Over the last decade the free world has watched the Chinese government’s brutal crackdown in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region with growing alarm. Its use of mass extrajudicial interment, intrusive surveillance and coercive brainwashing has …
Articles by: "James Leibold"
In China’s distant northwest city of Ürümqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the Political and Legal Affairs Commission sends ‘micro clues’ to neighbourhood committees and the police when someone does something irregular. That …
International momentum is building to formally censure China for human rights violations. The Netherlands parliament has now joined the Canadian House of Commons and the US government in labelling China’s treatment of the Uyghur people …
Researchers at ASPI’s International Cyber Policy Centre are documenting and analysing the Chinese government’s repressive policies in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the northwest corner of China. Over the past two years, the team …
China’s government is building the world’s largest police-run DNA database in close cooperation with key international industry partners. Yet, unlike the managers of other forensic databases, the authorities in Beijing are deliberately enrolling tens of …
Forced labour and the abusive practices of the ‘re-education camps’ in China’s Xinjiang region are being exported to major factories across the country, implicating both global brands and the hundreds of millions of consumers (including …
In a 2017 poll conducted by the Chinese newspaper Global Times, Australia had the dubious honour of being voted ‘least friendly country to China’. In the same Chinese Communist Party–linked newspaper, a recent editorial argued …