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Saturday March 8, 2025

Police enter an immigration detention centre in Bangkok on Jan. 22. Chanakarn Laosarakham/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Opinion

Opinion: Thailand's deportation of Uyghurs to China has echoes of 10 years ago

March 8, 2025 • Thailand's recent deportations of Uyghurs to China have eerie parallels with a large deportation in 2015, in which the country bowed to Beijing, writes historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom.

Monday October 15, 2018

Japanese troops enter Manchuria in 1933. Tokyo sent soldiers and settlers to Manchuria and exerted direct and indirect influence there. Japanese official publications treated Manchuria's people much in the same way as China's Xinhua News Agency now treats those of Xinjiang and Tibet. Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images hide caption

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Opinion

China Unbound

Opinion: In Search Of Historical Parallels For China's Rise

October 15, 2018 • Certain aspects of China today are without historical precedent, but some lessons do arise from Japan's and America's own imperial pasts, write historians Alexis Dudden and Jeffrey Wasserstrom.