04
May 2018
Past Event
China's Police State in Xinjiang

China's Police State in Xinjiang

Past Event
Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
May 04, 2018
A policeman standing guard as Muslims arrive for the Eid al-Fitr morning prayer at the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)
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A policeman standing guard as Muslims arrive for the Eid al-Fitr morning prayer at the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)
04
May 2018
Past Event

1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 400
Washington, DC 20004

Speakers:
Sarah Cook

Senior Research Analyst, East Asia, Freedom House

James Millward

Professor of History, Georgetown University

Rian Thum

Associate Professor of History, Loyola University

Louisa Greve

Washington Fellow, Christian Solidarity Worldwide

Eric Brown

Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

The People’s Republic of China has built the world’s most advanced police state in Xinjiang, the “autonomous region” in northwestern PRC whose indigenous Uighur peoples have long bristled under repressive and discriminatory Communist rule. Cutting-edge surveillance, population control technologies, and large-scale Chinese force deployments have made Xinjiang the most heavily garrisoned part of the country. Five to ten percent of Uighurs have been incarcerated or forced into camps for “re-education.” Meanwhile, the PRC’s efforts to suppress or eliminate Uighur culture and Islamic religious practice have also intensified.

Beijing justifies its police state in Xinjiang by citing security concerns over ethnic “splittism” and foreign Islamist ideology. Despite criticism of Communist Party policy from Chinese themselves, the party has gone to extraordinary lengths to stifle dissent and control what China and the world hears about Xinjiang. What do we know about the situation in Xinjiang, and where is it headed? How are Uighurs responding to this dire situation, and how is it affecting Uighur society? How is the build-up of the police state in Xinjiang impacting Chinese society itself, both as Xi Jinping attempts to consolidate his rule at-home and as the PRC attempts to transform itself into a global power?

On May 4, Hudson Institute hosted a discussion on the Xinjiang police state. Panelists will include James Millward, a professor of history at Georgetown University; Louisa Greve, the Washington fellow at Christian Solidarity Worldwide; Sarah Cook, a senior research analyst at Freedom House; and Rian Thum, an associate professor of history at Loyola University in New Orleans. The conversation was moderated by Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Eric Brown.

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