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reporter covering politics, tech and other things in China. 华尔街日报驻京记者李肇华. josh.chin@wsj.com. DM for Signal info.

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    Aug 17

    Here’s our addition to the growing body of reporting on China’s shadowy attempt to erase the cultural identities of around 14 million Muslim minorities living in the northwestern border region of Xinjiang using a network of internment camps. 1/x

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    THREAD: Satellite evidence of the internment camp identified by the Wall Street Journal, opposite home of detained parents of Murat Harri Uyghur in Turpan. The WSJ reporters took a photo of the outside of the camp (below).

    Directly opposite, visible across a construction site, is a newly built internment camp, guarded by one of Xinjiang’s ubiquitous “convenience” police stations: 15/x
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    In shaping narratives about China’s future, Xi Jinping is "claiming greater authorship over China’s past," says . Here's a story and my thread on what Xi's myth-making looks like at a Shenzhen museum.

    When the Shekou Museum of Reform and Opening first opened in December, visitors were greeted by this sculpture depicting a 1984 visit to Shenzhen's Shekou district by Deng Xiaoping and other…
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    26-year-old Chinese pharmacist gets cancer then disappears to spare his rice farming parents the debt. A revealing, heartbreaking tale by

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    17 hours ago

    我们的报道的中文版

    多达100万维族人士被中国拘押在“再教育营”里，且营地的规模还在扩大。 “他们说，不存在宗教这种东西，根本就没有神。” “他们说，我们不该感谢真主安拉，应该感谢习近平。” 《华尔街日报》对多名被拘者及家属的采访还原了他们在中共所谓的“职业培训中心”里此前不为人知的经历。
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  6. Aug 19

    A small correction on this story: The slogan in the Turpan reeducation camp isn't “Sense the party’s thought, obey the party’s words, follow the party’s lead.” I misread 恩 as 思, so it should read, "Sense the party's *kindness*, obey the party's words, follow the party's lead."

    Here’s our addition to the growing body of reporting on China’s shadowy attempt to erase the cultural identities of around 14 million Muslim minorities living in the northwestern border region of Xinjiang using a network of internment camps. 1/x …
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  7. Aug 19

    Great thread. I'd add that *quality time* is key. Traveling isn't enough. In fact in China, it sometimes has the opposite effect

    Every American should go spend some quality time inside an authoritarian dictatorship, preferably with a totalizing ideology, to properly appreciate how magical our constitutional government really is. …
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  8. Aug 18

    Also, in case there is confusion on numbers: The total Muslim population of Xinjiang is around 14 million. The UN estimate for people detained in camps is one million. The overall campaign, however, is clearly aimed at the population as a whole.

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  9. Aug 18

    I just realized I forgot to post the picture of Murat Harri Uyghur’s parents’ house. Here is it for real this time. It’s in Turpan’s New District, a largely Han Chinese neighborhood. Most of the Uighur restaurants were padlocked shut the day I was there.

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    Aug 17

    Murat Harri Uyghur, A Finnish citizen, says his mum was taken to one of China's Muslim internment camps in Apr 2017. In Jan, his dad was too. He hasn't heard from them since. He's one of three dozen inmates' relatives that & I spoke to

    Murat and his mother, Tiemuer Guihuahan
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  11. Aug 17

    Sorry, a Twitter handle typo here. That should be . Sorry Melissa!

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  12. Aug 17

    No one can predict what the ultimate consequences of all this will be, but as put it to me, putting people in a constant state of fear “is something that can lead to many evil things.” FIN

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  13. Aug 17

    All other evidence suggests that is, at best, a disingenuously narrow presentation of the truth. Based on everything we and others have found, if the Uighurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang are learning anything, it’s that Chinese society doesn’t want them. 19/x

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  14. Aug 17

    Last week at the UN, Chinese officials described the camps as “vocational schools” (which is how many are listed in government bids) designed to help minor criminals learn how to better integrate into society. 18/x

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  15. Aug 17

    We sent photos and satellite images to , who said the facility was similar to other camps he’s found: more school-like than a common detention-center, but with less security than a full-scale prison. 17/x

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  16. Aug 17

    I got close enough to see Uighurs emerging from a family visitation room before police started shouting at me to leave: 16/x

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  17. Aug 17

    Directly opposite, visible across a construction site, is a newly built internment camp, guarded by one of Xinjiang’s ubiquitous “convenience” police stations: 15/x

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  18. Aug 17

    For example, in Turpan, I went to find the apartment where the parents of Murat Uyghur lived before they were sent to a camp. Here is it, in the corner of housing compound ringed with razor wire and patrolled by police: 15/x

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  19. Aug 17

    Finally, there’s on-the-ground reporting. The mere act of talking to Uighurs puts them at risk, and police are quick to jump on any journalists they find snooping around, but you can still move around enough to get a sense of how people are living. 13/x

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  20. Aug 17

    The government stopped posting construction bids publicly shortly after he published his initial research earlier this year. You can find a link to his paper here, which also digs into the historical roots of the campaign. 13/x

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  21. Aug 17

    Another vital source of information is the work of , who collected government construction bids and tender documents confirming 78 camps, worth a total of $755 million. 12/x

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