China needs an exit strategy from Xinjiang

Xi should release all Uighur Muslims, and pay compensation of up to $14,000 each

Minxin Pei

August 8, 2020 03:00 JST

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Artux City Vocational Skills Education Training Service Center, pictured in December 2018: China's first priority should be the immediate release of all Muslims being held in those facilities. © AP

Minxin Pei is professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and a nonresident senior fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

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