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19 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
ASPI’s new report on CCP’s repression against the Uyghurs by ⁦@xu_xiuzhong⁩ ⁦@jleibold⁩ ⁦@DariImpio⁩

“An astounding number of offices are involved in key aspects of the Chinese party-state’s crackdown in Xinjiang: propaganda,

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re-education, at-home surveillance and indoctrination, forced labour and population control ... Xinjiang’s stability maintenance tools are increasingly replicated by other Chinese provinces and regions including Hong Kong.”

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Yao Ning, a local party secretary of the CCP who was honoured this year by Beijing for his work in Xinjiang, studied as an Asia fellow at Harvard University’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation between 2010 and 2011.

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Erken Tuniyaz, chairman of the Xinjiang region, spent a few months at Harvard’s Ash Center as a new world fellow in 2012.

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