06
February 2019
Past Event
China’s Dystopian Experiment in Xinjiang

China’s Dystopian Experiment in Xinjiang

Past Event
Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
February 06, 2019
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06
February 2019
Past Event

1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 400
Washington, DC 20004

Speakers:
U.S. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas

Member, Armed Services and Intelligence committees

Dolkun Isa

President, World Uyghur Congress

David Shullman

Senior Advisor, International Republican Institute

Rian Thum

Associate Professor, Loyola University New Orleans (TBC)

Eric Brown

Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute

Ambassador Kelley E. Currie

U.S. Representative, Economic and Social Council, United Nations

On February 6, Hudson Institute hosted an event on the Chinese Communist Party's police state in Xinjiang and what it means for the world’s future. U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas will deliver keynote remarks, followed by a panel of Uyghur human rights leaders and experts.

China’s ruling Communist Party has transformed Xinjiang into a police state for the region’s native Uyghur people, with as many as one million Uyghurs and others detained in “political re-education” camps. Total control of Xinjiang has become vital to the PRC’s Belt Road Initiative (BRI) to establish a new world system that favors authoritarian powers. Meanwhile, Beijing touts its technologically enabled police state as a model for other parts of China and for other countries. What do we know about the current situation in Xinjiang and the plight of the Uyghurs, and why have liberal governments and others of good conscience failed so far to challenge the Communist Party over its egregious policies and actions? What are the implications of the PRC’s total empire in Xinjiang for the future of liberal institutions and human rights norms, and for the new long argument between open societies and the resurgent forces of authoritarianism?

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