Xinjiang: What the research uncovered

新疆:研究揭示了什么

The Point with Liu Xin

2025-09-19

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Accused of doing the Chinese government's bidding after publishing research that challenged dominant Western media narratives, Georg Gesk, a German law professor who has studied China for nearly four decades, continues to speak openly about his findings in Xinjiang. What did his research uncover?
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  • Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.

  • This is The Point.

  • One German scholar was attacked by his country's media for publishing his findings about Xinjiang.

  • What was his story?

  • My exclusive interview with George Ghezk,

  • Professor of Chinese Law at Osnabruck University in Germany.

  • And why is Xinjiang strategically important to the US?

  • My colleague Jamie Ride spoke with renowned author and journalist Vijay Prashad.

  • Welcome to The Point, an opinion show coming to you from Beijing.

  • I'm Lee Xin.

  • Xinjiang through the eyes of a German law professor who happens to speak excellent Chinese.

  • Professor George Gask first came to China in 1986.

  • And over the past 40 years, he's become a real China expert,

  • not the kind that you see on BBC or Fox News.

  • He's fluent in Chinese and has closely followed the evolution of China's legal system

  • since reform and opening up.

  • He recently made headlines, however,

  • in Germany after writing a book based on his research trip to Xinjiang with four fellow German scholars.

  • He was attacked in a six-page long article published in a leading German newspaper,

  • which accused him of doing the Chinese government's bidding.