Tag: Xinjiang

Lawmakers Want Australia to Follow US in Boycotting Beijing Winter Olympics

Australian lawmakers are calling for a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics over human rights abuses after the United States announced it would stage a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics on Monday. White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed that the United States won’t send an official delegation to the 2022 Beijing Winter…


#StopXinjiangRumors, Beijing’s Online Campaign to Whitewash Human Rights Abuses:Report

A new report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has found the Chinese Communist Party is looking to influence international perceptions of the Chinese regime’s policies in the Xinjiang region through social media. The campaign, which has featured videos from Uyghurs saying they’re happy with their life in the Xinjiang region, promoting Xinjiang as…


Rubio Stalls Vote on Defense Bill Over Amendment to Ban Products From China’s Xinjiang

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) late Wednesday blocked a quick deal for votes on an amendment deal for an annual defense policy bill, over his proposed legislation that would hold the Chinese regime accountable for its human rights abuses. Rubio had proposed for an amendment to be included in the the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal…


Canada Seizes Goods Produced by Slave Labour in China

For the first time since laws prohibiting the import of products believed to have been manufactured by slave labour were established in 2020, a shipment of goods from China has been seized by Canada.  The ban was put in place by the trilateral USMCA trade deal signed by Canada in 2018, although the prohibition did…


China’s Alleged Hypersonic Missile Test Has Not Been a ‘Wake-Up Call,’ Expert Says

Beijing’s alleged test of a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile in the summer has not served as a wake-up call for America, and U.S. investment money will continue to flow into China as the communist regime seeks to build a Chinese-led world order, a China expert warned. “So much progress is made by China, I realized that…


US Holocaust Museum Says CCP ‘May Be Committing Genocide’ Against Uyghurs

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) said on Tuesday that the Chinese regime’s treatment of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang may amount to genocide. A report released by the USHMM’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide on Tuesday details accounts of several former detainees of Xinjiang’s sprawling network of detention camps, where…


US Holocaust Museum Says China Boosting Uyghur Repression

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum says it has compiled evidence of increasing government repression against Uyghur Muslims in China’s western Xinjiang region. In a new report released on Nov. 9, the museum’s Center for the Prevention of Genocide says there is now “a reasonable basis” to believe that previously alleged crimes against humanity versus the…


2 Recent CCP Appointments Trigger Concerns Over Rights Abuses in China

Amid the Chinese regime’s ramping up of its largest leadership reshuffle before the 20th National Congress, the recent appointments of two Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) cadres aroused great concern in the international community over China’s worsening human rights situation. The National Congress is theoretically the highest body of the CCP and is held once every…


US Retail Giants Stop Selling Chinese Surveillance Tech Linked to Xinjiang

Two home-improvement retail giants, Home Depot and Lowe’s, and electronic retail superstore Best Buy have recently removed products made by two Chinese companies with ties to human rights abuses in China. Chinese video surveillance technology makers Lorex and Ezviz are both owned by companies headquartered in China that were added to the U.S. trade blacklist…


UK Urged to Veto Chinese Bid to Join Pacific Trade Pact

Britain’s main opposition Labour party has called on the government to veto China’s bid to join a trans-Pacific trade agreement once the UK itself is admitted to the pact. The UK applied on Feb. 1 to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), a landmark 11-country trade deal that includes Australia, New…