Commentary Nike’s president and CEO, John J. Donahoe, recently declared his company’s unequivocal fealty to the Chinese tyranny. During the “4th Quarter Earnings Call” to discuss the company’s profit projections, Donahoe bragged that Nike “is a brand of China and for China.” Ponder the blatant hypocrisy of that disgraceful statement. In America, Nike prides itself…
Freedom Cannot Be Taken for Granted, A Price Ought to Be Paid to Preserve It: Eric Metaxas
June 28, 2021
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The liberty and self-governance secured by Americans in decades past are now being taken for granted, to the point that this freedom and self determination is beginning to dissipate, Eric Metaxas, whose show was recently canceled by YouTube, told The Epoch Times. This a warning for people to realize that they need to stand up…
House Dems Defeat GOP Move Against ‘Bad Actors’ Behind China’s Forced Labor Camps
House Democrats defeated an effort by Republicans late Wednesday to require public disclosure of and potentially sanction “bad actors” in China’s forced labor abuses identified in U.S. firms’ supply chains. The motion to recommit introduced by Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) the Democrats’ “ESG Disclosure Simplification Act” was defeated 218-208, with five Members not voting. Had…
Parliaments in Czech Republic and Belgium Pass Motion Condemning Beijing’s Crimes Against Uyghurs
June 15, 2021
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The Czech Senate has passed a motion saying that the Chinese regime’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities amounts to crimes against humanity and genocide. On Tuesday, the Belgian parliament passed a similar motion. The Czech motion was passed unanimously by a vote of 38 to zero on June 10, according to a June…
UK ‘People’s Tribunal’ Hears Claims China Abused Uyghurs
LONDON—A “people’s tribunal” set up to assess whether China’s alleged rights abuses against the Uyghur people constitute genocide opened in London on Friday, with witnesses alleging that inmates at detention camps for Uyghurs were routinely humiliated, tortured, and abused. Chairman Geoffrey Nice said more than three dozen witnesses would make “grave” allegations against Chinese authorities…
Uyghur Exiles Describe Forced Abortions, Torture in Xinjiang
ISTANBUL—Three Uyghurs who fled from China to Turkey have described forced abortions and torture by Chinese authorities in China’s far western Xinjiang region, ahead of giving testimony to a people’s tribunal in London that is investigating if Beijing’s actions toward ethnic Uyghurs amount to genocide. The three witnesses include a woman who said she was…
California Assembly Condemns CCP’s Human Rights Abuses Against Uyghurs
The California Assembly adopted a resolution May 20 denouncing the Chinese government’s human rights abuses against Uyghurs, a persecuted religious and ethnic minority. Assemblyman Chad Mayes (I-Yucca Valley) authored House Resolution 41 (HR 41), which demands “that the People’s Republic of China should release the estimated 2,000,000 imprisoned Uyghurs and grant access to foreign press…
Forced Uyghur Labor Behind World’s Solar Panels, Investigation Finds
May 15, 2021
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British researchers say the world’s production of solar panels is being fueled by forced labor from Uyghur Muslims in the Chinese province of Xinjiang. An investigation by Sheffield Hallam University says some 45 percent of the world’s supply of a key component in the panels—polysilicon—comes from Xinjiang and is obtained through a vast system of…
US State Department Highlights Communist China’s ‘Dire’ Religious Freedom Situation
The United States decried the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s extensive abuses against people of faith from Uyghur Muslims to Christians to Falun Gong practitioners, as the State Department released its annual update on religious freedom around the world on May 12. Daniel Nadel, a senior official in the State Department’s Office of International Freedom, said…
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