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An Uighur woman uses an electric-powered scooter to fetch school children as they ride past a picture showing China\u2019s President Xi Jinping joining hands with a group of Uighur elders at the Unity New Village in Hotan, in western China\u2019s Xinjiang region. Photo Credit: AP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

D<\/span>uring a recent interview with Axios, an American news organization, Pakistan\u2019s Prime Minister Imran Khan deflected questions and refused to acknowledge widespread repression and human rights abuses of the minority Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang region of Western China. Human rights groups have long accused Chinese authorities of detaining, torturing, and forcibly sterilizing more than a million Uighurs<\/a> being held in camps across the region. What should come as an outrage for traditional Muslim societies like Pakistan, is evidence that China has been targeting mosques in the region<\/a>, detaining as many as 630 imams and other Muslim religious figures since 2014. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khan\u2019s deflections and his support China, noting that all conversations with Beijing leadership happens \u201cbehind closed doors\u201d raises larger questions about the nature of China-Pakistan relations and reaffirms a deliberate denial within the Muslim world about Chinese abuses toward a broad section of its population. A host of Muslim countries\u2014Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Pakistan\u2014all have resisted condemning China for its treatment of the Uighurs and have accommodated China on a number of issues, including deportation.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As featured in The Indian Express<\/a><\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Pakistan\u2019s disputed territory of Gilgit-Baltistan<\/a>, which borders the Xinjiang region, is a critical part of the $62 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). While the territory has mutual importance for Islamabad and Beijing, Pakistan has found itself accommodating Chinese political and diplomatic needs, which include cracking down on Uighurs in the region. Recently, Pakistan has used counter-terrorism measures against Uighur militants<\/a> affiliated with South Asian jihadist groups and has begun seeking out Uighurs for deportation<\/a>. Critics claim that economic reliance on CPEC, a critical portion of China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has created an environment where Pakistan is beholden to Beijing\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the expectation is that Uighurs fleeing Xinjiang would find safe haven in the Middle East, the heart of the Muslim world, the extent of Chinese influence in the region and across the globe has made that a myth. Recently, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Faisal Farhan Al Saud pledged to be China\u2019s \u201ceternal friend\u201d<\/a> after a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi. Beijing\u2019s ties with Saudi Arabia have only grown closer since Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also known as MBS, publicly supported China\u2019s right to pursue \u201canti-terrorism\u201d and \u201cde-extremism\u201d tactics in February 2019, comments that were made directly to Chinese Premier Xi Jinping<\/a>. China\u2019s growing role in the Middle East might have something to do with that. Aside from China being Saudi Arabia\u2019s largest trading partner<\/a> and infrastructure developer, Saudi Arabia has a lot to gain from the partnership. Saudi Arabia wants to develop oil facilities in China<\/a>, as well as use Beijing as a veneer of legitimacy amid growing authoritarianism in Riyadh. The importance of this developing partnership makes the deportation of Uighurs a modest request<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even in Turkey, Chinese pressure has made Uighurs feel unsafe. The Turkish Government has been extending asylum to Uighurs since 1952. More than 35,000 Uighur Muslims live in the country. While then-Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoganonce called China\u2019s treatment of the ethnic minority \u201cgenocide\u201d back in 2009<\/a>, today Turkey has taken a softer tone, largely retracting their criticism of China\u2019s Xinjiang policies and cracking down on Uighur activists at home<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s worth noting the compulsions of realpolitik<\/em> that these countries\u2019 reliance on China has engendered, led by copious amounts of Chinese aid, cheap credit, and other institutional arrangements. The consequences now, for some for calling out Beijing on \u201cinternal issues\u201d would be significant retaliation from China. Consider the case of Indonesia, when it summoned the Chinese Ambassador Xiao Qian<\/a> in 2018 to explain abused in Xinjiang. Indonesia later feared the withdrawal of Chinese investments or retaliatory support for separatists in Indonesia\u2019s Papua region, which has seen a pro-independence insurgency since the 1960s. China has made it increasingly clear that criticism of its treatment of Uighurs will not go unnoticed. Often, \u201cwolf warrior\u201d diplomats issue open threats to such unwanted criticism. For example, China openly threatened two Turkish politicians<\/a> who voiced their concerns. Even the Taliban have recently reassured Beijing that they will not host Uighur militants<\/a>, citing their friendship with China. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An estimated 1.5 million Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang<\/a> have been detained in camps where they are subjected to political indoctrination and pressured by Chinese authorities to renounce Islam<\/a>. China has taken steps to control birth rates of Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other minorities in an effort to curb its Muslim population<\/a>. Those that have escaped the region have provided grotesque details of methods used by China, which include forced abortions and torture<\/a>. China has pushed back through aggressive diplomacy and state manufactured propaganda. In one such move, Chinese state media published videos of Uighurs praising the Communist Party<\/a> and showing some denouncing the label of genocide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the United States has sounded the alarm about Chinese atrocities in Xinjiang and outside of its borders, the Muslim world has been largely silent. In June 2020, the Trump Administration passed the Uighur Human Rights Policy Act,<\/a> a federal law that has brought considerable international attention to human rights abuses. More recently, the U.S. Senate passed legislation to ban the import of products from the Xinjiang region<\/a>. When Western countries first mounted a challenge<\/a> to China\u2019s human rights abuses in 2019, 37 countries came to China\u2019s defence<\/a> including the aforementioned Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, as well as Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Syria. China\u2019s growing and active influence at the United Nations is a major part of their silence, in addition to the benefits that billions of dollars in Chinese BRI investments bring across the Middle East and Western Asia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The consequences of silence on the part of Muslim countries have yet to fully manifest. As they become more tied economically to Beijing, reactions akin to moral outrage are being muted by governments. If Erdogan\u2019s Turkey has tempered its criticism of China\u2014despite hosting a large Uighur population\u2014 its traditional voice of solidarity will soon disappear. Saudi Arabia has signed more than $70 billion in new deals with China and it remains highly influential over the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)<\/a>, whose members have yet to criticize China despite overwhelming evidence. As Muslim countries shift their allegiances to Beijing, Uighur Muslims have legitimate fears that the religious ties that once bound their societies together are fading and that they will become targets no matter where they flee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Co-authored with Dr. Vivek Mishra<\/a>, a Research Fellow at the Indian Council of World Affairs in New Delhi, India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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