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Natalie Winters@nataliegwinters · Aug 30, 2026

EXCLUSIVE: American children attended a camp in Xinjiang run by a CCP paramilitary group sanctioned by the U.S. over…

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American children attended a camp in Xinjiang run by the XPCC, a U.S.-sanctioned Chinese paramilitary group implicated in mass detention and abuse of Uyghurs, where they were taught "Corps spirit" propaganda and encouraged to spread messaging about Xinjiang back to the United States. The camp was organized by the Atlanta-based Chinese American Youth Association and involved tours of military facilities and indoctrination content.

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    EXCLUSIVE: American children attended a camp in Xinjiang run by a CCP paramilitary group sanctioned by the U.S. over mass detention and abuse of Uyghurs. They were taught its “Corps spirit”—then told to bring its propaganda back to America. 🧵

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    The group is the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, or XPCC. Treasury says XPCC helped implement “surveillance, detention, and indoctrination” targeting Uyghurs—and cited reported mass detention and severe physical abuse.

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    Chinese-language records show the Atlanta-based Chinese American Youth Association joined the Aug. 3–12 camp. Fifty overseas Chinese youths from the U.S., Germany and Belgium attended. XPCC offices administered the program with its Education Bureau and an XPCC school.

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    The camp explicitly incorporated 兵团精神—“Corps spirit”—into classroom lessons and field visits. Chinese state media named CAYA’s Ran Qimei leader of the American delegation. Then an XPCC official urged the youths to become overseas messengers who would “tell the Corps story.”

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    The children were taken to XPCC Regiment 185 on the Chinese-Kazakh border, where they toured a sentry post and heard: “One does only one thing in a lifetime: I stand guard for the motherland.” They later toured the XPCC Military Reclamation Museum.

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    An official closing account said the youths collected “vivid material” for “spreading the real Xinjiang overseas.” CAYA’s leader hoped they would become “civilian ambassadors.”

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    CAYA says it works with 4,500+ students, Chinese clubs and schools across America. It also says Chinese provincial and local government “cultural outreach offices” fund its work—but names no governments or amounts. No reviewed record establishes who paid for the 2026 trip.

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