Category: China
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Russian and Chinese leaders attend a regional security forum.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday attended the summit of a security grouping created by Moscow and Beijing to counter Western alliances. Putin and Xi joined the leaders of other countries that are members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization at its annual meeting in Kazakhstan’s capital of Astana. The grouping was established…
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China rejects crucial Western proposals for human rights changes at a United Nations meeting.
GENEVA – China on Thursday rejected Western-led recommendations for human-rights reforms, including calls for greater freedoms in Hong Kong and for Uyghurs in Xinjiang, but accepted others from allies, as it sought to defend its record at a U.N. meeting. The U.N. Human Rights Council session in Geneva caps off a review process in which Beijing…
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China defends its human rights record at the UN summit.
China faced international criticism about its human rights record Thursday at a United Nations Human Rights Council session in Geneva. Criticism focused mainly on the country’s persecution of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. While the council’s president, Omar Zniber, said China had accepted nearly 70% of more than 400 reform recommendations from U.N. members, Western countries contend…
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China’s Oral Statement before the United Nations Human Rights Council
FIDH is disappointed by the fact that, once again, China’s government has used the UPR to rebuff international concern over serious human rights violations, issue blanket denials, and make blatantly false statements. The government accepted – wholly or partially – 70% of the UPR recommendations China received in January 2024. This represents a 12% drop…
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Unveiling Italy’s first ministerial visit to China since BRI
Adolfo Urso, in charge of Business, will meet with his counterpart and other industry leaders in Beijing. This mission aims to restore balance to the bilateral relationship, focusing on the automotive industry and paving the way for new collaborations in the industrial sector before PM Meloni’s visit Rebalancing relations. The Italian Minister for Business, Adolfo Urso,…
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Is anti-China sentiment rising in the Philippines?
If tensions rise between any two nations, it is public trust, goodwill and people-to-people engagement that immediately fall victim to strains in relations between those countries. This can be very much seen in the case of ongoing tensions between Beijing and Manila over the South China Sea, triggering fear among ethnic Chinese living in the…
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Philippines and China agree to calm tensions in the South China Sea.
The Philippines and China have agreed to “reduce tensions” in the South China Sea, said officials in Manila Tuesday following a recent clash in disputed waters. Officials from the two sides held talks in Manila Tuesday. Last month, the Philippines said Chinese Coast Guard personnel armed with knives, sticks and an axe, surrounded and took…
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Hong Kong schoolchildren sung the national anthem too quietly.
Hong Kong officials have singled out at least two schools for singing the Chinese national anthem “too softly”. Teachers at a third school have been asked to help students “cultivate habit and confidence” in singing it. Hong Kong has redoubled the emphasis on “patriotic” education since 2020 when China cracked down on the city’s pro-democracy…
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China exploits native Uighurs for organ harvesting
China for long has been accused of organ harvesting from its minorities as it illegally runs one of the largest organ transplant programs in the world. The official source of these organs have been the death-row prisoners, but in the background a big stack illegally comes from people incarcerated basis of their political or religious…
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Let’s endeavor to maintain Hong Kong’s distinction from Mainland China.
Five years ago this month, Hong Kong’s protest movement transfixed the world. Sparked by an ill-considered extradition bill, the protests became an outlet for widespread unease over the Hong Kong government’s ability to preserve the “high degree of autonomy” promised by Beijing after it resumed sovereignty over the city in 1997. As Covid-19 restrictions cut…