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Jane Golley has resigned as director of the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) at the Australian National University in Canberra after more than a decade. Golley had faced criticism this year after she downplayed the treatment of Uighur Muslims in China’s autonomous region of Xinjiang. Golley had questioned the credibility of Western media coverage of internment camps in Xinjiang, citing an anonymous study, and had called the figure of one million detained Uighurs exaggerated, among other things. As interim director, Ben Hillman will head the CIW.