
{"id":766,"date":"2024-10-02T03:49:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T03:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utjd.org\/news\/?p=766"},"modified":"2024-10-02T03:49:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T03:49:16","slug":"colonial-tactics-polices-of-the-communist-china-1949-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utjd.org\/news\/colonial-tactics-polices-of-the-communist-china-1949-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonial Tactics\/Polices Of the Communist China (1949 &#8211; 2000)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The founding of the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 ushered in a new era of&nbsp; oppression to East Turkistan, as well as Tibet and to the rest of China for that matter.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After having established its power in East Turkistan, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)\u00a0 executed a large scale Han resettlement program in East Turkistan, which had resulted in a rapid\u00a0demographic change with respect to non-Han and Han populations. In 1949 the total population of\u00a0 East Turkistan was roughly 4.2 million, but by late 1979 the Han Chinese people accounted for\u00a0 roughly half of the total population of 11 million (McMillen 1981, 66). In another statistical\u00a0 perspective, \u201c[b]etween 1940 and 1982, \u2026 the Han&#8217;s percentage of [East Turkistan\u2019s] population\u00a0 [increased] by a massive 2,500 percent. \u2026 while the Uyghur population followed a more natural\u00a0 biological growth rate of 1.7 percent\u201d (Gladney 2004, 112-113).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The consolidation of CCP power in East Turkistan culminated in the formal establishment of the\u00a0 Production and Construction Corps (PCC, \u5175\u56e2<em>, bingtuan<\/em>) in 1954, which consisted largely of\u00a0 demobilized People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers. East Turkistan Republic troops consisting\u00a0 predominantly of Uyghurs and Kazakhs, also known as Ili National Army, were incorporated into\u00a0 the PLA, and many of whom were demobilized and redeployed to settle on a network of\u00a0 paramilitary farms (the predecessor of the PCC), over whom the CCP had total control (McMillen\u00a0 1981, 68). According to Cliff (2020, 3), the PCC was established as \u201ca military-agricultural colony\u201d,\u00a0 and it was the main propelling force behind the Han migration and in transforming the cultural\u00a0 landscape in East Turkistan. The PCC has continued to recruit up to the present more Han people\u00a0 from the interior of China to East Turkistan and lure them with social benefits that are largely not\u00a0 enjoyed by the Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State-sponsored Han immigration into East Turkistan, a policy that was present in Qianlong and\u00a0 later Qing periods, was and continues to be one of the most effective policies of the Chinese\u00a0 Communist Party, creating a staunch Han constituency, which is considered by the party as a\u00a0 trustworthy force for stability in East Turkistan. This rationale though both present in some\u00a0 internal-circulation report and acknowledged by local party officials has never been the official reason for encouraging the massive Han immigration, while the manpower need for development\u00a0 has been the party\u2019s official rationale presented to the public (Bovingdon 2010, 54).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>In the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century the PCC has become a corporation, enabling the CCP to achieve an&nbsp; increasingly direct control over East Turkistan (Cliff 2009, 102). Furthermore, today\u2019s PCC \u201cretains&nbsp; only the slightest connection to the [People\u2019s Liberation Army]\u201d (ibid., 101). The PCC in its core&nbsp; continues to perpetuate the occupying and colonizing function in its nature (Cliff 2009).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yi (2019, 54) argues that the root cause of the ongoing persecution of millions of Uyghurs and\u00a0 other Turkic Muslims in East Turkistan can be attributed to \u201cChinese settler colonialism\u201d, which is\u00a0 unfolded through the Production and Construction Corps (PCC) and ethnic Han migration to the\u00a0region.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The central government in Beijing gave the \u201cautonomy\u201d status to East Turkistan in 1955, which&nbsp; is reflected in its official Chinese name: \u65b0\u7586\u7ef4\u543e\u5c14\u2f83\u6cbb\u533a(Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region).&nbsp; However, the agency for independent actions regarding internal matters within East Turkistan was&nbsp; dead on arrival, for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) never intended to give the true autonomy&nbsp; to East Turkistan (Xinjiang). The Communist Party leaders considered Uyghurs as \u201cpolitically&nbsp; untrustworthy\u201d, thereby allocating minimum power to them (Bovingdon 2010, 47).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a matter of fact, smaller regional subautonomous districts and counties were already being&nbsp; established in the spring of 1953. \u201cThe division of [East Turkistan] into a number of smaller&nbsp; autonomies was a stroke of administrative genius\u201d (ibid., 44). This integrationist policy of the&nbsp; Chinese Communist Party (CCP) promoted and placed the idea that East Turkistan was home to&nbsp; thirteen ethnic groups to the foreground, \u201c\u2026counterbalancing the Uyghurs\u2019 overwhelming political&nbsp; and demographic weight\u201d (ibid., 45). Moreover, the party wanted to distance itself from the&nbsp; assimilationist policy of the Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD) and to counteract the separatism&nbsp; sentiments in some key frontier regions (Millward 2007, 243).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What was striking about this policy was the imbalance of power distribution, disproportionately&nbsp; allocated to the titular ethnic group in the subautonomous regions\/districts. In fifteen out of&nbsp; twenty-seven subautonomous districts, the titular ethnic group accounted for less than half the&nbsp; population (Bovingdon 2010, 46), creating this imbalanced representations of power between&nbsp; Uyghurs and other ethnic groups . For instance, \u201cin 2004 some 48,000 Mongols nominally <sup>6<\/sup> exercised autonomy in a region with more than 370,000 Uyghurs (and, due to steady immigration,&nbsp; more than 660,000 Hans)\u201d (ibid.).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With respect to the Uyghur language, it was the communist regime who solely dictated the script\u00a0 variety of the Uyghur language. In 1956 the Chinese communist regime, following the footsteps of\u00a0 the Soviet, introduced a Cyrillic-based script for the Uyghur language when Uyghurs already had\u00a0 Arabic-based scripts, the aim of which to a large extent was to weaken Uyghurs\u2019 Islamic\u00a0 connections. Then in 1960 following a dent in the \u2018Sino-Soviet\u2019 relations the Cyrillic-based script\u00a0 was superseded with the roman alphabet (with a few special letters), which could essentially be\u00a0regarded as a \u2018Pinyin-isation\u2019 not a romanization of the Uyghur language (Millward 2007, 236). \u201cBesides cutting off contact with Soviet Turkic peoples, one goal of this reform was to promote\u00a0 \u2018fusion and assimilation\u2019 of minorities by easing the introduction of Chinese vocabulary into Turkic\u00a0 languages\u201d (ibid.). It is paramount to note that minority languages had not been taught for over a\u00a0 decade during the Cultural Revolution (Dwyer 2005, 36), e.g. the Uyghur language was not taught\u00a0 in Kashgar (Jarring 1986, 157).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1984, during a period of relatively relaxed minority policies, Chinese authority reinstated the&nbsp; slightly modified Arabic-based script for the Uyghur language. These script reforms under the PRC&nbsp; can be regarded as indicators of general situation in East Turkistan, where each change in the&nbsp; writing system reflects the vicissitudes of PRC minority policy toward Turkic peoples in East&nbsp; Turkistan (Millward 2007, 237).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cultural Revolution (1957-1978) marked drastic shifts in politics in China as well as in East&nbsp; Turkistan, which stirred chaos in the social and cultural spheres. In East Turkistan there was an&nbsp; upsurge in cultural intolerance from within the Chinese Communist Party, radiating outward&nbsp; towards various ethnically Turkic groups, where differences between Turkic peoples and the&nbsp; majority Han Chinese were deemed deviant, so the project of cultural homogenization gained extra&nbsp; momentum with the aim of achieving assimilation. It is worth mentioning that East Turkistan&nbsp; suffered more damage in its economy than other parts of China did during the Cultural Revolution&nbsp; (Millward &amp; Tursun 2004, 96).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the rift in Sino-Soviet relation in the late 1950s, the CCP purged many non-Han&nbsp; political elites in East Turkistan, most of whom ended up in thought-reform labor camps (Millward&nbsp; &amp; Tursun 2004, 93). We can draw parallels between the thought-reform labor camps and today\u2019s&nbsp; internment camps in East Turkistan, where the official motto of the latter resonates with that of the&nbsp; former: \u201ctransformation through education\u201d (\u6559\u80b2\u8f6c\u5316). The representation rate of Uyghurs in the&nbsp; government fell drastically by around 25% in the decade following 1965, and the representation&nbsp; was absent in the regional government in 1969 (ibid., 97).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Backed by the \u201cLeftist\u201d cultural program, the intolerance and active attack on non-Chinese\u00a0 culture were prevalent in the capital area and some smaller cities and villages where most Uyghurs\u00a0 lived. \u201cDifference \u2026 became a sign of backwardness\u201d (Bovingdon 2010, 51). For example, some\u00a0 anecdotal accounts claim that the burning of Qur\u2019an and some other holy texts took place, religious\u00a0 elders were humiliated in the streets, some Islamic sites of significance were either closed off or\u00a0 desecrated, pigs were intentionally kept in mosques, Uyghur girls\u2019 long hair cut short, and\u00a0 traditional clothes were banned (Millward &amp; Tursun 2004, 97). Mao\u2019s minions, or Red Guards,\u00a0 forced many Muslims to raise pigs, with the aim of achieving \u201crapid and thorough\u00a0 assimilation\u201d (Bovingdon 2010, 52). This cultural conformity campaign of the CCP impacted\u00a0 Uyghurs and other non-Hans the most during the cultural revolution, not only was it an assault on\u00a0 their social spheres, but also on their identities.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It shouldn\u2019t come as a surprise that a large number of ethnically Turkic peoples in East Turkistan,\u00a0 as peoples elsewhere in China proper for that matter, felt indignation at the rampant Maoist\u00a0Cultural Revolution, alienating a significant segment of the population, which forced the CCP to re examine its integrationist policies after the Cultural Revolution. Some re-evaluations were reflected\u00a0 in Deng Xiaoping\u2019s reforms (1978-1988), creating a long overdue temporary breathing room for\u00a0 both economy and ethnic cultural practices. The temporary loose grip on the latter was in fact\u00a0 economically anchored, encouraging tourism in East Turkistan and other minority regions\u00a0 throughout China, where various ethnic groups were allowed to practice their cultural traditions,\u00a0while at the same time promoting tourism (Gladney 2004, 110). Restrictions on Islamic practices\u00a0 were also lifted in this period, e.g. reopening mosques, and allowing travels to other Islamic\u00a0countries.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 1980s were by no means a peaceful period in East Turkistan. There were signs of social\u00a0 unrest, fraught with ethnic\/interethnic conflicts. There were student demonstrations that\u00a0 demanded \u2018freedom\u2019, \u2018democracy\u2019 and \u2018equality between the nationalities\u2019 . Their slogans also confronted the issues of nuclear testing in Lop Nor (health concerns regarding the local Turkic\u00a0 peoples), influx of Han people to East Turkistan, and the birth control (family planning\/birth\u00a0 restrictions) policy that targeted minorities. Alexis-Martin (2019, 152-53) argues in her paper that\u00a0 \u201cthe colonization of Uyghur lands and their use by the PRC for nuclear weapon testing are\u00a0 representative of a mode of nuclear imperialism that treated Uyghur life as worthless\u201d. With respect\u00a0 to limiting the population growth, Uyghurs and other non-Han minorities had been exempted from\u00a0 the CCP\u2019s birth control policy that was rolled out in the early 1980s, but gradually it also applied to\u00a0 them, starting in 1987 with Uyghur party officials and later enforced to the whole minority\u00a0 populations within a few years\u2019 time (Bovingdon 2010, 58-59).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese issues reflect not religious concerns <em>per se, <\/em>but rather concerns about the treatment and&nbsp; survival of Uyghurs as a nation\u201d (Millward 2007, 282). Furthermore, Millward (ibid., 281) informs&nbsp; us that \u201cmovements for rights or independence in twentieth-century [East Turkistan] do not fit the&nbsp; commonly held notion of \u2018Islamic jihad\u2019.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The period 1991-2005 witnessed a rekindled ethnic minority opposition to the Chinese regime\u00a0 in East Turkistan, accompanied by a familiar counteraction pattern of the communist party:\u00a0 \u201coutright repression, cooptation, Han in-migration and economic development\u201d (Clarke 2007, 283).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Demonstrations, unrest, and some violent incidents continued into the 1990s in East Turkistan.\u00a0 Two major events at the beginning of the 1990s triggered a shift in CCP\u2019s minority policy towards\u00a0 non-Han peoples in East Turkistan, which became less tolerant than its previous minority policy in\u00a0 the 80s. These two major events were the Baren Uprising in the April of 1990 and the collapse of 9 the Soviet Union in 1991. The former had a general popular support at the time, where one of the\u00a0 motives for this uprising could be ascribed to the CCP\u2019s birth control policy targeting Uyghurs and\u00a0 other minority families (Millward 2007, 327), in addition there were also other contributing factors\u00a0 like nuclear weapons testing and the export of resources to other parts of China. While the latter\u00a0 event, the Soviet disintegration, came both as a shock and an economic opportunity for the\u00a0 Communist Party.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former Soviet states, like Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, whose peoples are historically and&nbsp; linguistically closely related to the Turkic peoples in East Turkistan, gained their independence&nbsp; following the disintegration of the Soviet Union. This newly gained independence from their&nbsp; imperial power made the Communist Party uneasy, in that East Turkistan might head towards its&nbsp; independence from its imperial power that is China.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Religious activities were yet again restricted, heavily scrutinized, and in some cases banned by&nbsp; the Chinese regime. Imams had to get state approval, only those who were deemed patriotic and&nbsp; politically aligned with the Communist Party could retain their positions, a practice that has&nbsp; continued up to the present day in East Turkistan. Qur\u2019an schools were closed down and all private&nbsp; scriptural study sessions were prohibited and stamped as illegal religious activities (Bovingdon&nbsp; 2010, 67). In 1991, 10 percent of circa 25000 Islamic clerics failed to retain their positions after a&nbsp; scrutiny conducted by communist officials (Harris 1993:120\u201321, cited in Bovingdon 2010, 66). The&nbsp; construction of many mosques were halted and many existing mosques at the time were closed&nbsp; down as the crackdown on Islam continued. Despite the fact that the freedom to believe and not to&nbsp; believe is constitutionally anchored, party cadres and students continue to involuntarily abnegate&nbsp; their right to believe.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party reasserted its key elements of integrationist policies over the\u00a0 1991-1995 period, e.g. with its continued support and encouragement of Han in-migration, and by\u00a0 adopting an economic development stratagem whose objective was to further incorporate East\u00a0 Turkistan into China proper, and simultaneously establishing a bond with other Central Asian states\u00a0 through trade (Clarke 2007, 283; Millward 2007, 289).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0A good deal of social unrest and protests took place in 1995 and 1996 in East Turkistan, and in\u00a0 the wake of them was a threefold political counter-reaction: (i.) an internal CCP document was  issued on 19 March 1996, warning of and tightening measures for controlling various ethnic and\u00a0 religious activities, as well as \u2018foreign forces\u2019 (e.g. foreign separatist organizations); (ii.) the\u00a0 effecting of the bilateral security treaty on 26 April 1996, signed by China, Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan,\u00a0 Tajikistan and Russia; (iii.) the first proclamation of the \u2018Strike Hard\u2019 campaign (\u4e25\u6253<em>y\u00e1nd\u01ce <\/em>), clamping down on crime and \u201cseparatism and unlawful religious activities\u201d. The intent of this\u00a0 campaign was not a general crackdown on crime per se, but rather a clampdown on unofficial\u00a0 political organizations and religion, targeting politically active separatists in East Turkistan, Tibet\u00a0 and Inner Mongolia, while linking separatism with \u201cunlawful religious activities\u201d (Dillon 2019,\u00a0 58-59). It has been estimated that thousands are detained by the police every year in East Turkistan\u00a0 for \u201cillegal religious activities\u201d, based on local media reports that had been closely monitored by\u00a0 Human Rights Watch, where official statistics are rarely made public (HRW 2005, 6). The tactics by\u00a0 which the Chinese regime seeks to have total control over Uyghurs\u2019 belief system are punitive in\u00a0 nature, which is a step beyond suppression, seemingly motivated to re-engineer the religious\u00a0 identity of Uyghurs so that it harmoniously fits into the state narrative (ibid., 7).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CCP set out to achieve with its second counter-reaction, among other objectives, a&nbsp; crackdown on Uyghur political dissident activities in the Central-Asian states, and it succeeded.&nbsp; Kazakhstan and Kirghizstan started extraditing Uyghur suspects to China upon Beijing\u2019s request,&nbsp; leaving only Uyghur cultural organizations operational within the legal framework under state&nbsp; supervision, while banning all other Uyghur political organizations (Millward 2007, 337). It is&nbsp; worth emphasizing that some of these wanted Uyghur suspects had been executed upon their&nbsp; return to China (Becquelin 2004a, 41). The last-mentioned counter-reaction, the \u2018Strike Hard\u2019&nbsp; campaign in 1996, resulted in several thousands of arrests in East Turkistan, not due to a sudden&nbsp; upsurge in crime, but due to this campaign itself, for there was \u201ca political premium on speed and&nbsp; quantity of arrests and convictions\u201d (Millward 2007, 331).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February 1997, the second major uprising transpired with popular support in East Turkistan\u2019s&nbsp; northern city of Ghulja, popularly known as the Ghulja uprising and massacre among Uyghurs (see&nbsp; Millward 2007, 331-334; Dillon 2019, 67-70). This uprising was yet another major challenge to the&nbsp; Chinese rule after the Baren uprising in 1990. \u201c[It] was clearly the product of a chain of events that&nbsp; began much earlier and was symptomatic of both the government\u2019s repressive methods and the&nbsp; Uyghurs\u2019 exasperated responses\u201d (Bovingdon 2010, 125). \u201cThe region-wide crackdown following&nbsp; the events of February 1997 became almost a permanent feature of life throughout [East&nbsp; Turkistan]\u201d (Millward 2007, 334).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the period 1980 to 1997, there had been many protests and demonstrations born out of&nbsp; discontent and injustice among Uyghurs against the Chinese rule in East Turkistan, during which&nbsp; the Chinese regime only yielded four times to the matters raised in the protests (see Bovingdon&nbsp; 2010, 128-29). In all other documented cases, the responses from the regime had been either&nbsp; deafening or negatively overwhelming; instead of listening to the public outcry and changing its&nbsp; policies accordingly, the CCP often fired back with more intensified repressive and integrationist&nbsp; policies (e.g. by increasingly restricting religious activities) in East Turkistan (see Bovingdon 2010,&nbsp; 129). Uyghurs have no right to express their discontent in public, if they do, they would face harsh&nbsp; punishment from the regime. As a matter of fact, the regime \u201cequate any expression of&nbsp; dissatisfaction (<em>buman qingxu<\/em>), even metaphorical or ironical, with separatist thought (<em>fenlie&nbsp; sixiang<\/em>)\u201d (Becquelin 2004a, 44).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The period 1996 \u2013 2004 saw at least one extensive political campaign yearly , each led to hundreds of arrests, where the judicial proceedings were rushed, which in turn resulted in\u00a0 expedited convictions that were based on the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s \u201ctwo basics\u201d principle:\u00a0 \u201cbasic truth\u201d and \u201cbasic evidence\u201d (ibid., 41).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the following eight years since 1997 there had been neither massive incidents of social\u00a0 disturbances nor large-scale demonstrations in East Turkistan. Despite the relative calm that\u00a0 followed, the Communist Party leadership could not ignore the gravity of the conflicts transpired\u00a0 over the course of the last decade of the twentieth century. The only viable solution\/policy the CCP\u00a0 could get behind was the economic development of East Turkistan. Great Development of the\u00a0 Western Regions (\u897f\u90e8\u2f24\u5f00\u53d1<em>x\u012bb\u00f9 d\u00e0 k\u0101if\u0101 <\/em>) as a policy initially emerged in 1999, and was\u00a0implemented in March 2000. These western regions include East Turkistan, Tibet, Inner Mongolia,\u00a0 as well as other provinces that are geographically located in western China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To put it in a nutshell, this \u2018develop the west\u2019 program, what Becquelin (2004b) calls a \u201cstaged&nbsp; development\u201d, would transfer the remaining development capacity from the coastal provinces of&nbsp; China to its western regions and provinces. Although this economically-oriented development&nbsp; program of the CCP sounds reasonable enough at a superficial level (i.e. poverty alleviation), the&nbsp; underlying issues that would ensue, that this vast project would (inevitably or not) give rise to,&nbsp; become a matter of concern. This ambitious project entails an enormous transfer of resources,&nbsp; including manpower, raising concerns about the further population dilution of the ethnic minority&nbsp; areas by a massive Han Chinese resettlement program (Dillon 2019, 75).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The influx of Han migration to East Turkistan has been continuous ever since the founding of the&nbsp; PRC. The Han population grew a staggering 31.6% between 1990 and 2000 in East Turkistan,&nbsp; which was almost exactly double the growth rate of non-Hans (Bovingdon 2010, 57). \u201cMany&nbsp; analysts have concluded that officially supported Han migration constitutes China\u2019s primary policy&nbsp; instrument for assimilating its border regions\u201d (Gladney 2004, 112).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a matter of fact, Li Dezhu (2000, cited in Becquelin 2004b:373\u201374), the head of the State&nbsp; Ethnic Affairs Commission of the PRC, stated outright in his writing that the government was&nbsp; actively engaged in the Han migrations to the ethnic minority areas in the name of strengthening&nbsp; national unity, a policy he termed as \u201chomogenization\u201d (\u51dd\u805a\u5316 <em>n\u00edngj\u00f9hu\u00e0 <\/em>). \u201cThis hidden agenda&nbsp; has exacerbated conflict between Han and non-Han and has not led to the stability that it was&nbsp; designed to produce\u201d (Dillon 2019, 81). The Chinese regime has practiced preferential treatments&nbsp; toward Han migrants, luring them with state-sponsored subsidies and attractive resettlement&nbsp; policies in East Turkistan, which arouses even more indignation in Uyghur people. For instance, the&nbsp; regime would hand out subsidies to college graduates from China proper if they immigrated to East&nbsp; Turkistan, and top party officials would make recruitment trips (Bovingdon 2010, 57).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been assumed within the Communist Party that if the economic development in East\u00a0 Turkistan grows to match that of the coastal provinces in eastern China, then all inter-ethnic\u00a0 tension and ethnic separatism will disappear or at least the good economy will render them\u00a0 insignificant. However, China\u2019s Develop the West policy fails to address \u201cthe cultural and ethnic superstructure\u201d (Dillon 2019, 88).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Source:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>\u201cThe persecution of Uyghurs in East Turkistan\u201d&nbsp;<strong><em>Authors:<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Erkin K\u00e2inat; Adrian Zenz; Adiljan Abdurihim<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Link:<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;https:\/\/www.utjd.org\/register\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/the_persecution_of_uyghurs_hard_copy.pdf<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founding of the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 ushered in a new era of&nbsp; oppression to East Turkistan, as well as Tibet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utjd.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utjd.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utjd.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utjd.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utjd.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.utjd.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"https:\/\/www.utjd.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utjd.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utjd.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utjd.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utjd.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}