China has dramatically increased its prosecution of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang through the formal court system, handing out long prison terms for dubious charges, such as “picking quarrels” and giving gifts to overseas relatives, a rights group said yesterday.
These criminal convictions are in addition to the detention of an estimated 1 million Uighurs and other mainly Muslim minorities in “political education” camps in Xinjiang.
More than 250,000 people in the northwestern region have been formally sentenced and imprisoned since 2016, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said.
“Despite the veneer of legality, many of those in Xinjiang’s prisons are ordinary people who were
Envoys’ meeting reflects solid Taiwan-US ties: MOFA
By Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter
A meeting between Taiwanese and US representatives to the WTO reflects the closeness of bilateral ties, which have been unaffected by a transfer of power at the White House, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday.
Taiwan’s permanent mission to the WTO said in a news release on Friday that Representative to the WTO Lo Chang-fa (羅昌發) on Feb. 11 met with David Bisbee, charge d’affaires ad interim of the US mission to the WTO in Geneva.
They exchanged opinions about reform at the global trade body, and their expectations from new WTO Secretary-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and US President Joe Biden’s administration, as well as Taiwan’s position on trade negotiations, it said.
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China urges Biden to restore goodwill
OPEN DIALOGUE? The US should remove its ‘unreasonable tariffs’ and abandon its ‘irrational suppression’ of China’s technology progress, China’s foreign minister said
Bloomberg
China yesterday urged US President Joe Biden’s administration to take steps to “build up goodwill,” including removing tariffs and sanctions, as Beijing continued to put the onus on Washington to repair their fractured relationship.
Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi (王毅) told a forum in Beijing that the two sides should reopen dialog platforms cut off under former US president Donald Trump and back away from some of the previous administration’s policies.