The global War on Terror legitimized that charge, then intensified the Han supremacist campaign to suppress and stamp out the Uyghurs. Supplemented by domestic counterextremism laws and the regime's "Strike Hard on Terror" Campaign, Xinjiang, the autonomous region in western China that is home to roughly 11 million Uyghurs, has been reengineered into a postmodern panopticon—an enveloping digital surveillance prison—that tracks every breath and mines every move of its Uyghur Muslim captives. The new policing technologies that extend Beijing's eyes into every facet of Uyghur life are the building blocks of China's new state of surveillance, where the threat of incarceration looms throughout a society characterized by total "e-carceration." One where predictive algorithms, tracking software, and facial recognition cameras are planted throughout the province and rooted inside the devices that accompany Uyghurs wherever they go.

DEFINE: Introduces the term 'e-carceration' and the postmodern panopticon concept applied to Xinjiang's surveillance apparatus.

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