Ilham Tohti, My Brother
lham was the recipient of the Sakharov Prize in 2019. By then, the world had known that China had placed several millions of Uyghurs in concentration camps and prisons, subjecting them to torture, indoctrination, forced labor, and long prison sentences.
Simmering Tensions: China Sanctions 5 US Defense Firms Over Arms Sales to Taiwan
The situation also underscores the delicate balance of power in the Taiwan Strait — a 160-kilometer-wide (about 90 miles) waterway that separates Taiwan from mainland China. But the timing of Beijing’s sanctions — coming just days before Taiwan’s presidential and parliamentary elections slated for Jan. 13 — is seen as a strategic move to influence the island’s political landscape.
The Chinese Communist Party Is Mired in Multiple Crises Going Into 2024
Plummeting demand has forced a medical equipment supplier in Chinese industrial hub Shenzhen to put employees on as much as 10 months of unpaid leave. Several other manufacturers, in industries from glass to aluminum, have resorted to the same measures in nearby Guangdong Province.
Xi Jinping Touts ‘Reunification’ With Taiwan as ‘Inevitable’ During Mao Commemoration in Beijing
“Our motherland must be reunified, and it will surely be reunified,” said Xi during his address, while highlighting his unwavering stance on the Taiwan issue. He further added, “[We] firmly oppose anyone using any means to separate Taiwan from China.”
Two Years After Uyghur ‘Genocide’ Revealed, Calls for Action Remain Unanswered
During the 75th anniversary of the UN convention on genocide, the organization’s human rights chief, Volker Turk, was lambasted for failing to acknowledge the Uyghurs’ plight, after having made other references to the Holocaust, and the Khmer Rogue’s massacres in Cambodia, Rwanda and Yugoslavia.
China Issues 129 New Rules to Revive Private Sector, But Entrepreneurs Point to the Fundamentals: Amend the Constitution and Toss Out Marxist Theory
“So many entrepreneurs failed not due to any business mistakes of their own, but were ruined by the lack of justice in the legal system,” Li Jinxing reflected recently on X.
Chinese Military Hackers Have Compromised Dozens of America’s Key Infrastructure Assets, WAPO
McReynolds, who claims to have seen internal Chinese military documents on the matter, says the PLA’s strategy is to synchronize air and missile strikes while disrupting command-and-control networks all while compromising critical infrastructure including satellite networks and logistics systems relied on by the U.S. military.
China Opposes Attempts to ‘Smear,’ ‘Sabotage’ Belt and Road Initiative
“Italy’s decision to leave the BRI aligns with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s critical view of the partnership and broader Western concerns about Beijing’s influence,” said Andy Mok, a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for China and Globalization in Beijing.
Exiled Hong Kong Activist Urged to Return Home By Questionable Online Post
“This isn’t about the law — it’s more about using Cultural Revolution-style struggle session tactics to undermine family ties of love, affection and trust,”
Chinese Regime Conducts Global Espionage Campaign Through ‘Consular Volunteers’: Report
In September 2022, Safeguard Defenders revealed in a report that there were over 100 secret overseas Chinese police stations in at least 53 countries around the world, “a setup between public security authorities in China in cooperation with United Front linked groups around the world,” said Campaign Director Laura Harth.