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.
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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.
New report details China’s efforts to control Uyghurs beyond its borders
The CCP uses deceptive and coercive influence operations around the globe to undermine Uyghurs living outside China, often through the United Front Work Department (UFWD), say researchers in a new policy paper.
Making Xinjiang Sanctions Work - XPCC Policy Brief
This Policy Brief from the Xinjiang Sanctions research project summarises its key findings, contextualising the role of the XPCC within Beijing’s governmental strategies for the region.
Making Xinjiang Sanctions Work - Legal Considerations
This Policy Brief from the Xinjiang Sanctions research project summarises the potential legal frameworks which should inform an effective sanctions strategy against forced labour in Xinjiang.
Making Xinjiang Sanctions Work - Forced Labour Policy Brief
Can economic sanctions address Xinjiang forced labour? This Policy Brief from the Xinjiang Sanctions research project summarises key findings from the research, contextualising state-sponsored forced labour within Beijing’s governmental strategies for the region.
Making Xinjiang Sanctions Work - Full Report
Can economic sanctions address Xinjiang forced labour? Drawing on 3 original datasets containing over 12,000 datapoints, confidential interviews and a year of research, this final report presents the most comprehensive analysis of Xinjiang sanctions to date, and offers ideas for strengthening them.
Making Xinjiang Sanctions Work - Western Sanctions
This Policy Brief from the Xinjiang Sanctions research project summarises key findings from the research and the measures adopted by Western governments in response to Xinjiang forced labour.
Making Xinjiang Sanctions Work - Strengthening Sanctions
This Policy Brief from the Xinjiang Sanctions research project summarises the impact of Western sanctions and recommendations for more effectively targeting Xinjiang forced labour.
Making Xinjiang Sanctions Work - Solar
This Policy Brief from the Xinjiang Sanctions research project summarises the impact of current measures on solar energy products from Xinjiang and how these can be strengthened through more co-ordinated and targeted policy.
Making Xinjiang Sanctions Work - Tomatoes
This Policy Brief from the Xinjiang Sanctions research project summarises the role of Xinjiang forced labour in the global tomato product trade, and recommendations for increasing the impact of Western sanctions on the sector.
Making Xinjiang Sanctions Work - Cotton
This Policy Brief from the Xinjiang Sanctions research project summarises the role of Xinjiang forced labour in the global cotton market and the impact of Western sanctions targeting Xinjiang cotton.
Making Xinjiang Sanctions Work - Corporate Responses
This Policy Brief from the Xinjiang Sanctions research project summarises how companies across the globe are responding to allegations of Xinjiang forced labour within their supply chains.
Making Xinjiang Sanctions Work - Chinese Countermeasures
This Policy Brief from the Xinjiang Sanctions research project summarises how China has responded to the measures adopted by Western governments in response to Xinjiang forced labour.
China Destroyed Muslim Culture In This Ancient City — Then Turned It Into Disneyland
The government’s campaign in Kashgar began with CCTV cameras watching people pray. Now it features tourists taking Instagram selfies.
‘An Invisible Cage’: How China Is Policing The Future
Across China, the police are buying technology that harnesses vast surveillance data to predict crime and protest before they happen, targeting people whose behavior or characteristics are suspicious in the eyes of an algorithm and the Chinese authorities, even if they’ve done nothing wrong.
Event: Online Launch Event - Handbook for the Uyghur Community in the UK
This recorded event offered a chance to learn about the concerns of the Uyghur community in Britain and introduced resources for Uyghurs on adjusting to living in the UK, protection from state harassment and seeking information about missing friends and relatives in China.
ICC Urged to Investigate China's Treatment of Uyghurs
A group of lawyers has urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate China's treatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim populations in the Xinjiang region.
Uyghur Forced Labor Database
Jewish World Watch’s Uyghur Forced Labor Database – the most extensive to date – brings to light more than 600 national and international companies and their ties to the Xinjiang region of China.
Four Takeaways From a Times Investigation Into China’s Expanding Surveillance State
China is collecting a staggering amount of personal data from everyday citizens at a previously-unknown scale, a Times investigation has found.
China’s Surveillance State Is Growing. These Documents Reveal How.
A Times Investigation analyzing over 100,000 government bidding documents found that China’s ambition to collect digital and biological data from its citizens is more expansive and invasive than previously known.