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The US-led Indo-Pacific strategy is a ploy to create divisions and incite confrontation in the region, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said on Sunday, adding that the plan is bound to fail.  “Facts will prove that the so-called Indo-Pacific strategy is in essence a strategy to create division, to incite...
China's alleged persecution of its Muslim minorities will surge back up the global agenda when the United Nations' human rights chief visits its troubled Xinjiang region next week. The May 23 to 28 visit by Michelle Bachelet comes as rights groups pile pressure on her office to release a long-postponed...
An area of western China may have the highest known imprisonment rate in the world. The area is called Konasheher county. It is in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Nearly 1 in 25 people in the county has been sentenced to prison on terrorism-related charges. Most of the county’s population is Uyghur, a...
As with Hong Kong and Tibet, Beijing’s control has only become more authoritarian. An incentive to do so was 9/11, which allowed Beijing to claim that their harsh measures against Muslim Uighurs were part of the “war on terror”. But it is in the last decade since Xi Jinping...
China's crackdown on Muslim minorities in the remote region of Xinjiang will return to the spotlight next week when Beijing hosts the United Nations human rights chief for the first time in nearly two decades. The highly scrutinised six-day trip by High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet will begin Monday, with stops...
Apple Inc. is looking to India to help boost production outside China, people involved in these discussions told the Wall Street Journal this week, citing strict Covid-19 norms in China that are affecting the company's ability to meet demand for its products. By some estimates Chinese manufacturers account for...
Beijing: Pakistan's newly-appointed Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari held talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Sunday in Guangzhou city and emphasised that "it is critical to resolve all outstanding disputes in South Asia in view of the challenges faced by the people due to the pandemic, soaring...
Beijing: China's automobile exports went up 39.4 percent year on year in the first four months of this year, data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers showed. A total of 723,000 vehicles were exported during the period, of which passenger car exports soared 39.1 percent year on year to...
Islamabad: Pakistan and China are "two brothers" who nurtured the evergreen tree of mutual friendship over the years, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Saturday as he congratulated Chinese President Xi Jinping on the 71st anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic relations between the two nations.In his message...