

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

Roberts: The “terrorism” label on Uyghurs has taken on a certain kind of “dehumanized” connotation

Roberts: The situation in Xinjiang led to a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy of Uyghur militancy

President Nazarbayev’s Resignation | Commentary by Jones, Junisbai, McGlinchey, Roberts, and Schatz

Roberts: The Chinese state needs to be in complete control [in Xinjiang] and so they just keep hammering the nail harder

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

Roberts: We felt it critical for the scholarly community to also take a stance on this issue

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