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July 16, 2020

How China Bought Muslim Rulers’ Acquiescence to Its Persecution of the Uighurs

Over a dozen Muslim-majority countries have publicly defended Beijing to the UN.

During the past four years, the Chinese Communist Party has undertaken a brutal campaign of repression targeting the Muslim population of its northwestern Xinjiang province. Yet the world’s Muslim countries, who have so often rallied to condemn Israel’s imagined crimes against Palestinians, or the policies of the U.S.-led War on Terror, or even criticism of Islam in Western Europe, have been remarkable silent about this very real, and very cruel, wave of persecution. Ilan Berman explains why:

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