On Saturday, a full-page advertisement appeared in the New York Times that urged athletes and business sponsors not to support the Winter Olympics and protest China’s persecution of the Uyghurs, Forward reports.
The task of a foreign news correspondent has become increasingly difficult in China when covering issues that China deems sensitive.
How can it be that Israelis will soon ski or skate for entertainment purposes in the very same country where genocide is ongoing?
Chinese officials recently shared their anti-Western views with millions of viewers on Dong Fang TV (东方卫视), one of the most popular satellite TV channels in China. The hosts of ‘This is China’, the channel’s flagship show, claimed the western culture to be evil by its very nature.
The 5th session of the 13th Peoples’ Government of ‘Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (that Uyghurs prefer to call East Turkistan) has elected Erken Tuniyaz as its chairperson.
Five Central Asian countries are participating in the 2022 Beijing Olympics in China. The Chinese Foreign Ministry welcomes the participants, Uyghur Times Uyghur language edition reports.
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.