Tag: Uyghur

Canada’s Next China Ambassador Must Be a ‘Professional Diplomat,’ O’Toole Says

Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole says Canada’s next ambassador to China must be a “professional diplomat” who is capable of safeguarding Canadian interests and standing up to the Chinese communist regime. “I think we need a professional diplomat that can be in Beijing to assert our interests, to make sure that our voice is heard, and that…


Canadians Say Human Rights More Important Than Trade With China: New Poll

Canadians say human rights and rule of law are more important than trade opportunities with China, a new Angus Reid poll says. The survey, published on Jan. 10, asked respondents what they think Canada’s priority should be in its dealing with China, and whether they are worried about the economic consequences of standing up to…


Canadians Say Human Rights More Important Than Trade With China: Poll

Canadians say human rights and the rule of law are more important than trade opportunities with China, a new Angus Reid poll shows. The survey, published on Jan. 10, asked respondents what they think Canada’s priority should be in its dealings with China and whether they are worried about the economic consequences of standing up…


Chinese State Media Uses Times Square Screen to Play Xinjiang Propaganda

NEW YORK—Chinese state media Xinhua is running digital billboards in one of the world’s most coveted ad spaces to promote goods from Xinjiang amid rising global outcry over the regime’s campaign of repression in the region. In New York City’s Times Square just before Christmas, a giant screen measuring about 64 feet high and 40…


Soft-Pedaling on China’s Atrocities Only Metastasized Its Machinery of Repression: Human Rights Experts

The belief that downplaying Beijing’s human rights abuses can lead to reforms in China has not only validated the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) approach against faith groups such as Falun Gong, but has also licensed it to repeat the atrocities, a paper from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) says. “Successive Canadian governments, and others around the…


Soft-Pedaling China’s Atrocities Only Metastasized Its Machinery of Repression: Human Rights Experts

The belief that downplaying Beijing’s human rights abuses would lead to reforms in China has not only validated the Chinese Communist Party’s approach against faith groups such as Falun Gong, but has also given it license it to repeat the atrocities, a paper from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) says. “Successive Canadian governments, and others around…


US Congress Approves World’s First Legislation Banning Imports from Xinjiang Over Forced Labor Concerns

The U.S. Senate approved legislation on Dec. 16 to ban all imports from China’s Xinjiang region, where Beijing has is holding more than 1 million Uyghurs in internment camps, over forced labor concerns. The measure is now headed to the White House, where President Joe Biden has said he’ll sign it into law. The move…


The Chinese Regime Is Committing ‘At Least 3 Genocides’: Former Senior State Department Official

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is committing at least three genocides, aimed to eradicate Falun Gong adherents, Uyghurs and Tibetans, according to a former senior state department official. “The people you’re dealing with in China are human traffickers. … They’re committing genocide against their own people,” Robert Destro, former assistant secretary of state for democracy,…


15 Human Rights Groups Urge NBC Not to Broadcast 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

SAN FRANCISCO—15 human rights groups gathered outside the NBC Sports office in San Francisco on Friday, Dec. 10 to call on the station not to air the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games. In light of Human Rights Day, the groups—comprised of Tibetan, Uyghur, Southern Mongolian, Hong Kong, Taiwanese, Chinese Democracy, and other human rights campaign…


US Bans American Investment in Chinese AI Company SenseTime Over Rights Concerns

The United States on Dec. 10 put a ban on American investment in Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm SenseTime over concerns it’s aiding the Chinese regime’s repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. The 7-year-old firm, one of the world’s highest-valued AI startups and leading developer of facial-recognition technology, was placed in the U.S. list of “Chinese…