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China launched its first distant-water fishing fleet in 1985, when a state-owned company called the China National Fisheries Corporation dispatched thirteen trawlers to the coast of Guinea-Bissau. China had fished its own coastal waters aggressively. Since the sixties, its seafood biomass has dropped by ninety per cent. Zhang...
Professor Rahile Dawut was, at the time of her detention in December 2017, teaching at Xinjiang University College of Humanities. She founded the Ethnic Minorities Research Center at the university in 2007 and has conducted field work throughout Xinjiang, cementing her reputation as a cutting-edge ethnographer.
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The Chinese statistics bureau reported last week that unemployment among the 16- to 24-year-old demographic was 14.9 percent in December....
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Across the dozens of economic indicators released by China’s National Bureau of Statistics last week, few demonstrated the difficulty of pinning down the state of the world’s second-biggest economy better than the steel data....
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The company has filed for bankruptcy on the grounds that it is “clearly″ lacking the ability to repay debt and has insufficient assets to pay off its dues, according to a WeChat statement issued by Beijing’s First Intermediate People’s Court.
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A most recent State Council Decree by China that entered into force on September 1, 2023, formalizes the establishment of consular volunteer networks, seemingly undeclared to most host nations, the Human Rights Group Safeguarddefenders says....
The US State Department says the tactics are part of a broader multi-billion-dollar effort to shape the world’s information environment and silence critics of Beijing that has expanded under President Xi Jinping....
At present, 54 nations with over 110 stations are reportedly functioning under the mandate of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), undertaking monitoring and coercion of nearly 230,000 Chinese living abroad to return to China and face charges for raising concerns over the brutality of Xi Jinping’s regime....
Taiwanese businessman Morrison Lee spent almost four years locked up or under an exit ban in China, detained only because he had postcards deemed sensitive and a few publicly-taken shots of military vehicles on his phone....
Japan is the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to publicly condemn and acknowledge the ongoing atrocities against Uyghurs and other Turkic ethnic groups. Since 2019, during the second Abe administration, Japan has been the only non-Western country to sign a joint statement condemning the Uyghur Genocide at the United...
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...
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Lin Yuwei and Wu Yanni, China’s entrants in the women’s 100m hurdles final, embraced after the race at the Asian Games in Hangzhou. Lin won gold in the race with a time of 12.74 seconds. A photograph of the two women in profile showed Lin’s lane number, 6, next to Wu’s lane number, 4....
Since president Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, China’s increasing use of repressive domestic policies, from Xinjiang to Tibet and Hong Kong, has been a growing source of concern for NGOs and United Nations experts who took notice of the second world power’s disregard for international human rights law.
