While China claims that the measures are in place to fight "extremists," many of them appear to cover traditional Muslim custom, and will be enforced in Xinjiang, home to the country's largest ...

China has not always played its cards right within Muslim countries, of course. China's support to the Assad regime in Syria, for instance, proved to be a losing bet.

The authorities in China forced members of the Uyghur minority to eat during Ramadan and to document their eating, as reported by Radio Free Asia. Several members of the Muslim minority in the ...

The list of signatories included the Muslim-majority countries Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Qatar. Last week, the U.S. condemned China on the global stage at the U.N. General Assembly with more than 30 ...

The European Parliament says China has lifted sanctions it imposed on five EU lawmakers in retaliation against the bloc’s defense of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang ...

In a cold dusty part of central China, a local Muslim leader stands alone in the courtyard of a small mosque. It feels eerily quiet. We both know we shouldn't stay too long. If the police realise ...

According to a report by HRW, China has imposed stricter travel restrictions on members of the Muslim minority, who can travel only to a limited number of countries. Contact and interaction with ...

Cumulatively, China's influence in the Muslim world has thus grown significantly over the past decade or so. Consider, for instance, how Chinese exports to the Muslim world have overtaken its ...