What’s in a name? What is “China” and who is “Chinese”? How the term “Chinese nation” was socially and politically constructed to promote Han imperialism.
Asiye Uyghur
The Agreement Beijing Did Not Erase
China inherited a territorial claim. It also inherited an unanswered political obligation to Uyghurs.
No Uyghur Is Beyond Reach: AI and Beijing’s New Machinery of Transnational Repression
From WhatsApp groups and diaspora media to Türkiye and Syria, the Anthropic report reveals how technology expands Beijing’s repression.
How Beijing Turned Uyghur Childhood Into a State Project
Official documents trace a policy chain from preschool language instruction and boarding schools to mainland classes, vocational training, and labor transfer.
How Beijing Turns Human Relationships Into Instruments of Power
A governing model tested in Uyghur homes now shapes overseas networks, business ties, cultural outreach, and policing arrangements worldwide.
July 28: Remembering the Yarkent Massacre
Silence, disappearances, and the erasure of evidence followed the 2014 military assault on Uyghur civilians.
July 5: The Urumqi Massacre’s Unanswered Questions
Seventeen years after the tragedy, the questions still matter. A Uyghur view. by Asiye Uyghur Chinese tanks in Urumqi, 2009. From X. Seventeen years have passed since the July 5, 2009, Urumqi massacre. Yet the questions raised on that day have never disappeared. They...
Uyghurs Students as Dissidents: 40 Years of History
How Uyghur students helped shape China’s 1980s reform era, and a democratic awakening became recast as a security threat.
When Uyghur Culture Becomes “Extremism”: From Doppa to Hijab
A clear trend appears in Beijing’s policies: any cultural aspect that visibly expresses Uyghur identity is gradually targeted and suppressed.
Asiye Uyghur
Asiye Uyghur is a Netherlands-based Uyghur writer and political commentator. Before the closure of Radio Free Asia’s Uyghur Service, she worked there as a political commentator. She currently publishes commentary and analysis in English, Dutch, and Chinese on Uyghur human rights, cultural repression, information control, and Chinese state policies related to Uyghurs through platforms including Global Voices, the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) as a guest contributor, and the Dutch publication “De Kanttekening.”