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317 pages of classified Chinese state documents were leaked to the Uyghur Tribunal in September.

They include what appears to be the first-ever leak of "Top secret" (绝密) statements by a Chinese head of state in the history of the PRC. /2 pic.twitter.com/eejGpy8EMK

— Adrian Zenz (@adrianzenz) November 29, 2021

By comparison, the China Cables were one classification level lower, and not issued by the central government. /4

— Adrian Zenz (@adrianzenz) November 29, 2021

For example, the Times' 2019 report said that Chen Quanguo ordered officials to “round up everyone who should be rounded up.”

But it didn't say that Xi Jinping ordered them: "those who should be seized should be seized, and those who should be sentenced should be sentenced." /6

— Adrian Zenz (@adrianzenz) November 29, 2021

At the very time when Xi demanded that people’s “immunity” against extremist ideology must be increased, Uyghur regions were carrying out early forms of re-education and reported that these re-education efforts were “increasing the immunity…of ‘susceptible’ groups of people." /8

— Adrian Zenz (@adrianzenz) November 29, 2021

Xi and other leaders also made confidential statements and demands that directly prompted coercive labor transfers of large numbers of Uyghurs into enterprises and factories, and a mass expansion of textile factories - which became prime work destination for camp detainees. /10

— Adrian Zenz (@adrianzenz) November 29, 2021

The Xinjiang Papers that were originally reported on by the NYT on November 16, 2019, are not to be confused with the China Cables, which were published in full by the ICIJ and myself (https://t.co/ZarXWCMgYQ
and https://t.co/8ndqdeMtsJ) /12 pic.twitter.com/iyp2vDQwAE

— Adrian Zenz (@adrianzenz) November 29, 2021