China: How is Beijing whitewashing its Xinjiang policy?

> Since Xi came to power in 2013, Xinjiang has become a heavily militarized zone with increased high-tech security and widespread digital surveillance. Over 1 million #Uyghurs are reportedly detained in so-called "reeducation camps."
https://www.dw.com/en/china-how-is-beijing-whitewashing-its-xinjiang-policy/a-66779242 #Xinjiang #China

'Religious' crimes: China's Uyghur villages hide their secrets after Xinjiang crackdown

> The Chinese government began rounding up #Uyghurs in the northwestern region in large numbers from 2017 under what it calls an anti-terrorism policy.

> Over one million people were allegedly detained, with reports surfacing of widespread abuses, including violence, rape and political indoctrination
https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2111838.html #Xinjiang #China

Two Uyghur men... Pure joy of #mastodonk ... #xinjiang #China

'What genocide? Volkswagen’s morally expensive bet on China
Activists accuse the carmaker of giving moral cover to Beijing’s repression of Uyghurs'

https://www.politico.eu/article/volkswagen-china-xinjiang-forced-labor-how-to-get-away-with-genocide/

'Among the subjects of their ire: A car plant some 3,500 miles away in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, where Beijing has carried out a campaign of mass detention, reeducation and forced labor that the United States has described as genocide of the Uyghur ethnic minority.'

#China #Volkswagen #Xinjiang #genocide #VW #car

It is therefore particularly important for #Moscow and #Beijing to deepen their coordination and cooperation at international level. #Patrushev said developing a strategic partnership with #China remains a priority of #Russia's foreign policy. At the same time, he assured that Moscow unalterably supports China's position on #Taiwan, #HongKong, #Xinjiang and #Tibet. The #West has tried to discredit the People's Republic on these issues.

@andrewstroehlein @aral they basically copy & pasted that from the "P.R." #China in #EastTurkestan aka "#Xinjiang where they literally forcibly #DNA register every male resident.

RT @tradelawyer@twitter.com

Export data from Xinjiang vanishes from China's monthly economic reports in wake of Western measures prohibiting imports made in whole or in part from forced labour.

#ForcedLabour #SupplyChain #DueDiligence #HumanRights #Xinjiang #China #Canada #CBSA

https://qz.com/xinjiang-export-data-missing-from-china-economic-report-1849909737

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/tradelawyer/status/1605191782207291394

A report shows that forced labour from the Xinjiang region is being used to manufacture car parts for most major car brands.
#China #Xinjiang #HumanRights

https://www.shu.ac.uk/helena-kennedy-centre-international-justice/research-and-projects/all-projects/driving-force

Jim Millward on the link between #Xinjiang’s plight and that of #China as a whole. @histodons
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/06/opinion/china-protests-xinjiang-uighurs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Australian opposition party has called for sanctions against Chinese officials over human rights abuses in Xinjiang. Australia passed the Magnitsky Law in 2021 but afaik it has only been used to sanction Russian individuals.
#Xinjiang #HumanRights #auspol

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-24/sanctions-chinese-officials-human-rights-abuse-xinjiang-uyghur/101694754

Forced Marriage of Uyghur Women: State Policies for Interethnic Marriages in East Turkistan

#China #Xinjiang #HumanRights

https://uhrp.org/report/forced-marriage-of-uyghur-women/

In der Region #Xinjiang ist doch auch ein Werk von Volkswagen.

RT @SteffenWurzel@twitter.com

🇨🇳🇺🇸 Wichtiger Stichtag im Handel zwischen #China und den #USA: Ab heute dürfen keine Waren mehr in die USA importiert werden, die aus dem chinesischen Landesteil #Xinjiang kommen. Betroffen u.a. Textilindustrie und Solarbranche. Die wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen sind riesig.

In der Region #Xinjiang ist doch auch ein Werk von Volkswagen.

RT @SteffenWurzel@twitter.com

🇨🇳🇺🇸 Wichtiger Stichtag im Handel zwischen #China und den #USA: Ab heute dürfen keine Waren mehr in die USA importiert werden, die aus dem chinesischen Landesteil #Xinjiang kommen. Betroffen u.a. Textilindustrie und Solarbranche. Die wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen sind riesig.

China's vanishing mosques - BBC News

The BBC has found new evidence of the increasing control and suppression of Islam in China's far western region of Xinjiang – including the widespread destruction of mosques.

#Islam #China #Xinjiang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DewWSGTwOXo

RT @j_smithfinley@twitter.com

Honoured and humbled to be speaking alongside this formidable group of respected politicians, rights advocates, activists and lawyers this afternoon. @SamuelCogolati@twitter.com @MarketkaG@twitter.com @MamtiminAla@twitter.com Sayragul Sauytbay @TG_Chambers@twitter.com (Rodney Dixon QC) @fightimpunity@twitter.com
#Xinjiang #UyghurGenocide

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/j_smithfinley/status/1487031214515134465

THE #XINJIANG #BOYCOTTUNIQLO's "NO COMMENT"

Pressed to comment on China's policies in Xinjiang, #TadashiYanai, the outspoken president of Uniqlo operator Fast Retailing, insisted the Japanese apparel company was neutral when it came to politics.

https://t.co/Svdfht3De3