Tag: Xinjiang

UK’s Johnson Refuses to Boycott Beijing Winter Olympics Over Uyghur Abuse

Britain does not favour sporting boycotts, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday when asked if he thought the UK should boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics over the abuse of Uyghurs. At the Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons, Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats, said: “Today, millions of Uyghur people…


MPs Pass Motion Declaring China’s Uyghur Persecution a Genocide

Most MPs have voted in favour of declaring Beijing’s oppression of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in China a genocide. In the House of Commons on Monday, a majority of MPs voted in favour of the motion, which was tabled last week by the Conservatives to officially recognize that the Chinese Communist Party’s campaign against…


UK Calls for ‘Urgent and Unfettered’ UN Access to Xinjiang

Britain on Monday condemned the Chinese regime’s “deteriorating human rights situation” and urged Beijing to give the United Nations “urgent and unfettered” access to Xinjiang. Addressing the U.N. Human Rights Council, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said: “We stand with the growing number of international partners, U.N. experts, and NGOs concerned about the deteriorating human…


Two Liberal MPs Say They Will Vote to Recognize Uyghur Oppression as Genocide

Two Liberal MPs say they will be voting in favour of a motion put forward by the Conservatives to declare Beijing’s persecution of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in China a genocide.  In the House of Commons on Feb. 18, Liberal MP John McKay expressed his support for the motion. He said the Chinese regime’s…


Two Liberal MPs Say They Will Vote to Recognize Uyghur Oppression a Genocide

Two Liberal MPs say they will be voting in favour of a motion put forward by the Conservatives to declare Beijing’s persecution of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in China a genocide.  In the House of Commons on Feb. 18, Liberal MP John McKay expressed his support for the motion. He said the Chinese regime’s…


US House Reintroduces Bill to Ban All Xinjiang Goods Made With Forced Labor

The U.S. House of Representatives on Feb. 1 reintroduced a bill with bipartisan backing that would make it illegal to import into the United States all goods from China’s northwestern Xinjiang region, unless it can prove that forced labor was not involved in their production.


Tories Call on Government to Declare Chinese Regime’s Persecution of Uyghurs a Genocide

The Conservatives are calling on the federal government to officially declare Beijing’s persecution of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in China a genocide. Conservative Foreign Affairs Critic Michael Chong submitted a motion to the House of Commons Thursday calling on the Liberal government to take a stand against the Chinese Communist Party’s “absolutely no mercy”…


‘We Had China Exactly Where We Wanted Them,’ Trump Says, in Criticizing Biden’s Policy

Former President Donald Trump on Feb. 17 expressed dismay at the Biden administration’s stance toward the Chinese regime, pointing to the Biden family’s business ties with China. When asked about President Joe Biden’s comments on Tuesday that appeared to repeat Chinese Communist Party (CCP) talking points used to justify its repression of Uyghur Muslims in…


Hong Kong Public Broadcaster RTHK Drops BBC Programs After China Ban

Hong Kong’s publicly funded broadcaster RTHK said on Friday it was suspending the relay of BBC radio programming, one day after the Chinese regime banned BBC World News from airing in the country. In a statement, RTHK said: “As the National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) announced that BBC World News was not allowed to…


Biden’s Policies So Far Benefit Beijing: China Expert

Some of President Joe Biden’s executive orders are misguided, as they will ultimately benefit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), China expert Gordon Chang said. “Although he [Biden] talks about extreme competition with China, although he talks about holding China accountable, we have seen in those executive orders, a flood of measures that Beijing just absolutely…