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Sudan is the Latest Muslim-Majority Country Where China is Gathering Support for Its Policies in Xinjiang

by Eric Olander

Chinese ambassador to Sudan Ma Xinmin published a lengthy column in this weekend’s Sudanese Voice newspaper to make the case for why “anti-China forces in certain Western countries” are wrong to accuse China of human rights violations in Xinjiang.

Ambassador Ma’s essay largely recycles well-worn Chinese talking points about Xinjiang and rejects the well-documented allegations of human rights violations, including the mass internment of the Uyghur minority population there. 

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