Geopolitics

Uyghur issue: US labour group letter to Biden administration urges banning solar products import from China's Xinjiang

Washington: A US labour group has asked President Joe Biden and his government to cut off imports of solar energy products from China’s Xinjiang region from where the allegation of forced labour has often emerged. more

Antony Blinken says will raise issue of Uyghurs in meeting with Chinese officials next week

Washington/Sputnik: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a congressional hearing that he will raise concerns over the treatment of Uyghurs in China's Xinjiang province dur ...

Uyghurs commend Canadian parliament move to declare China's treatment of their community as genocide

Ottawa: Campaign for Uyghurs group has called Canada’s House of Commons move of adopting a non-binding motion calling on the Trudeau government to declare the actions of the C ...

Britain's trade law amendment might block future trade deals with Beijing

London: An amendment to a British trade law that would potentially block future trade deals with China over alleged genocide in the Xinjiang region has cleared a key legislative hurdle, r ...

China: Authority removes Uyghur language as medium of instruction in Xinjiang

Beijing: One county in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) is no more offering Uyghur language to instruct students, adding one more episode of persecution by ...

Chinese tech major brand Huawei backtracks after filing for patent to identify Uyghur faces

Beijing: Chinese technology brand Huawei has decided to backtrack a patent application it filed for a facial recognition system intended to identify Uyghurs from other Chinese ethnicities ...

China planning to combine all ethnic minorities into singular national identity: Reports

Beijing: China is believed to be engaging in the practice of combining all the different ethnic minorities in China into a singular national identity and thereby imposing the Chinese Comm ...

World Uyghur Congress calls on Turkey to refrain from signing extradition treaty with China

New York: The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) has called upon the government of Turkey to abide by international law and the principle of non-refoulement and refrain from signing the extradit ...

UNGA: 39 countries target China over its policy towards Hong Kong, Xinjiang

Geneva: As many as 39 nations have condemned China's policy towards people in Hong Kong and Xinjiang regions.

China's militarized vocational training which is practised in Xinjiang now reaches Tibet: US think-tank

Washington DC: A US-based think -tank is claiming that labourers in Tibet are forced to join military-style training camps similar to the one built and run for years by the Chinese govern ...