Key Takeaways: Rome, Italy – December 7, 2023 – Italy, the only G7 nation to have participated in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has announced its withdrawal from the global infrastructure program. This decision, effective March 2024, reflects a hardening stance towards China among European nations. Prime Minister Giorgia […]
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The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions on two Chinese government officials, Gao Qi and Hu Lianhe, for their involvement in ongoing serious human rights abuses in Uyghur homeland. Gao, the leader of the Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture Public Security Bureau, has been linked to a range […]
By Danielle Ranucci, Research and Data Analytics Intern Last month, Chengdu, China hosted the 81st World Science Fiction Convention. Known as Worldcon, this annual convention is the site of the prestigious Hugo Awards—sci-fi’s equivalent to the Oscars. Past Hugo winners include household names like George R.R. Martin and Stephen King. […]
The demand includes the immediate release of Uyghur prisoners held by the Chinese government. By Tursunjan, November 10, 2023 WASHINGTON, DC – In anticipation of President Biden’s upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in San Francisco, House Select Committee on CCP Chairman Mike […]
Uyghur Times WASHINGTON, D.C. In a joint effort, Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and Representative Young Kim (R-CA), Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Indo-Pacific, have issued a compelling letter to Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro. […]
Buddhism, one of the world’s oldest religions, has deep historical roots in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, located in the western part of China.
China’s United Nations mission has urged other UN member states not to attend an event that will discuss Beijing’s atrocities against Uyghurs during next week’s U.N. General Assembly debate, National Review reported.
US-sanctioned Chairman of the People’s Government of Xinjiang, Erken Tuniyaz, visited Hungary in early September, and the Hungarian government “forgot” to inform the Hungarian people about it, Tompos Márton shares on X.
China has become the first nation to formally nominate a new ambassador to Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover in August 2021, Reuters reports. The Taliban has not received global recognition from any other foreign government.
Chinese opera singer Wang Fang performed the Russian song “Katyusha” at the ruins of the bombed Mariupol Theatre in the Russian-occupied Mariupol in Ukraine, where the Russian army killed more than 600 civilians, Nexta TV reports.