The international community trumpets its commitment to ‘universal human rights’. Yet, it has failed to take real action against Beijing for its treatment of minorities in Xinjiang.
- Visiting Fellow, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
The move is designed to demonstrate to the Australian public, the Chinese leadership, and Australia’s allies that Canberra is holding firm in its ‘push back’ against Beijing.
China has grand plans for its US$1 trillion Belt and Road initiative to remake the world order. Here’s what’s driving China’s ambitions – and why the west is nervous.
The New York Times has published 400 pages of Chinese government documents on the ‘re-education’ camps for Muslim detainees in Xinjiang. Here’s what you need to know.
The re-education centres are linked to a return to core Communist ideology under President Xi Jinping and party obsession with ‘stability maintenance’.
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