John Badaweee

This academic essay was written for a school paper assignment in grad school.  Introduction Recent media reports have raised concerns about the detrimental situation of Uyghurs in Xinjiang Province, China. This is reinforced by the wave of circulating atrocious images of Uyghurs and testimonies from camp survivors describing the cruel experience. Despite this significant information, China has denied them and continued with its draconian policy and practice against the Uyghurs. The efforts of the international community for the Uyghurs had made a little impact on this seeming genocide. While some scholars considered the Uyghurs’ plight as cultural genocide (Zand, 2019; von Hein, 2019; Finnegan, 2020) , there’s still a gap in categorizing this as pure genocide due to insufficient evidence of intent and China’s strong power. In addition, the international legal framework has apparent loopholes in addressing the protection of cultural minorities. Hence, this brief article aims to ...

This academic essay was written for a school paper assignment in grad school.  “There lies a sleeping giant. Let him sleep! For when he wakes he will move the world” was a famous line by Napoleon I to describe China. This line strongly reflects contemporary China. Over the past decade, the world has witnessed the rise of China in terms of both economic and political power. The country has continued to strengthen her capacity and expand her influence in the regional and the global arena. While this growth had initially been ignored, the current domination of China has brought fear among her neighbors and the world, especially the United States.          Political scientists have postulated reasons to make sense of the fearful reaction of states. According to realists, China’s upsurge is a sign of selfishness and greediness that is inherent to humankind. Self-interest and survival are at the core of China on pursuing this growth. Similar...