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Twitter locks account of Chinese embassy in US over Uighur women tweet
Beijing (AFP) - Twitter said Thursday it has locked the account of the Chinese embassy in the US, over a tweet claiming Uighur women were no longer "baby-making machines" after their minds had been "emancipated". A Twitter spokesperson told AFP it took action against the tweet for "violating our policy against dehumanization". More than one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities are believed to be held in re-education camps in the country's northwestern Xinjiang region, where China is also accused of forcibly sterilising women. China denies the accusations and says the facilities ...
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California WeChat users claim China surveillance in lawsuit
San Francisco (AFP) - California WeChat users sued its parent company Tencent on Wednesday, saying the mobile app is used for spying on and censoring users for the Chinese government. US-based nonprofit Citizen Power Initiatives for China (CPIFC) filed the suit in Silicon Valley, joined by a half-dozen California residents in urging a state court to order Tencent to change its ways and pay damages. "As the global erosion of democratic values shows little sign of relenting, this lawsuit is part of our attempt to slow that erosion, and to perhaps help turn the tide, by relying on the rule of law...
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Free Uyghur Now Supports U.S. State Department’s “Genocide” Designation for Atrocities in China
Washington, D.C. — Free Uyghur Now, a student-led coalition fighting for the rights and freedom of the Uyghur and other ethnic Turkic peoples in East Turkistan, stands with and affirms the designation made by the U.S. State Department calling the actions China is taking against Uyghurs as “genocide.” Q4 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Secretary Pompeo Declares China's Atrocities Against Muslim Uyghurs A GenocideSecretary Mike Pompeo declared in a statement that "the PRC [People's Republic of China], under the direction and control of the CCP, has committed genocide against the pr...
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‘Have a good life, we’ll see you soon’: Trump departs White House after one tumultuous term
One-term President Donald Trump, after four divisive and tumultuous years in office, delivered a self-congratulatory farewell speech Wednesday after departing the White House for a final time. Trump and first lady Melania Trump stopped for photos and waved at the assembled media before the couple walked alone across the White House lawn. In a nod to future plans, the Republican president told reporters, “I just want to say goodbye but hopefully it’s not a long-term goodbye. We’ll see each other again.” He leaves two weeks after the U.S. Capitol rioting by his supporters, who descended on the b...
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VW expects 'substantial growth' in China as chip shortage subsides
Volkswagen expects "substantial growth" in China this year, the German auto giant's head of operations in the country said on Wednesday. "There are good reasons that the VW Group can do better than the whole market," Stephan Woellenstein said in Beijing. "We see positive momentum," he added. Nearly one in five new cars sold in China today comes from the Volkswagen Group. However, Woellenstein noted that recent bottlenecks in the production of semiconductors had impacted the carmaker. The vice president of Volkswagen in China, Rainer Seidl, said the country's automobile market - the world's lar...
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CAIR Welcomes U.S. Labeling of China’s Actions Against Uyghur Muslims as ‘Genocide’
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/19/2021) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed the U.S. government’s decision to declare China’s actions against Uyghurs Muslims a “genocide.” The United States is the first country to adopt these terms to describe the Chinese government’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang. Q4 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Pompeo Labels China's Actions Against Uyghur Muslims as GenocideIn a statement, Pompeo said “After careful examination of the available facts, I have determined...
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Biden State pick backs Trump's 'tougher approach' on China
Washington (AFP) - Antony Blinken, President-elect Joe Biden's nominee to be secretary of state, said Tuesday he agreed with the tougher US stance on China under Donald Trump that the outgoing leader hailed in his farewell remarks. In confirmation hearings, Biden's nominees vowed to keep up pressure on China on trade and human rights, despite previous calls to see areas of cooperation. "I also believe that President Trump was right in taking a tougher approach to China," Blinken told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "I disagree very much with the way he went about it in a number of area...
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State Department Declares China Is Committing Genocide
The finding by the Trump administration is the strongest denunciation by any government of China’s actions and follows a Biden campaign statement with the same declaration. Q4 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more China Is Committing Genocide And Crimes Against HumanityWASHINGTON: January 19, 2021 - The State Department declared on Tuesday that China is committing genocide and crimes against humanity through its wide-scale repression of Uighurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in its northwestern region of East Turkistan (renamed Xinjiang by the CCP), including in its use of i...
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US declares China committing 'genocide' against Uighurs
Washington (AFP) - The United States declared Tuesday that China is carrying out genocide against the Uighurs and other mostly Muslim people, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dramatically raising pressure over Beijing's sweeping incarceration of minorities on his last full day in office. "I believe this genocide is ongoing, and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uighurs by the Chinese party-state," Pompeo said in a statement. "We will not remain silent. If the Chinese Communist Party is allowed to commit genocide and crimes against humanity against its own people, imag...
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Pompeo says China carrying out 'genocide' against Uighurs
Washington (AFP) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that China is committing genocide against the Uighurs and other mostly Muslim people, dramatically raising pressure on his last full day in office. "I believe this genocide is ongoing, and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uighurs by the Chinese party-state," Pompeo said in a statement. "We will not remain silent. If the Chinese Communist Party is allowed to commit genocide and crimes against humanity against its own people, imagine what it will be emboldened to do to the free world, in the not-so-distant ...
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