Foreign Policy In Xinjiang, unwanted Chinese guests monitor Uighur homes 24/7. ften, the big brothers and sisters arrived dressed in hiking gear. They appeared in the villages in groups, their backpacks bulging, their luggage crammed with electric water kettles, rice cookers, and other useful gifts for their hosts. They were far from home and plainly a bit uncomfortable, reluctant to rough it such a long wa ...

UyghurTimes Time Magazine named Shoukhrat Mitalipov, who directs the OHSU Center for Embryonic Cell and Gene Therapy, as one of the 50 most influential people in health care for 2018. Time ,an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City,cited Mitalipov’s work “designing disease-free embryos.” Mitalipov used the CRISPR gene-editing technique to repair a genetic mutation causing ...

  INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON By: Gulnisa Nazarova Tuesday, October 23, 2018 Gulnisa Nazarova is John D. Soper Senior Lecturer of Uyghur Language in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University. Her ongoing research explores the experiences of some of the thousands of Uyghurs who emigrated from Xinjiang in the People’s Republic of China to Soviet Central Asia in the 1950s and 196 ...

Amnesty International Responding to comments by the governor of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) northwest China, who described the camps in which up to a million predominantly Muslim people are currently detained as “free vocational training” centres, Patrick Poon, China researcher at Amnesty International said: “The governor’s remarks fly in the face of all available evidence and are an insult ...

The Diplomat As China does its worst, the world must uphold the best. China’s old sicknesses of totalitarian rule and genocide are back. As revealed in the U.S. Congressional Executive Commission on China Annual Report, Beijing has enacted a sweeping program of ethnic cleansing against minority populations in its Xinjiang region. With over 1 million people “disappeared” as of early 2018, presumably into Xin ...