China Revoked My Visa and Came to Regret It

June 15, 2025 | The New York Times

When it emerged in 2018 that China had interned more than a million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in so-called re-education centers, China was unprepared for the global outrage that followed. Chinese officials in Washington scoffed when I told them early on that the world would see these as concentration camps and the country’s treatment of Uyghurs as crimes against humanity and genocide. China fumbled its response, at first issuing flat denials that were transparently false — satellite images of the facilities were available — and repeatedly changing its story. China’s international reputation was severely tarnished, and the United States imposed sanctions.

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