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Omer Kanat

The Diplomat

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When Xi Visits Washington, Trump Must Raise China’s ‘Ethnic Unity’ Law

Trump should raise the ethnic unity law directly with Xi and make clear that attempts to enforce it against people in the United States will not be...

21.09.2026 10

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Omer Kanat

China’s ‘Ethnic Unity’ Law is Already Harming Uyghurs

Government actions that could once be described as regional campaigns are now embedded in national legislation. Restrictions will become easier to...

06.08.2026 20

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Omer Kanat

Trump Must Put Detained Uyghur Intellectuals on the Agenda for Xi Summit

If Trump sits across from Xi and fails to raise the cases of Uyghur Americans and their families, Beijing will read that omission not as pragmatism,...

11.05.2026 20

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Omer Kanat

China’s Genocide and the Eliticide of Uyghur Scholars

To ignore the intellectuals languishing in Chinese prisons is to normalize an ongoing cultural genocide in the Uyghur homeland.

19.08.2025 40

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Omer Kanat