The Hong Kong Post
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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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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…
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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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