Drawing on open source data including satellite imagery, Chinese government documents, official statistics and a range of authoritative reports and academic studies, the Xinjiang Data Project documents the Chinese Communist Party’s ongoing program of human rights abuses and tech-enhanced authoritarianism in Xinjiang, and explores its global implications. This is a case study in repressive technology,...
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RAW Officer on the Build-Up on the India-China Border
Former Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) officer, Amar Bhushan, comments on the border clash between India and China in which solders fought hand to hand combat on high mountain terrain. By way of background, the Guardian explains the dispute between the world’s two most populous nations like this. Both countries have sought to establish their...
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Apple, VW, Nike and Other Western Brands Benefit from China’s Forced Labor Camps
In a new report, “Uyghurs for Sale,” the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) documents how the mass transfer of Uighur and other ethnic minorities from region of Xinjiang to factories across the country benefits Western business. Under conditions that strongly suggest forced labour, Uyghurs are working in factories that are in the supply chains of...
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How China Runs Its Mass Detention Camps
From the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – ICIJ The extraordinary coercive power of China’s Ministry of State Security is Xinjiang province, where the Beijing government is seeking to control the Uighurs, a non-Chinese Muslim minority. ICIJ obtained an operations manual: A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents reveals the operations manual for...
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China Surveillance App Targets Tourists in Xinjiang Province
No longer content with mass surveillance of their ethnic minority populations, the Chinese authorities have begun cybersurveillance of visitors to the northwestern province of Xinjiang. according to the New York Times. The Times reports that travelers, tourists and visitors to Xinjiang are now being required to turn over all of their electronic devices to the...
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