James Leibold

We'd be foolish to deny that China has a problem with terrorists, but I think the Communist Party is exaggerating the threat of radical Islam and they are turning up the heat in assimilating the Uyghurs into the Chinese nation state.

They're doubling down on security in Xinjiang. by James Leibold

They're doubling down on security in Xinjiang.

One of the big concerns I have with this draft counter-terrorism bill is that the definition of terrorism is quite vague and open-ended and if we look at how Chinese officials and the media have used the terrorism tag in the past, it's chiefly applied to the Uyghurs as well as the Tibetans.

The Party has drawn a one-to-one link between these styles of head, face and body covering and religious extremist thought and violence, it's a very crude and counterproductive way of trying to deal with the problem of terrorism.