Tag: Xinjiang

Decouple From Genocide: Biden China Warnings Miss Point

Commentary The U.S. government is issuing new warnings to business against operating supply chains that reach into Xinjiang (East Turkestan), China, where there is ongoing forced labor and genocide, as well as warnings for investors in Hong Kong, where national security laws from Beijing are criminalizing even verbal resistance to China’s growing power. The warnings…


US Warns of Business Risks in Xinjiang

Genocide in China tops the list of global atrocities, based on a new U.S. human rights report. American companies related to China’s Xinjiang region may have cause for concern. The United States says if they want to avoid that risk, they have to exit supply chains, ventures, and investments connected to the region. Freedom in…


US Shines a Spotlight on Xinjiang Genocide in Atrocities Prevention Report

The U.S. Department of State drew attention to Beijing’s ongoing “genocide and crimes against humanity” in China’s far-western Xinjiang region in an annual congressional report released on Monday. The 2021 report on genocide and atrocities prevention highlights the Chinese regime as a “Country of Particular Concern” for the “genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghurs, who are…


US Ramps Up Warnings of Business Risks in China’s Xinjiang Region

The U.S. government on July 13 strengthened its warnings to businesses about the growing risks of having supply chain and investment links to China’s Xinjiang region, citing forced labor and human rights abuses there. “Given the severity and extent of these abuses, businesses and individuals that do not exit supply chains, ventures, and/or investments connected…


US Blacklists Over a Dozen Chinese Entities for Aiding Xinjiang Abuses and Military Modernization

The Biden administration on July 9 added a total of 19 Chinese entities to its economic blacklist over their role in furthering Beijing’s human rights abuses and supporting military aggression. The blacklist includes 15 concerning Russia or Iran, adding up to a total of 34. “The Department of Commerce remains firmly committed to taking strong,…


Lawmakers Must Consider Xinjiang Cotton Ban Over Uyghur ‘Genocide’: UK MPs

Lawmakers should heap pressure on China over the Uyghur “genocide” by exploring a ban on the import of all cotton products linked to Xinjiang, a cross-party committee of UK MPs has said. The Foreign Affairs Committee also called for the government to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics as part of a series of recommendations…


Chinese State Media Alone Claim France, Germany Support Unfreezing EU-China Investment Deal

Chinese leader Xi Jinping held a video summit on July 5 with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emanuel Macron. In their coverage of the event, Chinese official media claimed that both French and German leaders expressed support for unfreezing the EU-China Investment Agreement as soon as possible. However, there is no mention of…


Bliken Holds Meeting With Uyghur Survivors of China’s Internment Camps

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a virtual meeting on July 6 with seven Uyghurs including internment camp survivors, and expressed the United States’ commitment to ending Beijing’s ongoing crimes against humanity and genocide in China’s far-western Xinjiang region. “The United States will continue to place human rights at the forefront of our China…


Blinken Holds Meeting With Uyghur Survivors of China’s Internment Camps

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a virtual meeting on July 6 with seven Uyghurs including internment camp survivors, and expressed the United States’ commitment to ending Beijing’s ongoing crimes against humanity and genocide in China’s far-western Xinjiang region. “The United States will continue to place human rights at the forefront of our China…


Replacing God: The CCP’s Century-Long War Against Faith

Priests and nuns were forced to kneel down in front of a large bonfire, watching helplessly as the flames devoured their sacred instruments while burning their skin. In another Chinese city, students wearing red armbands hit Catholics with sharp wooden sticks, throwing one priest into a fire pit after he collapsed in pain. They beat…