Scott Kennedy is senior adviser and trustee chair in Chinese business and economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. The media contact is H. Andrew Schwartz.

Mariano Sana is an associate professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University. He also works with the university’s Latin American Public Opinion Project and recently published an article about favorable public opinion toward refugees being on the rise.

Stephanie Nawyn is an associate professor of sociology at Michigan State University. She studies refugees and refugee resettlement.

Becca Heller is co-founder and executive director of the International Refugee Assistance Project. Media contact is Henrike Dessaules.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a history and Italian studies professor at New York University. She studies fascism and her upcoming book is “Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present.”

The Trump administration has repeatedly criticized China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims and other religious groups.

Adrian Zenz is a researcher and Ph.D. supervisor at the European School of Culture and Theology in Korntal, Germany, where he studies China’s repression of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang and Tibet. He is also a senior fellow in China studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington, D.C.

Hua Chunying is the spokeswoman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.