The G-7 Must Talk About 3 Urgent Asia Issues
The crises in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Myanmar must be discussed – and all three involve a serious consideration of the China problem.
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June 10, 2021
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As G-7 leaders gather in Cornwall tomorrow, there are three major issues that deserve to be priorities on the agenda: the genocide of the Uyghurs, the destruction of Hong Kong’s freedoms, and the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar. And all three have a common factor: China.
A week ago, the Uyghur Tribunal began four days of hearings on the human rights situation in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, the British lawyer who prosecuted Slobodan Milosevic, the independent tribunal has been established to answer one simple question: Do the atrocities facing the Uyghurs amount to genocide? The panel heard hours of harrowing testimonies of torture, gang rape, slave labor, forced sterilization, forced a
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Hongkongers determined to hold Tiananmen crackdown vigil
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01 Jun 2021, 17:37 GMT+10
Hong Kong, June 1 (ANI): For the second straight year, Hong Kong police have cited public health risks from the COVID-19 pandemic to ban the annual Tiananmen vigil held on June 4. Despite this, many people are determined to hold it one way or the other.
The annual vigil is observed to remember the thousands killed when Chinese soldiers cracked down on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing on June 4, 1989.
Since the imposition of the draconian national security law last year that bans acts of subversion, secession, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces, concerns have mounted that organisers and attendees of the vigil risk being held in breach of the law, reported South China Morning Post (SCMP).