{"id":59814,"date":"2020-11-02T10:41:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T23:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=59814"},"modified":"2020-11-02T10:41:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T23:41:19","slug":"policy-guns-and-money-cultural-destruction-and-detention-facilities-in-xinjiang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/policy-guns-and-money-cultural-destruction-and-detention-facilities-in-xinjiang\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy, Guns and Money: Cultural destruction and detention facilities in Xinjiang"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"687\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49142\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/GettyImages-813182664.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/GettyImages-813182664.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/GettyImages-813182664-205x138.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/GettyImages-813182664-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>In this special episode, <em>The Strategist<\/em>\u2019s Anastasia Kapetas speaks to some of the team behind ASPI\u2019s research on Xinjiang about their recently launched <a href=\"http:\/\/xjdp.aspistrategist.ru\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Xinjiang Data Project<\/a> and the potential global implications of China\u2019s treatment of the Uyghurs in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey Munro, Nathan Ruser and James Leibold discuss their research, which mapped out 380 detention facilities in Xinjiang that have been built or expanded on since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>They also talk about their research on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/report\/cultural-erasure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cultural erasure<\/a> in Xinjiang which traced the destruction of mosques and other significant Uyghur cultural sites in the region and estimated that 16,000 mosques have been destroyed or damaged in the last three years.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/920070901&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this special episode, The Strategist\u2019s Anastasia Kapetas speaks to some of the team behind ASPI\u2019s research on Xinjiang about their recently launched Xinjiang Data Project and the potential global implications of China\u2019s treatment of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":840,"featured_media":49142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,2237,2238],"class_list":["post-59814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-china","tag-uyghur","tag-xinjiang","dinkus-aspi-podcast"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.3 - 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