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China and the Military World Games
By Eleanor Albert, The Diplomat As China lauds the success of the 2019 games in Wuhan, let’s look at why Beijing is interested in such events at all. China concluded its hosting of the seventh iteration of the Military World … Continued The post China and the Military World Games read more →
Tibetans too under spyware radar
By Divya Rajagopal, The Economic Times, 4 November 2019, Read the original article here. MUMBAI: Seven months ago, Tenzin Dalha, a research fellow at the Tibet Policy Institute in Dharamshala received a WhatsApp message from a person who claimed to be … Continued The post Tibetans too under spyware radar appeared read more →
Protesters demand world’s major economies sanction China over human rights concerns
By Camille Bianchi, 3 November 2019, SBS News, Read the original article here. The Chinese government has responded to the campaign with a warning, saying it has zero tolerance for foreign interference and will act firmly to prevent it. Protesters … Continued The post Protesters demand world’s major economies sanction read more →
France: Highlight China’s Rights Crisis
Human Rights Watch, 1 November 2019, Read the original article here. Macron Should ‘Show Courage’ on Xinjiang, Detentions During Visit. (Paris, November 1, 2019) – French President Emmanuel Macron should keep his pledges to press for key human rights improvements during his upcoming … Continued The post France: Highlight China’s Rights Crisis appeared read more →
Mongolia arrests 800 Chinese citizens in cybercrime probe
By Anand Tumurtogoo, Reuters, 31 October 2019, Read the original article here. ULAANBAATAR (Reuters) – Police in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar have apprehended 800 Chinese citizens and confiscated hundreds of computers and mobile phone SIM cards as part of … Continued The post Mongolia arrests 800 Chinese citizens in read more →
Pompeo says Chinese Communist Party wants ‘international domination’
By Ben Westcott, CNN, 1 November 2019, Read the original article here. Hong Kong (CNN)The Chinese Communist Party wants “international domination” and has embarked on a “global campaign” to sway countries to their side, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday. … Continued The post Pompeo says Chinese Communist Party wants read more →
Pompeo: China’s Government Is The Problem
By Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 31 October 2019, Read the original article here. It’s not the Chinese people that are the problem. It’s the Communist Party of China. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reiterated what Vice President Mike Pence said a week … Continued The post Pompeo: China’s Government Is The Problem read more →
Yang Hengjun: Australian writer subjected to ‘absurd’ interrogation in China as health deteriorates
By Ben Doherty, The Guardian, 31 October 2019, Read the original article here. Exclusive: Democracy advocate suffers from serious health conditions and is only allowed one shower a week Detained Australian writer Dr Yang Hengjun has insisted he is innocent … Continued The post Yang Hengjun: Australian writer subjected to read more →
Unspeakable horror: China’s most terrifying secret exposed to world
NZ Herald, 1 November 2019, Read the original article here. This week 23 countries – including New Zealand – condemned China at the United Nations over its horrifying treatment of the Uighur ethnic minority within its own borders. The Uighurs … Continued The post Unspeakable horror: China’s most terrifying secret read more →
US Slams China Over Dalai Lama, Tibet’s Religious Freedom, Praises India
Press Trust of India, NDTV, 31 October 2019, Read the original article here. Alice Wells, Acting Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of South and Central Asia, said Mr Brownback’s meeting with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala emphasised the enduring US … Continued The post US Slams China Over Dalai Lama, read more →
US hits out at China over the Dalai Lama, praises India
IANS, The Economic Times, 31 October 2019, Read the original article here. WASHINGTON: As China protested the meeting between a senior US diplomat and the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala in India, Washington emphasized on the “enduring US support for the Tibetan … Continued The post US hits out at China over read more →
Australia among 23 nations to condemn China on human rights at the UN
Rob Harris, Sydney Morning Herald. Link to the article here. Australia has joined a group of 23 countries including Britain, the United States, Germany, Japan, and Canada to condemn China’s treatment of Uighur and other minorities in the western Xinjiang … Continued The post Australia among 23 nations to condemn read more →
China accuses US of meddling after American diplomat meets Dalai Lama
By Sutirtho Patranobis, Hindustan Times, 30 October 2019, Read the original article here. The development comes after US’s Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback, delivered a speech in Dharamshala on Monday along with the Dalai Lama at the … Continued The post China accuses US of meddling after read more →
Now it’s Nepali-Chini bhai-bhai
The Pioneer. Link to the article here. China knows that amid the unstable political environment in Nepal, people-oriented policies will continue to channelise bilateral requirements irrespective of the governments and political mood The recently-concluded visit of the Chinese President Xi Jinping to … Continued The post Now it’s Nepali-Chini bhai-bhai appeared first read more →
China is weaponizing water and worsening droughts in Asia
Brahma Chellaney, October 29, 2019, Read original news here. Asia, the world’s driest continent in per capita terms, remains the center of dam construction, with more than half of the 50,000 large dams across the globe. The hyperactivity on dams has … Continued The post China is weaponizing water and worsening read more →