Chinese ownership of American farmland came under increased scrutiny at both the national and local level after the Fufeng Group, producer of the flavor enhancer MSG, announced in November 2021 its intentions to invest near Grand Forks, North Dakota. Despite promises to improve the local economy, opposition emerged over the...
Authorities in China carried out special investigations of over 3,000 meteorological stations across more than 20 provinces, “among which hundreds of sites had been found transmitting meteorological data to overseas in real time,” the agency said on social media. More than 10 meteorological agents with foreign links were...
Rayhan Asat is one of the most vocal advocates today for the Uyghur people, her people, whose homeland in northwestern China is the scene of the Communist Party’s ongoing commission of what the United Nations says may be “crimes against humanity,” and what U.S. President Joseph Biden called a “genocide.” Among the...
The use of Uyghur forced labor in China’s so-called “re-education camps” has been documented by journalists, scholars, and non-profit organizations, based on eye witness accounts, leaked official documents, and on-the ground reporting. But according to a new report, a more insidious and creeping atrocity is taking place....
After China named an ambassador in Kabul in September 2023 to maintain ties with the Islamic fundamentalist government in Afghanistan, many observers fear that facial-recognition analytics that China uses to oppress the marginalized peoples of Xinjiang could soon spread through Central Asia....
To the dismay of Chinese officials, the three-child policy -announced in 2021- failed to deliver a baby boom last year, which recorded the lowest number of newborns since China started tracking in 1949. Compared with 2021, while the percentage of third children rose by a marginal 0.5%, the absolute number declined....
Opposition candidate Hou Yu-ih, the leader of the KMT party which is historically the Taiwanese political party most willing to engage with Beijing, signals an clear openness to tougher cross-strait policies in the wake of changing domestic and international views on China. In an article in the magazine Foreign affairs, Hou...
Prior to the event on the first anniversary of a UN report that found China’s arbitrary detention, imprisonment, and torture of its Turkic Muslim peoples may be “crimes against humanity,” China circulated a letter discouraging diplomats from attending the event it said was sponsored by the “notorious anti-China...
Experts call for complete and accurate information to be given to the families of those detained in Xinjiang and reminded Beijing of its own obligations under international law to respect and protect human rights. However, precise information is hard to come by given Beijing’s refusal to release data and the fear that stalks...
Two missing generals who had commanded China’s missile forces have been replaced, fanning suspicions of the largest purge at the top echelons of the country’s military in a decade....
Ablimit Abliz, a dentist in Ürümqi, has not been accused of any crime, but the government won’t let him leave or speak freely to his wife, Adalet Sabit, who lives in Virginia. Their case is far from unique.
Ablimit Abliz, a dentist in Ürümqi, has not been accused of any crime, but the government won’t let him leave or speak freely to his wife, Adalet Sabit, who lives in Virginia. Their case is far from unique.
