China has been appointed as a member of a human rights council panel that plays an important role in picking human rights investigators who will be tasked with monitoring cases of enforced disappearances, violations of freedom of speech, arbitrary detentions, and so on. Human rights groups have expressed their displeasure at the UN decision. A ...
The Chinese government has installed over 200 million cameras throughout the country, making it the most monitored nation in the world. The state not just develops surveillance systems for its own use, but also plans on becoming a global leader in such technologies. China aims to lead a US$150 billion AI industry by 2030, with ...
The world is seeing new threats to humanity’s human rights. Natural and manmade disasters are shaking every nation. The political arena is turning more and more unstable as well. Humans must strive to uphold a better society for their common future and for the generations to come. This can only be achieved if we fight ...
Ross LaJeunesse was once the head of global international relations at Google. Today, he is campaigning for a seat in the U.S. Senate. In a recent write-up at Medium, the former Google employee revealed how the company constantly neglected his concerns about human rights due to the firm’s business interests in China in spite of ...
Nobel Peace Prize nominee and international human rights lawyer David Matas has spent years researching and uncovering the crime of forced organ harvesting taking place in China against a group known as Falun Gong, or Falun Dafa. The practice itself is a peaceful one, teaching one to take the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance ...
Fifteen medical studies were retracted from two journals in August over concerns that their authors used organs from the organ harvesting of executed prisoners in China. The medical journals, Transplantation and PLOS ONE, pulled the studies that they had published from 2008-2014, the blog Retraction Watch reported. The report said that two of the studies ...
Several people have been recently jailed by the Chinese authorities for being “spiritually Japanese,” including a young woman who drew more than 300 cartoons deemed to have “humiliated China.” Zhang Dongning, a 22-year-old college student from Huainan in eastern China’s Anhui Province, was reported to be an enthusiast of Japanese culture, and was arrested upon ...
Through a series of twists and turns currently being documented for an upcoming film titled Badass Beauty Queen, the Story of Anastasia Lin, Anastasia and her supporters discovered that a pre-approved visa was not required for Canadians visiting Sanya, as it is a tourist area. So at the last moment, Anastasia packed her crown and ...
While U.S. President Trump’s administration has been criticizing Beijing’s authoritarian policies, it seems that American companies are actually helping China in this regard. Several U.S. tech firms have been found to be involved in projects that might enable the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to perfect its state surveillance system. Helping Chinese surveillance A recent media ...
Beijing’s increasing interference in Hong Kong is something that has been making businesses and the wealthy sections of the city concerned. With the ongoing mass protests against the government’s pro-China extradition amendment bill, capital outflows from the city have spiked. Capital outflows “We have seen a trend to offshoring assets in the last few years, ...
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