Tag Archives: Xinjiang

BRUSSELS: The European Union on Monday imposed sanctions on four Chinese officials, including a senior security director, for human rights abuses in Xinjiang, to which Beijing responded by blacklisting Europeans in a rare escalation of diplomatic tensions. Unlike the United States, the EU has tried to avoid confrontation with Beijing, …

BEIJING: Hundreds of thousands of ethnic minority workers in northwest China Xinjiang The region is forced to pick cotton through a coercive state scheme, according to a report. The investigation released Monday by the Washington-based think tank Center for Global Policy is likely to put more pressure on global brands …

Unlike Donald Trump, whom Chinese officials had little knowledge of before taking office, Joe Biden is well known in Beijing. But that story is unlikely to quickly mend a relationship between global powers that has fundamentally changed in the past four years. A supporter of commitment to Beijing since the …

The US national security adviser said on Friday that China was perpetrating “something like” genocide in its treatment of Muslims in its Xinjiang region. “If it is not genocide, something similar is happening in Xinjiang,” Robert O’Brien said at an online event organized by the Aspen Institute, while highlighting other …

SHANGHAI: Chinese President Xi Jinping Such levels of happiness among all ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang are increasing and that China plans to continue teaching its residents a “correct” perspective on China, Xinhua News Agency reported late on Saturday. China has come under scrutiny for its treatment …

Chinese authorities have demolished thousands of mosques in Xinjiang, an Australian think tank said on Friday, in the latest report on widespread human rights abuses in the troubled region. Human rights groups say more than a million Uighurs and other, mostly Muslim, Turkish-speaking people have been imprisoned in camps across …

BEIJING: Chinese authorities have demolished thousands of mosques in Xinjiangan Australian think tank said on Friday, in the latest report from human rights abuses in the restless region. Human rights groups say more than a million Uyghurs and other Turkish-speaking people, mostly Muslims, have been imprisoned in camps across the …

In another crackdown on China, the United States banned cotton, hair products, computer components and some textiles from China’s Xinjiang province that are made “using forced labor.” “By taking this action, DHS is fighting illegal and inhuman forced labor, a type of modern day slavery, used to make goods that …