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featuring Professor of Anthropology, Pomona College This talk examines the rise of the “Xinjiang Problem” in Sino-US relations and the recent events involving the Uyghur in China’s Northwest Region.  Some have suggested that China has already engaged in a “genocide” in Xinjiang as early as the July 5, 2009 riots in Urumqi.  While the state media attribute the Uyghur activism to radical Islam and separatism, none of the protestors have called for jihad or an independent “Eastern Turkistan,” and the former US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on his last day in office formally listed the treatment of the Uyghur as “genocide.” President Biden’s administration has not backed away from this designation. Internationally, the Uyghur diaspora helped to call global attention to the “education camps” that Chinese media initially denied, then attempted to re-shape as “vocational centers” through carefully edited reporting and selective coverage.  This talk sugge

Pomona collegeUnited statesUniversity of southern californiaUnited kingdomEast west centerDru gladneyDanielwy kwokMichael pompeoBenjamin curtis gladneyCambridge universityUniversity of hawaiiPacific basin instituteDean of the asia pacific centerUniversity of washingtonShanghai university for politicsHarvard university