Category: China
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China is luring nations into a financial trap with its worldwide lending
Earlier this month, the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID, told lawmakers that Washington is stepping up efforts to help developing countries struggling with debt and that China is part of the problem. Testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Samantha Power said that China’s “global lending spree has made it the…
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EU parliament should support forced labor prohibition with a focus on China
Human rights groups say at least 1 million people, mostly members of Muslim minorities, have been detained in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region and face a series of abuses, including forced sterilisation of women and coerced labour. With the European Parliament’s green light after a vote in Strasbourg, France, the draft text will officially become law…
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China’s continues to repress Uyghurs as Beijing bans social media apps for the ethnic group
Authorities in China’s autonomous Xinjiang region have banned Uyghurs from using social media apps including TikTok and tools to circumvent censorship, according to a recent report by Radio Free Asia (RFA) where it quoted a video released from the Chinese police. China observers say this could be the beginning of another major crackdown on the…
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At the introduction of the US human rights report, Antony Blinken describes the Uygurs in China as victims of “genocide.”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken highlighted Uygurs in China’s Xinjiang region as victims of “genocide and crimes against humanity” while launching the State Department’s annual human rights report on Monday, days before he is expected to meet senior officials in Beijing.Calling such atrocities and those occurring in Myanmar and Sudan “reminiscent of humanity’s darkest…
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Tibetan and Taiwanese students demonstrate against the Chinese envoy’s Harvard address.
Washington, April 21 (CNA) A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan Harvard students on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the United States Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at Harvard University, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese-Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall…
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Desmond Shum on how China’s red aristocracy were defeated by Xi Jinping
The red aristocrats of modern Communist China behave very similarly to the blue-blood aristocrats of the Western world in medieval times. This elite group is distinguished by its hereditary bloodlines: it includes descendants of revolutionaries who fought alongside Mao Zedong and the children of those who ran China after the Communist takeover in 1949. Because of…
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Growing Oppression of Christians: Beijing’s Operation in Mainland China and Hong Kong
Each year, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a congressional body, compiles a report on religious freedom around the world. Once again, USCIRF has recommended that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) be designated a country of particular concern due to its lack of religious freedom. Freedom House, a non-profit organization that…
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China-focused EU Parliament votes in favor of a forced labor ban.
EU lawmakers voted on Tuesday to ban products made using forced labour which supporters hope will be used to block goods from China, at the risk of raising tensions with Beijing. The law does not directly mention China, but many lawmakers hope it will be used to block imports from China involving the region where…
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China bribing UN agencies to stop adverse reports against its misdeeds, says whistleblower
China is sabotaging the international order to achieve its goal of global hegemony, throttling democracy at home to promote the autocratic rule of the Chinese Communist Party and trampling human rights to establish Han Chinese domination all over. Now it has become important for Beijing to silence the voice of the United Nations against all…
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China Tightens Up on Corruption in the Initiative for the Belt and Road
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is increasingly taking a stand against corruption in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Bribing foreign officials in securing projects has always been an unspoken BRI mechanism, but what’s become intolerable to the party is growing embezzlement of Chinese funds by Chinese officials. It’s an extension of a domestic campaign to catch official…