Cybersecurity

The Architect of China's Muslim Camps Is a Rising Star Under Xi

  • Chen Quanguo heads government’s brutal crackdown on Uighurs
  • Fears his control methods will be used more widely by Beijing
China has reportedly detained up to a million ethnic Muslim Uighurs in "re-education camps." (Bloomberg TicToc)Source: Bloomberg
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If one individual sums up the values gap between a rising China and the West, it may well be Chen Quanguo.

The most senior Communist Party official in the far western region of Xinjiang is the architect behind a crackdown against Muslim minority Uighurs. The United Nations says the campaign has placed as many as 1 million of them -- roughly a tenth of the territory’s population -- in “re-education camps.”