Category: Uyghurs

Chinese Communist Party Is ‘Cornered’ as World Awakens to Its Abuses: Religious Freedom Commissioner

WASHINGTON—More than ever, the Chinese Communist Party is finding itself backed into a corner as the world wakes up to its human rights atrocities, according to Nury Turkel, the vice chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). “China has never been this isolated in the recent memory, and the isolation is making…


Chinese Communist Party Is ‘Cornered’ as World Awakens to Its Abuses

WASHINGTON—More than ever, the Chinese Communist Party is finding itself backed into a corner as the world wakes up to its human rights atrocities, according to Nury Turkel, the vice chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). “China has never been this isolated in the recent memory, and the isolation is making…


US Senate Passes Bill To Ban All Xinjiang Goods Over CCP’s Rights Abuse

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill on Wednesday that would block the import of all products from China’s northwestern region, where at least 1 million Uyghurs and ethnic minorities are being held in secretive “political reeducation” camps. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, a bipartisan measure, would create a “rebuttable presumption” assuming goods manufactured…


US Senate Passes Bill to Ban All Xinjiang Goods Over CCP’s Rights Abuses

The U.S. Senate unanimously approved a bill on July 14 that would block the import of all products from China’s northwestern region, where at least 1 million Uyghurs and ethnic minorities are being held in secretive “political reeducation” camps. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, a bipartisan measure, would create a “rebuttable presumption” assuming goods…


Decouple From Genocide: Biden China Warnings Miss Point

Commentary The U.S. government is issuing new warnings to business against operating supply chains that reach into Xinjiang (East Turkestan), China, where there is ongoing forced labor and genocide, as well as warnings for investors in Hong Kong, where national security laws from Beijing are criminalizing even verbal resistance to China’s growing power. The warnings…


China’s Social Media War Against the Uyghurs

Commentary The Chinese regime blocks Chinese citizens from accessing nearly all Western social-media platforms—Facebook, Google, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and others—not to mention such conventional international news sources as the BBC, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. China’s “Great Firewall,” as it is called, is said to be the most technologically sophisticated system…


US Blacklists Over a Dozen Chinese Entities for Aiding Xinjiang Abuses and Military Modernization

The Biden administration on July 9 added a total of 19 Chinese entities to its economic blacklist over their role in furthering Beijing’s human rights abuses and supporting military aggression. The blacklist includes 15 concerning Russia or Iran, adding up to a total of 34. “The Department of Commerce remains firmly committed to taking strong,…


Housakos Accuses Senators of Appeasing China, After Defeat of Motion to Recognize Genocide of Uyghurs

Conservative Sen. Leo Housakos says he finds it unusual that a motion he introduced to recognize communist China’s mistreatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims as an act of genocide was voted down. The motion was voted down 33-29 in the Senate on June 29, with 13 abstentions. It was supported by Conservative senators, while…


Senator Who Sponsored Motion to Recognize Uyghur Genocide Says Some Senators Are ‘Apologists for China’ After Motion Defeated

Conservative Sen. Leo Housakos says he finds it unusual that a motion he introduced to recognize communist China’s mistreatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims as an act of genocide was voted down. The motion was voted down 33-29 in the Senate on June 29, with 13 abstentions. It was supported by Conservative senators, while…


Replacing God: The CCP’s Century-Long War Against Faith

Priests and nuns were forced to kneel down in front of a large bonfire, watching helplessly as the flames devoured their sacred instruments while burning their skin. In another Chinese city, students wearing red armbands hit Catholics with sharp wooden sticks, throwing one priest into a fire pit after he collapsed in pain. They beat…