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What is China’s ‘Mosque Consolidation’ Policy?

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Recent satellite images show that China’s crackdown on Islam is spreading beyond the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. A Human Rights Watch report documents how mosques in nearby Gansu and Ningxia provinces are being altered. On this episode of Zoom In Zoom Out, TaiwanPlus reporter Sally Jensen speaks to Elaine Pearson, Human Rights Watch's Asia Director. We first zoom in on what Beijing calls its ‘mosque consolidation’ policy, then zoom out on how this is part of a bigger trend that affects more than China's Muslims.