Twenty-two countries at the United Nations’ top human rights body issued a joint statement this week, urging China to end its mass arbitrary detentions and related violations against Muslims in the Xinjiang region, Human Rights Watch said today. In their unprecedented move, the countries also called on China to cooperate with the UN high commissioner...
Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) of the Select Committee on China, US House of Representatives, has on Jun 15 cosponsored the Tibet Atrocities Determination Act introduced earlier on Jun 2 by Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Select Committee member Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-NY). The legislation would direct the Secretary of...
Beijing calls its new law “ethnic unity.” The phrase is meant to reassure the world. It should alarm it.
Every country needs social peace. Every nation needs a shared civic identity. But the Chinese Communist Party is not asking Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongols, Hui Muslims, Manchus, Cantonese speakers and others to...
The Doklam standoff of 2017 was not an isolated military confrontation between India and China. It was a revealing geopolitical episode that exposed a larger and deeply concerning strategic doctrine increasingly employed by Beijing across Asia: the gradual alteration of borders through coercion, military pressure, infrastructure expansion, and calculated...
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) has released its weekly brief highlighting its international advocacy efforts, using major global platforms in Japan and Europe to draw attention to what it describes as Beijing's continuing genocide, forced labour practices and transnational repression targeting Uyghurs from East Turkistan.
During a week-long visit to...
37 years since China bloodily suppressed pro-democracy demonstrations in and around central Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, when Chinese troops opened fire on their own people.
The event remains taboo in China and will not be officially commemorated by the ruling Communist Party or government.
Here are some landmark dates leading up to...
A recent survey commissioned by Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) has revealed overwhelming public opposition to China's "one country, two systems" framework, highlighting growing resistance to China's efforts to influence Taiwan's future.
The poll found that nearly nine out of ten respondents believe Taiwan's destiny should be determined solely by...
As Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in
Canada for high-level talks, a leading Uyghur international advocacy
group called on the Canadian government to confront China’s ongoing
human rights abuses and reject any diplomatic reset that ignores
accountability.
Yi’s three-day visit (from May 28 to 30) reportedly comes amid
renewed efforts to deepen bilateral cooperation...
United States Congressman Jim McGovern and Michael McCaul introduced a new bipartisan bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, directing the U.S. Secretary of State to advocate for the inclusion and recognition of the Tibetan government in exile, known officially as the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA).
The proposed legislation, introduced...
The Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA), a leading cultural institution under the Central Tibetan Administration, has accused China of attempting to erase and distort Tibetan identity as it concluded a landmark cultural programme in the Czech Republic after nearly two decades. Held in the Senate Garden in Prague,...
