Conference partly funded by National Defence includes speaker who denied China committed genocide

Students training to become imams recite verses from the Quran at the Xinjiang Islamic Institute in Urumqi, the capital of China’s far west Xinjiang region, during a government organized visit for foreign journalists on April 21, 2021.Mark Schiefelbein/The Associated Press A conference on East Asia partly funded by Canada's Department of National Defence is featuring a speaker from a Chinese think tank who has denied Beijing is committing genocide in Xinjiang - drawing criticism from Uyghur human-rights advocates. Henry Wang, president and founder of the Center for China and Globalization in Beijing, last year criticized the Canadian Parliament's declaration that…