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This unique forum brings together research from two leading experts on the fraught subject of Xinjiang, who will address the origins and future of the crisis.

Few issues have had as far-reaching impact on China's relations with the world - economic, technological, political - as Beijing's policies in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang Autonomous Region. From civil society outrage over "re-education camps" in 2018, to the imposition of Western sanctions against officials held responsible for mass human rights violations, to allegations of forced labour in supply chains, to the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights raising possible crimes against humanity in September 2022, the Xinjiang issue has driven decoupling, political tensions and a widening chasm in perceptions between China and the West. Where have these policies come from? What lines of political thinking underpin them? How does China's own discourse about its Xinjiang policies relate to broader discourses in world politics? This unique forum brings together research from two leading experts on the subject, who will address the origins and future of the crisis.