Tag: Xinjiang

Former Chinese Executive Witnesses Shocking Uyghur Treatment in ‘War Torn’ Xinjiang

A former Chinese executive says she was “horrified” by what she witnessed during a business trip to China’s southern Xinjiang region in 2017, describing the entire locale as a “super concentration camp” for its Uyghur residents. The experience shattered not only her musings of using the trip to enjoy the region’s happy blue skies, “tasty…


UK Parliament Unanimously Passes Motion Declaring Genocide in Xinjiang

The UK’s House of Commons on Thursday unanimously passed a motion declaring Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic and religious minorities in China’s Xinjiang region are suffering crimes against humanity and genocide. This makes the UK Parliament the third legislature in the world—following Canada and the Netherlands—to have passed motions calling the treatment of the Uyghur Muslims…


UK Parliament Unanimously Declares Chinese Regime Committing Genocide in Xinjiang

The UK Parliament on April 22 unanimously passed a non-binding motion declaring that Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic and religious minorities in China’s Xinjiang region are suffering crimes against humanity and genocide, and called on the UK government to use international law to bring it to an end. This makes the UK Parliament the third…


UK Parliament Unanimously Passes Motion Declaring Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide in Xinjiang

The UK’s House of Commons on Thursday unanimously passed a motion declaring Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic and religious minorities in China’s Xinjiang region are suffering crimes against humanity and genocide. This makes the UK Parliament the third legislature in the world—following Canada and the Netherlands—to have passed motions calling the treatment of the Uyghur Muslims…


Biden, Suga to Send Signal to Aggressive CCP at US-Japan Summit

TOKYO/WASHINGTON—Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and U.S. President Joe Biden will highlight Tokyo’s central role in Washington’s strategy to counter the challenge of an increasingly aggressive Chinese regime at a summit on Friday. While that emphasis on Japan’s key status will be welcome in Tokyo, where some politicians are pushing for a tougher stance towards…


China Relies on Twitter, Facebook to Counter International Criticism Over Xinjiang

The communist regime in China has become more active on both Twitter and Facebook to spread propaganda and disinformation in order to silence international condemnation of its persecution against Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang, according to a recent report. The disinformation campaign was a joint effort between Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials, China’s state-run media,…


21 Trapped in Flooded Xinjiang Coal Mine: Chinese State Media

BEIJING—Twenty-one miners are trapped in a flooded coal mine in northwest China’s Xinjiang region, Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday, citing a local emergency department. A section of the mine filled with water, leading to power outages just after 6 p.m. on Saturday when 29 miners were working at the site in Hutubi…


China’s African Swine Fever Situation Becoming Increasingly Challenging But CCP Trying to Downplay It

The prevention and control of African swine fever has become normal practise in mainland China but official reports on the African swine fever epidemic in China have been sporadic, seemingly with the intention of downplaying the seriousness of the problem. On April 7, Henan Shuanghui Investment and Development Co., Ltd., a leading company in China’s meat…


Chinese TV Blurring Western Fashion Brand Logos as Xinjiang Row Escalates

A state-backed campaign to boycott Western fashion brands for their refusal to use Xinjiang cotton over forced labor concerns has been seen for more than two weeks cross China. TV channels and online video streaming platforms have been blurring the logos of the Western brands on their shows. Since the end of March, entertainment shows…


Top CCP Official Responds to Boycott Xinjiang Cotton Campaign

Xinjiang’s Communist Party secretary Chen Quanguo for the first time on April 2 openly responded to the campaign to boycott Xinjiang cotton, which had been gaining traction among big corporations. Last year, the United States imposed sanctions on four Chinese officials over serious human rights abuses in Xinjiang—a remote region in northwest China. As the…