Responding to reports of a six-and-a-half-year sentence handed down today to Chinese human rights lawyer Li Yuhan on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking troubles” and fraud, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for China Sarah Brooks said:
“Li Yuhan is one of many human rights lawyers in China who have...
China betrays an unease in its ties with the Taliban over Uyghur freedom activists finding haven there, even as it sets its eyes on exploiting the natural resources in Afghanistan through business arrangements.
China is yet to formally recognize the Taliban regime in Afghanistan two years after its bloody takeover...
China’s new automobile sales fell 5.2 per cent in July, according to industry data released on Friday, marking the second consecutive month of decline due to weak domestic demand.
The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said that 2.26 million vehicles were sold last month in China, which included exported vehicles....
European officials took some small comfort when China attended a summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, last weekend. The meeting aimed to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Ukraine.
While Beijing didn’t budge from its stated position of impartiality, China’s mere presence at a meeting to which Russia says it was not...
BANGKOK (AP) — Zhang Hongliang, a former restaurant manager in central China, took various gigs in and outside China to support his family after losing his job during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In March, a job offer to teach Chinese cooking at a restaurant led him into a cyber scam compound...
The United States has sanctioned another two Chinese officials over alleged links to human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the far western region of Xinjiang.
The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said on Friday that the sanctions applied to Gao Qi, a former...
Cambridge students have launched a Uyghur Rights Campaign in response to “silence” within the University toward China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims.
Human rights groups allege that China has detained more than one million Uyghurs, mostly in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, with the US, among other countries, having accused the...
China has banned the teaching and use of the Tibetan language at elementary and middle schools in two Tibetan-populated regions in southwestern China, sources inside the country said, requiring all instruction to be in Mandarin.
The move could lead to the extinction of the language in the regions – and...
China is strengthening its economic ties with its neighbours in Southeast Asia through ASEAN, the region's political and economic union. As China recently hased out out details of a bolstered free trade agreement with ASEAN, it is worth considering another major trade project — the Belt and Road Initiative.
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Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall on Monday warned that China was building up its military to prepare for a potential war with the U.S., and he said America must optimize its forces to counter the rising threat.
Speaking at the Air and Space Forces Association Warfighter Symposium at National Harbor,...
