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Item Human Rights for Sale? A Study on the Uyghur Issue and Chinese Concessional Aid(GVPT Research Assistantship Program Symposium, 2020) Yinusa, Joseph; Kastner, ScottThe Uyghur issue refers to the ongoing internment by the People’s Republic of China’s government on their native Uyghur ethnic group, who primarily reside in the Xinjiang Province. Such activities are internationally considered an attack on human rights; however, many countries have defended the PRC actions on this subject, some of which receive heavy amounts of aid from the Asian country. The current paper creates a model to determine the likelihood for countries to support China’s actions in Xinjiang. The paper finds that while there is a strong relationship between receipt of aid and predictability for defending or criticizing the PRC’s internment activities, it appears that regime type is a more adept, more evident predictor.Item Taiwan and the “One-China Principle” in the Age of COVID-19: Assessing the Determinants and Limits of Chinese Influence(Cambridge University Press, 2022-09-26) Kastner, Scott L.; Wang, Guan; Pearson, Margaret M.; Phillips-Alvarez, Laura; Yinusa, JosephDuring the current global COVID-19 crisis Taiwan has portrayed itself as both an example for other countries to follow and as a country willing to assist others in their own efforts with the virus. Taiwan has also renewed efforts to participate in the World Health Organization (WHO), an organisation from which it is currently excluded. Although some countries have supported Taiwan’s efforts to participate in the WHO or have praised its COVID-19 response, others have been silent or even critical, sometimes citing commitments to a “one China policy.” In this paper, we use newly collected data to explore cross-national variation in support for Taiwan during the current pandemic. We find that a country’s level of economic development and security ties with the US are strongly correlated with support for Taiwan while a country’s economic ties to China is a less consistent predictor.