Uighur update

8-28-18  

  China’s persecution against the Uyghurs living within the so-called Xinjiang Autonomous Region has caused many to flee the country.  However, neighbouring countries are now currying Chinese economic favour by participating in alleged anti-terrorist cooperation that targets the Uyghur diaspora. As a result, Uyghurs in Kyrgyzstan, Turkey and other nations are feeling increasingly unsafe, a situation only worsened by unexplained disappearances, arbitrary arrests by local authorities and offers to spy on their communities for China.  http://unpo.org/article/21041
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9-18-18    literature professors Abdukerim Rahman, Rahile Dawut, Azat Sultan and Gheyretjan Osman were detained in January    https://uyghuramerican.org/article/five-uyghur-professors-xinjiang-university-held-political-re-education-camps.html
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8-20-2011   The academics have taken to calling themselves the Xin­jiang 13 to emphasize their shared misfortune.  Seven years ago, they assembled a book about Xinjiang, a vast region of western China that has a large Muslim population and an occasionally violent separatist movement. 

They say their book triggered a backlash from the Chinese government because of its sensitive topic.  Contributors have repeatedly been refused visas, thwarted from returning to the region that is the focus of their careers.

“It took us a couple of years to figure out that all 13 of us were banned,” said Dru Gladney, an anthropology professor at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., who contributed two chapters on politics to the 2004 book.  “And now China is taking off, and we can’t go.  It’s devastating.”  ... 

China is the leading source of foreign students at U.S. universities, with 127,628 Chinese enrolled here as of 2010, according to the Institute of International Education. Duke, Stanford and New York universities are building branch campuses in China, joining the University of Chicago and others in a growing community of overseas study. The Chinese government has funded more than 60 Confucius Institutes at prestigious American universities, subsidizing peda­gogy and scholarship related to China (and favorable to Communist party positions, doctrines and aims. -r)   .https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/us-scholars-say-their-book-on-china-led-to-travel-ban/2011/08/17/gIQAN3C9SJ_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ab7f17eaa385