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


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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...