Chinese authorities have arrested four young Tibetan women from Dhartsedho County in eastern Tibet for joining in a protest against the Chinese government’s “zero-covid policy” restrictions in the city of Chengdu, The Tibet Post reports.
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday warned China on Twitter that China should know: any attack on Taiwan would make China a pariah state.”
China continues to overreact to Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan with endless harsh statements, halted dialogue, and military maneuvers.
As a new visa scheme grants Hongkongers to live in the UK, how do they use the newly gained freedom to keep the movement alive?
Campaigners have accused Vietnam of laundering cotton from ‘Xinjiang’ to help China bypass the fresh Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, EcoTextile reports on its website. Eventually, the Vietnamese manufacturers sell the items to the US market without disclosing the source.
EU Diplomatic Representative, Josep Borrell Fontelles, briefed the European Parliament on Tuesday about the EU-China summit held on April 1. He pointed out that the video conference between EU leaders and Chinese President Xi Jinping was a “deaf dialogue” and said there are doubts about China’s willingness to cooperate in ending the war in Ukraine, the Chinese Edition of Radio France Internationale (RFI) reports.
Today, the whole world is in mourning, sympathizing with the Ukrainian people, who are dealing with a war started by an enemy many times more powerful than theirs — and praying to God that a similar fate should not befall them.
Every year the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) issues the “Global Peace Index” (GPI), the purpose of which is to score 163 nations according to their levels of peacefulness. The overall GPI score for 2021 indicates that the global situation – as a result of the coronavirus pandemic among others – has once again deteriorated.
Yesterday, the Russian airstrikes killed five people in the Babi Yar Holocaust memorial site on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine. The infamous ravine saw 33,771 Jews killed by the Nazis in 24 hours during WW2.
China says it has managed to gain support from some Persian Gulf States on its treatment of Uyghurs, following talks between their foreign ministers. Beijing invited ministers from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, and Kuwait, and the secretary-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to discuss further cooperation, The Times (UK) reports.