TY  - BOOK
AU  - GREITENS Sheena Chestnut
TI  - Counterterrorism and preventive repression: China's changing strategy in Xinjiang
PY  - 2019////20
KW  - COUNTERTERRORISM
KW  - CHINA
KW  - XINJIANG
N2  - In 2017-18, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) changed its domestic security strategy in Xinjiang, escalating the use of mass detention, ideological re-education and pressure on Uyghur diaspora networks. Commonly proposed explanations for this shift focus on domestic factors: ethnic unrest, minority policy, and regional leadership. The CCP's strategy changes in Xinjiang, however, were also likely catalyzed by changing perceptions of the threat posed by Uyghur contact with transnational Islamic militant groups in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, and a corresponding increase in perceived domestic vulnerability
UR  - https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00368
ER  -