Pablo A. Rodríguez-Merino is a doctoral researcher and associate tutor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick (England), where he investigates the social construction of ‘terrorism’ in Xinjiang by the Chinese state. His most recent publication is ‘Old ‘counter-revolution’, new ‘terrorism’: historicizing the framing of violence in Xinjiang by the Chinese state’ (Central Asian Survey, 2018).