Editing Xi Jinping (section)

==Concentration Camps==
Since 2017, the CCP under Jinping has operated a network of [[concentration camp]]s in the Xinjiang autonomous region as part of a [[Uyghur Genocide|campaign of persecution against Uyghur Muslims]].<ref>[https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/8/10/one-million-muslim-uighurs-held-in-secret-china-camps-un-panel One million Muslim Uighurs held in secret China camps: UN panel], ''Al Jazeera''</ref> Between 2017 and 2021 operations were led by [[Chen Quanguo]], a CCP Politburo member and committee secretary who led the region's party committee and government.<ref name=Quanguo>[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-27/the-architect-of-china-s-muslim-camps-is-a-rising-star-under-xi The Architect of China's Muslim Camps Is a Rising Star Under Xi], ''Bloomberg News''</ref> The camps are reportedly operated outside the Chinese legal system; many Uyghurs have reportedly been interned without trial and no charges have been levied against them (held in administrative detention).<ref>[https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/19/break-their-lineage-break-their-roots/chinas-crimes-against-humanity-targeting “Break Their Lineage, Break Their Roots” - China’s Crimes against Humanity Targeting Uyghurs and Other Turkic Muslims], Human Rights Watch</ref> Local authorities are reportedly holding hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs in these camps as well as members of other ethnic minority groups in China, for the stated purpose of countering extremism and [[terrorism]] and promoting social integration. Widespread medical experimentation, rape and torture have been reported in the Uyghur internment camps.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55794071 'Their goal is to destroy everyone': Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape], ''BBC News''</ref><ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-xinjiang-uighur-muslim-detention-camps-xi-jinping-persecution-a9165896.html Prisoners in China's Xinjiang concentration camps subjected to gang rape and medical experiments, former detainee says], ''The Independent''</ref><ref>[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-03/uyghur-renew-calls-for-action-report-rape-abuse-xinjiang-camp/13118190 Uyghur advocates speak out after horrifying accounts of rape and torture in Xinjiang camps in China], ''ABC News''</ref> A number of Uyghur children have reportedly been separated from their parents and forced to assimilate into mainstream Chinese culture,<ref>[https://www.ft.com/content/f0d3223a-7f4d-11e8-bc55-50daf11b720d Uighur children fall victim to China anti-terror drive], ''The Financial Times''</ref> at least 16 thousand mosques are thought to have been demolished on the Chinese government's orders<ref name=Quanguo/> and Uyghur women are alleged to have been forced to undergo sterilization and abortion procedures to keep birth rates down.<ref>[https://apnews.com/article/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c China cuts Uighur births with IUDs, abortion, sterilization], ''Associated Press''</ref> 

The internment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in the camps constitutes the largest-scale arbitrary detention of ethnic and religious minorities since [[World War II]].<ref>''Why Scholars and Activists Increasingly Fear a Uyghur Genocide in Xinjiang'' by Joanna Finley, ''Journal of Genocide Research''</ref> As of 2020, it was estimated that Chinese authorities may have detained up to 1.8 million people, mostly Uyghurs but also including Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and other ethnic Turkic Muslims, Christians, as well as some foreign citizens including Kazakhstanis, in these secretive internment camps located throughout the region.<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang-rights/15-million-muslims-could-be-detained-in-chinas-xinjiang-academic-idUSKCN1QU2MQ 1.5 million Muslims could be detained in China's Xinjiang: academic], ''Reuters''</ref>

In May 2018, Randall Schriver, US Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, said that "at least a million but likely closer to three million citizens" were imprisoned in detention centers, which he described as "concentration camps".<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-concentrationcamps/china-putting-minority-muslims-in-concentration-camps-us-says-idUSKCN1S925K China putting minority Muslims in 'concentration camps,' U.S. says], ''Reuters''</ref> In August 2018, Gay McDougall, a US representative at the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, said that the committee had received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uyghurs in China have been held in "re-education camps".<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-45147972 China Uighurs: One million held in political camps, UN told], ''BBC News''</ref> There have been comparisons between the Xinjiang camps and the Chinese Cultural Revolution.