China’s state media, Xinhua News, reported last week that the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting on November 10 to listen to the report on the prevention and control of Covid.
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According to information on social media on October 4th, the Yining City Disease Prevention Command Headquarters issued a notice about the plans of the Chinese authorities to tighten the siege policy in Yining, including the entire Uygur homeland (East Turkistan) because of the so-called ‘infectious situation’.
Uyghur Times Bi-Weekly Synopsis
This year Chinese companies are producing one million tons of corn in the Sanji Hui Autonomous Prefecture of the so-called Uyghur Autonomous Region (East Turkistan).
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.
Interviewer: Dr. Tohti, what caused you to expose the effects of nuclear testing in 1998 that China was conducting in the Uyghurs’ homeland?
How China Spreads Its Propaganda Version of Life for Uyghurs
by Jeff Kao, ProPublica, and Raymond Zhong, Paul Mozur and Aaron Krolik, The New York Times
June 23, 2021, 5 a.m. EDT
The Chinese solar industry has reacted against the U.S, which has voiced its criticism on human rights violations against Uyghurs. U.S. President Joe Biden signed a ban last week on imports from the Uyghurs’ homeland.
WASHINGTON, DC – On Thursday, December 23rd, U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law legislation that bans imports from Xinjiang, the Uyghur Autonomous in North-Eastern China (that Uyghurs prefer to call Uyghurstan / East Turkistan). It comes over concerns about forced labor, the White House reported. The bill received final congressional approval on December 16th.
Intel, a US-based semiconductor manufacturer, has landed at odds with Beijing over human rights.
Intel has apologized to its Chinese suppliers for the ban of using components from ‘Xinjiang’. The ban created fiery discussions among Chinese netizens on Weibo, calling for Beijing to punish Intel.
The controversy started after Intel sent a note to its Chinese suppliers saying they should not use Xinjiang-made components in Intel’s chips.