Middle East Studies

‘Repression and Surveillance for China's Uyghur Minority’ Trending Globally podcast with Adeeb Khalid

January 7, 2020

Director of Middle East Studies at Carleton College Adeeb Khalid and Sarah Baldwin discuss how China's Uyghur minority group ended up as part of China in the first place, and how the nation's economic development plan – known as the ‘Belt and Road initiative’ – might be connected to renewed tensions we're seeing today. Co-production between the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs China Initiative and the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown University.

Watch Adeeb Khalid – The Uyghurs’ China Problem, or How We Got to the Political Re-Education Camps of Xinjiang