Lina K 27/12/2024 Lina K 27/12/2024

China’s United Front takes Taiwanese youth on Xinjiang trips

Organizers are accused of ‘whitewashing’ the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights record in the Uyghur homeland.

Lina K 27/08/2024 Lina K 27/08/2024

China is borrowing Nazi’s ‘genocide tourism’ practices in Xinjiang: scholar

Beijing wants visitors to believe the Uyghurs are thriving – and control what they see, a Swedish expert writes.

Lina K 10/08/2024 Lina K 10/08/2024

TikTok promotes pro-China bias on Tibet, Taiwan, Uyghurs: study

The findings show Beijing’s attempts to sway public opinion, particularly among youth, experts say.

Lina K 17/02/2023 Lina K 17/02/2023

Quizzed at UN, Chinese delegates deny rights abuses against Uyghurs, Tibetans

Under intense questioning by UN experts over two days, a delegation of Chinese officials staunchly denied any human rights violations against Uyghur and Tibetan minorities.

Lina K 05/02/2023 Lina K 05/02/2023

Beijing Stands Firm Against Reports of Uyghur Detentions

Contrary to Beijing’s claims of “harmony” in Xinjiang, some Uyghurs living abroad, unable to freely contact their family members in Xinjiang for years, say that Chinese authorities have recently detained their loved ones.

Lina K 08/09/2022 Lina K 08/09/2022

Event: Beijing’s Global Media Influence: Authoritarian Expansion and the Power of Democratic Resilience

Freedom House's newest report documents how the Chinese government is accelerating its efforts to influence news coverage and commentary in democracies worldwide, including through the use of covert and coercive tactics. Register for this virtual event discussing the report’s findings.

Lina K 25/07/2022 Lina K 25/07/2022

China exploits US social media to push its own Xinjiang narratives, report finds

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using increasingly elaborate online tactics to counter information about human rights abuses in western China’s Xinjiang region in hopes of influencing audiences across the globe, according to a new report.

Lina K 20/07/2022 Lina K 20/07/2022

Assessing the impact of CCP information operations related to Xinjiang

This report explores the online tactics used by the Chinese Communist Party to deny revelations or claims of human rights abuses occurring in Xinjiang.

Lina K 06/07/2022 Lina K 06/07/2022

Cultivating friendly forces: The Chinese Communist Party’s influence operations in the Xinjiang Diaspora

This report explores how the CCP’s united front system is used to monitor the Uyghur diaspora and counter criticism of its policies in Xinjiang.

Lina K 05/05/2022 Lina K 05/05/2022

Xinjiang officials said to pay Uyghurs to perform dance at Kashgar mosque

Authorities in Kashgar allegedly paid Muslim Uyghur men to dance outside the most famous mosque in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region to celebrate the end of Ramadan, RFA reports.

Lina K 17/02/2022 Lina K 17/02/2022

Beijing 2022 organisers claim stories of Xinjiang human rights abuses are ‘lies’

The Winter Olympics have been plunged into further controversy after Beijing 2022 spokesperson Yan Jiarong dismissed human rights violations among the Uyghur Muslim population as “lies” and insisted Taiwan was part of China. Yan, a former member of the Chinese delegation to the UN general assembly, referred to “so-called forced labour” in Xinjiang in response to one question, before saying China was against the “politicising of sports”.

Lina K 17/02/2022 Lina K 17/02/2022

Threatened, harassed, punished: The Uyghur translators defying China to tell Xinjiang’s story

Journalists rely on a short supply of Uyghur interpreters to investigate the human rights crisis in northwest China. The CCP is intent on muzzling them.

Lina K 18/01/2022 Lina K 18/01/2022

The Big Business of Uyghur Genocide Denial

A New Lines investigation reveals a network of charities funneling millions into left-wing platforms that take Beijing’s side on the genocide allegations — and they’re all connected to an American tech magnate.

Lina K 21/12/2021 Lina K 21/12/2021

Meet the New Uyghurs

China’s propaganda narrative centers on the personal transformations of Uyghurs, removing the cultural and ethnic markers Beijing finds distasteful.

Lina K 21/12/2021 Lina K 21/12/2021

Meet the “New” Uyghurs: CGTN’s Role in Mediawashing Genocide

China’s flagship international broadcaster, China Global Television Network (CGTN), is central to an influence campaign meant to convince a worldwide public that the Uyghurs and the Uyghur Region have been politically cleansed through reeducation, and that the region is now open for state-approved cultural tourism.

Lina K 17/12/2021 Lina K 17/12/2021

The CCP's Willing Influencers Amplify State Propaganda Online

This week, a slew of new reports on China’s online propaganda campaigns was released. As researchers documented, the CCP is increasingly using foreign influencers to disseminate pro-China narratives on Western social media—particularly regarding the crimes against humanity in Xinjiang—in order to increase engagement and defend against foreign critics.

Lina K 13/12/2021 Lina K 13/12/2021

Chinese government deploying online influencers amid Beijing Olympics boycotts

The Chinese government hired a firm to recruit social media influencers as part of a new digital operation amid controversies surrounding diplomatic boycotts of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, OpenSecrets’ review of Foreign Agents Registration Act Records found. The influence operation is being coordinated by Vippi Media, a consulting firm based in New Jersey, as part of a $300,000 contract that spans through March 2022. China’s Consulate General in New York paid $210,000 in advance on Nov. 23.

Lina K 07/12/2021 Lina K 07/12/2021

Borrowing mouths to speak on Xinjiang

This report explores how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses foreign social media influencers to shape and push messages domestically and internationally about Xinjiang that are aligned with its own preferred narratives.

Lina K 11/07/2021 Lina K 11/07/2021

The foreigners in China’s disinformation drive

Foreign video bloggers denouncing what they say is negative coverage of China on highly controversial subjects such as Xinjiang are attracting large numbers of subscribers on platforms like YouTube. In recent years, the "vloggers" have been increasingly presenting themselves as China-lovers, spreading Communist Party disinformation.

Lina K 28/07/2020 Lina K 28/07/2020

Event: Disinformation, Propaganda and the Uyghur Crisis

To launch a new report, "The Happiest Muslims in the World": Disinformation, Propaganda and the Uyghur Crisis, UHRP has invited a panel of experts to discuss this timely issue and its implications for human rights worldwide.

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