Tag: China
Nearly two dozen countries unite at UN to condemn China’s mass detention of one million Muslims for first time
…In an unprecedented letter ambassadors from 22 countries voiced their concerns about reports of unlawful detention in “large-scale places of detention, as well as widespread surveillance and restrictions, particularly targeting Uighurs and other minorities in Xinjiang”.more: the independent
Xinjiang: China, Where Are My Children? – BBC News
US Envoy Decries Lack of Response From Islamic World to China’s …
The US envoy on religious liberty has said he is “disappointed” at the response of governments in the Islamic world to China’s mass incarceration of Uighur Muslims, suggesting they had been threatened by Beijing.
Sam Brownback, ambassador at large for international religious freedom, said some majority-Muslim states did not want to draw attention to their own human rights record. He was hopeful that the more Muslim populations around the world heard about the imprisonment of an estimated more than 1 million Uighurs, the more they will put pressure on their governments to speak out….MORE: THE INDEPENDENT – taipeitimes
Inside China’s ‘thought transformation’ camps (Erasing Human Identity)
China Behavior Rating System V/S Sweden Microchip implants (Technology Serving Dictatorship)
America Must Pivot Toward China and Away from the Middle East
It is time for Washington to embrace that reality and provide the military with the resources it needs.more /nationalinterest.org
First Detention, Now Demolition: China Remakes Its Muslim Region
China’s envoy says Turkish Uighur criticism could hit economic ties
Turkey risks jeopardizing economic ties with China if it keeps criticizing Beijing’s treatment of Uighur Muslims, China’s envoy to Ankara warned, just as Chinese firms are looking to invest in Turkish energy and infrastructure mega-projects…….MORE: REFUTER
‘Eastern Lightning’: The banned religious group that has China worried
…. “Go to hell, demon,” one of the accused, Zhang Lidong, yelled as he beat the woman with a steel mop handle, telling her she would “never come back in the next reincarnation.” Other members of the group threatened diners that they would kill anyone who intervened, reported Chinese state media.
By the time police arrived at the fast food outlet in the city of Zhaoyuan, in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong, they found the victim, a 37-year-old mother named Wu Shuoyan, lying in a pool of blood….more: CNN
A senior China Airlines Captain has been filmed sleeping in command of Boeing 747
China, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela in hot seat at U.N. rights forum
..Saudi Arabia will face criticism for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and its failure to cooperate with a U.N.-led inquiry, diplomatic sources said.
And ambassadors from some European countries plan to boycott a speech by Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza on Tuesday, as more countries back opposition leader Juan Guaido and spurn President Nicolas Maduro, they add….MORE: .reuters
