Category: China
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Complexities and Challenges of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway Project
In the heart of Central Asia, an ambitious railway project promises to reshape the region’s economic landscape and redefine geopolitical alignments. The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan (CKU) railway, a proposed 500-kilometer link between Kashgar in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Andijan in Uzbekistan, has captured the imagination of policymakers and economists alike. However, beneath the veneer of…
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Xinjiang, China-based Uygur group wins appeal against UK investigation into “slave labor” in cotton
British authorities must reconsider whether to open a probe into the importation of cotton allegedly produced by slave labour in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, a London court ruled on Thursday, allowing an appeal by a Uygur rights group. The World Uygur Congress, an international organisation of exiled Uygur groups, took legal action against Britain’s…
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Nepal Withdraws From China’s Belt and Road Initiative After Being Warned By India
Nepal has shied away from signing a plan to implement China’s ambitious Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) in the Himalayan nation. Resisting immense pressure from Beijing, Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal refused to greenlight the signing during the just-concluded visit of the Chinese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sun Weidong, to Kathmandu. Signing the…
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Kazakhstan’s BRI train project, built in China, is moving forward.
The Astana Light Rail Project in Kazakhstan, a key undertaking under the Belt and Road Initiative and also the first railway in Central Asia being constructed with Chinese standards, is progressing swiftly. According to the one of the builders from Yunnan Construction and Investment Holding Group Co Ltd, the whole project is anticipated to be…
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Bill passed by US to counter China’s forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong followers brings spotlight back on the issue
Taking aim at Beijing’s gruesome practice of forcefully harvesting organs and selling them for profit, the United States passed a bill Tuesday to counter the Chinese regime’s long-running campaign of persecution against the spiritual group Falun Gong. The bipartisan Falun Gong Protection Act (H.R. 4132), introduced by Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) with 18 co-sponsors, was…
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China’s new BRI initiative enhances international skill collaboration.
China has launched a new initiative called the “Belt and Road Skills-Building-Dreams Action” to strengthen international skills cooperation among participating countries. Announced by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security on Tuesday, the action aims to promote joint vocational standards, share training resources, cultivate skilled trainers, achieve mutual recognition of training certificates and establish…
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Why isn’t the BRI Implementation Deal Between China and Nepal Working Out?
New Delhi: Though there were high expectations of Nepal signing an initial Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) implementation deal during Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong’s visit to Kathmandu this week, eventually it did not come through. This is because Nepal is yet to agree to China’s terms and conditions for China’s funding of BRI projects…
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CHINA’S UIGHURS: SAGA OF NONSTOP REPRESSION OF ITS MUSLIM MINORITY BY BEIJING
After Pakistan, China is another country in Asia, which vehemently alters societal norms for its minorities by crushing their rights and it does so nonchalantly–without letting the international community come in the way of its treatment of minorities like Uighurs, who reside in the East Asian country’s Xinjiang region. In its latest attempt to radically…
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Hong Kong’s status as global financial hub further weakened after more foreign judges resign
High-profile British Judge Lord Sumption’s resignation from Hong Kong’s highest court raises concerns about the state of the rule of law in the city, which is allegedly becoming a ‘totalitarian state’ under the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ‘invisible’ control. Following his resignation, Lord Sumption warned that Hong Kong is “slowly becoming a totalitarian state” and…
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Corruption runs deep in Chinese system
China has thrown a challenge to become the next global superpower but is still embroiled in large-scale bribery, cutting across bureaucracy, polity, and civil and private sectors. The communist government’s complete control over resources and financing, and the influence exerted by local officials are major factors for the unabating corruption in the country. A deputy…