Satellite imagery reported in a Reuters investigation, cited by independent open-source analysis, documented more than 80 previously undisclosed launch pads, hardened bunkers, and command nodes in the Xinjiang region desert near the Hami silo fields—two

After many media reports covered the exchange and said it was about Xinjiang, Ma later said in a statement that he meant Shenzhen, not Xinjiang. McCuaig-Johnston responded that she has been to China “many times” over the last nearly 50 years.

Chang, a local Han resident, told Epoch Times in a telephone interview that southern Xinjiang, which includes Luntai County where the explosions took place, has comparatively more military and security officials than elsewhere in Xinjiang.

More than one-third of those removed were senior military figures, while the list also included Politburo member and former Xinjiang Party Secretary Ma Xingrui.

Ma was transferred to the Xinjiang region in 2021 when he took over the Party chief's post from Chen Quanguo, the architect of the massive detention and surveillance systems used against Uyghur Muslims in the region.

in Xinjiang.

A number of UK lawmakers said on Jan. 30 that they take "no comfort” from China’s decision to lift the sanctions imposed on it, especially as the communist regime continues to commit human rights abuses in Hong Kong and the Xinjiang region.

On April 28, 2025, in the Ili River Valley of China's Xinjiang region, the CCP mobilized a 4,000-strong joint task force made up of military units, armed police, border inspection personnel, public security forces, and members of the Xinjiang Production

The move is just one part of a broad security tightening, along with “strike hard” campaigns in Xinjiang, after a bombing attack at a fruit market last week.

“Even Han Chinese from Xinjiang are reported. Tibetans, though, are not allowed to stay.”

institutionalizes and expands coercive assimilation and cultural erasure policies directed toward Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongolians, Christians, and other groups. ” Washington has taken action to address human rights abuses in China’s far-western region of Xinjiang

After media reports covered the exchange, saying it was about Xinjiang, Ma later said in a statement that he meant Shenzhen, not Xinjiang.

Zijin Mining Group, Xinjiang Zijin Zinc Industry, Xinjiang Zijin Nonferrous Metals, and Xinjiang Habahe Ashele Copper.

The list included all province-level regions in China, with the exception of Xinjiang and Macau.

Beijing's sanctions came after Canada and the United States sanctioned Chinese officials involved in rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region.

Recently Uyghur groups claimed that thousands of people had been slaughtered by Chinese security forces in a county in Xinjiang.

The United States has determined that the Chinese communist regime systemically uses forced labor in Xinjiang, where the majority of China's cotton is produced. Xinjiang is also home to many of China's mining operations.

Schoolchildren walk under surveillance cameras in Akto, south of Kashgar, in China's western Xinjiang region, on June 4, 2019.

On Jan. 19, 2021, at the end of the first Trump administration, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a determination that the PRC was engaging in genocide against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang province.

An explosion hit Urumqi, located in Xinjiang Province in western China, on Thursday morning. Xinhua, the Chinese Communist Party’s state-run mouthpiece, said that the explosion hit a park, but it did not elaborate.

Witnesses: Ethan Gutmann: senior research fellow in China studies, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation; author of “The Xinjiang Procedure” and “The Slaughter” Ambassador Sam Brownback: senior fellow, Pepperdine University; former U.S. ambassador-at-large

Commerce Department placed on the Entity List in October 2019 for supplying surveillance technology used against Uyghur minorities in Xinjiang.

Australia’s ASPI Xinjiang Data Project summarizes the same basic dynamic: a policing app feeding into IJOP as part of mass surveillance. The key issue isn’t whether the system is perfectly accurate. It’s how it’s used.

Mao said "We do not stand for the movement of independence of the Xinjiang nationalities and do not have any claims on Xinjiang territory, considering that Xinjiang is and must be a part of China."

“Kmart tells customers that it supports ethical sourcing and the protection of human rights – but we know there are credible links between two of its factories/suppliers and the use of Uyghur forced labour in Xinjiang,” she said.

The report cites the examples of Tibet and Xinjiang, where residents are subjected to invasive surveillance.

Both the Biden and the first Trump administrations determined that the CCP's repression in Xinjiang constituted “genocide.”

Across the border, in Xinjiang, China did the same at Lop Nur: 45 tests, 22 in the atmosphere, over lands occupied by Uyghurs and ethnic Kazakhs. 

It is not the first time that violence in Xinjiang has overlapped with important moments of political decision.

Three Decades of Advocacy Idris, 57, was born in Hotan, in China's far-western Xinjiang region, which Uyghurs call East Turkistan.