china, concentration camps, religious prosecution, uyghur muslims, xinjiang

U.S. Slams China Over Continued Persecution of Uyghurs

Top U.S. officials, including President Donald Trump, recently called for promoting religious freedom worldwide. At the same time, many criticized the horrific treatment and persecution of Uyghurs by the Chinese communist government. The Uyghur issue At an event featuring a Uyghur woman’s experience in China, President Trump asked the world to end religious persecution. He ...

Max Lu

Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

Megvii: The Rise of Chinese Facial Recognition and Profiling Tech

Megvii is an artificial intelligence startup from China popular for providing facial recognition software. Valued at over US$1 billion, the company’s history of supporting the communist government raises concerns about human rights violations not only inside China, but also in other countries. The rise of Megvii Founded in 2011 by Yin Qi and two friends ...

Max Lu

China's Megvii facial recognition.

Strength of Faith: Why CCP Policies in Xinjiang Will Inevitably Fail

For Beijing, the Uyghurs of Xinjiang are a group that needs to “assimilate” into Chinese society, meaning that the minority will be forced to give up their beliefs and adopt a lifestyle dictated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). However, such “assimilation” policies are eventually bound to fail, not just in Xinjiang, but all across ...

Max Lu

Buddhists in a temple.

Beware When Traveling to China: Authorities Hacking Tourists’ Phones

The fact that Communist China has a high-tech surveillance system that constantly keeps watch over its citizens 24/7 is well known. However, several media outlets are now reporting that this surveillance extends to visitors as well, with authorities hacking their phones. Visitors under surveillance through hacking phones Tourists to China’s border regions like Xinjiang are ...

Max Lu

A street in Xinjiang.

CCP Exposed: New Report Details Brainwashing Camps Inside Xinjiang

Beijing has continually denied that the Uyghur camps it runs in Xinjiang have anything to do with violating the human rights of religious minorities in China. However, a recent video report by the BBC shows the frightening conditions of such camps. Brainwashing camps In the video, the reporter is shown exploring a camp where the ...

Max Lu

A Uyghur detention camp.

UN Visit to Xinjiang May Have Legitimized China’s Persecution of Uyghurs

The UN chief of counterterrorism recently visited the controversial Xinjiang region in China, where Beijing is said to have carried out the persecution of Uyghur minorities. The move has sparked strong criticism from human rights activists, who say that the visit gives legitimacy to the horrific treatment of the Uyghurs. The UN visit Vladimir Voronkov, ...

Jack Roberts

Vladimir Voronokov shaking hands with Vladimir Putin.

China Using Smartphone App to Keep Track of Xinjiang Minorities

China is known for subjecting the Uyghur and Kazakh minorities of Xinjiang to brutal surveillance that puts them under constant watch as if they were a bunch of terrorists. Human Rights Watch has analyzed a government app, the Integrated Joint Operations Platform (IJOP), and found how police authorities are using it to monitor people in ...

Max Lu

Smartphone app to track Uyghurs.

Volkswagen Supported Nazis Then and Communists Now

Over the past few years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has expanded its influence across the world and tried to suppress negative perceptions about China’s government. Unfortunately, it seems like the CCP’s tactics are working. The CEO of Volkswagen, Herbert Diess, said that the company was unaware of detention camps in Xinjiang despite the fact ...

Jack Roberts

The Volkswagen emblem.

Parkour Soothes Ethnic Differences Between Han and Uyghurs

A recent phenomenon in the Xinjiang region has surprised people — the Han and Uyghurs are developing an unlikely friendship because of parkour. Parkour is a training discipline using movement that developed from military obstacle course training. Practitioners aim to get from one point to another in a complex environment, without assistive equipment and in ...

Max Lu

Parkour.

China Is Tracking Millions of People in Xinjiang, Data Leak Reveals

China has been conducting real-time tracking of over 2.5 million residents in the Xinjiang region according to a data leak. Xinjiang has been in the news in recent years because of the inhumane treatment suffered by Uyghur Muslims in the region at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Tracking people in Xinjiang SenseNets, a ...

Armin Auctor

Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.