Category: China Human Rights

With Lithium Prices Up Ninefold, Report Underscores U.S. Dependence on Foreign Minerals

April 11, 2022
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A recent white paper has laid out some of the challenges in supplying minerals for any energy transition from fossil fuels, offering a timely warning for policymakers as the increased demand for electric vehicles (EVs) drives up the costs of materials used in such products. Notably, the benchmark prices of lithium, lithium carbonate, and lithium…

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With Lithium Prices Up Ninefold, Report Underscores US Dependence on Foreign Minerals

April 11, 2022
Business & EconomyChinaChina Human RightsChinese RegimecongresseconomyElectric VehiclesEnvironmentExecutive BranchlithiummineralsNational SecurityPoliticsScienceThreat from Communist ChinaUSUS FeaturesUS-China relations
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A recent white paper has laid out some of the challenges in supplying minerals for any energy transition from fossil fuels, offering a timely warning for policymakers as the increased demand for electric vehicles (EVs) drives up the costs of materials used in such products. Notably, the benchmark prices of lithium, lithium carbonate, and lithium…

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Shanghai Nurses With Mild Fevers Asked to Keep Working, Other Lockdown Consequences

April 11, 2022
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At least four nurses from a Shanghai hospital went on strike to defy management, who told them to keep working despite testing positive for COVID-19. This and other chaotic pandemic measures have recently come to light. “We four all tested positive, but leaders told us to go to work, which we refused,” said one of…

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Efforts to End Forced Organ Harvesting in China Lead to Unanimous Resolution in Virginia House

April 10, 2022
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FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.—When the TV screen inside Virginia’s General Assembly showed the vote of 82-0 on Feb. 11, Wang Chunyan, a 66-year-old Chinese refugee who just became a U.S. citizen a year ago, stood in silence. The vote in question was a House resolution condemning the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) more than two-decades-long persecution of…

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Matas: David Kilgour’s Fierce Devotion to Principle and Profound Empathy for Rights Abuse Victims Will Endure

April 9, 2022
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Commentary I have known David Kilgour all my adult life. From the get-go, I could see that he had a friendly, outgoing, gregarious personality. David was an undergraduate at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg in the early 1960s the same time as I. He was a bit ahead of me, but as active in…

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Canadian MPs Urge Passage of Organ Trafficking Bill in Honour of Late Rights Champion David Kilgour

April 8, 2022
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MPs rose in the House of Commons on April 8 to table a petition requesting the passage of a bill combating organ trafficking in honour of David Kilgour, a former cabinet minister and renowned human rights advocate. Kilgour, who had a long career in politics, passed away on April 5 from a rare lung disease….

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Chinese TV Host Suspended for Warning Audience of Severity of Local COVID-19 Outbreak

April 8, 2022
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A well-known Chinese TV host for the Liaoning provincial TV network was suspended and punished on April 5 for revealing the severity of the local COVID-19 outbreak on her social media. Her suspension caused an uproar on Chinese social media. Zhu Xia is the presenter of a few popular shows on Liaoning Radio and Television…

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91-Year-Old Shanghai Dissident Receives Not ‘A Cent’ of Food Amid Lockdown

April 8, 2022
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A 91-year-old Shanghai resident found no one came to her aid amid a prolonged citywide COVID lockdown—a sharp contrast to last year when four police guarded her home during the country’s biggest annual political meetings. Nonagenarian Liu Shuzhen, who lives alone, has received “not a cent of food” while stuck at home during the city’s biggest…

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Underground Media Movement in China Aims to Dismantle CCP Propaganda: New Short Documentary

April 7, 2022
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A grassroots civil disobedience movement led by a persecuted faith group aims to dismantle Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda, according to a new short documentary released by Falun Dafa Information Center. The peaceful movement, led by adherents of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong, emulates the spirit of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., and ranks…

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China’s Human Rights Victims to Speak at UC Berkeley Event

April 7, 2022
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Student organizers of an event to expose China’s human rights abuses are hoping campus security will be tight at the UC Berkeley campus in Northern California. Organizers of the “Atrocities of the CCP” event on April 15 have asked campus police to beef up security after recent unsealed complaints from the Justice Department reveal a…

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