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ChinaFile sent a short questionnaire to several hundred ChinaFile contributors to get a sense of their feelings about traveling to China once COVID-19 restrictions begin to ease. Media reports at the time had suggested, anecdotally, that foreigners with longstanding professional ties to China felt reluctant to visit, in part owing to the passage of Hong Kong’s National
Canada Recognized China's Actions Against Uyghurs As Genocide. Here's What You Need To Know Destruction of religious and cultural sites, forced labour and arbitrary detention: China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims needs to be held to account. March 15, 2021 Protesters gather outside the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Monday, February 22, 2021. (Photo: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld) Canada’s parliament recently voted to declare China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim populations as genocide, making them the second country to do so after the U.S. Here’s what you need to kno...
NEWS BRIEFS Texas power plants get emergency clearance to crank up output WASHINGTON - The Department of Energy issued an emergency order allowing several Texas power plants to produce as much electricity as possible, a move expected to violate anti-pollution rules that comes amid a deepening electricity crisis in the state that has cut power to millions of homes. The Energy Department order, requested by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, authorizes power plants throughout the state to run a maximum output levels, even as such a move is anticipated to result in a violation of limits...