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The Failure of China’s Security Policy in Xinjiang

Edward Schwarck
11 January 2019clock10 Minute Read
Urumqi-South railway station with new security

Rail passengers approach the first security checkpoint on the square in front of the South Railway station in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. Security at the station was bolstered following a terrorist attack in April 2014 which coincided with a visit to

The mass internment of Xinjiang’s Uyghurs in supposed ‘re-education’ facilities as a means of combatting violent extremism suggests that Beijing lacks confidence in the effectiveness of its intelligence architecture, and by extension, its capacity to identify and eliminate actual terrorist threats.

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