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…
Parliaments in Czech Republic and Belgium Pass Motion Condemning Beijing’s Crimes Against Uyghurs
June 15, 2021
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China’s New Counter-Sanctions Risk Spiralling Into Economic Decoupling
June 13, 2021
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Commentary China just enacted a broad extraterritorial law against anyone who aids in sanctions against China, including Chinese nationals and China’s “private” companies. China’s new counter-sanctions, announced June 11, include the ability to seek compensation from foreign companies doing business in China. They are leveled at “discrimination” against Chinese nationals, and could apply against “organizations,”…
Legislators in Ten Countries Push for Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Boycott
June 8, 2021
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Lawmakers from 10 countries and the European Union have brought forward proposals concerning a boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in light of the communist regime’s treatment of the Chinese citizens, primarily the Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Hong Kongers. The announcements from representatives in democratic countries—the United States, United Kindom, European Parliament, Canada, and other…
Amid Accusations of Genocide From the West, China Policies Could Cut Millions of Uyghur Births in Xinjiang: Report
BEIJING—Chinese birth control policies could cut between 2.6 million and 4.5 million births of the Uyghur and other ethnic minorities in southern Xinjiang within 20 years, up to a third of the region’s projected minority population, according to a new analysis by a German researcher. The report, shared exclusively with Reuters ahead of publication, also…
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…
Germany Recognizes Colonial Killings in Namibia as Genocide
BERLIN—Germany has reached an agreement with Namibia that will see it officially recognize as genocide the colonial-era killings of tens of thousands of people and commit to spending a total of €1.1 billion ($1.3 billion), largely on development projects. The accord announced Friday is the result of more than five years of talks with Namibia…
France’s Macron Admits Some Guilt for Rwanda’s Genocide
KIGALI, Rwanda—In a key speech on his visit to Rwanda, French President Emmanuel Macron said he recognizes that France bears a heavy responsibility for the 1994 genocide in the central African country. Macron solemnly detailed how France had failed the 800,000 victims of the genocide but he stopped short of an apology. France “was not…
Lithuania Withdraws From China’s ‘17+1’ Cooperation Platform
The Lithuanian government has pulled out of Beijing’s “17+1” platform, a Chinese initiative that the Baltic nation signed up to in 2012. The Chinese regime officially launched the platform—which was initially named the “16+1” platform—in April 2012 to intensify cooperation with 11 European Union member states and five Balkan countries. The platform was renamed “17+1”…
Lithuanian Parliament Latest to Call China’s Treatment of Uyghurs ‘Genocide’
VILNIUS—The parliament in Lithuania on Thursday became the latest to describe China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority as “genocide”, voting to call for a U.N. investigation of internment camps and to ask the European Commission to review relations with Beijing. The Biden administration in the United States has used the term genocide to describe the…
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