Posts Tagged ‘Xinjiang’

Mosques disappear as China strives to ‘build a beautiful Xinjiang’

Thursday, May 20th, 2021
china mosques disappearing

In late April, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, two ethnic Uyghur women sat behind a tiny mesh grate, underneath a surveillance camera, inside the compound of what had long been the city’s largest place of worship. Reuters could not establish if the place was currently functioning as a mosque. Within minutes of reporters Read more

China’s Uyghur abuses match UN genocide definition

Thursday, March 18th, 2021

China’s abuses of its Uyghur population violate every article in the United Nations’ (UN) genocide definition, a new report claims. The Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy, a foreign policy think tank based in Washington, D.C., prepared the 55-page report. It is one of the think tank’s first independent reports into the Chinese Communist Party’s Read more

China to ‘improve population’ with eugenics plan

Monday, November 23rd, 2020
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China will place emphasis on eugenics by encouraging a certain type of women to have more babies in its new five year plan. Eugenics is the study of how to manage reproduction within a human population to increase desirable heritable characteristics. Among the Chinese Communist Party’s goals listed in its policy blueprint for the years Read more