Professor James A. Millward (Georgetown University), Professor Eric Schluessel (George Washington University), Josh Chin (Journalist)

In recent years, coverage of the Xinjiang region in China has become increasingly prevalent in the international press. From the impact of the Belt & Road Initiative on the region to the establishment of "re-education" camps, reverberations from China's Xinjiang policies are increasingly felt in US-China Relations and even the controversy surrounding Disney's Mulan. Bringing together leading historians of Qing China and journalists, this panel will attempt to delve beyond the headlines to provide a more nuanced and historicized account of the past, present, and future of Han-Uygur relations in the Xinjiang region.