America’s leading climate and environmental groups including Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Energy Foundation, and Environmental Defense Fund have not responded to repeated queries about evidence that China is forcing Uyghur Muslims to choose between forced labor at factories which...
One million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities, maybe more, have vanished into a sprawling network of camps and prisons in China's far west. Chinese officials at first denied the camps even existed. Then they claimed they were for training workers, or for re-educating potential radicals. Then...
The last time Jewher Ilham’s family saw her father, he had lost 40 pounds and his hair had turned grey.
“He used to be a pretty chubby man and now he has nothing. And all his hair turned grey. But other than that he looked okay. He’s a very strong person, I mean a mentally strong person, or...
China makes headlines for good reason, though often not because of good news. Consider how often today’s challenges have prompted you to reflect on the Middle Kingdom and the pall it casts.
In the misty origins of the present pandemic and the deception wrought by the Chinese government to...
Government surveillance is one of the concerning trends revealed in Open Doors’ 2021 World Watch List of countries where Christians experience the highest levels of persecution.
David Curry, CEO of Open Doors, called surveillance technology the “greatest threat to human rights today,” and...
The boycott movement marks a blurred line between genuine anger and manufactured outrage.
Over the past month, a widespread online and offline campaign in China has emerged to support the production of cotton in Xinjiang and denounce international clothing brands that pledged to eschew its...
Last night Gui Congyou, the Chinese ambassador to Sweden, had a somewhat awkward interview with the public Swedish broadcaster SVT.
Anders Holmberg, the host of 30 minuter (30 minutes), one of Sweden’s leading prime time interview shows, just wouldn’t let the ambassador get away with not...
The silence is deafening from a Canadian government paralyzed and unwilling to say anything that might offend China, whether it’s the genocide of Uyghur people or a new Hong Kong law that could bar people, including foreigners, from leaving the territory.
Of course, there are the “Two...
We can oppose the saber-rattling and militarism of the US’s China hawks without downplaying the oppression of the Uyghur people.
The Uyghurs — a predominantly Muslim people who inhabit China’s northwestern Xinjiang province and consider the region their homeland — have long had a...