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(FILES) This file photo taken on June 4, 2019 shows the Jieleixi No.13 village mosque in Yangisar, south of Kashgar, in China’s western Xinjiang region. – Chinese authorities have demolished thousands of mosques in Xinjiang, an Australian think tank said on September 25, 2020, in the latest report of widespread human rights abuses in the restive region. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP) France has become the first country to oppose the proposed Comprehensive Agreement on Investment deal to be sig...

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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 2, 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) issued a Withhold Release Order (“WRO”) against cotton products made by the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (“XPCC”) or any of its affiliates (collectively, “XPCC”) because those Chinese entities are viewed as relying on the use of forced labor from Uyghur or other minority Muslim groups in Xinjiang.  This new WRO could affect a significant sha...

China needs to ratify convention prohibiting forced labor, says Paris Shweta Desai   | 23.12.2020 PARIS France will oppose the proposed investment agreement between the European Union and China over the use of forced Uighur labor, the countrys minister delegate for foreign trade and attractiveness said. In an interview with LeMonde newspaper, Franck Riester said the proposed agreement is significant toward rebalancing investment with China, b...

President Donald Trump on Friday signed legislation that could kick Chinese companies off of U.S. exchanges unless American regulators can review their financial audits, a move likely to further escalate tensions between the two countries. The measure, which could affect corporate giants like Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Baidu Inc., serves as another parting shot at Beijing before Trump leaves office in January. The president has long railed against China for what he calls unfair trading p...

Where go the Uighurs A newly released research report from the Center for Global Policy indicates that the Chinese are now forcing Uighurs to hand-pick cotton in the western province of Xinjiang, north of Tibet. Xinjiang produces 20% of the world supply of cotton. The report notes that hand-picked cotton is considered to be of higher quality than machine-picked, and that the government had previously used prison labor to pick the cotton, creating a “cotton gulag.” Now, through “poverty al...

MONEYWEB app instead? In parting shot at Beijing. By Jordan Fabian, Bloomberg 19 Dec 2020  11:20  US president Donald Trump. Image: Bloomberg President Donald Trump on Friday signed legislation that could kick Chinese companies off of US exchanges unless American regulators can review their financial audits, a move likely to further escalate tensions between the two countries. The measure, which could affect corporate giants like Alibaba Group Holding and Baidu, serves as another parting ...

Day: December 19, 2020 For anyone that remembers Google Plus, it was actually a fairly slick setup for social media. You could have different circles of people, which made it easy to segregate the sections of your life. Maybe you have some super liberal friends, so you put them in one circle and don’t share your news feed with them. Or maybe your brother is a complete moron and loves to comment about your parenting. In that case, you cut him out of the family picture sharing but don’t mind ...

“U.S. policy is letting China flout rules that American companies play by, and it’s dangerous,” Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, a lead sponsor of the new law, said in a statement. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters in Beijing after passage of the House bill that China was “against politicizing securities regulation” and urged cooperation to protect investors’ rights. “It will undermine global investors’ confidence in the U.S. capital markets and ...

BBC News Published image captionCotton production in Xinjiang Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has said it will not allow its technology to be used for targeting or identifying specific ethnic groups. The statement follows reports that the company’s content moderation technology can pick out Uighur minorities. Alibaba said it was “dismayed that Alibaba Cloud developed facial technology that includes ethnicity as an attribute for tagging video imagery. "We have eliminated any ethnic tag in...