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Xinjiang
China's New Silk Road Is a Challenge for Washington
By Charlie Campbell / Khorgos
China Orders Residents in One Province to Hand In Their Passports
By Feliz Solomon
5 Ways China Is More Repressive Under President Xi Jinping
By Charlie Campbell / Beijing
China Sends Vines Into Space in Bid to Create Heavenly Wine
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China Will Have to Get Used to Being a Terrorist Target
Its plan to forge a trade route across Eurasia, through the dangerous territories of Afghanistan and Pakistan, will only expose Beijing to more risk
By Hannah Beech / Shanghai
August 31, 2016
Uighur Extremists Joining ISIS Poses a Security and Economic Headache for China’s Xi Jinping
Insecurity in China’s far Western province of Xinjiang throws up obstacles for Xi’s signature "One Belt, One Road" initiative
By Charlie Campbell / Beijing
July 21, 2016
Xi Jinping Puts New Emphasis on 'Marxist Atheism'
He tells cadres to beware of "overseas infiltrations via religious means"
By Charlie Campbell / Beijing
April 25, 2016
Singing, Dancing Minorities: China's Political Theater
A profusion of ethnic dress at China's National People's Congress fails to hide the deep ethnic tensions in the country
By Hannah Beech / Beijing
March 10, 2016
China Jails Xinjiang Activist for 19 Years
Zhang Haitao had posted articles online critical of the Beijing government
By Simon Lewis
January 22, 2016
Meet the Men and Women Fighting China's 'Anti-Terrorist' War
In the wake of the Paris attacks, members of China's special forces tell TIME, and open up on social media, about their own battles
By Hannah Beech / Beijing
November 23, 2015
In China, U.K. Chancellor Focuses on Trade, Not Human Rights
George Osborne sidestepped calls to discuss human-rights issues in Xinjiang province
By Nash Jenkins
September 25, 2015
Chinese Sculpture Resembles Chicago Icon
And artist Anish Kapoor is mad about it
By Joanna Plucinska
August 13, 2015
Thailand Defends Deportation of Uighur Migrants to China
The move has been condemned by the U.N., Washington and human-rights groups
By Charlie Campbell
July 10, 2015
Pakistan Will Deploy 12,000 Troops to Protect Chinese Workers
"Pakistan considers China’s security as our own security"
By Rishi Iyengar
April 23, 2015
Xinjiang Death Toll Raised
Most of the dead are described as "rioters," killed in the aftermath of last week's explosions
By Elizabeth Barber
September 26, 2014
Chinese Court Gives Uighur Academic Life Sentence
International human-rights observers repeatedly called the trial a sham
By Elizabeth Barber
September 23, 2014
Blasts Kill 2 in China's Xinjiang Region
The explosions come just ahead of a verdict in the trial of Ilham Tohti, a Uighur academic accused of fueling separatist sentiment in Xinjiang
By Elizabeth Barber
September 22, 2014
China's Silent War on Terror
A virtual media blackout makes it hard to know what's happening as China tackles unrest among its Uighur Muslim minorities
By Emily Rauhala
August 25, 2014
Is China Anti-Muslim? Not So Fast
Beijing bans some Muslims from observing Ramadan, or boarding public transport while veiled, but it allows millions of others to practice their religion without hindrance
By Hannah Beech
August 12, 2014
China: 100 Killed in Xinjiang Unrest
Tensions in China's northwestern frontier region are escalating rapidly
By Emily Rauhala / Beijing
August 4, 2014
China Charges Uighur Scholar Ilham Tohti With Separatism
The Beijing-based professor of economics is a moderate but determined critic of China's treatment of ethnic minorities
By Per Liljas
July 31, 2014
What's the Truth Out of Xinjiang?
Two vastly different accounts have emerged about the incident, which occurred on the first day of the ‘Id al-Fitr festival
By Emily Rauhala / Beijing
July 30, 2014
China Jails 32 People for Online Terror Charges
The sentencing is part of efforts to scour and scrub the Internet for material promoting religious warfare or teaching bomb-making methods that Chinese authorities say have fueled recent attacks.
July 11, 2014
China Bans Ramadan Fasting for Officials, Students in Restive Northwest
Xinjiang's ethnic Uighur Muslims have been subject to an "anti-terrorism" crackdown after a spate of deadly attacks
By Emily Rauhala
July 3, 2014
China Arrests 380 in First Month of Yearlong Antiterrorism Campaign
In general, the names of those arrested are not released, and they are likely to face trial in secret
By Melissa Hellmann
June 23, 2014
Chinese City on Lockdown After Deadly Blast
Chinese police say an explosion has killed at least 31 people in Urumqi, the capital of China's restive northwest Xinjiang region. This comes just weeks after a bomb and knife attack at the city's rail station was blamed on extremists from the region's mostly Muslim Uighur community
By Emily Rauhala / Beijing
May 22, 2014
China Arrests More Than 200 for 'Terrorist Videos'
Beijing arrested 232 people who "circulated videos promoting terrorism through the Internet and on portable devices" as the nation continues to reel from a series of knife attacks at rail stations that have been blamed on the autonomy-seeking Uighur minority
By Charlie Campbell
May 12, 2014
Deadly Bomb and Knife Attack Rocks Chinese City
At least three people were killed and 79 others injured after an explosion and knifing spree near a train station in northwestern China, seemingly the latest attack orchestrated by the autonomy-seeking Uighur minority
By Hannah Beech
April 30, 2014
In Diplomacy, Boundaries Matter
When German Chancellor Angela Merkel gave Chinese President Xi Jinping an antique map of his country as a gift during his recent visit to Berlin, she couldn’t have known what a stir it would cause
By Emily Rauhala / Beijing
April 2, 2014
Another Deadly Knife Attack Puts China on Edge
Just two weeks after a mass stabbing in southwest China claimed 29 lives, and days after 153 Chinese disappeared on Flight MH370, another tragedy appears to have struck the Middle Kingdom
By Hannah Beech
March 14, 2014
Thailand Arrests More Than 200 Uighurs Fleeing China
Group was reportedly trying to sneak into Malaysia
By David Stout
March 14, 2014
China Blames Net for Terrorism
At a session at China's National People's Congress, a top official says loopholes that allow Internet users in China to break past online censors are to blame for terrorist violence following a recent attack at a train station that left 29 people dead
By Hannah Beech
March 6, 2014
The Implications of the Kunming Attack
The murderous attack in Kunming puts the spotlight on China's ethnic divides
By Hannah Beech
March 6, 2014
29 Killed In Horrific Chinese Knife Attack
Chinese censors are clamping down on local reporting and photographs about a potentially politically-motivated knife attack at a train station that left 29 dead so far and more than 140 injured in what some observers are calling "China's 9/11"
By Hannah Beech
March 3, 2014
Deadly Terrorist Attack in Southwestern China Blamed on Separatist Muslim Uighurs
The Kunming bloodshed could mark a chilling escalation in the Uighur struggle for autonomy and even separation from the Chinese state
By Hannah Beech
March 1, 2014
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