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Sinostan: Raffaello Pantucci on China's inadvertent empire in Central Asia

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The Impact of the Camps on China's Relations With Central Asia

CNN's John Defterios has been reporting from China for the past five years. He visited Xinjiang every year until about 2017, where he says Uighurs are being held in forced re-education centers. The camps have attracted a lot of criticism and concern among Western nations as well as Central Asian countries like Kyrgyzstan or Uzbekistan. But there was also a sense that Beijing didn't want to be criticized because it would hurt its relations with those neighboring countries, Defterios said.

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