Australia and New Zealand on Monday expressed grave concerns over developments in Hong Kong and the human rights situation in the Xinjiang region of China, as the two nations sought to get in lockstep over their biggest trading partner.
In the first face-to-face meeting between heads of both...
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The Uyghurs are a Muslim minority in China, living in Xinjiang province at a crossroads of culture and empire. Today it's estimated that more than 1 million Uyghur people have been detained in camps, camps where they have been subjected to torture, forced labor,...
The leaders of Australia and New Zealand have urged China to give outside observers “unfettered access” to Xinjiang, a move that is likely to draw criticism from Beijing.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern “expressed grave concerns about the human rights...
Munich [Germany], May 30 (ANI): The World Uyghur Congress, an international organisation of exiled Uyghur groups, on Sunday, strongly condemned the life sentencing of the WUC President Dolkun Isa's brother, Hushtar Isa in China.
A WUC release said that a report about Hushtar's life...
Over recent months, China’s government has been in overdrive to combat allegations of human rights abuses in Xinjiang. To cite just one example, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying dismissed the charges of genocide as “the most preposterous lie of the century, an outrageous insult...
The political rhetoric of conservative politicians in Washington and Canberra has been marching us towards war with China for a number of years.
Indeed, renowned Australian journalist John Pilger warned of this rising threat of American Empire in his 2017 film the Coming War With China.
But...
One of the inherent problems with a globalized economy is the globalization of social and political concerns. And few situations in recent years have posed as big a challenge as China, with its abhorrent human rights abuses and its crucial role in international supply chains as the exporter of...
According to a new report, solar panels might have a dark side: almost half of the production of a key part of solar panels come from Xinjiang, China — a region of China which activists have flagged as rife with the widespread internment and forced labour of Uyghurs.
Almost all solar panels...
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have detained a woman in an internment camp on suspicion of “religious extremism” after she intervened in a domestic dispute between her neighbors, according to authorities.
While investigating the detentions of women...