The Human Rights Committee of the German Bundestag will again address the issue of Xinjiang on May 17 (starting at 5 p.m.). The committee wants to discuss whether reports and documents on arbitrary mass detentions, torture, and birth control from the Muslim-majority autonomous region in northwest China justify the label genocide. Experts will be consulted […]
The Dalai Lama’s former special envoy laments a growing distancing of the world from Tibetans. “The closer the economic ties of the states to the People’s Republic of China have become in recent years, the greater the distance that the policies of these states have taken on the Tibet issue,” said Kelsang Gyaltsen in an […]
The planned expansion of the IT Security Act is a good example of how much the political and economic rise of the People’s Republic of China is already preoccupying German politics these days. The legislative process has already been dragging on for more than two years. One good reason for the stalemate is the issue […]
Milo Djukanovic has been arguably the most influential figure in his home country of Montenegro for decades. He has been prime minister several times and is currently president for the second time. His big dream is apparently to bequeath the small country in the Western Balkans a motorway that runs from the Adriatic coast right […]
Mareike Ohlberg has given up brooding. Whether or not she has actually been sanctioned by the Chinese government is basically irrelevant to her. The sinologist is pretty sure that she will not be allowed to enter the People’s Republic again until further notice – official sanctions or not.Evidence for their assumption: an article in the […]
In 2019, a light went on in Europe. As millions of people in Hong Kong took to the streets to protest growing Chinese control in the city, the European External Action Service’s (EEAS) Strategic Communications Division (StratCom Taskforce) noticed a new dimension of Chinese influence on public opinion in Europe. The information machinery “made in […]
The end of Hong Kong’s electoral system, as he knew it, was met with mixed feelings by Ted Hui from a safe distance. While in Beijing, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on Tuesday unanimously (167-0) signed a law reform that gives the People’s Republic of China ultimate control over appointments to all […]
Chinese boycott calls against foreign companies have resulted in the first concessions. The Japanese fashion chain Muji has announced that it will not do without cotton from Xinjiang in its textile production in the future. Muji’s parent company Ryohin Keikaku announced in a statement to the state-run Chinese daily Global Times. A handful of other […]
Footage of burning Nike-brand sneakers blazed across numerous forums on China’s social media on Thursday. A cynical hashtag read #Herewegoagain: on to the next round. It is nothing new that Western companies are brutally pilloried in the People’s Republic. This always happens when Beijing sees its national interests threatened. As soon as foreign companies take […]
Topics with extraordinary explosive power require an extraordinary handle from scientists. A few weeks before the publication of “The Uyghur Genocide,” a study by the Newlines Institute in Washington, its initiator, Azeem Ibrahim, contrary to his habit, picked up the phone dozens of times to contact his fellow researchers. The explosive paper deals with human […]
