Tag: Xinjiang
Australian researcher builds cultural bridge between his country and China
© Provided by Xinhua BEIJING, July 14 (Xinhua) — Colin Mackerras, an 84-year-old Australian professor, has a tight schedule in China despite the unusual heat this summer. A forum on Tibet, lectures at Renmin University in Beijing, a nine-day visit to the World Sinology Center in Qingdao in eastern Shandong Province, and the first World…
Amnesty International’s annual report: Finland’s border measures threaten asylum rights, double standards in the fight for human rights
The Finnish government considered several legislative proposals in order to prepare for state influence at the borders. Amnesty believes that these reforms did not take sufficient account of their impact on human rights, and the combined effects of these proposals could potentially limit the right to seek asylum and breach the absolute ban on deportation.…
China’s espionage, data theft cause concern for Norway, Netherlands
Oslo [Norway]March 21 (ANI): China’s “state-sponsored” hackers, who did contract work in the service of state espionage, and data theft have become the main problem for Norway and the Netherlands, according to an article on Portal Plus authored by Valerio Fabbri. The hackers use a sophisticated mix of social engineering techniques, including using dating sites,…
The Finnish Foreign Minister is concerned about the revelations of the Uighurs
Foreign minister Pekka Haavisto (Green) tells Yle he has found new revelations about China’s treatment of its Uighur population "very worrying." Earlier this week, Yle and other international media reported a large-scale information leak that provided a new insight into the repression of China’s Muslim minorities in western Xinjiang Province. The data confirmed previous estimates…
The biggest scandals of the Beijing Olympics
The Beijing Games will perhaps be indelibly remembered for Kamila Valieva’s ordeal ? but that was far from the only controversy The Beijing Games closing ceremony on Sunday brought an end to a Winter Olympics which became as high-profile for developments away from the stadiums and slopes as it did for sporting action. Russian figure…
Human rights China won the Winter Olympics. Almost.
ZHANGJIAKOU, China – When triple Olympian Gus Kenworthy made the remarkable, perhaps even brave, decision to speak out against the “atrocities of human rights” while still in China at the Winter Games, the self-proclaimed “loud and disgusting” British skier also proved that other athletes, if they had chosen, might as well have used their Olympic…
Censorship plagues the Olympics in Beijing, says the rights group
New York [US]February 18 (ANI): Chinese government censorship seriously ruined Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Friday, adding that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and corporate sponsors have not commented on the government’s human rights record. The Chinese government’s crimes against humanity against Uighurs and other Turkish communities in Xinjiang have…
Rights groups are urging Tesla to close showrooms in China’s Xinjiang
SHANGHAI – American human rights and trade groups on Tuesday blew up Tesla’s New Year’s announcement that they had opened a showroom in Xinjiang, the latest foreign company caught up in tensions related to the Chinese region in the far west, where internment camps have been widely criticized. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the United…
Tesla criticized for “supporting genocide”.
Elon Musk’s electric car maker is in hot water for opening a showroom in a Chinese region that is alleged to be plagued by human rights violations The announcement by electric car maker Tesla that they have opened a showroom in China’s Xinjiang has been met with outrage from US rights and trade groups, as…
Comment: Beijing Winter Olympics to unite the world
BEIJING, November 20 (Xinhua) – Calls from some quarters for a boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Games pose a serious threat to the ideals and principles on which the Olympic movement was founded. According to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the three core values of Olympics are excellence, friendship and respect. “Every individual must…
Ancient culture witnesses China’s early exchange with foreign countries
© Provided by Xinhua LANZHOU, June 22 (Xinhua) – An ancient Chinese culture dating back more than 5,000 years witnessed China’s early exchanges with foreign countries, experts say. A number of researchers expressed such views on Majiayao culture at a recent symposium held in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province in northwest China. The Majiayao…
The Xinjiang report does not justify a new Cold War, warns the Swedish group
Evidence used by a US think tank to explain that China’s policies in Xinjiang are genocide is not strong enough to risk a confrontation between America and China, the director of the Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research (TFF) told CGTN In an interview from his office in Lund, Sweden, Jan Oberg said that…
Relations between China and the EU continue to deteriorate
BEIJING, May 21 (Xinhua) – China is reluctant to see the current difficulties in China-European Union (EU) relations caused by unjustified EU sanctions and the responsibility does not lie with China, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Friday. that it is hoped that the EU side will make serious reflections. President Zhao Lijian made the…
New report: The solar cell industry is living on forced labor in Xinjiang
More companies in the solar cell industry, both in China and in the rest of the world, are affected by forced labor in the Xinjiang region. It shows a new report from Sheffield Hallam University in England, which has examined the entire logistics chain for solar modules. According to the China researcher Nyrola Elimä, one…
Your shirt and forced labor
Participating: Ma Xing, Give, “Jackson”, That G, at H&M store in Beijing, Jörg Wüttke, President of the EU Chamber of Commerce in Beijing, farmers in Xinjiang, Elisabet Lim, Fairtrade and previous buyers, Empty, customer, Patricia Jurewicz Responsible Sourcing Network, Hua Chunying, spokesperson at the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ryan Fedasiuk, researcher at Georgetown University…
The demand: “UN must investigate China’s crimes against humanity”
The human rights organization Human Rights Watch states in a recent report with Stanford University that the Chinese government is committing crimes against humanity in Xinjiang. The organization demands that the UN investigate the situation and calls on countries to impose sanctions on government officials involved in crimes in Xinjiang. | ” The world can…
Official: Got politicians to report sick before meeting with Tibetans
The course will be uncovered on Thursday during an interrogation in the Tibet Commission. It examines the handling of official Chinese visits. But it also looks at the increasing pressure that China has put on Denmark – especially when it comes to issues concerning Tibet, Xinjiang and Taiwan. A number of internal emails between the…
Björn Djurberg’s journey in Xinjiang – the police were waiting at the airport
Sweden Radio’s China correspondent Björn Djurberg has just visited the province of Xinjang in China, the area that has come into focus in the issue of China’s treatment of the Uighur ethnic group, and H & M’s boycott of cotton produced there. But visiting and reporting from the region as a foreign journalist was not…
VMA in Morjärv in Norrbotten County
Clothing giant H&M reports a loss before tax of SEK 1.4 million for the first quarter of the company’s broken financial year. Hear Ekot’s financial commentator Kristian Åström about how the result can be interpreted and about the big quarrel with China that turned off corporate e-commerce. “H&M has become a battleground in a major…
Following reports of unrest from Xinjiang: Stora Enso stops exporting
The conflict between Western companies and China continues – now the Finnish and Swedish forest industry group Stora Enso plans to stop exporting cellulose to Xinjiang Province in China. The decision comes after reports of China’s treatment of Uighurs. The company itself tells Ekot that they are now withdrawing due to financial and sustainability reasons.
Hanna Sahlberg: Seen as being against China
H&M has ended up in windy weather in China. Adidas and Nike’s apps have also been removed from Huawei’s Chinese app store. The clothing companies oppose suspected forced labor in the Xinjiang region, but this is not the case in China, says Ekot’s commentator Hanna Sahlberg. “Both the government and a nationalist part of public…
M wants to label goods from Xinjiang
Following Ekot’s report that solar panels on Swedish roofs may have been produced through forced labor in China, the Moderates are now making demands on the government. The Moderates’ foreign policy spokesman Hans Wallmark wonders if the government is investigating whether it is possible to label products from the Xinjiang region so that consumers can…
Update: China’s public opinion should not be trampled on: spokesman
© Provided by Xinhua BEIJING, March 25 (Xinhua) – A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday that China’s public opinion must not be trampled on. President Hua Chunying made statements at a daily press briefing when asked to comment on the backlash in China against Swedish retailer H & M’s announcement about Xinjiang’s cotton products.…
In the first sanctions against China since 1989, the EU targets officials
BRUSSELS, Belgium: In a rare move, European Union foreign ministers have agreed to sanction Chinese officials for human rights violations. This will be the first time since 1989, following the Tactics at Tiananmen Square, that the EU has sanctioned China. The EU will impose a travel ban and freeze assets for four Chinese officials and…
Swedish solar cells are linked to suspected forced labor
Vattenfall’s best-selling solar cells include panels by the manufacturer Jinko – a Chinese company that has participated in China’s work program in the Xinjiang region. “In principle, all solar panels have connections to Xinjiang in one way or another. This is a problem for the entire industry, and really for the whole of Europe,” says…
H&M exposed to Chinese criticism storm
H & M’s goods are blocked on several Chinese e-commerce sites at the same time as the company is subjected to extensive criticism from state media and the Communist Party. This is mainly about a statement from H&M a year ago, when the company wrote, among other things, that they were “deeply concerned” about allegations…
The Netherlands classifies China’s treatment of Uighurs as genocide
The Dutch parliament has voted to classify China’s treatment of Uighurs in the Xinjiang region as genocide. The Netherlands is the first country in Europe where such a proposal is voted through, and the decision was taken after reports of abuse, sterilization, forced labor and persecution of the Muslim ethnic group in China. Hear Ekot’s…
First conversation between Biden and Xi
According to a White House statement, Joe Biden emphasized his “fundamental concern” about Beijing’s actions in a number of areas, such as Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Taiwan. From China’s side, state television published a statement that was largely about the need to rebuild relations. The telephone conversation between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping is the…
Jeppe Kofod has talked about human rights with a China colleague
– We agree to further develop the cooperation under the Danish / Chinese strategic partnership, for which there is also broad support in the Folketing, says Kofod in a press release. – I expect that this work will now be further accelerated, not least in areas such as climate, energy and the broader green transition,…
Forced labor in cotton fields more common than previously known
Forced labor in Chinese cotton fields is more common than previously known and involves hundreds of thousands of people, according to a new research report and journalists on site. The workers forced to pick cotton come from the Muslim Uighur minority in Xinjiang The work programs are condemned by international human rights organizations, but Chinese…
Important message to the public in Nykvarn in Stockholm County.
In Xinjiang in western China, dissatisfaction with coronary restrictions has received unusual attention on Chinese social media in recent days, prompting authorities to react. A video shared on the Chinese microblog Weibo shows what is said to be living in the million-strong city of Urumqi, which shouts its frustration from its high-rise windows at night.…
