Xinjiang: Pan-Turkism Fuels China’s Hearts-and-Minds Campaign

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Chinese efforts to woo Saudi Arabia’s ethnic Chinese community highlight the People’s Republic’s effort to avert criticism from the Muslim world of its crackdown in the north-western province of Xinjiang and strengthen relations with the kingdom and Middle Eastern nations. The efforts to woo a community, a significant part of which is of Turkic origin, identifies itself as Turkestani, and long supported greater rights, if not independence for Xinjiang’s Uyghur population, are part of a larger, long-standing global Chinese effort to ensure the support of a mushrooming Chinese diaspora not only for its policy in Xinjiang but also for its anti-Taiwanese One China policy and growing economic and geopolitical influence.

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• ISSN: 2381-3652
• Extent: Seite(n): 5
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: IndraStra Global, 4(7)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Politikwissenschaft ; politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Dorsey, James M.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
• (when): 2018

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-58498-9
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln