Hybrid Event Wednesday, March 6th, 2024 from 10:00am-2:00pm Central Asia’s multi-vector approach to diplomacy has long been a cornerstone of its foreign policy, playing a prominent role in regional discussions.… Continue reading Central Asia: Multi-Vector Policy for the 21st Century – Strategy and Development
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Materials on how China leads its politics in Central Asia and with Central Asians
Solidarity: A Love Letter to Diasporic Asians in Russia, Central Asia, and Beyond
I was nineteen years old when I left the US to study for the first time. I spent five weeks on a summer exchange program at the International University in… Continue reading Solidarity: A Love Letter to Diasporic Asians in Russia, Central Asia, and Beyond
Discussing Sinophobia in Kyrgyzstan
By Aizat Shailoobek Kyzy This paper investigates how Chinese migrants are perceived by different groups in Kyrgyzstan—and in what domains local people turn to Sinophobia. To date, Kyrgyzstani political leaders… Continue reading Discussing Sinophobia in Kyrgyzstan
Central Asia as a Pivot in China’s BRI
An online event hosted by the Central Asia Program at George Washington University on January 26, 2022. With the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a project that aims to integrate… Continue reading Central Asia as a Pivot in China’s BRI
“Dear Nike, Just Don’t Do It!”: A Transnational Digital Connective Action on the Issue of Forced Uyghur Labor at Nike Sweatshops in China
By Tomiris Mashan Tomiris Mashan is a Master’s student in Comparative Social Research at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from… Continue reading “Dear Nike, Just Don’t Do It!”: A Transnational Digital Connective Action on the Issue of Forced Uyghur Labor at Nike Sweatshops in China
Video – What Next In China’s Growing Security Footprint In Tajikistan?
A virtual event hosted by the Central Asia Program at George Washington University on December 3, 2021. China is expanding its security footprint in Central Asia through strategic military bases… Continue reading Video – What Next In China’s Growing Security Footprint In Tajikistan?
China and Central Asia: Warm Politics, Cold Public
By Dr. Kemel Toktomushev Dr. Kemel Toktomushev is a Senior Research Fellow with University of Central Asia’s (UCA) Institute of Public Policy and Administration and an Assistant Professor of Political… Continue reading China and Central Asia: Warm Politics, Cold Public
China’s Vaccine Diplomacy In Central Asia: What Next?
China’s Vaccine Diplomacy In Central Asia: What Next? A virtual discussion hosted by the Central Asia Program at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the George Washington… Continue reading China’s Vaccine Diplomacy In Central Asia: What Next?
Competing for Cake Crumbs: Why Chinese Mining Leads to Conflict in Kyrgyzstan but not Tajikistan
By Isabelle DeSisto Isabelle DeSisto is currently an MPhil candidate in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK. She holds a BA in Government… Continue reading Competing for Cake Crumbs: Why Chinese Mining Leads to Conflict in Kyrgyzstan but not Tajikistan
Trapped in the System: Experiences of Uyghur Detention in Xinjiang (Video)
Trapped in the System: Experiences of Uyghur Detention in Xinjiang February 3, 2021 Virtual discussion hosted by the Central Asia Program at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies… Continue reading Trapped in the System: Experiences of Uyghur Detention in Xinjiang (Video)
Beijing Binds: How COVID-19 is Deepening China’s Relationship with Central Asia (Video)
Beijing Binds: How COVID-19 is Deepening China’s Relationship with Central Asia with Raffaello Pantucci June 30, 2020 COVID-19 has further exposed tensions that exist within China’s relations with Central Asia. Yet… Continue reading Beijing Binds: How COVID-19 is Deepening China’s Relationship with Central Asia (Video)
Beijing Binds: COVID-19 and the China-Central Asia Relationship
By Raffaello Pantucci Senior Associate Fellow at Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)Visiting Senior Fellow at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) Raffaello Pantucci’s research focuses on terrorism and counter-terrorism… Continue reading Beijing Binds: COVID-19 and the China-Central Asia Relationship
Understanding Sinophobia in Central Asia
Understanding Sinophobia in Central Asia Sinophobia in Central Asia is real. But does that translate into a threat to China’s lasting presence in the region? By Sebastien PeyrousePublished by The Diplomat,… Continue reading Understanding Sinophobia in Central Asia
Between Urumchi and Kazan: The Tatars in Chinese Concentration Camps
By Mehmet Volkan Kaşıkçı CAP Paper 219, June 2019 Mehmet Volkan Kaşıkçı is a PhD candidate in Soviet history at Arizona State University. His research focuses on the social and… Continue reading Between Urumchi and Kazan: The Tatars in Chinese Concentration Camps
Symposium on China’s Mass Incarceration of Uyghurs (video)
On 27 November, 2018, GW’s Central Asia Program hosted a Symposium on China’s Mass Incarceration of Uyghurs, which included the following panels and speakers: Panel 1: “Contextualizing the Re-education Camps” James A. Millward, Georgetown… Continue reading Symposium on China’s Mass Incarceration of Uyghurs (video)
China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its Impact in Central Asia
China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its Impact in Central Asia China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was announced by Chinese President Xi Jinping in September 2013 at Nazarbayev University. It is… Continue reading China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its Impact in Central Asia
The Biopolitics of China’s “War on Terror” and the Exclusion of the Uyghurs
Sean R. Roberts (2018) The biopolitics of China’s “war on terror” and the exclusion of the Uyghurs, Critical Asian Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2018.1454111 This article provides an overview of People’s Republic of China (PRC) counter-terrorism policies… Continue reading The Biopolitics of China’s “War on Terror” and the Exclusion of the Uyghurs
False Alarm: Xinjiang and China’s National Security
Author: Yitzhak Shichor Source: The Routledge Handbook of Asian Security Studies Abstract: A remote region in Western China usually avoided by foreigners, and even by Chinese, Xinjiang has reached… Continue reading False Alarm: Xinjiang and China’s National Security
Voices from the Diaspora: Uyghur Journalists and Protests Against China’s Aggressive Security Crackdown
Separated Souls: Uighur journalist’s unbreakable resolve to help her detained family Source: Amnesty International Gulchehra Hoja still remembers the first time her daughter, then three years old, met her grandparents.… Continue reading Voices from the Diaspora: Uyghur Journalists and Protests Against China’s Aggressive Security Crackdown
Research Update: Security Matters in Marriage, Song and Dance in China’s Muslim Borderlands, and Uyghur Gathering
Author: Mei Ding, Fudan University Source: Central Asian Survey Abstract: Based on anthropological fieldwork conducted in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China in 2016 and 2017, this article addresses… Continue reading Research Update: Security Matters in Marriage, Song and Dance in China’s Muslim Borderlands, and Uyghur Gathering
East Turkistan, the Forgotten Country
Author: Çağdaş Duman Source: Research Gate There exist the Pamir Mountains and Karakum Desert in the south and the Altay Mountains in the north of East Turkistan constituting the… Continue reading East Turkistan, the Forgotten Country
Between Resistance and Adaptation: the Place of the Uyghur Language in the Sinicised Zone of Urumchi
Research Between resistance and adaptation: The place of the Uyghur language in the sinicised zone of Urumchi Author: Giulia Cabras Source: China Perspectives Abstract: The urban areas of Xinjiang have… Continue reading Between Resistance and Adaptation: the Place of the Uyghur Language in the Sinicised Zone of Urumchi
Uyghur and Chinese Relations since 1949 (video)
Video Uyghur and Chinese Relations since 1949 Speaker: James Millward, Georgetown University Professor James Millward, Georgetown University discusses Uyghur and Han relations in Xinjiang since the foundation of the People’s… Continue reading Uyghur and Chinese Relations since 1949 (video)
