#xinjiang
I was going to wish all of my Chinese mutuals a happy 中共建党100周年 (100th anniversary of the founding of the CCP) but I cannot get myself to celebrate the Communist Party after the 2019 Hong Kong demonstrations and the lack of responsibility the CCP has taken to the world since the covid-19 pandemic started. It all looked so well in the 2010’s. China was opening up (significantly more), less censorship, less involvement with Hong Kong and Taiwan. But now… after State Secretary Xi Jinping came into power, it’s just gone worse and worse, and I cannot stand seeing my Chinese friends who are younger than me (freshly graduated high school) eat up everything the government serves them. I cannot stand that everyone, Chinese and non-Chinese alike licks CCP’s ass, in fear of going against them, scared of whatever consequences might come. So I will not give the Communist Party of China my well wishes. Instead, my well wishes goes out to the people of Hong Kong, the uighurs oppressed in Xinjiang, the more than one billion oppressed Chinese living under the dictatorship that is China, forced to live under censorship and other ridiculous rules made by the power-horny members of the CCP. Keep fighting for a better life. 中国加油
Flying a kite at sunset.
Yamalike Mountain Park. Urumqi, Xinjiang, China. May 1, 2015.
Photography credit: Thomas Sobien
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A mosque in the countryside.
Hami, Xinjiang, China. May 14, 2015.
Photo credit: Thomas Sobien
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Men playing basketball at a park.
Hami, Xinjiang, China. May 14, 2015.
Photo credit: Thomas Sobien
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URUMQI, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) – Dumplings, indispensable at lunar new year dinners in north China were already served 1,700 years ago in China’s far west.
According to an archaeologist from the Museum of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the three dumplings unearthed in the region’s Turpan area were determined to have been made during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties (220-589).
Archaeologists also found two complete dumplings made during the Tang Dynasty (618-907) in Turpan. The dumplings were 5 centimeters long, 1.5 cm wide and resembled the new moon in shape. Further research revealed the dumpling wrappers were made from wheat flour and the stuffing was meat. Read more.
These pictures shows the stunning beauty of the Tianshan Mountain scenery spot after snowfall in Hami, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Nov. 8, 2015.
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Leaked list: China database reveals the thousands detained in Xinjiang
A leaked list of thousands of detained Uyghurs has helped Nursimangul Abdureshid shed some light on the whereabouts of her missing family members, who have disappeared in China’s sweeping crackdown on Xinjiang.
Researchers estimate over one million Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities are being held in a secretive network of detention centres and prisons, ostensibly as part of an anti-terrorism campaign after a series of attacks.
Yet information on the crackdown in Xinjiang region – and those who have been ensnared by it – is closely guarded by China’s Communist authorities.
That has left relatives unable to contact detainees or seek answers from police, with just a fraction of court notices from Xinjiang publicly available.
Abdureshid, who now lives in Turkey, lost contact with her family five years ago.
It took until 2020 for the Chinese embassy in Ankara to confirm that her younger brother Memetili, as well as her parents, had been imprisoned for terrorism-related offences.
But a suspected police list leaked to Uyghur activists outside China has located Memetili in a prison outside the city of Aksu, some 600 kilometres (375 miles) from their home.
He was sentenced to 15 years and 11 months in jail, the documents show – a figure confirmed by Beijing’s embassy in Ankara.
“It is much better than not knowing anything about where he is. There is a small happiness,” Abdureshid, 33, told AFP from Istanbul, where she has lived since 2015.
“I check the weather there sometimes, to see if it is cold or warm.”
Portraits of ethnic Tajik, Kazakh, Russian, Uyghur, and Kyrgyz women in Xinjiang.
Photo by Liu Yingzhi
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Portraits of ethnic Tajik, Kazakh, Russian, Uyghur, and Kyrgyz men in various hats in Xinjiang.
Photo by Liu Yingzhi
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Schools in China’s Xinjiang to discourage religion at home
Schools in China’s mainly Muslim Xinjiang region, where a series of attacks has left hundreds dead in recent months, said they would actively discourage religious practice at home, state-run media reported Wednesday.
Principals at more than 2,000 kindergartens, primary schools and secondary schools in Kashgar, near China’s border with Pakistan, signed a pledge to “defend schools against the infiltration of religion”, according to a report by the Global Times, which is close to the Communist Party.
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Mayor in China’s Xinjiang probed for graft
The Uighur mayor of a violence-racked city in China’s far-western Xinjiang region is being investigated for corruption, a government notice said, as central authorities broaden their highly publicised anti-graft probe.
Adil Nurmemet, the mayor of Hotan, is being probed for suspected “serious disciplinary violations”, according to a notice posted Thursday on the website of the regional discipline inspection commission, the Communist Party’s internal watchdog.
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5,000-year population history of Xinjiang brought to light in DNA study
““What is striking about these results is that the demographic history of a cross-roads region as Xinjiang has been marked not by population replacements, but by the genetic incorporation of diverse incoming cultural groups into the existing population, making Xinjiang a true ‘melting-pot’,” said Prof. Fu.”
The US Should Stop Weaponizing The “Great Replacement” Conspiracy Theory Against China
The US Should Stop Weaponizing The “Great Replacement” Conspiracy Theory Against China
The double standard is clear for all to see: the USG rightly supports multiculturalism at home but wrongly promotes literally racist conspiracy theories like the “Great Replacement” against China.
A terrorist killed at least 10 people in Buffalo, New York a few days ago after being radicalized by the so-called “Great Replacement” racist conspiracy theory. It claims that Jews are replacing Whites…
It’s important to note the dates on these two articles. Because every time Israel is trending, for either killing journalists or cleansing the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, the US media will game the search terms “giant, open prison”. Instead of getting results about Gaza, the actual open air prison, they get redirected to baseless claims about Xinjiang.
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