Asia produced two shining lamps on two hills this week. One is Ming Yang, CFO of the Daqo solar manufacturer in Xinjiang. The other is Taiwan. Yang, who has a Taiwanese heritage, leads a company in China that is completely… Read More ›
Uighurs
Why Iran won’t cross China on the Uighurs
Iran has long championed the cause of repressed Muslims worldwide, an often vocal stance that has underpinned the Islamic Republic’s self-proclaimed leadership role in the Muslim world. But Iran has willfully ignored the ordeal of more than 1.5 million Uighur… Read More ›
Traumatized women recount alleged gang rape and ‘sadistic’ torture in China’s concentration camps
Chinese women, who allege they were inside China’s concentration camps, claim that “extremely sadistic” guards carried out gang rapes and brutal beatings. Qelbinur Sidik grew up in Xinjiang and spent 28 years teaching elementary school students age 6 to 13…. Read More ›
Miao, Uyghur and Han Chinese get rich altogether
“Kung Hei Fat Choy!” (恭喜發財 spoken in Hong Kong Cantonese, i.e. Congratulations on making lots of money!) is the most common greeting during the Lunar New Year days among the Chinese people. China’s poverty alleviation mission was declared accomplished in… Read More ›
Cadence Column: Asia, February 8, 2021
Biden doesn’t only continue the stance on China from the previous administration, he seems to be clamping down. The US sails through the Taiwan Strait, again. China strong arms Guyana out of an office for Taiwan; the US defends Taiwan…. Read More ›
China reportedly secretly built hundreds of prison camps to hold minority Muslims
China has secretly constructed new prisons and internment camps over the past several years as the Communist Party-ruled country ramps up its mass detention campaign against Muslim minorities, according to a report on Thursday. Since 2017, China has built 260… Read More ›
Claims China is forcibly harvesting organs of Uighur population
Human rights activists are collecting evidence that people are killed for their organs For decades, the Chinese Communist Party depended on executed prisoners to bolster its organ transplant trade. Then it emerged that government leaders were relying on persecuted minorities to… Read More ›
President Trump has tools to pressure China. Will he use them?
Much of the focus on China in recent months has been over the coronavirus that originated there late last year. But that has hardly slowed Beijing’s assault on fundamental freedoms and human rights, from the brutal repression of the Uighurs… Read More ›
Hong Kong protesters rally in support of Uighurs
Hong Kong riot police pepper sprayed protesters to disperse crowds in the heart of the city’s financial district on Sunday after a largely peaceful rally in support of China‘s ethnic Uighurs turned chaotic. Dozens of police marched across a public… Read More ›
China must answer for Xinjiang cultural genocide in court
International law is a vital part of fighting for the Uighur people. The substantial leaks to the New York Times and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists of internal policy documents of the Chinese Communist Party regarding the crackdown on… Read More ›
US House approves bill that calls for sanctioning Chinese officials over Muslim detainment camps
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a bill that would require the Trump administration to toughen its response to China’s crackdown on its Muslim minority, demanding sanctions on senior Chinese officials and export bans. The Uighur Act… Read More ›
Zhu Hailun: The man who was key in China’s detention of 1 million Uighur Muslims
After bloody race riots rocked China’s far west a decade ago, the ruling Communist Party turned to a rare figure in their ranks to restore order: a Han Chinese official fluent in Uighur, the language of the local Turkic Muslim… Read More ›
Leaked documents reveal China’s mass incarceration of Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang
Hundreds of internal Chinese government documents obtained by The New York Times reveals striking new details about the execution of the country’s mass detention of ethnic minorities over the past three years in the Xinjiang region. The rare leak of… Read More ›
State-sanctioned organ harvesting in China
Having hepatitis C may very well have saved Jennifer Zeng’s life. In February 2000, she was arrested for being a Falun Gong practitioner and interrogated intensely about her medical history at a Labor Camp in China’s Da Xing County, she… Read More ›
China accused of genocide over forced abortions of Uighur Muslim women
The women have found refuge from Chinese authorities across the border in Kazakhstan, their ancestral homeland. But they remain haunted by the stories of abuse they carry with them. Some said they were forced to undergo abortions in China’s Muslim-majority… Read More ›
‘Horrific campaign of repression’: U.S. slams China’s treatment of Muslims
The United States led more than 30 countries on Tuesday in condemning what it called China’s “horrific campaign of repression” against Muslims in the western region of Xinjiang at an event on the sidelines of the annual UN General Assembly… Read More ›
China paid Facebook and Twitter to help spread anti-Muslim propaganda
In China’s internment camps, Muslims are reportedly subjected to forced indoctrination, torture, and even death. Yet some paid ads on Facebook and Twitter would have you believe they’re wonderful places. The US-based social media giants have been enabling Chinese state-owned… Read More ›
China blames terrorists for deadly Xinjiang attack; 15 dead, 14 injured
The following is based on reports in Chinese media: Singtao Daily says in its report today that at 1:30pm (11:30am according to SCMP), a group of terrorists threw explosives at, and hacked with knives and axes, innocent people at Meishi… Read More ›
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