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End the culture of silence
Calude Arpi for The Pioneer. Read the original article here. It is surprising that successive Indian Governments preferred to remain, mum, even as China kept on making advances towards the border. If this continues, a new disaster may unfold Recently, … Continued The post End the culture of silence appeared read more →
Congress on China: Don’t trust, and verify
By Josh Rogin, The Washington Post, 18 December 2019 Read original news here. The Trump administration last week struck a trade deal with Beijing that heavily relies on trusting the Chinese government to improve its behavior and uphold a range of … Continued The post Congress on China: Don’t trust, and read more →
Xi Jinping’s China is losing its propaganda war left, right and centre this year
Chauncey Jung, South China Morning Post. Read the original article here. If President Xi Jinping’s team carries out annual job appraisals, China’s overseas propaganda team will surely be found to have performed catastrophically. Whether it is Hong Kong or Xinjiang, Huawei or the trade war … Continued The post Xi Jinping’s China is losing its read more →
Mesut Ozil vs. China: Arsenal star makes human rights stand
By Ravi Ubha, CNN. December 17, 2019. Read the original news here. With an hour gone and a sorry Arsenal trailing 3-0 to Manchester City Sunday, Mesut Ozil was substituted. He trudged from the pitch and as he approached the Arsenal bench … Continued The post Mesut Ozil vs. China: Arsenal star read more →
Protesters in Sershul detained for resisting Communist Party propaganda
By International Campaign for Tibet. December 17, 2019. Read the original article here. Harsh security measures have been imposed in a Tibetan township in Kardze (Chinese: Ganzi), the Tibetan region of Kham, after two rare protests in November calling for Tibetan … Continued The post Protesters in Sershul detained for resisting read more →
Apple shareholders set to vote on human-rights policies
By Sam Shead, BBC, 16 December 2019 Read original news here. Apple shareholders are set to vote on whether Apple should change its human-rights policies. They will be asked whether they want Apple to make a commitment to respect freedom of … Continued The post Apple shareholders set to vote on read more →
Chinese Ambassador Threatens Small European Territory over Huawei 5G Contract
BREITBART, 15 December 2019 Read original news here. The Chinese Ambassador to Denmark threatened high-level officials in the Faroe Islands, warning the Communist country would cancel a free trade agreement if the islands refused to sign a contract with the … Continued The post Chinese Ambassador Threatens Small European Territory read more →
UN climate talks fall short thanks to US vacuum
By ZACK COLMAN AND KALINA OROSCHAKOFF, 15 December 2019. Read original news here. MADRID — U.N. climate negotiations ended in disarray on Sunday, exposing deep rifts among industrialized nations, fast-growing economies like China and India and the poorest countries. With a lack of … Continued The post UN climate talks fall short thanks read more →
China’s foreign minister says at symposium the US has successively angered and suppressed China
Reuters, CNBC. Read the original article here. Senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi said on Friday that the United States had seriously damaged the hard-won mutual trust between the countries by criticizing Beijing over issues such as Hong Kong and the treatment of Muslim Uighurs. … Continued The post China’s foreign minister says at symposium read more →
From Tibet to Xinjiang, Beijing’s man for restive regions Chen Quanguo is the prime target of US sanctions
Jun Mai for the South China Morning Post. Read the original article here. For Chen Quanguo, it was just a normal day at the office in China’s Xinjiang region on December 3. His agenda included chairing a study session on patriotism, … Continued The post From Tibet to Xinjiang, Beijing’s man read more →
Xinjiang’s New Slavery
Adrian Zenz, Foreign Policy. December 12, 2019. Read original news here. Employment: Yarkant County satellite factory [for] persons in detention or reeducation.” The spreadsheet, obtained from a cache of local government files, lists the employment status of nearly 2,000 Uighurs—but … Continued The post Xinjiang’s New Slavery appeared first on read more →
China reportedly sought World Bank funding for surveillance in region with Muslim detainment camps
Weizhen Tan for CNBC. Read the original article here. China tried to get World Bank loans to fund facial recognition technology for the purpose of using it in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, according to a report by news website Axios on Wednesday. … Continued The post China reportedly sought World Bank funding read more →
The role of AI in China’s crackdown on Uighurs
Yuan Yang, Financial Times. December 12, 2019. Read original news here. In the past month, a trove of leaked internal documents has revealed the Chinese government’s plans in the border region of Xinjiang, where about 1.8 million members of the … Continued The post The role of AI in China’s read more →
Mumbai celebrates 103 years of Tibetan medicine
The Times of India. December 12, 2019. Read the original news here. Recently, 103 years of the establishment of Men-Tsee-Khang, by The Great 13th Dalai Lama in Lhasa, Tibet and 58 years of re-establishment of Men-Tsee-Khang by His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama in Dharamshala was … Continued The post Mumbai celebrates 103 years of Tibetan read more →
Firms withdraw from China on worsening business conditions
By Kwak Yeon-soo, Korea Times, 11 December 2019 Read original news here. A growing number of companies from Korea and other countries are pulling their production out of China due to worsening business conditions sparked by the prolonged tension between … Continued The post Firms withdraw from China on worsening read more →