The EU submitted a World Trade Organization (WTO) case against China this week over “discriminatory trade practices” against Lithuania, the European Commission announces on its website.
Taiwanese officials intend to boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics, an official with knowledge of the matter told the Taipei Times. He cited concerns that China would choose to defame Taiwan during the Games. The Taiwanese delegation would abstain from the opening and closing ceremonies.
The Chinese officials detained the Uyghur wives of Sikandar Hayat and Ghulam Durrani, both Pakistani nationals, during a visit to their homeland in East Turkistan (Uyghuristan), International Forum For Rights and Security reports.
The French National Assembly voted 169 in favor and just one against for calling China’s treatment of Uyghurs genocide. The National Assembly officially recognizes the violence perpetrated by the People’s Republic of China against the Uyghurs as crimes against humanity and genocide. The resolution will likely strain ties between Paris and Beijing.
A shocking Twitter thread is circulating online: A Chinese senior health official Huang Jiefu, the Deputy Director of the Chinese Central Health Commission, admitted on camera that the Chinese government has been harvesting organs from criminals on death row.
WASHINGTON — Sen Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Rep. James P. McGovern (D-MA), the Chair and Co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China, sent a letter to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet.
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