About the author: Cullen S. Hendrix is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Grim reports of forced labor and other atrocities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous ...

In a village near the ancient Silk Road town of Yarkand, on the edge of the Taklamakan desert in the far-western region of Xinjiang, the gongzuodui has been busy. The term means “work team”. In ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has no "ethnic problem" in its far west, and Muslim Uighur minorities there enjoy freedom of religion, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday, following anti-China protests in ...

A new study out today provides the most compelling evidence to-date that China is deliberately reducing its population of Uyghurs – a Muslim minority ethnic group – through enforced birth control, ...

A guard tower and barbed wire fences surround an internment facility in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) (CN) — By 2040, up to 4.5 million lives could be lost as a ...

Xinjiang Province, on China's Western frontier – origin of the Silk Road, the ancient gateway for trade to the Middle East – was off-limits during the pandemic. But it is open again, and these days it ...

While Xinjiang, where researchers estimate hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs (the Muslim Turkic ethnic group predominately living in Xinjiang) are coerced into forced labor, may not be first to mind ...

Hundreds of protesters marched on the Chinese consulate in Istanbul on Sunday, bearing flags and chanting anti-China slogans outside the building. Relations between China and Turkey have soured over ...