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The Xi Jinping regime in China has been implementing various policies that prioritize the concept of "national security," and highlight concerns about the perceived threat of a Color Revolution. The concept of "national security" has been elevated to a policy philosophy of "holistic" or "comprehensive" security. This comprehensive security means that "security" is related to all areas, including the economy, culture, and the environment, and that security takes precedence over other factors such as the economy, culture, and the environment. Diplomacy is no exception, and the policy philosophy is to treat diplomacy and security together, where security takes precedence over diplomacy. The emphasis on the logic of national security also influenced its Hong Kong policy and its policy of governing the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Furthermore, it led to the strengthening of domestic management of foreigners and international NGOs. Moreover, this domestic logic of "national security" has had a strong influence on foreign policy. For example, the domestically propagated discourse on the "color revolution" directly influenced the US-China summit meeting, where the topic of discussion was whether the US was planning to overthrow the CCP regime or not. In China, diplomacy and domestic politics appear to be rapidly becoming one and the same. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of this paper is to present an explanation of why the Muslim governments largely abstained from even bringing up the Uyghur case with China, while the Rohingya issue provoked official condemnations by the governments in many Muslim countries. Although economic factors are most often consulted internationally, this article puts forward political factors as sufficient to explain the Muslim governments' responses to the Xinjiang issue – primarily the domestic politics, and secondarily seeking of strategic alternatives to balance the West. In the context of hybrid political regimes in many Muslim countries, the domestic public opinion played an important role in deciding whether the government would address the issue. Effectively only Turkey presents the case where the public pays attention to the Uyghurs, and the government felt obliged to raise the issue at least to some extent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the sinicization of Uyghurs as of October 2016. The Chinese government has reportedly increased its efforts to sinicize Uyghurs which led to China's creation of contradictions of Uyghurs. Also discussed are Uyghurs' history in China, ethnic identity, Uyghurs' historical claims to Xinjiang, and the sinicization policy that led to Uyghur culture's dilution.

The article offers information between the relation of China and the Commonwealth countries as Commonwealth requires China's policies. It discusses that the Commonwealth should, on behalf of its citizens, raise a collective voice to condemn China's pressure tactics on Pacific islands, the extinguishment of the rule of law in Hong Kong, cultural destruction in Tibet, threats to the democracy of Taiwan, and the imprisonment and 're-education' of millions of Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang province.

This paper seeks to place China's policy toward its Uighur Muslim minority in Xinjiang in a broader context. In the post-Soviet period, the dynamics of Eurasia has fundamentally changed. The independence of the Central Asian states that were part of the Soviet Union had a demonstrable effect on the Uighurs of China. As a result, Uighur nationalism became a force with which the Chinese authorities had to contend. Chinese authorities consider China a multi-ethnic state of Han Chinese and various minorities, and any nationalist or independence movements are considered illegitimate because China does not recognize the right of national self-determination and adheres strictly to a policy of assimilation. Concerns over growing Uighur nationalism impinge on China's policy of economic expansion and its growing energy needs that make Central Asia a strategic region. In the past decade, China has developed better relations with its Central Asian neighbours based on such strategic interests. By developing these ties, it is seeking to form alliances in order to dampen the development of Uighur nationalism, block Russia from reasserting its influence in the region, and prevent the United States and its allies from excluding China from its security and economic ambitions in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]