Weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, a blacklisted Chinese company has terminated its business in Xinjiang. The U.S. government accuses Beijing of forced labor crimes against the Uyghur ethnic minority group in that region. NTD’s Flora Hua has more on the story.
Volkswagen will sell its operations in China’s Xinjiang, it said on Wednesday, after years of mounting pressure to abandon its presence in a region where rights groups have documented abuses against the Uyghur population. In the announcement, the carmaker said it would also extend its partnership with Chinese partner SAIC by a decade to 2040, […]
The US has banned imports from two Chinese companies over forced labor allegations. The Department of Homeland Security announced the ban on Wednesday. The companies involved are a steel manufacturer and a maker of artificial sweeteners. Both are accused of using forced labor from China’s far-west region of Xinjiang. The ban was carried out under […]
Banned Chinese exports are reportedly sneaking through loopholes in U.S. law again. Research published on Tuesday shows nearly one-fifth of the products it tested use banned cotton from the Xinjiang region. The United States accuses Beijing of committing human rights violations and genocide against the Uyghur ethnic group there and has banned the use of […]
This special will air on Saturday, April 27, at 9:30 p.m. ET. The world first heard of Falun Gong 25 years ago. On April 25, 1999, around 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered in front of Zhongnanhai—the home and office compound of the Chinese leader. The spiritual meditation practice teaches the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and […]
WASHINGTON—Researchers are calling for U.S. authorities to curb the flow of Western transplant-related technologies going to China, pointing to the state-sponsored scheme of killing for organs in the country that could expand further with such aid. Matthew Robertson, a China studies research fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, suggested the measure as among […]
Leaders of a bipartisan U.S. commission are asking the State Department to advise Americans against traveling to the Xinjiang region of western China, where the U.S. authorities say genocide is taking place. Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ohio), chair and co-chair, respectively, of the Congressional–Executive Commission on China, sent a letter to […]
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck the Kyrgyzstan–Xinjiang border region on Tuesday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ)said. The quake was at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.21 miles), GFZ said. In nearby Kazakhstan, the emergencies ministry reported the same earthquake at a magnitude of 6.7. In Kazakhstan’s biggest city, Almaty, residents fled their houses […]
BEIJING—Around 1,000 tourists remain stranded in a remote holiday village after avalanches hit China’s northwestern Xinjiang region with meters-high snow, state TV reported on Tuesday. Road access to Hemu village, a scenic destination near the borders of Kazakhstan, Russia, and Mongolia where the tourists were trapped, has been cut off by avalanches for several days […]
Former President Donald Trump appeared in a Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday morning for his second E. Jean Carroll defamation trial. A jury must now decide how much President Trump will have to pay the magazine columnist, who accused him of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s. Around 1,000 tourists are trapped in a winter village […]
China’s communist regime is imposing sanctions on a U.S. research firm and two individuals in response to Washington’s recent moves to pressure Beijing regarding human rights abuses against Uyghur and other Muslim minorities. The sanctions affect Kharon, a San Francisco-based research and data company; Edmund Xu, a senior researcher who leads the Asia study program […]
The White House said President Joe Biden will address China’s human rights record in his next meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. A meeting between the two world leaders appears to be in the works. On Thursday, Biden announced, “I expect to be speaking with President Xi.” The Biden administration has indicated this meeting […]
The prime minister promises the government will do “whatever it takes” to keep the UK public safe from Chinese spy balloons. Politicians join protesters after reports that the Chinese Communist Party’s deputy secretary of the Xinjiang region, sanctioned by the United States for persecuting Uyghurs, will be meeting Foreign Office officials. A man is in […]
OTTAWA—The Canadian parliament on Wednesday unanimously voted in favor of a non-binding proposal for the resettlement of 10,000 Uyghur Muslim refugees from China’s Xinjiang region into Canada over two years. The House of Commons voted 322–0 for Liberal member of parliament Sameer Zuberi’s bill, which also called on the government to recognize that Uyghurs and […]
The International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit 2023 is being held in Washington, D.C., from Jan. 31 to Feb. 1. The summit intended to create a powerful coalition of organizations that operate together for the cause of religious freedom around the world. The summit also intended to increase public awareness and political strength for the international […]
With any car bought in the last five years, some of its parts may have been made by Uyghurs forced to work in China. A new report claims that the Chinese regime has deliberately shifted raw materials mining, processing, and auto parts manufacturing, into Xinjiang. This would essentially make international supply chains captive to repressive […]
Overseas Chinese students at University of California–Berkeley will protest and mourn the deaths of Urumqi fire victims in China at 10 p.m. ET on Nov. 28. NTD will livestream the event. Access the livestream on this page, and also at EpochTV.
Rare mass protests against COVID-19 lockdowns have broken out across China, including in major cities, following the horrific deaths of at least 10 people in Xinjiang’s capital city of Urumqi in north-western China, when first responders were unable to reach an apartment fire that was left to burn for hours due to COVID-19 blockades and locks throughout […]
Massive protests erupted in China’s far western Xinjiang region on Friday as long-simmering frustrations over the country’s strict COVID-19 policies hit a boiling point when claims circulated online blaming lockdown restrictions for hindering escape from a deadly apartment building fire. Multiple videos said to be from the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi and shared on social […]
BEIJING—A fire in an apartment building in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region killed at least 10 people and injured at least nine, authorities said on Nov. 25, amid stringent lockdowns that have left many residents in the area stuck in their homes for more than three months. The fire broke out Thursday night in the regional […]
