Tag: Xinjiang

Another ‘Affront Against Universal Rights’: Blinken Criticizes Beijing for Using Sanctions to ‘Intimidate’ US Critics

Beijing’s recent sanctions on U.S. religious freedom officials mark its latest “affront against universal rights” and will only spur further global scrutiny into its human rights violations, Secretary Antony Blinken said on Jan. 10. The secretary was referring to sanctions Beijing announced on Dec. 21 targeting four commissioners of the U.S. Commission on International Religious…


Chinese State Media Uses Times Square Screen to Play Xinjiang Propaganda

NEW YORK—Chinese state media Xinhua is running digital billboards in one of the world’s most coveted ad spaces to promote goods from Xinjiang amid rising global outcry over the regime’s campaign of repression in the region. In New York City’s Times Square just before Christmas, a giant screen measuring about 64 feet high and 40…


Tesla Criticised After Opening Showroom in Xinjiang

Tesla has been criticized for opening a new showroom in China’s far-western Xinjiang region, where the communist regime has detained more than one million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities. Tesla’s first showroom in Xinjiang started operation in the region’s capital city Urumqi, the company announced in a post on its official Weibo account on Dec….


Tesla Criticized After Opening Showroom in China’s Xinjiang

Tesla has been criticized for opening a new showroom in China’s far-western Xinjiang region, where the communist regime has detained more than one million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities. Tesla’s first showroom in Xinjiang started operation in the region’s capital city Urumqi, the company announced in a post on its official Weibo account on Dec….


Taiwanese Businessman Seeks Compensation From Chinese Regime for Forced Demolition of Factory in Xinjiang

After Taiwanese corporate Far East Group was fined heavily $72 million by the Chinese communist regime in November 2021, increasing difficulties that Taiwanese businesses are facing in mainland China have attracted wider attention. On Dec. 5, 2021, when Taiwan’s Vice President Lai Ching-te went to visit Kinmen, he met a Taiwanese businessman surnamed Wang who…


Chinese Utility Terminates ‘Green’ Energy Plant in Xinjiang Due to Pollutant Emissions

Shanghai Electric Power Co. Ltd. plans to terminate a project that was supposed to provide “green” energy in China’s Xinjiang region but instead discharges polluted wastewater. In a Dec. 28 filing to the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the company said that owing to the malfunction of an exhaust gas purification system, the operation of its Hami Xuanli…


New Anti-Slavery Law Will Impose Cost on China For Its Genocide in Xinjiang: Expert

News Analysis New legislation aimed at stopping the use of slave labor in China’s Xinjiang region has the potential to severely disrupt America’s $150 billion fashion industry. At risk is the industry’s access to the 20 percent of the world’s cotton produced in Xinjiang, and the fate of one million Uyghurs held in China’s prison…


Chinese Regime Replaces Xinjiang Communist Party Chief

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on Dec. 25 replaced the far-western Xinjiang region’s Party chief, according to state news agency Xinhua. Chen Quanguo, who last year was slapped with U.S. sanctions for overseeing the mass detention and surveillance against Uyghurs in Xinjiang, will assume another role, Xinhua reported, without offering further details. Ma Xingrui, the governor…


Intel Apologizes After China Backlash Over Xinjiang Stance

Intel stoked nationalist fervor in China by asking suppliers not to source products or labor from the northwestern region of Xinjiang, where more than 1 million Uyghurs are held in detention camps. The U.S. chipmaker posted an apology on its official WeChat and Weibo accounts on Dec. 23 for the “trouble” it caused to Chinese…


Sen. Blackburn Urges Commerce Department to Blacklist More Chinese Firms Over Xinjiang Repression

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) has called on the U.S. Commerce Department to blacklist several Chinese firms that allegedly aid Beijing in its surveillance and repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Blackburn, in a Dec. 15 letter to U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, urged for the addition of firms in China connected to the Chinese Academy of…