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%T Xinjiang: Pan-Turkism Fuels China’s Hearts-and-Minds Campaign %A Dorsey, James M. %J IndraStra Global %N 7 %P 5 %V 4 %D 2018 %K China; Xinjiang; Uyghur %@ 2381-3652 %~ S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-58498-9 %X Chinese efforts to woo Saudi Arabia’s ethnic Chinese community highlight the People’s Republic’s effort to avert criticism from the Muslim world of its crackdown in the north-western province of Xinjiang and strengthen relations with the kingdom and Middle Eastern nations. The efforts to woo a community, a significant part of which is of Turkic origin, identifies itself as Turkestani, and long supported greater rights, if not independence for Xinjiang’s Uyghur population, are part of a larger, long-standing global Chinese effort to ensure the support of a mushrooming Chinese diaspora not only for its policy in Xinjiang but also for its anti-Taiwanese One China policy and growing economic and geopolitical influence. %C USA %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info