China’s business partners face a similar dilemma to U.S. companies that supported Hitler. Thomas Watson, the founder of IBM, faced a choice in 1933. Adolf Hitler had just come to power in Germany, and he needed to consider whether to direct IBM’s subsidiary, Dehomag, to bid for the job of tabulating the results of a ...
In what seems like a bizarre demand, the Chinese regime is now asking the Uyghur Islamic community from Xinjiang to replace their traditional décor with “Sinicized” ones. According to some, this is being done to benefit entrepreneurs from the majority Han community. Sinicizing furniture “Authorities in the XUAR (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region) allocated more than ...
Beijing’s persecution of Uyghurs is not only affecting adults but also Uyghur children, according to a media analysis of a state planning document that was published on the government website. Uyghur children separated from their families The planning document shows that “nearly a half million children have been separated from their families and placed in ...
At first look, 135 Fuyou Street in Beijing might look like any other compound. However, this is where the office of the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party is located. This 200-meter-long building is basically China’s headquarters for promoting the Party’s narratives to the international community and developing the country’s soft power. ...
An exclusive scoop by the news website Axios claims that the Chinese government sought to secure funds from the World Bank for setting up its facial recognition surveillance in Xinjiang. The bank apparently did not clear the funds, thus preventing itself from unknowingly being complicit in China’s human rights violations. Funding Xinjiang surveillance The new ...
At a recent UN General Assembly meeting, member states were split on how China was treating its Uyghur minority population in the Xinjiang region. Many political experts believe that the stark difference in opinion among nations is an indication of how the world is getting increasingly polarized into pro-Western and pro-China countries. Picking sides At ...
The U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) has asked U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to enforce laws that will block the import of goods made through forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in China. Forced labor goods “There is a substantial risk that apparel made in the XUAR, or with XUAR ...
Recently, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) caught hold of fashion apparel from China they suspect was sourced from Xinjiang’s prisons and made using forced labor. Though the CBP did not reveal which American companies were importing such items, an investigation by the Associated Press tracked the products to enterprises like Costco. Forced labor ...
The Uyghurs of China have been one of the most persecuted communities in recent times. The Chinese government forces them to disown much of their faith and pledge loyalty to the communist ideology. Hatred of Uyghurs has gotten to a point that Chinese authorities are destroying their graves in what is believed to be a ...
The Chinese government is to the Xinjiang Uyghurs what the Nazis were to the Jews. The re-education camps run by Beijing, which it claims are for the benefit of the Uyghur people, have only one goal — to eradicate the cultural heritage of the community. The one difference is that the Nazis were blatant about ...
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