Category: State Department

US Report Calls Out China’s ‘Crimes Against Humanity,’ Pandemic Repression

The U.S. State Department highlighted the deteriorating human rights record in China, accusing the regime of committing “genocide” and “crimes against humanity” in a newly released report. The annual report, covering the human rights conditions last year across roughly 200 countries, used more assertive language on the Beijing regime’s suppression in the Xinjiang region. It…


Video: Average Investor Is Unknowingly Financing Firms Complicit in Uyghur Genocide—Keith Krach and Ellie Cohanim

“What’s really sad is that the average American investor is unknowingly financing the Chinese Communist Party,” says former Undersecretary of State Keith Krach. Americans inadvertently funded companies tied to China’s human rights abuses through American pension funds, university endowments, foundations, mutual funds, and bond portfolios. What responsibility do Americans have to help stop the genocide…


China Applied COVID-19 Anal Swab Tests on US Diplomats ‘In Error’: US State Department

China has given anal awab tests to U.S. diplomats for COVID-19 “in error” and promised to exclude them from such practices in the future, the State Department told The Epoch Times on Feb. 25. The comments came after some U.S. diplomatic staff stationed in China complained to Washington about having to undergo the intrusive procedure,…


Chinese Critics Decry WHO’s Wuhan Probe as a ‘Farce’

A Chinese dissident has condemned the World Health Organization’s findings on the source of the pandemic as a “farce,” adding that the Chinese regime is likely to leverage them to deflect responsibility for causing the global crisis. According to Yuan Hongbing, a Chinese academic and vocal critic of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) living in…


‘Jury’s Still Out’ on Whether China Was Transparent for WHO Probe: State Department

State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Feb. 9 that the “jury’s still out” on whether the Chinese regime gave full transparency to the World Health Organization team currently in Wuhan to study the origin of the pandemic. “I think the jury’s still out. I think clearly the Chinese, at least heretofore, have not offered…


‘Jury’s Still Out’ on Whether China Was Transparent in WHO Probe: State Department

State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Feb. 9 that the “jury’s still out” on whether the Chinese regime gave full transparency to the World Health Organization team currently in Wuhan to study the origin of the pandemic. “I think the jury’s still out. I think clearly the Chinese, at least heretofore, have not offered…


US State Department Criticizes China After Latest Military Incursion Against Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan—The U.S State Department has voiced concerns about China’s continued military aggression against Taiwan, after China breached the island’s air defense zone with 13 military aircraft. “We urge Beijing to cease its military, diplomatic, and economic pressure against Taiwan and instead engage in meaningful dialogue with Taiwan’s democratically elected representatives,” State Department spokesperson Ned…


US Declares Beijing’s Repression of Uyghurs a ‘Genocide’

The Trump administration has determined that the Chinese regime has committed “genocide” and “crimes against humanity” against Uyghur Muslims in the region of Xinjiang, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Jan. 19. The move, made on the eve of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, marks one of the administration’s toughest measures to condemn the…


Trump Admin Declares Beijing’s Repression of Uyghurs a ‘Genocide’

The Trump administration has determined that the Chinese regime has committed “genocide” and “crimes against humanity” against Uyghur Muslims in the region of Xinjiang, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Jan. 19. The move, made on the eve of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, marks one of the administration’s toughest measures to condemn the…


US to Bar Entry to Chinese Navy Officials, Business Execs Involved in Militarizing South China Sea

The United States will bar entry to Chinese executives, navy officials, and others involved in Beijing’s military aggression in the disputed South China Sea region, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Jan. 14. The move is the latest in a flurry of actions made in the final days of President Donald Trump’s term, targeting…