Bangladesh The indigenous tribes of Bangladesh: small voices lost in the sea of frustration November 8, 2018 0 Written by Tanzia Amreen Haq. Bangladesh, with its broken electoral system, diminishing democracy and neglected human rights, lives in a state of violent peace. The…
China Xinjiang and Hong Kong: the periphery playbook October 26, 2018 1 Written by Alvin Cheung. Speaking at the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club on 14 August 2018, shortly before his political party was banned, Hong Kong…
China China’s decimation of Uyghur minds October 25, 2018 0 Written by Ondřej Klimeš. Academics, journalists and rights groups have recently documented the accelerating repression of the 11-million strong Uyghur population living in Xinjiang (also known…
China The Xinjiang camps as a “Stanford Prison Experiment” October 24, 2018 1 Written by Magnus Fiskesjö. The Xinjiang camps represent a dramatic escalation of a longstanding Chinese policy to colonise and dominate Xinjiang, the "New Frontier" of the Qing…
China Chess masters and poker players: ways to understand the politics of policy-making in Xinjiang October 23, 2018 0 Written by Nathan Attrill. For the People’s Republic of China (PRC), control over the western provinces has proved a major area of concern for policy-makers at…
China No more singing and dancing? Xinjiang diffractions October 22, 2018 0 Written by Fredrik Fällman. Five years ago the then Deputy Governor of Xinjiang Shi Dagang 史大刚 said that the local minorities were “too busy dancing…
conflict Is Kashmir facing a new crisis? July 2, 2018 1 Written by Andrew Whitehead. June has been a cruel month in Kashmir. As it opened, there appeared to be a glimmer of hope in one of…
China Islam in Xinjiang: “De-Extremification” or Violation of Religious Space? June 15, 2018 1 Written by Joanne Smith Finley. As recently reported in the press, since Spring 2017, hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and other minority Muslims in Xinjiang…
Ethnic Minorities Japan and the Other II – Caught between Asia and the ‘West’? May 24, 2018 0 Written by Griseldis Kirsch. If Japan tries to appear homogeneous to the outside world, it also has a sizeable and increasing immigrant population. As an…
Ethnic Minorities Japan and the Other – Its (not-so-) hidden minorities May 23, 2018 1 Written by Griseldis Kirsch. When, in 2005, Asō Tarō, then Minister for Interior and Communication, said that Japan consisted of “one nation, one civilization, one…
