During his four-day visit, Abbas met with the Chinese President and head of the ruling Communist Party Xi Jinping. The leaders then issued a joint statement endorsing Beijing’s domestic and foreign policies and repudiating Western concepts of human rights.
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President Emmanuel Macron of France – in the name of solving the Ukraine problem – went to China’s Xi Jinping and entered into a series of commercial contracts with a murderous country, betraying his strategic partners and the French people.
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Uyghur Genocide
No mention of Uyghurs during China’s 20th National People’s Congress
by Anne Kaderby Anne KaderChina’s 20th National People’s Congress took place in Beijing on October 16-22. Uyghurs in the diaspora and those interested in the Uyghur issue carefully followed whether the congress would mention the Uyghurs. During the entire period, no one uttered ‘Uyghur’ in any context. Even while Xi was giving his two-hour closing speech, there was no mention of Uyghurs.
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Chinese media, Global Times, reports that a so-called ‘2021 Xinjiang Intellectuals Forum and Human Rights Symposium’ was held at the Chinese Academy of Historical Studies in Beijing on December 22. Frontier Research Institute of the Chinese History Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences organized the conference. The researchers that attended were from the Xinjiang-based Think Tank.
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OPINION: Why did President Biden omit any mention of Uyghurs from his telephone call with Leader Xi Jinping on November 15th? Biden only referred to human rights in general but avoided any mention of Uyghurs or Tibetans.