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A Starbucks sign is displayed in the Galleria Mall in Buffalo, N.Y., Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Starbucks expansion into Xinjiang sparks backlash

By Mary McCue Bell - The Washington Times

China's Communist Party Secretary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Chen Xiaojiang delivers his opening keynote address for the 2026 International conference of Trans-Altai Subregional Cooperation in Altay Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Wednesday, June 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China touts Xinjiang at trade forum, spotlighting a region once marked by detention centers

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Ma Xingrui, Party Secretary of Xinjiang, speaks during a news conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Friday, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)

China’s Communist Party investigates ex-Xinjiang leader Ma Xingrui

By Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

Chinese and Hong Kong flags are hanged to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong handover to China, in Hong Kong on June 17, 2022. Amnesty International said Tuesday, May 30, 2023, that a Uyghur student who it had said was missing in Hong Kong after being interrogated did not travel to the city, easing concerns over his safety but raising questions over how the allegations first emerged. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Rights group says Uyghur student it reported to be missing in Hong Kong did not travel to city

By Kanis Leung and Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

Erbakit Ortabay, 49, an ethnic Kazakh born in Xinjiang, speaks to the Associated Press, in London, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. A Uyghur organization and a human rights group are taking the U.K. government to court to challenge Britain’s failure to block the import of cotton products associated with forced labor and other abuses in China’s far western Xinjiang region. Erbakit Ortabay, said he was detained in internment centers, where he was tortured and beaten, and later forced to work for no pay in a clothing factory. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

UK court to hear Uyghur demands to ban Xinjiang cotton

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk holds a press conference to introduce the auto-driving system upgrade for Chinese Tesla owners in Beijing, China on Oct. 23, 2015. Activists on Monday, Jan 3. 2022 are appealing to Elon Musk and Tesla Inc. to close a new showroom in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang, where officials are accused of abuses against mostly Muslim ethnic minorities. (Chinatopix via AP)

Activists urge Tesla to close new Xinjiang showroom

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Intel Corp. apologizes for asking suppliers to avoid Xinjiang

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

Residents wearing masks pass near a H&amp;M store in Beijing on Thursday, March 25, 2021. China's ruling Communist Party is lashing out at H&amp;M and other clothing and footwear brands as it retaliates for Western sanctions imposed on Chinese officials accused of human rights abuses in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Here’s what foreign brands have to say about Xinjiang

By ZEN SOO - Associated Press

China attacks foreign clothing, shoe brands over Xinjiang

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

In this March 3, 2021, file photo, Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks on foreign policy at the State Department in Washington. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via AP)

U.S., China in Alaska meeting exchange charges of global coercion

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A tweet posted this month defended China's treatment of Uighur Muslims and disputed allegations that Uighur women in Xinjiang are "baby-making machines." (Associated Press/File)

Twitter locks account of China’s U.S. Embassy over tweet defending treatment of Uyghur women

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Shohrat Zakir, chairman of China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region speaks during a press conference in Beijing Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China claims everyone in Xinjiang camps has ‘graduated’

By YANAN WANG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2017, file photo, residents walk through a security checkpoint into the Hotan Bazaar where a screen shows Chinese President Xi Jinping in Hotan in western China's Xinjiang region. China says the U.N.'s counterterrorism chief visited Xinjiang last week despite protests from the U.S. and a rights group that the trip would be inappropriate in light of the human rights conditions in the far west region. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

UN anti-terror official makes controversial trip to Xinjiang

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In this Dec. 8, 2018, photo, Adilgazy Yergazy, a farmer, holds up pictures of his detained younger brothers at his home in a village near Almaty, Kazakhstan. The Kazakhstan Foreign Ministry says China is allowing more than 2,000 ethnic Kazakhs to abandon their Chinese citizenship and leave the country, a sign that Beijing may be starting to feel a mounting backlash against a sweeping crackdown on Muslims in its far west region of Xinjiang. Yergazy says two of his little brothers were arrested and taken to internment camps last year, and that one was recently released from the camps but is unable to leave China. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)

China allowing 2,000 ethnic Kazakhs to leave Xinjiang region

By DAKE KANG - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 29, 2018, file photo, Omir Bekali talks about the psychological stress he endures in a Chinese internment camp during an interview in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Bekali, a former detainee in China's internment camps for Muslims, says his application for a visa to visit the United States was rejected despite an invitation to speak at Congress about his ordeal. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Former Chinese internment camp detainee denied US visa

By DAKE KANG - Associated Press

In this Nov. 3, 2017 photo, paramilitary policemen in an armored vehicle are on duty at the airport in Hotan in western China's Xinjiang region. Authorities are using detentions in political indoctrination centers and data-driven surveillance to impose a digital police state in the region of Xinjiang and its Uighurs, a 10-million strong, Turkic-speaking Muslim minority Beijing fears could be influenced by extremism. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

AP Exclusive: Digital police state shackles Chinese minority

By GERRY SHIH - Associated Press