The White House quietly appointed a new China director who could rattle Beijing and make a ...
The White House has quietly appointed Elnigar Iltebir, a Uighur-American scholar, to direct the National Security Council's China policy./ Iltebir's appointment is significant because she is a member of the Uighur ethnic group, the marginalized, mostly-Muslim community mostly based in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang./ Uighurs in China are subject to intense oppression and surveillance, and authorities there are believed to have detained up to 1.5 million of them in prison-like camps./ While her policies on China are as yet unknown, ...
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