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 ...

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 ...

The Chinese government will award up to 900,000 yuan to individuals who come forward to debunk so-called “two-faced” judicial personnel, according to a recent local government announcement. According to “The standard for awarding individuals providing clues relevant to terrorism and violence-related criminal cases,” recently published by the Chinese authorities in Hoten (Hetian) District, residents who repo ...

China is planning to send troops to Syria to aid President Bashar Al-Assad’s forces, according to the New Khaleej. According to informed sources, the move comes as China becomes increasingly concerned with the presence of Islamic militants in the East Turkestan region, who have been sighted aiding opposition groups in Syria. Last week, during a meeting with Syrian Presidential Advisor Bouthaina Shaaban, Chi ...

Chinese officials in Xinjiang have banned the use of ethnic minority languages in schools in at least one area of the autonomous region, Radio Free Asia reports. Local education officials sent an order to schools in Yining county in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. The order bans the use of any school books or teaching materials written in the languages of the mostly Muslim Uyghur and Kazakh ethnic gro ...