Xinjiang in a sentence

The Chinese regime has used the excuse that Xinjiang faces a serious threat from Islamist militants and separatists who plot attacks and stir up tensions with the ethnic Han Chinese majority to crack down on the local population in Xinjiang.

Aksai Chin, claimed by India to belong to Kashmir and by China to be part of Xinjiang, contains an important road link that connects the Chinese regions of Tibet and Xinjiang.

The Qing court sent forces to defeat Yaqub Beg and Xinjiang was reconquered, and then the political system of China proper was formally applied onto Xinjiang.

A Chinese tourism advertisement portraying a medieval Buddhist fantasy, shot in the prayer hall of Xinjiang’s second-largest mosque, has alarmed the Uyghur diaspora, which is calling it a desecration, a media report said.

A lifetime pro-democracy activist, Abbas left the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China and came to the United States to study at Washington State University in 1989.

Although China has been attacked several times inside Pakistan and the latter continues to beef up security for Chinese personnel and projects, Beijing’s own (highly questionable) anti-terror efforts are confined to the Muslim-dominated Xinjiang region.

And the inaugural China-Central Asia summit in May produced several trade agreements and stronger support for domestic policies like the Xinjiang crackdown on Uyghurs, says Niva Yau, non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s global China hub.

An industry and a government official familiar with the matter confirmed that some Vietnamese suppliers may find it hard to comply with the new rules, either because they import cotton from Xinjiang or because they are unable to prove they do not.

A senior U.S. official told Reuters last year that U.S. allies appeared committed to following Washington's lead banning forced labor goods from Xinjiang, while warning companies they could not maintain "deliberate ignorance" about their supply chains.

At Xinjiang University, Dr. Rahile Dawut was a fulcrum of intellectual and social exchange, reaching out to anthropology departments in the United States and Britain to broaden her knowledge of interview techniques.

Don’t miss Dongbei sweet potato noodles, hot and fragrant deep-fried asparagus, Chongqing-style “chicken,” Xinjiang-style cumin “lamb,” classic mapo tofu, and salt-and-pepper king oyster mushroom.

Gansu, Qinghai, Tibet, Xinjiang and the rugged highlands in Sichuan and Yunnan are located on the fringe of the geologically complex Qinghai-Tibet plateau.

He stressed the importance of maintaining order and peace in Xinjiang and ensuring long-term stability.

Human rights groups accuse Beijing of abuses against Xinjiang’s Uyghur inhabitants, including the mass use of forced labor in internment camps.

In November, an apartment fire in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region in western China, and prompted protests across China, where many blamed the deaths on pandemic restrictions that impeded residents and firefighters.

In “the rapidly growing lithium EV battery market, or in emerging technologies, companies will need to be vigilant to avoid forced labour supply chain risk” in Xinjiang, the researchers said in a report last year.

Nonetheless, she has continued to sound the alarm about China’s activities, speaking to Congress and officials in the US and around the world about what is happening in Xinjiang.

One lesser-known and rather curious example of this new doublespeak is playing out, once again centered on Xinjiang, the Uyghur region in westernmost China.

Schoolchildren walking below surveillance cameras in Akto, south of Kashgar, in China's western Xinjiang region on June 4, 2019.

Sir Iain Duncan Smith has accused the Chinese governor of Xinjiang of murder as he joined Uyghur activists protesting against his reported visit to Britain next week.