Council  on Foreign Relations Recent Developments China’s crackdown on the ethnic Uighur minority intensified after the 2009 riots in Xinjiang region’s capital, Urumqi, which resulted in nearly 200 dead and more than 1,700 injured, according to Chinese officials. In 2014, China once again stepped up its security presence in Xinjiang following numerous knife and bomb attacks by separatists. Chinese authoriti ...

A CCTV display using a facial-recognition system in Beijing. Photo: The Washington Post Simon Denyer CHONGQING, China – For 40-year-old Mao Ya, the facial recognition camera that allows access to her apartment house is simply a useful convenience. "If I am carrying shopping bags in both hands, I just have to look ahead and the door swings open,'' she said. "And my 5-year-old daughter can just look up at the ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang will build a “Great Wall” around its borders to prevent the infiltration of militants from outside the country, state media reported on Tuesday citing the regional governor. Hundreds of people have been killed in Xinjiang in the past few years in violence between Uighurs, a mostly Muslim people who speak a Turkic language, and ethnic ...

Bloomberg News, 18 Ocak 2018 New system alerts authorities when targets leave ‘safe areas’ Western region of Xinjiang serves as surveillance laboratory China’s state surveillance apparatus is trying out a new tool in one of its favorite test beds, the restive region of Xinjiang. The Muslim-dominated villages on China’s western frontier are testing facial-recognition systems that alert authorities when targe ...

By Gerry Shih | AP December 29, 2017 KAYSERI, Turkey — Iminjin Qari felt upbeat as he drove to Istanbul’s airport with three empty buses and a simple task: pick up about 200 fellow Uighurs who had fled China for asylum in Turkey — and escort them to safety. Qari, a Uighur emigre and community worker, planned to take the newcomers back to the city of Kayseri, where the Turkish government had set aside empty ...