All Reading
This section contains a curated list of useful articles, investigations, books and other reading materials. The list is updated on a weekly basis and suggestions for additions are welcome.
Starting Points:
- Agriculture Supply Chain
- Anti Terrorism Framework
- Assimilation
- Automotive Supply Chain
- Autonomy
- Becoming Family Campaign
- Beijing Olympics
- Belt and Road Initiative
- Biometrics
- Camp Construction
- Censorship
- Chen Quanguo
- China Cables
- Chinese Politics
- Chinese Responses
- Clothing Supply Chain
- Context
- Coronavirus
- Cotton Supply Chain
- Cultural Repression
- Cultural Revolution
- Deaths in custody
- Deportation
- Detention
- Disinformation
- Ethnic Policy
- Ethnic Relations
- Eyewitness Accounts
- Facial Recognition
- Family Separation
- Food Supply Chain
- Forced Labour
- Genocide Discussion
- Government Policy
- Han Migration
- History of China
- IJOP
- Ilham Tohti
- Influential Uyghurs Detained
- International Reactions
- International Relations
- Islam in China
- Karakax List
- Key Players
- Labour Transfers
- Leaked Documents
- Legislative Action
- Linked Organisations
- Ma Xingrui
- Mao Zedong
- Michelle Bachelet Visit
- Movement Restrictions
- Organ Harvesting
- Overview Reports
- Policing
- PVC Supply Chain
- Rahile Dawut
- Reeducation
- Reeducation Camps
- Reeducation Through Labour
- Reform Through Labour
- Religious Policy
- Religious Repression
- Renewables Supply Chain
- Reproductive Restrictions
- Sanctions
- Satellite Imagery
- Securitization
- Sexual Assault
- Sinicization
- Solar Energy Supply Chain
- Stability Maintenance
- Strike Hard Campaign
- Supply Chains
- Surveillance
- Technology Supply Chain
- Thought Reform
- Tibet
- Torture
- United Front Work Department
- Urumqi Fire
- Urumqi Riot
- Uyghur Culture
- Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act
- Uyghur Human Rights Protection Act
- Uyghur Policy Act
- Uyghur Tribunal
- Victim Accounts
- Victim Lists
- Violence in Xinjiang
- War on Terror
- Xi Jinping
- Xinjiang Aid
- Xinjiang Demographics
- Xinjiang History
- Xinjiang Papers
- Xinjiang Police Files
- Xinjiang Victims Database
- XPCC
- ABC News
- Adrian Zenz
- Agence France Presse
- Al Jazeera
- Amnesty International
- ANU Press
- AP News
- Asia Dialogue
- Asia Freedom Institute
- Asian Survey
- ASPI
- Atlantic Council
- Axios
- BBC
- BESA Center
- Bitter Winter
- Bloomberg
- Brill Publishers
- Brookings Institute
- Business Insider
- Buzzfeed News
- C4ADS
- Cambridge University Press
- Canbury Press
- CBC News
- Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting
- Central Asian Survey
- Chicago University Press
- China Change
- China Digital Times
- China File
- China Leadership Monitor
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders
- Chinese Media Project
- Citizen Truth
- CNN
- Coalition to End Uyghur Forced Labour
- Coda Story
- Columbia University Press
- Commonweal
- Congressional Executive Commission on China
- CSIS
- Der Spiegel
- Deutsche Welle
- Dutch Uyghur Human Rights Foundation
- E-International Relations
- East West Center
- Economic and Political Weekly
- Essex Court Chambers
- EU European External Action Service
- Fair Observer
- Fashion United
- Financial Times
- Forbes
- Foreign Affairs
- Foreign Affairs Committee
- Foreign Policy
- Fortune
- Freedom House
- Freedom United
- Getty
- Global Voices
- Government of Canada
- Harper Collins
- Harvard University Press
- Helena Kennedy Centre
- History Today
- Hong Kong Watch
- Hope Not Hate
- House of Commons
- House of Lords
- Human Rights Foundation
- Human Rights In China
- Human Rights Watch
- Hunter University
- i News
- ICIJ
- Informed Comment
- Inner Asia
- Insider
- International Service for Human Rights
- IPVM
- Irish Independent
- Jacobin
- Jamestown Foundation
- Japan Uyghur Association
- Jewish Museum
- Journal of Political Risk
- Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies
- Korea Times
- LA Times
- La Trobe University
- Lawfare
- Living Otherwise
- Loop Media
- Made in China Journal
- Manchester University Press
- Metro
- Middle East Monitor
- Milestone Journal
- Monacelli Press
- National Geographic
- NBC
- New Lines Magazine
- New Statesman
- New York Times
- New Yorker
- Newlines Institute
- Newsweek
- Nikkei
- NL Times
- NPR
- Open Democracy
- Open Secrets
- Pacific Standard
- Pen Opp
- Persuasion Magazine
- Politico
- Politics Home
- Quartz
- Radio Free Asia
- Radio Free Europe
- RAND Corporation
- Remake
- Reuters
- Routledge
- SBS World News
- Scribe Publications
- Shado Mag
- Shawn Zhang
- SOAS
- Society and Space
- Stanford FSI
- Steptoe
- Strategic Studies Institute
- Supchina
- Sustainable Brands
- Swiss Info
- Tech UK
- The Art Newspaper
- The Asan Forum
- The Asia Pacific Journal
- The Atlantic
- The Breakthrough Institute
- The China Quarterly
- The Diplomat
- The Dispatch
- The Economist
- The Globe and Mail
- The Globe Post
- The Guardian
- The Independent
- The Intercept
- The Mail on Sunday
- The Rights Practice
- The Verge
- The Washington Post
- Tibetan Review
- Time
- Top10VPN
- Toronto Star
- Transnational Institute
- United Nations
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Nottingham Rights Lab
- University of Sheffield
- University of South Australia
- University of Washington
- US Customs and Border Protection
- USA Today
- Uyghur Forced Labor Database
- Uyghur Human Rights Project
- Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project
- Uyghur Transitional Justice Database
- Uyghur Tribunal
- Verso Books
- Vice News
- Voice of America
- Voices on Central Asia
- Vox
- War on the Rocks
- Wilson Center
- World Politics Review
- World Uyghur Congress
- Xinjiang Victims Database
- Yahoo News
- Yale University
In 2022, The World Must Hold China to Account for Genocide
A focus on imposing consequences on those responsible is key to dismantling the apparatus of genocide. The accountability of Chinese officials responsible for a 21st century genocide is critical for the future of the Uyghur people.
Baerbock demands forced-labor ban, won’t attend Olympics
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called for an EU-wide import ban on goods made with forced labor — a demand that would particularly hit China. Baerbock also said she won't attend the Beijing Winter Olympics in February. Yet she made clear that her decision was personal and not the official line of the German government, and that German foreign ministers usually don't attend Olympic games.
What can we expect from Xinjiang’s new Party boss Ma Xingrui?
As global pressure on Beijing mounts because of its repressive policies in Xinjiang, the Communist Party has brought in a new man to lead the region.
Uyghur forced laborer died at factory in China’s Xinjiang, officials say
A Uyghur woman who had been interned in a detention camp in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region died of a stomach ailment in September 2020 while performing forced labor at a sock factory adjacent to the internment facility, RFA has learned.
How I escaped a Chinese internment camp
Zumrat Dawut is a mother of three from Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang autonomous region in China. In 2018, she was arrested and sent to a detention facility for Uyghur women where she said she endured brutal living conditions and beatings. This comic, featuring art by Fahmida Azim, tells Zumrat's story.
China replaces Xinjiang party boss associated with Uyghur crackdown
China has replaced the Communist party official widely associated with a security crackdown targeting ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslims in the far-west region of Xinjiang. The state-owned Xinhua news agency said in a brief announcement on Saturday that Ma Xingrui, the governor of the coastal economic powerhouse Guangdong province since 2017, had replaced Chen Quanguo as the Xinjiang party chief.
China: Beijing replaces Communist Party head in Xinjiang
Chen Quanguo, who oversaw the alleged repression of ethnic Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region, is stepping down, according to the Chinese media.
Biden signs bill banning goods from China's Xinjiang over abuse of Uyghurs
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law legislation that bans imports from China's Xinjiang region over concerns about forced labor, the White House said. Key to the legislation is a "rebuttable presumption" that assumes all goods from Xinjiang, where Beijing has established detention camps for Uyghurs and other Muslim groups, are made with forced labor. It bars imports unless it can be proven otherwise.
New law to combat forced labor in China sparks enforcement debate
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a bill to curb forced labor in China that U.S. business groups and trade experts warn will inflict unnecessary pain on U.S. firms and punish legitimately employed Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region. Designed to insulate U.S. companies and consumers from complicity in forced labor practices in Xinjiang, industry groups and trade lawyers say the law's strict compliance standards coupled with problematic enforcement will harm US business interests and Uyghur Muslims.
Intel apologises in China over Xinjiang supplier statement
U.S. chip maker Intel apologised in China on Thursday after its letter telling suppliers not to source products or labour from the Xinjiang region triggered a backlash, making it the latest western firm to be tripped up over rights issues in the country.
Intel apologises to China over supplier advice
US microchip maker Intel has apologised following a backlash over its letter urging suppliers not to source products or labour from China's Xinjiang region. The company's letter sparked criticism in China, with calls for a boycott.
Biden signs Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act into law
President Biden on Thursday signed into law the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, a bipartisan bill that bans imports from China’s Xinjiang region unless the importer can prove they were not made with forced labor.
Meet the New Uyghurs
China’s propaganda narrative centers on the personal transformations of Uyghurs, removing the cultural and ethnic markers Beijing finds distasteful.
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.
Dad tormented after daughters vanish as family flee from ‘concentration camps’
Omer Faruh’s daughters marked their fifth and sixth birthdays this year. Instead of celebrating, he spent the days wondering if they’re still alive. They vanished five years ago as their parents fled Xinjiang in fear of being taken to ‘concentration camps’.
China Cannot Silence Me
Speaking of the crimes committed against my family and other Uyghurs in Xinjiang has sparked a surprising reaction.
UK hints at banning Chinese imports with forced labor links
The U.K. could follow Washington and ban goods imported from the Chinese region of Xinjiang that were made with forced labor, according to a senior British minister. The suggestion came as a string of China-skeptic Conservative MPs lined up to urge the U.K. government to follow suit in a bid to pile pressure on the Asian giant over its treatment of the region's Uyghur Muslim minority.
Amazon silenced criticism of Xi to do business in China: Report
Amazon’s efforts to curry favor with the Chinese government included quieting criticism of President Xi Jinping’s book on its Chinese outlet, according to a Reuters report.
UK hints at banning Chinese imports with forced labor links
Minister Penny Mordaunt tells POLITICO government looking ‘very, very carefully at’ policy on Xinjiang — as prominent Conservative MPs urge Britain to follow Washington’s lead.
Business as usual for European museums operating in China, despite genocide ruling
The Tate and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence all have major partnerships with the Chinese state. Each reacted with apparent indifference or refused to comment on the ruling of an independent London panel which has found “beyond all reasonable doubt” that China is guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity.