In 2016, Chinese authorities began rounding up Uyghur intellectuals. Among those detained was Ababekri Muhtar, the founder of Misranim, a popular social media site used by Uyghurs to debate with and learn from each other. Muhtar relies on a wheelchair for mobility, but this did not exempt him from the brutal treatment authorities inflicted upon the Uyghurs they had detained.
In early April,
The New Yorker published “Surviving the Crackdown in Xinjiang,” about a brutal “People’s War” that the Chinese authorities are prosecuting against their own citizens in Xinjiang, a borderland territory in the country’s far northwest. It follows the story of Anar Sabit, an ethnic Kazakh who left China, in 2014, to build a new life in Canada; three years later, she returned to her home town, in Xinjiang, to attend to a family emergency, only to be swept up in a wave of mass arrests and consigned to a reëducation camp. She was among hundreds of thousands of ethnic Kazakhs and Uyghurs who were forced into camps in the region in the years that followed.
Biden’s start reflects audacious domestic and global ambitions
US President Joe Biden speaks about jobs and the economy at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 7, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
It is hard to overstate the audaciousness of US President Joe Biden’s first one hundred days in office, which will be marked April 30. Behind it lies a presidential ambition to recharge America while at the same time improving the United States’ odds in its escalating contest with China.
Biden’s boldness can be measured most graphically by the numbers: the four trillion dollars and counting that he hopes to generate to finance an American pandemic rebound, a surge in US jobs and growth, and a mountain of national infrastructure investments (defining “infrastructure” liberally).
Propaganda Films Attempt to Cloak Xinjiang in Disinformation
Posted by Joseph Brouwer | Apr 6, 2021
The Chinese government has made painstaking efforts to obscure and distort information about its crackdown on Xinjiang’s ethnic minorities. The propaganda campaign is double-edged aimed at both Chinese citizens and the world at large. Two new state-backed films purport to dispel reporting on events in Xinjiang: the first a musical inspired by “La La Land”, the second the fourth and final episode in a documentary series on terrorism and separatism in the region. At The New York Times, Amy Qin reported on the “The Wings of Songs,”
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