Hi, I'm Erica Pandy, and welcome to Axios Recap, where we dig into one big story.

It's Tuesday, November 30th, and we're focused on Airbnb's rentals in Xinjiang, China.

An Axios investigation led by my colleague Bethany-Alanie Bohemian found that Airbnb has over a dozen

properties listed for rent in the Xinjiang region that are particularly controversial.

Xinjiang is where the Chinese government has been committing genocide against weaker ethnic minorities

while still promoting domestic tourism of that region.

The relevant Airbnb listings in Xinjiang

sit on land owned by a Chinese paramilitary group

that has been sanctioned by the U.S. government

for complicity in genocide.

So these listings expose Airbnb to regulatory risk under U.S. law. But they also

raise an important question about what U.S. companies should do when doing business and doing the

right thing don't line up. In a moment, I'll be joined by Bethany to dive into what this investigation

tells us about U.S.-China relations and what's next for Airbnb. But first, I'll be joined by Bethany to dive into what this investigation tells us about U.S.-China relations

and what's next for Airbnb. But first, a couple of notes. We do need to disclose that an Airbnb

executive is a member of Axios' board of directors, and a member of the newsroom who worked on this

investigation owns a U.S. property that is rented out through Airbnb.

We're joined now by Bethany Allen Ibrahimian, author of Axios China. Hey, Bethany.

Hi, Erica. So let's start with what you learned this week. China has promoted domestic tourism to the Xinjiang region in the past. What are these new developments?

So what we found in our investigation is that Airbnb has at least 300 rentals in Xinjiang,

and what we found is that at least 14 of them are located on land that is owned by a sanctioned

organization. That's a paramilitary organization called the

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