Commentary In last Monday’s speech on Afghanistan, President Biden made the claim, “I have been clear that human rights must be the center of our foreign policy, not the periphery.” He is right that basic human rights are central to America’s foreign policy, as a matter of law and core national values. This is in…
President Biden Must Oppose the Taliban’s Current and Future Crackdown on Human Rights
The Chinese Regime Must Pay for the Pandemic, Avoiding the Winter Olympics Solves Nothing
Commentary Aldous Huxley once compared “a walk in the country” to a religious-like pilgrimage. “To commune with the fields and waters, the woodlands and the hills,” he wrote, “is to commune, according to our modern and northern ideas, with the visible manifestations of the Wisdom and Spirit of the Universe.” Now, thanks to the most…
Harper Urges Global Powers Not to Negotiate With Incoming Iranian Regime
Governments around the world should shun Iran’s incoming president based on his long-standing record of human rights abuses, a former Canadian prime minister argued Saturday in a speech to an international conference on the state of the middle-eastern country. Stephen Harper’s remarks came at a virtual sitting of the Free Iran World Summit. Canada’s 22nd…
Ministers Urged to Threaten China With Olympics Boycott Over Xinjiang Abuses
July 6, 2021
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Members of the royal family and UK ministers should boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics unless China allows UN investigators to examine alleged human rights abuses, Labour has said. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden have been urged to announce a political boycott of the Games if Beijing refuses to allow a…
German Industry Group Criticizes China Over New Sanctions Law
June 15, 2021
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BERLIN—Germany’s powerful BDI industry association criticized China on Tuesday for passing the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Laws, which it said sent a worrying signal to investors and companies abroad. China is one of the most important export markets for German companies outside the European Union’s single market, but concerns over human rights abuses and a crackdown in…
Pelosi Calls for US and World Leaders to Boycott China’s 2022 Olympics
May 18, 2021
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WASHINGTON—House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday called for a U.S. diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, criticizing the Chinese regime for human rights abuses and saying global leaders who attend would lose their moral authority. U.S. lawmakers have been increasingly vocal about an Olympic boycott or venue change, and have lashed…
Video: Live Q&A: China Expands Persecution With Help From Overseas Journalists and Corporations
The Chinese communist regime is expanding its social controls and human rights abuses, including with a new hotline where netizens can report fellow citizens for making “illegal” comments on history, and with expanding programs on religious suppression such as a new grid-based enforcement system. As this takes place, reports show that the regime has been…
H&M Vows to Rebuild Trust in China After Xinjiang Backlash
March 31, 2021
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STOCKHOLM—H&M vowed on Wednesday to win back trust in China amid growing signs its fashion empire is suffering from a backlash after it voiced concerns last year about alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang province. The comments come as Western brands battle to strike a balance between consumers in the world’s second-largest economy and public…
US Senators Push Solar Lobby to Detail Firms’ Links to Forced Labor in China
WASHINGTON—Two U.S. senators have asked the leading solar energy lobbying group to clarify U.S. dependence on solar products linked to forced labor in China’s Xinjiang, part of a push in Congress to address what Western countries say are rights abuses by Beijing. Republican Marco Rubio and Democrat Jeff Merkley sent a letter on Tuesday asking…
Canada Imposes New Sanctions on Russian Officials Over Treatment of Opposition Leader
OTTAWA—Canada is imposing new sanctions on nine senior Russian officials in response to what Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau describes as gross and systemic human-rights abuses in the country. That includes the Russian government’s treatment of key opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was the target of an assassination attempt last year—an accusation that Russian authorities…
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