Chinese media, Global Times, reports that a so-called ‘2021 Xinjiang Intellectuals Forum and Human Rights Symposium’ was held at the Chinese Academy of Historical Studies in Beijing on December 22. Frontier Research Institute of the Chinese History Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences organized the conference. The researchers that attended were from the Xinjiang-based Think Tank.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly signed a deal worth $275 billion with the Chinese government in 2016 during one of his visits to the country, The Information reports.
Twitter has suspended two large Chinese networks of accounts that violated its platform manipulation and spam policies, Stanford Internet Observatory reports. ASPI, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, has analyzed the content of these networks.
Over 50 Chinese media platforms such as Sina, QQ, and 163 have published defamatory reports about Uyghur Times and its founder Tahir Imin. Their purpose is to create strife between Uyghurs and other Muslims.
Xinjiang government “vows to take legal actions” against Dr. Adrian Zenz after his latest report. “The relevant parties will take legal action against the pseudo-scholar, said the local government, Dr. Adrian Zenz tweets.
The Chinese province of Henan is building a surveillance system with face-scanning technology that can detect journalists and other people of interest, surveillance analysts IPVM reports. Chinese firm Neusoft, backed by Huawei cloud services, has won a tender to build the system. It will operate like traffic lights and divide people into different categories: green, yellow, and red. Anyone labeled red would ring an alarm.
Previously unpublished documents that link the crackdown on Uyghurs in Xinjiang to the top Chinese leadership have been uploaded online, The Guardian reports.
Hu Binchen, the deputy director-general for the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, has been elected to serve on Interpol Executive Committee, Interpol said on its official Twitter account.
The Chinese police officer will serve a three-year term in the Executive Committee of Interpol. It has thirteen members.
Eastern European states of the former Communist block do not react well to the Chinese subversion and even coercion in Europe. Countries like Lithuania are at the forefront of standing firm against Beijing. The resistance does not come without a price. After the Lithuanian parliament passed a resolution in May this year […]
The Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States has officially changed its name to the Organization of Turkic States at the 8th Summit of the Turkic Council held in Istanbul last week.
According to Global Times, the name change is in line with Turkey’s geopolitical ambitions. Since the failed negotiations to join the EU, Ankara has started building diplomatic connections elsewhere, namely in the Middle East and Central Asia.