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The Biden administration on Tuesday escalated its rhetoric against American companies doing business in China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, calling US investments a potential threat and warning American firms that they may wind up breaking the law if they don’t leave the region. The new US advisory includes pages of details describing the legal and reputational risks for American firms operating in Xinjiang, and warns them to brace for serious consequences if they stay there and continue with business as usual. “Given the severity and extent of these abuses”, it said, citing for...

Fashion brands face inquiry over suspected links to Uighur slave labour We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Elizabeth Paton, Léontine Gallois and Aurelien Breeden July 3, 2021 — 11.36am Normal text size Advertisement France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into four leading fashion retailers over suspicions that they benefited from and concealed crimes against humanity by using forced labour by Uighurs in China. The investigation by the French prosecutors started last month following accusations that t...

May 24, 2021 When news emerged yesterday (May 23) that Belarus had forcefully diverted a Ryanair flight to its capital so that it could arrest an exiled activist on board, European Union officials flooded Twitter to share information and respond in real time. A controversy that has since erupted over one official’s tweet shows that political communication is a delicate balancing act in the best of times, but that in a crisis, it’s difficult to get entirely right. What happened in Belarus? Belarus is ruled by Aleksandr Lukashenko, an authoritarian leader who enjoys the support of neighbori...

BEIJING (AP) — China on Friday rejected European Parliament demands that it lift...

China defiant after EU warning over trade deal RATIFICATION FROZEN: EU lawmakers said that they would also take into account alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang when the agreement is put to a vote AP, BEIJING China yesterday rejected demands by the European Parliament that it lift sanctions against EU legislators to save a trade deal between the two sides. Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Zhao Lijian (趙立堅) said that the sanctions were justified and demanded that the European side “immediately stop interfering in China’s...