Tag: human rights

China Insider: Experts Call for Suspension of EU-China Investment Deal

After seven years of negotiations, the Chinese communist regime and the European Union reached the EU-China Comprehensive Investment Agreement in December 2020. Although the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has made promises to the EU such as market access and no more forced technology transfer, many have questioned and criticized this agreement.


I Was Persecuted by the Chinese Regime After Meeting the Son of Pro-Democracy Figure Zhao Ziyang

Commentary Jan. 17 marks the 16th anniversary of the death of former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Zhao Ziyang. When the democratic protest movement occurred in 1989, he stood on the side of the people. Consequently, Zhao was purged from the Party, but he became a symbol of democracy. Zhao, who was the general secretary…


Chinese Government Sponsors Facial Recognition Technology to Detect Uyghurs

The Chinese Patent Office (CPO) published patent applications of newly developed technologies to detect Uyghurs. The research and the patent applications are sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). The CPO published a patent application (with application number CN201711408669, filed with the CPO on Dec. 22, 2017) titled “A kind of new…


Conservatives Call on Ottawa to Declare Beijing’s Repression of Uyghurs a ‘Genocide’

The Conservative Party is calling on Ottawa to recognize that Beijing is committing “genocide” against Uyghur Muslims in China, and to take coordinated action with allies to stop it. “These acts of genocide include systematic population control, sexual violence, and mass detention,” Michael Chong, Conservative shadow minister for foreign affairs, said in a statement. He…


Three New Reports Expose China’s Human Rights Violations

News Analysis The international community has recently released three human rights reports. All three directly point to the Chinese communist regime for violation of basic human rights and freedom of belief. On Jan. 13, the British Conservative Party Human Rights Commission issued a report calling on the British government to take the lead in responding…


Trump Admin Declares Beijing’s Repression of Uyghurs a ‘Genocide’

The Trump administration has determined that the Chinese regime has committed “genocide” and “crimes against humanity” against Uyghur Muslims in the region of Xinjiang, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Jan. 19. The move, made on the eve of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, marks one of the administration’s toughest measures to condemn the…


US Declares Beijing’s Repression of Uyghurs a ‘Genocide’

The Trump administration has determined that the Chinese regime has committed “genocide” and “crimes against humanity” against Uyghur Muslims in the region of Xinjiang, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Jan. 19. The move, made on the eve of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, marks one of the administration’s toughest measures to condemn the…


Chinese Regime Oversaw ‘Unprecedented’ Efforts to Crush Human Rights in 2020, US Commission Says

The Chinese regime has this past year broadened its repression of groups domestically while ramping up human rights violations around the world, a bipartisan U.S. congressional commission warned in its annual report. The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) said in the report released on Jan. 14 that the “Chinese Communist Party has taken unprecedented steps…


Human Rights Watch Slams China’s ‘Appalling Year’ of Violations

China had an “appalling year” for human rights in 2020, a leading advocacy group said on Wednesday, with a clampdown on dissent in Hong Kong, repression of Muslim Uyghurs, and the silencing of people reporting on the coronavirus outbreak. A Chinese court last month handed down a four-year jail term to a citizen-journalist who reported…


Senior UK Conservatives Urge Government to Reset China Policy

Senior members of Britain’s ruling Conservative party have called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government to play a leading role in the international response to the Chinese regime’s human rights violations. The party’s Human Rights Commission said that the intensifying assault on human rights in China illustrates “the mendacity, brutality, inhumanity, insecurity, and criminality of…