The Beijing Winter Olympics kicked off on April 4, 2022, with the Uyghur genocide still raging in East Turkestan (Xinjiang of China). This is the same as a wedding taking place next to a funeral. One of the most common and long-held rules of etiquette is not to hold a wedding on the day of a neighbor’s funeral.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), one of the leading global development banks, has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to companies in the Chinese occupied Uyghursistan (that China refers to as Xinjiang), reveals a new report released by Atlantic Council, Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice and NomoGaia.
Image: Monica Volpin / Pixabay The U.S Treasury Department issued regulations to implement sanctions on 59 Chinese military-linked companies to prevent them from benefiting from the U.S. financial markets, The Washington Times reports. The Pentagon had earlier designated these companies as military entities. The black-listed Chinese companies with direct links to the […]
Nuctech, a Chinese company with close ties to the Chinese military and the ruling Communist Party, has won a procurement to provide safety control at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport Terminal 5, Swedish Aftonbladet reports.
By Anne Kader Beijing has for years encouraged Han Chinese men to settle in the Uyghurs’ homeland. According to Xinjiang Daily (China News, 2014), Han Chinese settlers in the four prefectures in southern ‘Xinjiang’ (Uyghuristan / East Turkistan) had access to more flexible family-planning policies. The Implementation Plan also proposed improved […]
Beijing has for years encouraged Han Chinese men to settle in the Uyghurs’ homeland. According to Xinjiang Daily (China News, 2014), Han Chinese settlers in the four prefectures in southern ‘Xinjiang’ (Uyghuristan / East Turkistan) had access to more flexible family-planning policies. The Implementation Plan also proposed improved education, health, family planning, employment, social security, housing, and land use.
The University College London recently put up a ‘Xinjiang” dance performance. Uyghur culture is not only appropriated but is subsequently used to present a version of the Uyghur region in which genocide is not taking place
The Chinese government has a long record of attacking Uyghur groups in the diaspora.
On a winter night in London, a teenage girl was holding a microphone reading out the numerous names of ethnic minorities who were suspected to be detained by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in ‘Xinjiang’ (that Uyghurs prefer to call Uyghuristan or East Turkistan)
“What is genocide?” According to Zhao Li Jian, the Spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, “the U.S. policy toward Native Americans is the ‘real’ genocide.”