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Beijing co-opting Uyghurs into university jobs masking control as integration

Delegates from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region at the National People’s Congress in Beijing, on 6 March 2026.
Delegates from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region at the National People’s Congress in Beijing, on 6 March 2026. © Ichiro OHARA/The Yomiuri Shimbun via AFP
The CCP is touting the normalisation of Xinjiang and greater visibility for Uyghurs in major cities. But at the same time, Uyghurs are being recruited into university administrative departments to discreetly monitor students from this minority group, in a practice that is becoming widespread across China. [...]
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