Critic Who Exposed China’s Muslim Camps is Detained, Even Across the Border

By Austin Ramzy https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/world/asia/china-kazakh-activist-camps-xinjiang-muslims.html?fbclid=IwAR00Ul-Oscx-9TI4y_wL1gYeflt3jKGvFzMLKA3NdsFj_iU6uZA02x8dIJc HONG KONG — For six days a week, every week, in a crowded office in Kazakhstan’s largest city, Serikzhan Bilash had been ringmaster of one of the most influential efforts detailing China’s internment of Muslim minorities. Clad …

Americans Fund Concentration Camps in China

There are over 650 Chinese companies traded in the US stock marketsBY EMEL AKANMay 9, 2019 Updated: May 9, 2019 WASHINGTON—A rising number of Chinese companies in U.S. capital markets pose a risk for U.S. investors as they unwittingly finance companies associated with concentration camps in China, …

Uyghurs are being persecuted in China — US must protect them

BY KRISH O’MARA VIGNARAJAH, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 05/10/19 07:00 PM EDT 209THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL https://thehill.com/opinion/international/443212-uyghurs-are-being-persecuted-in-china-us-must-protect-them?fbclid=IwAR3EKT_PpKZwc9Jk6cUQwlY1OssfOo7_B5_syoOeHenFoV3DcXsCisVmP0M VIEW ALLView Latest Opinions >>Related News Discover the Most Expensive Homes in…Sponsored | Mansion Global …

INSIDE CHINA’S MASSIVE SURVEILLANCE OPERATION

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-chinas-massive-surveillance-operation/ THE WOMAN REMEMBERS the first time she got a smartphone. It was 2011, and she was living in Hotan, an oasis town in Xinjiang, in northwest China. The 30-year-old, Nurjamal Atawula, loved to take pictures of her children and exchange …

Is the U.S. Pursuing a Trade Deal With China at the Cost of Human Rights?

Benjamin Wilhelm Wednesday, May 8, 2019 https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trend-lines/27831/is-the-u-s-pursuing-a-trade-deal-with-china-at-the-cost-of-human-rights?fbclid=IwAR0dnZcS4PjGTLZVkm7x2IIOWbLdbazVR3XjjOrhqkifkKK1MZusKhWAdZc itor’s Note: Every Wednesday, WPR Newsletter and Engagement Editor Benjamin Wilhelm curates the week’s top news and expert analysis on China. The United States has offered its harshest assessment yet of the mass …

Rights Groups Decry China’s Ban on Fasting During Ramadan

May 08, 2019 11:27 AM https://www.voanews.com/a/rights-groups-decry-china-s-ban-on-fasting-during-ramadan-/4908779.html?fbclid=IwAR08BEOO1wvnamShg2t7-qT2KoFk65Wctj7Db9Uw_buQlx1bYDP9E8zJpA8 Joyce Huang Rights groups are calling for greater international attention on the Chinese government due to recent cases of alleged rights abuses, including the latest clampdown in Xinjiang to ban Uighurs, young and old, …

China’s mass surveillance more sophisticated than thought

By BusinessMirror -May 5, 2019286 https://businessmirror.com.ph/2019/05/05/chinas-mass-surveillance-more-sophisticated-than-thought/?fbclid=IwAR0-CHo-rDrKrb4LjSxw4qt8AkBhcjVSAOlI5-sKX9ukfHaCJlLCpZkNpzM By Blake Schmidt | Bloomberg News A MOBILE app used by police to track citizens in China’s far west region of Xinjiang shows how some of the country’s biggest technology companies are linked to a …

China Destroyed Mosques and Other Muslim Sites in Xinjiang, Report Says

MAY 7, 2019 http://time.com/5584619/china-xinjiang-destroyed-mosques/?fbclid=IwAR3Fe-m6OF3WkJDAeZzcnfXLEJVVdGcusrpKH3imZ-MYrPd6ikO5bJajlyI Mosque in the demolished old town of Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China on Sept. 23, 2012. Eric Lafforgue—Corbis/Getty ImagesBY AMY GUNIA  MAY 7, 2019 New research suggests that China may have undertaken large-scale destruction of Islamic sites in its western …

China denounces Xinjiang ‘concentration camp’ accusation by US

7 May 2019 07:50 AFP2 min read https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/05/07/china-denounces-xinjiang-concentration-camp-accusation-us/?fbclid=IwAR3gHuQ2AhR_irpBT-ulluBVA0548E_nsYJvRw9yycM5GPqaXE3Q2Iqavxw China on Monday rejected a US official’s accusation that three million people are held in “concentration camps” in Xinjiang, a northwest region home to most of the country’s ethnic Uighur minority. The comments are …