Despite recurring protests in Kyrgyzstan against the alleged detention of ethnic Kyrgyz in Chiina's reeducation camps, Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jerenbekov underlined at a December 19, 2018 press conference that Bishkek “should respond very gingerly, delicately” to the issue.
Beyshekan Kamza, a 38-year-old resident of the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, cannot stop thinking about China. A relative there told her that her father and sister have been incarcerated in a reeducation facility in the country’s northern region of Xinjiang -- part of a wave of recent detentions of Muslim ethnic minorities in the region. But without government help, she, like so many others, has no way of knowing her family's whereabouts for sure.
As Vladimir Putin heads to Beijing, it is becoming clear that China isn't the savior Russia had been hoping for.
