Xinjiang

Kai Shen Kun, a U.S.-based veteran commentator on China's economy and politics with access to sources within the CCP, told us that such authority has spread so far down the system that even the lowest level of city government can now restrict travel.

so some of the screening now spreading across the country was tested years ago in the Xinjiang region.

A 2017 handbook from the northern Xinjiang region instructed authorities to review an applicant's family bank accounts before granting a passport and required travelers to surrender their passports to local police within seven days of returning.

It also ordered relatives of those living abroad to cut ties and stop sending money.

Now that handbook is part of the Xinjiang Police Files, published by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

Adrian Zenz, a senior fellow in China Studies at the Foundation, told us that the Xinjiang region clearly has been a testing ground for repression, but it goes both ways, with methods brought in from other provinces and refined there.

He said there has been mutual learning.

In the Xinjiang region, the targets were ethnic minorities with ties abroad.

China plows ahead in Uyghur region.

Controversial Xinjiang is key to plan to expand exports, energy production.

Kashgar, China.

Four years ago, the United Nations Human Rights Agency said China's abuses in its far western Xinjiang region were so severe that they potentially amounted to crimes against humanity.

The United States limited imports from the region and blacklisted dozens of Chinese companies over growing evidence that ethnic Uyghurs were being arbitrarily detained and used in forced labor.

Global firms such as BASF and Volkswagen sold their stakes in factories in Xinjiang, while Nike and H&M pledged that they weren't sourcing products from the region.

Yet a visit by the Wall Street Journal showed leader Xi Jinping is plowing ahead in transforming Xinjiang, despite international condemnation.

In Kashgar, a historic Silk Road trading post, shopping malls were jammed, especially with Chinese shoppers and Western brands, including Under Armour and Dairy Queen.

China plows ahead in Uyghur region.

Controversial Xinjiang is key to plan to expand exports, energy production.

Kashgar, China.

Four years ago, the United Nations Human Rights Agency said China's abuses in its far western Xinjiang region were so severe that they potentially amounted to crimes against humanity.

The United States limited imports from the region and blacklisted dozens of Chinese companies over growing evidence that ethnic Uyghurs were being arbitrarily detained and used in forced labor.

Global firms such as BASF and Volkswagen sold their stakes in factories in Xinjiang, while Nike and H&M pledged that they weren't sourcing products from the region.

Yet a visit by the Wall Street Journal showed leader Xi Jinping is plowing ahead in transforming Xinjiang, despite international condemnation.

In Kashgar, a historic Silk Road trading post, shopping malls were jammed, especially with Chinese shoppers and Western brands, including Under Armour and Dairy Queen.

So I think it's fascinating to be able to try to understand how to navigate that, as you said.

But even, for example, you have Chinese, but Xinjiang has nothing to do with H&A.

You talk about the U.S.

I worked in China.

a century or so ago napoleon bonaparte with one of his characteristic flashes of intuition remarked of china there lies a sleeping giant let him sleep for when he wakes he will move the world the china of which he spoke was the dense mass of three hundred million human beings patiently cultivating the valleys and rich alluvial plains of eastern asia reverently worshipping their ancestors and preserving their ancient culture scorning all things foreign or novel too much absorbed in the eternal realities of work and love and children and friends and family too much accustomed to local and individual liberty and too placidly certain of the unconquerable massiveness of their race and civilization to be much agitated by the fears or the ambitions of smaller nations were much concerned by the fact that their emperor and their bureaucracy were of the alien manchu race invasions of the past had been mere pinpricks invaders were slowly but surely assimilated china was the eternal kingdom the celestial empire around which other peoples gravitated like planets in subservient orbits China proper included, besides the thickly peopled lowlands, a back country of hills and mountains, little cultivated, but stored well with unworked mineral treasures.

All in all, it was a country half as big as the United States is today, but around China proper lay dependent provinces, Xinjiang, Manchuria, Mongolia, Tibet, which in themselves made up an area as large as the United States, and besides.

the neighboring kingdoms of korea anam and tonkan and burma and even the island empire of japan paid tribute and homage or had occasionally done so to the great empire from which all had obtained no small part of their culture

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Maybe it uses conflict minerals.

Maybe it's in some way directly or indirectly complicit in what many of us might consider an ethnocide against the Uyghur people in Xinjiang, for example.

and so that was our first real change in corporate policy to be really focused on procurement and now we obviously talk about that a little bit with our students not in terms of hey this is what we do and you should do this it's more so hey what ethos do you have as a practitioner and what ethos do you have as a business and how does that affect every decision you make and as you said luke We are trying to, we're imperfect people trying to traverse an imperfect world, right? And it's bloody difficult to get it right.

We make our mistakes from time to time.

He is a Uyghur.

He was born in East Turkestan, a.k.a. Xinjiang.

His name is Nuri Turkle.

The new book is No Escape, The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs.

In 1998, a young scholarly man reading and writing in two languages, Mandarin, the Chinese language, and also speaking the Uyghur language.

And that gives him an advantage, and he's hired...

in Xinjiang, in the large city, by Zhu Hailan.

Who is Zhu Hailan and what does Abduwali make of him in those days of late 20th century? Good evening to you.

in terms of considering China as an enemy, right? So what do people hear about China? They hear what they read or see on news media.

And that's, well, there's a genocide in Xinjiang.

There's a repression in Tibet.

There's suppression in Hong Kong.