by Keith B. Richburg Leaders of countries long friendly to China because of economic concerns—and willing to turn a blind eye to its atrocious human rights record and abuses like holding a million Muslim Uyghurs in concentration camps—are demanding Beijing be held to account. As the novel coronavirus has spread from its original epicentre of Wuhan into a global pandemic, China’s ruling communist party is pu ...

The posters on the wall alongside the Qingdao Taekwang Shoes Co. factory — the side where the Uighur workers enter and exit, and live in dorms — feature Communist Party propaganda extolling “China dream” and “Uphold national spirit to unite and make all of China strong.” Another says: “All ethnicities are united as one family.” (Anna Fifield/The Washington Post) By Letters to the Editor  March 10, 2020 at 1 ...

By Nick Statt@nickstatt  Feb 26, 2020, 12:30pm EST   Google Translate is adding support for five new languages today, bringing its total to 108 languages. The move marks the first addition of new languages to Google’s artificial intelligence-powered translation product in four years, the company says. Among the new languages added are Kinyarwanda, Odia, Tatar, Turkmen, and Uyghur, and Google says the c ...

Residents line up inside the Artux City Vocational Skills Education Training Service Center at the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang. AP/Ng Han Guan 2020-02-04 Authorities in Atush (in Chinese, Atushi), in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), have fenced off the city's roads, leaving residents confined to their homes and running out of supplies, as they work ...

Uighur men watching a movie at a teahouse in the old city of Yarkand, in the Xinjiang region of China. By Chris Buckley and Steven Lee Myers,  Photographs by Gilles Sabrié Jan. 18, 2020 YARKAND, China — The winding, crowded lanes of old Yarkand, an ancient Silk Road town, preserve patterns of life that go back centuries. On a recent morning, smoke wafted from sputtering grills of lamb and ovens lined with b ...