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Human rights in China

A picker harvests tomatoes in China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in September. Photo: Xinhua
US-China relations

US blacklists 29 more Chinese companies over alleged forced labour in Xinjiang

Products of offending firms range from hi-tech inputs such as polysilicon to food products like tomato paste, according to Homeland Security.

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China-EU relations

Little room to mend EU-China ties amid differences over trade, Ukraine

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G20

At G20, Xi and Albanese discuss improved China-Australia trade relations

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US-China relations

Xi arrives in Peru for Apec, ready to sign 30 bilateral deals for China

A focal point of his visit will be the virtual inauguration of the South American country’s US$3.5 billion port funded by Beijing.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping deplanes in Callao, Peru, on Thursday to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Photo: AP
US presidential election 2024

Trump’s China policy could pit deal makers against ideologues: analysts

Hardline appointees and nominees may curb his transactional impulses on issues like trade, technology and Taiwan, US-based analysts say.

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China

Video | Shanghai police round up Halloween party-goers, make some remove costumes

Revellers were reportedly required to register their names, IDs and phone numbers before being released.

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US-China relations

US adds 6 more Chinese companies to export blacklist for boosting Iran, PLA

Firms acting contrary to American national security in supporting Tehran’s ‘weapons of mass destruction programme’, says Commerce Department.

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Once placed on the list, companies cannot receive American goods and technology without a special licence, which is likely to be denied. Photo: AP
US presidential election 2024

Explainer | 2024 US congressional races: what to expect and how China plays a role

Concerns about Beijing loom in some contests as Democrats seek to hang on to the Senate and Republicans eye expanding their House majority.

US-China relations

US bans Chinese steel, food-additives firms over Xinjiang human rights

Latest additions to Uygur Forced Labour Prevention Act’s entity list show American drive to rid its supply chain of forced labour presses on.

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US-China relations

Strengthening US shipbuilding to counter China becomes a focus of lawmakers

Bipartisan bill will be introduced in US Congress in effort to revitalise a diminished industry amid growing Chinese dominance.

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A drastic decline in US maritime capabilities is a prime motivation for the pending Ships for America Act, according to one of its congressional sponsors. Photo: Handout
China trade

China raises Xinjiang cotton with parent firm for Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger

Beijing ministry reveals it initiated investigation into PVH Group under Unreliable Entry List framework due to ‘discriminatory’ measures.

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Cotton from China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has been the subject of numerous trade restrictions, led largely by the West. Photo: AP
Tibet

Open Questions | Ethnic minorities expert on China’s treatment of Uygurs, and Han chauvinism

Ethnic minorities expert Barry Sautman gives his take on education, the next Dalai Lama, Han chauvinism and Beijing’s treatment of Uygurs.

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US-China relations

Panel urges Biden to prioritise release of Americans wrongfully held in China

Chair of Congressional-Executive Commission on China says detainees must be the focus whenever secretary of state meets Chinese officials.

US-China relations

China frees American pastor who US claims was wrongly jailed

David Lin received a life sentence in 2009 on a charge of contract fraud.

The release of David Lin came a few weeks after US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, left, met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing, Photo: Reuters
China’s Communist Party

China is poised to amend its anti-corruption law for the first time

Changes would include allowing bail during investigations but also extending the period suspects are denied access to a lawyer.

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The National People’s Congress Standing Committee has reviewed a proposed amendment to China’s Supervision Law. Image: Shutterstock
US-China relations

Chinese ambassador lays down ‘red lines’ in US-China relationship

Interspersed with language hailing the 45th anniversary of normalised relations between the nations was a warning: Don’t mess with China.

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US-China relations

US, EU raise alarm over China’s ‘very substantial’ help to Russia in Ukraine war

Beijing’s ‘significant’ exports said to be used on battlefield and given in exchange for Kremlin’s sensitive military technologies.

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China society

Opinion | How Chinese with disabilities are inspiring a more inclusive country

China must enforce its disability rights laws and improve accessibility, but social attitudes also need to shift beyond discrimination and pity.

Chinese Paralympian Jiang Yuyan reacts to the results of the women’s 400m freestyle race in Paris, France. Photo: Reuters
US-China relations

US, Britain stress unity towards China as new strategic dialogue opens in London

Top diplomats tout allies’ strengthening ties and ‘indispensable’ partnership as Washington vies to blunt Beijing’s Indo-Pacific influence.

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China’s Communist Party

Chinese legal community asks: where is the line on death penalty for corruption?

Inner Mongolia court dismisses appeal by party official who pleaded guilty to pocketing more than US$422 million and was sentenced to death.

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US-China relations

China’s economic coercion evokes scrutiny, resentment: US officials

Washington’s global network of allies said to offer moral support, supply-chain diversion strategies and new markets when Beijing takes aim.

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Nicholas Burns, US ambassador to China, has warned against a world that heavily depends on China for trade and technologies. Photo: AP
Art

Chinese artist held under law that bans defaming revolutionary ‘heroes’

Artist and his brother Gao Qiang are well-known for their critical depictions of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution.

Gao Zhen was detained last week at a studio just outside Beijing. Photo: Xiao Ke
US-China relations

China’s Xinjiang vows more support for firms under US ‘forced labour’ sanctions

Legislative resolution says US sanctions are ‘baseless’, calls to create ‘positive social environment’ for growth of businesses targeted.

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Xinjiang

US disappointed in China’s actions in Xinjiang after UN human rights report

State Department laments Beijing’s treatment of ‘Uygurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities’ on second anniversary of damning findings.

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China-EU relations

EU officials assail denial of access to trial of Chinese human rights advocates

Lawyer Yu Wensheng and his wife Xu Yan, detained while en route to a 2023 meeting with EU envoys in Beijing, face charges in Suzhou.

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An undated photograph of human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng and his wife, Xu Yan. Photo: Handout
United Nations

China’s ‘problematic laws’ remain in Xinjiang years after damning report: UN

The UN’s human rights body had cited policies in Xinjiang that ‘may constitute crimes against humanity’.

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Workers walk along a perimeter fence of what Chinese officials call a vocational skills education centre in Dabancheng in Xinjiang. Photo: Reuters
India

Indian solar panels face US scrutiny for possible links to China forced labour

US Customs has detained nearly US$43 million worth of Indian electronics shipments since October 2022 under the Uygur Forced Labor Prevention Act, highlighting a new focus on enforcing the law.

US-China relations

China may preoccupy US lawmakers and staff, but few travel there now

Observers mull implications as some of Beijing’s harshest critics and less-travelled policy hands on Capitol Hill avoid trips to mainland.

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Human rights in China
Latest news, features and opinion on human rights in China, covering free speech, religious freedoms, the right to a fair trial, minority rights in the autonomous regions of Tibet and Xinjiang and criticisms of China’s human rights record.
last updated:
16 October, 2024
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