Ideological Extremism, Uyghur Repression, And Transnational Terror: The CCP’s Tools Of Total Control – OpEd |
The Chinese Communist Party’s founding on July 1, 1921, established ideological conformity as a non-negotiable demand of party rule. That demand has hardened over a century into policies that rights groups, Western governments, and Uyghur advocacy organizations say now amount to cultural destruction at home and threats against families abroad.
Ideological Extremism and the Uyghur Crackdown
In Xinjiang, the CCP has pursued a campaign of mass internment, forced labor, surveillance, and restrictions on religious and cultural practice targeting Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities.
Several Western governments and parliaments, along with human rights organizations, have characterized these policies as genocide or crimes against humanity, citing mass detentions, forced sterilizations, and the........