Underlying the poverty success story is the fact that local governments have accumulated a significant portion of more than $1 trillion in loans over five years, which must eventually be repaid. With regard to villagers who have become reliant on...
"She had taken on multiple politically sensitive cases, representing activists, scholars, Falun Gong practitioners, farmers, and petitioners in cases involving a wide array of issues, including women’s and children’s rights, and the rights to religion, freedom of expression, assembly, and...
It leaves unspecified the real nature and reasons of the CCP’s genocide against Uyghurs and other Turkic people in XUAR, most of whom are Muslim, carried on out of contempt for cultural (and ethnic) diversity and hatred of religion—a contempt...
Also called Monlam Chenmo, the annual prayer festival traditionally draws thousands of participants, but attendance at Labrang and Rebgong will be limited this year to monastery residents and a few selected locals “as a precautionary measure to prevent the spread...
"Unity" policies haven taken place in Xinjiang against a backdrop of the mass incarceration of at least 1.8 million Uyghurs and other ethnic minority Muslims in "re-education" camps, and their involvement in forced labor, as well as amid reports of...
Beijing’s repression of Uyghurs, perpetrated through its network of internment camps and mass surveillance system, has drawn international condemnation. According to an archived U.S. State Department website estimate, more than a million Uyghurs and other minority groups are held without...
It was around December 27, 2019, when Weiping called me out of the blue. He said anxiously that some of his friends had been arrested for attending a meeting in Xiamen and that he, who also attended the meeting, had...
In the document, titled “Xingtai City’s Hotline Handling Records,” a Jan. 16 log indicated that a resident had to call the mayor’s hotline in the evening because an elderly resident had a fever and all attempts to get treatment had...
Since the Covid-19 outbreak in the first months of 2020, the Chinese regime has escalated its silencing of the press and social media and arrested at least ten journalists and commentators who reported on the crisis. Seven of them remain...
