The Chinese government continues to aggressively intervene in the reporting of foreign media. To prevent critical reports, international newspapers or local television stations are more and more threatened with legal action. In its 2021 annual report, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in China, FCCC, expresses concern about “the breakneck speed by which media freedom is declining […]
Authorities in the Chinese northwestern province of Qinghai have announced a ban on group chats with a religious background. Digital communication via social media is punishable from March 1, reported Radio Free Asia (RFA). Tibetan Buddhists are particularly affected by this regulation. Qinghai is one of the largest Tibetan settlement areas outside Tibet. About 1.2 […]
Governments like to keep the idea of human rights crimes in the abstract. And there they remain until someone tells us about them in detail. Only then do we really realize what it actually means when a person’s universal basic rights and dignity are broken by government institutions. The precise images in our minds ensure […]
IOC President Thomas Bach had actually scheduled a lunch meeting with Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai in Beijing in January. The sports world is deeply concerned about the whereabouts of the world-class athlete after she accused a top Communist Party cadre of sexual assault and has since only appeared in public under mysterious circumstances. So […]
The authorities in Xinjiang have accused Mihrigul Tursun: She thinks “too Uyghur.” She was three times detained in internment camps for several weeks, beaten and tortured with electric shocks. One of her babies died under unexplained circumstances in the care of the authorities. Meanwhile, her Egyptian husband applied 18 times for a visa at the […]
The friendship between the People’s Republic of China and Thomas Bach is literally carved in stone. Just last week, a 72-cm stone bust depicting the likeness of the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was erected in the Dongsi Olympic Community Park, just north of the Forbidden City. The face of the former world-class […]
The French National Assembly has classified the Chinese government’s human rights violations against the Uyghur minority in Xinjiang as genocide. In a vote on Thursday, the verdict of the deputies was clear. 169 parliamentarians voted yes. There was only one “no” vote.The result of the vote will now be officially submitted to the French government, […]
The question of whether Xinjiang is a genocide against the Uyghurs was answered in the affirmative by the French parliament on Thursday. In this country, however, we find it difficult because German history gives the term a special weight. And admittedly, there is no mass murder of millions of people in Xinjiang within a few […]
Peng Jingtang takes up his new post with a pithy promise. As chief of the Hong Kong garrison of the People’s Liberation Army, pledges to “perform defense duties in accordance with the law, resolutely defend national sovereignty, security, and development interests, and firmly safeguard Hong Kong’s long-term prosperity and stability.”Peng’s words may well be understood […]
Jingwei Jia has left Swiss reinsurer Swiss Re. After 15 years with the company, and most recently six years as CEO of Greater China, Jia left the Zurich-based group at the beginning of January. His interim successor is Jonathan Rake, previously CEO for the Asia Pacific.Elvis He is the new Head of Technology, Media and […]
