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The revelation that Trump encouraged Xi to continue building concentration camps in Xinjiang should come as no surprise. Below are some readings on the linkages between the global war on terror, the surveillance tech industry and China's carceral state. https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/bolton-book-xi-trump-uighurs-concentration-camps_in_5eeae733c5b6946d6a698e8e 1/
In this essay, @Dave_Brophy argued that to confront the Chinese authorities over the horrors in Xinjiang, it is necessary to examine how China’s policies share some philosophical underpinnings with the War on Terror in the West. https://madeinchinajournal.com/2019/07/09/good-and-bad-muslims-in-xinjiang/ 2/
According to @dtbyler, Xinjiang's specific preventative policing system is also rooted in a counterinsurgency mode emerging from the United States, Israel, and Europe. https://madeinchinajournal.com/2019/10/25/preventative-policing-as-community-detention-in-northwest-china/ 3/
Also, @GJosephRoche has discussed the involvement of Western private companies in Xinjiang. In 2019, the Frontier Support Group led by Erik Prince announced plans to open a ‘training centre’ in Xinjiang. https://madeinchinajournal.com/2019/02/12/transnational-carceral-capitalism-xinjiang/?fbclid=IwAR3B705fj3pHIQNow_c8bIgLJzC0k7gmN_AyiGZFS5AQBv91UjuPkW0aGEw 4/
And according to James Darrowby, Western universities are also complicit in the development of malicious technologies through co-funded projects that are then deployed in Xinjiang (and beyond). https://madeinchinajournal.com/2019/04/02/intellectual-property-artificial-intelligence-and-ethical-dilemmas-china-and-the-new-frontiers-of-academic-integrity/ 5/
Finally, how does the reading the securitisation of Xinjiang as counterterrorism play into the hands of the Chinese authorities both domestically and internationally? In this essay, @mpr0010 engages critically with a recent study on the topic. https://madeinchinajournal.com/2020/06/12/counterterrorism-or-cultural-genocide/ END
