Domestically, this has resulted in the extreme securitisation of the Uyghur identity that has culminated over the past two years in the internment of up to 1 million Uyghurs in extra-judicial ‘transformation through re-education’ centres. Internationally, Beijing has consistently appropriated the lexicon of the post-9/11 ‘war on terror’ to label Uyghur opposition as ‘religious extremism’, … Continue reading China is using terrorist threats to culturally cleanse its west