“The enemy of my friend is my enemy”: Chinese leaders’ foreign visits and transnational repression of Uyghurs

Conflict Management and Peace Science, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 9, 2025

China has been targeting Uyghurs indiscriminately in many countries around the world. However, Uyghur diasporas some are more susceptible to China's repressive practices than other countries. What explains cross-country variations regarding repression of abroad? In this study, we explain variation by laying out a causal linkage between Chinese leaders’ foreign visits and transnational Uyghurs. We argue that rising global power translates into political weight over it frequently interacts with. For such countries, maintaining status quo bilateral relations is advantageous, whereas alienating costly. This dynamic highlights importance complying with strategic interests, one which As such, expect host population witness leaders operate according logic “the enemy my friend enemy” allow even help (the friend's) activities against friend) on their soil. Drawing Transnational Repression Dataset examining 43 period 1998–2020, find positive statistically significant relationship Uyghurs: leader country, likely diaspora subject repression. also severity

Язык: Английский

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Theorizing the spatiality of ICT-mediated transnational repression: Evidence from China’s repression of Uyghurs in Turkiye

Environment and Planning C Politics and Space, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Ноя. 26, 2024

Recent years have witnessed burgeoning scholarly interest in how authoritarian states use transnational repression to intimidate and punish their citizens abroad. Our freshly collected surveys in-depth interviews with members of the Uyghur diaspora Turkiye reveal that China’s goes beyond preventing political mobilization. With Internet Communication Technologies (ICTs), China employs widespread against ordinary Uyghurs by cutting off communication lines homeland through Chinese police constantly harassing threatening them, mostly social media applications. Despite growing body literature on repression, spatial dimension ICT-mediated remains relatively undertheorized. Building critical geopolitics, digital geographies, Foucault’s concept panopticon this study theorizes ICT-based practices its borders led configuration “a space insecurity,” which constitutes an idiosyncratic form spatiality affecting Uyghurs’ everyday pervasive tech-based apparatuses mechanisms. This is constituted “disciplinary” “automated” subjects pushed toward constant self-surveillance self-discipline. While has physically turned East Turkestan into open prison education camps, forced labor production chains, ubiquitous installation CCTV cameras, frequent control phones computers, ICTs enable transfuse repressive system domain creating a parallel space, functions as quasi-spatial extension.

Язык: Английский

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NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

World Affairs, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 186(3), С. 524 - 528

Опубликована: Авг. 11, 2023

Язык: Английский

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