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China’s tech weapons roll in to quell demonstrations, identify protesters

Free speech

The latest demonstrations across China ended when the central government unleashed a digital arsenal that was less deadly than the tanks used to quell the 1989 protests, but just as effective. China managed to use the internet to defuse national outrage over President Xi Jinping’s strict COVID-19 policies without firing a single shot.

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, visits the community of Guyuanxiang in the Tianshan District in Urumqi in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. 

US companies reexamine supply chains under new law against Uyghur forced labor

Human rights
detention center building

‘I feel quite desperate right now’: In leaked databases, Uyghurs search for names of the missing

Justice
Children ride on a motorcycle near a large billboard.

New Zealand condemns China’s treatment of Uyghurs but won’t call it ‘genocide’

Human rights
Merkel stands at a podium flanked by two German flags.

Merkel reverses plan for strict Easter lockdown in Germany

Top of The World
A protester from the Uighur community living in Turkey, participates in a protest in Istanbul, Oct. 1, 2020, against what they allege is oppression by the Chinese government to Muslim Uighurs in far-western Xinjiang province. 

US bans cotton products from China’s Uighur region over forced labor concerns

The World’s host Marco Werman spoke to Allison Gill, the forced labor program director with Global Labor Justice International Labor Rights Forum, about the ban.

Kazakhs protest what they see as excessive expansion of Chinese influence in Kazakhstan, including new Silk Road investments, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Dec. 2019.

China’s new Silk Road traverses Kazakhstan. But some Kazakhs are skeptical of Chinese influence.

On China's New Silk Road

The tradeoffs of China’s investment in Kazakhstan require Kazakhs — most of whom are Muslim — to reckon with the persecution of Muslim minorities just across their border.

Workers in hard hats and construction vests walking by a fence.

How China uses malware to track Muslim Uighurs, even if they’ve fled the country

Conflict & Justice

A new report found that Chinese surveillance of Uighurs started much earlier and is more comprehensive than previously thought. The World speaks to security researcher Apurva Kumar, one of the report’s co-authors.

Demonstrators wave Turkish and East Turkestan flags as they shout slogans during a protest against China, in Istanbul, Turkey November 6, 2018.

Turkey changes its tune on China’s crackdown against Muslims

Conflict & Justice

Turkey ended several years of conspicuous silence on China’s massive incarceration campaign of Uighurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang. Some hope it’s a tipping point for other Muslim nations to finally weigh in.

A woman's face appears amidst colorful signs protest against China's Uyghar detention centers.

China says Uighur detention centers fight terrorism, rejects UN criticism

Justice

China rejects the suspected mass detention and heavy surveillance of Uighurs, dismissing the allegations as “seriously far away from facts.”