EuroAsiaNet Kazakhstan is trying an ethnic Kazakh from China for illegally crossing the border. The case threatens to aggravate nationalist views of the powerful neighbor. Almaz Kumenov A trial taking place in a small quiet town in eastern Kazakhstan, just across the border from China, may decide the life or death of Sayragul Sauytbay. Sauytbay, 41, an ethnic Kazakh and Chinese citizen, is accused of using ...

Connor Dilleen ASPI China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority in the Xinjiang autonomous region has garnered increased attention in recent months, due to Beijing’s policy of mass arbitrary detention of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in ‘political re-education centres’. In April, the chairs of the US Congressional-Executive Commission on China called the detention program the ‘largest mass incarceration ...

Ejinsight Frank Ching In March, China watchers riveted their attention on amendments to the constitution, especially the one that lifted term limits for the presidency, to see if Xi Jinping would be made president for life. But there were other amendments that attracted little, if any, attention. One introduced the concept of zhonghua minzu, or “Chinese nation” or “China’s peoples”, into the constitution. H ...

CBS News NEW YORK -- A new investigative report explores China's surveillance program targeting Uighurs, a Muslim minority group living in the Xinjiang province. "Spy For Us – Or Never Speak to Your Family Again" was written by BuzzFeed reporter Megha Rajagopalan. She explained to CBS News that the Chinese government fears Uighurs will be part of separatist threats. "In the past, China has dealt with terror ...

China is using its huge digital surveillance system, and the threat of sending family members to reeducation camps, to pressure minorities to spy on their fellow exiles. Buzfeed ISTANBUL — Spying on behalf of the Chinese state went against everything O. believed in. Yet even as he sat thousands of miles away in a quiet town in Sweden, he knew the police in his home country held something over him that could ...