Workers in uniform at a labor compound in eastern Xinjiang, China, in 2017. By Chris Buckley and Austin Ramzy, Dec. 30, 2019 KASHGAR, China — The order from Chinese officials was blunt and urgent. Villagers from Muslim minorities should be pushed into jobs, willing or not. Quotas would be set and families penalized if they refused to go along. “Make people who are hard to employ renounce their selfish ideas ...

BY DENIS BEDOYA ON DECEMBER 31, 2019 JAKARTA, Indonesia – More than a thousand Muslims marched to the heavily guarded Chinese Embassy in Indonesia’s capital on Friday to protest China’s treatment of its Uighur Muslims. The protesters, many wearing blue headbands reading “Save Uighurs,” chanted “Get out, China!” and unfurled Indonesian and Uighur flags as they marched to the embassy in downtown Jakarta. In a ...

Children leaving school in Hotan, China, this month. Beijing has used schools in the city and across the region of Xinjiang to indoctrinate Uighur children.Credit...Giulia Marchi for The New York Times By Amy Qin,  The New York Times Dec. 28 , 2019   HOTAN, China — The first grader was a good student and beloved by her classmates, but she was inconsolable, and it was no mystery to her teacher why. “The ...

In early December, China’s ministry of foreign affairs jumped the Great Fire Wall used by Beijing to block access to many foreign websites, and joined Twitter to communicate directly with the outside world. Its tweets so far have ranged from calling the US a “SUPER LIAR” and upbraiding foreign journalists, to lauding China’s victories: “China’s vast land of 9.6 million km² is free from war, fear, refugees a ...

  The Times, December 26 2019 When war broke out in Yemen in 2015, a Chinese frigate docked at the port of Aden and, under armed guard, evacuated hundreds of Chinese nationals to Djibouti. The successful military operation was a sign of how far China had come: it was once a backwater struggling to feed its population, let alone able to carry out a complex rescue mission for its citizens living thousand ...