(Hotan, Xinjiang—June 24, 2018) 40 Uyghur people in China’s northwestern Xinjiang were sent to “reformation camps” for refusing to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, which took place on June 18. According to World Uyghur Congress spokesman Dilxat Raxit, local authorities forced Uyghur people join with the Han people, China’s ethnic majority, in celebrating the Dragon…
Editor’s Note: China is advancing an illiberal alternative to the universal values that the United States and its partners have championed for decades, writes Ryan Hass. On the 28th anniversary of the Tiananmen Incident, it’s worth remembering China’s expanding efforts to muzzle criticism of its human rights record. This piece originally appeared on The Hill. Beijing’s recent intimidation…
Parody of Chinese president covered human rights abuses and memes comparing Xi’s figure with Winnie the Pooh The British comedian John Oliver has been scrubbed from China’s version of Twitter after the host of Last Week Tonight ran a 20-minute segment satirising Chinese president Xi Jinping. New posts mentioning his name or the show have been blocked on…
On a blank sheet of paper free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful characters can be written; the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted. — Mao Zedong Extend special invitations to the Autonomous Region Women’s League Propaganda Troupe to visit… important villagers and education-transformation bases to hold ‘thanking the Party, listening…
An Australian national security agency head was shown a secret list of about 100 Chinese fugitives that Beijing believes live in Australia, evidence the communist nation’s hunt for former officials and business people is much wider than publicly known. The Weekend Australian can reveal a Chinese minister produced the list during a private lunch in Beijing…
According to official figures, China has about 25 million Muslims, about the number in Yemen and Uzbekistan, twice the number in Tunisia and nearly 50 per-cent more than in Syria. At a first glance, this is an impressive number, but a closer look shows that Muslims account for less than two per-cent of China’s total…
As recently reported in the press, since Spring 2017, hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and other minority Muslims in Xinjiang have “disappeared” into “political re-education centres,”euphemistically labelled mäktäp (Uy. schools) by frightened locals. Their purported crimes vary from travelling abroad to study (or having a relative who did so) to having Western social media apps on their phone. Most…
To suppress views of China that it does not like, the party is trying to replicate its domestic censorship on a global scale, says Isabel Hilton This is a guest contribution to our debate: Should the West worry about the threat to liberal values posed by China’s rise? KISHORE MAHBUBANI urges “Western minds” to seek…
China’s massively popular social media platform WeChat appears to have further tightened requirements for user registration, demanding access to all files and media content, and potentially giving the authorities access to everything on a user’s smartphone, RFA has learned. A newly registered WeChat account resulted in a pop-up request on Thursday, calling for permission to…
China’s surveillance state already tracks people’s faces. Now it’s also going to track their cars, the Wall Street Journal has reported (paywall). From July 1, China’s Ministry of Public Security will oversee a program to install a radio-frequency identification chip in the windshields of new cars when they’re registered. While installing the chips won’t be mandatory this…
