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China Finds Oil In Asia’s Deepest Onshore Well | OilPrice.com
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has found crude oil and natural gas in the deepest well drilled in Asia’s onshore
China's government poses a 'global threat to human rights,' report finds | CNN
The Chinese government increasingly poses a "global threat to human rights," according to NGO Human Rights Watch.
Human rights in Hong Kong, Xinjiang raised in China-EU meeting
European Union foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell confirms discussion with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Madrid.
China claims detained Uighurs have been freed
Xinjiang governor offers no evidence of release but says ‘trainees’ have found stable jobs
Chinese ‘terror’ documentaries seek to justify Xinjiang crackdown
English-language documentaries produced by CGTN television show graphic images of terrorist attacks in far western region, where a million Muslims have been reportedly detained.
On the defensive on human rights, China’s ambassadors go on the attack
Beijing’s envoys used to fly under the public radar but they’re becoming more vocal about hot-button issues.
Wanted: cadres to hold Beijing’s line in Xinjiang as Han Chinese exit
While Muslim communities are in lockdown, the Han population is voting with its feet and leaving the region, sources say.
China ‘could target trade talks’ over Xinjiang human rights bill
Beijing has a range of strong options to retaliate against possible American sanctions on Chinese officials in far western region, advisers say.
China, US moving closer to trade deal despite Hong Kong and Xinjiang
US President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that a deal could be pushed back until after the US presidential election in November 2020.
Huge leaks are exposing Xinjiang's re-education camps. But don't expect Beijing to back down | CNN
The Chinese government's carefully constructed narrative around its Xinjiang detention centers appears to have been shattered by hundreds of pages of leaked documents published by Western media over the last two weeks.
China must meet human rights obligations in Xinjiang, says Germany
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas issues warning in wake of publication of documents that ‘highlight workings of mass detention camps’.
'What has happened to me': manga depicting Uighur torture hits 2.5m views
Japanese artist’s story of Xinjiang woman’s experience highlights plight of Muslim minority in China
UK calls for UN access to Chinese detention camps in Xinjiang
Foreign Office responds after leaked China cables appear to confirm brainwashing centres
Operating manual for Xinjiang's massive re-education camps allegedly revealed in leaked Chinese documents | CNN
A series of leaked documents threatens to shine a spotlight on the Chinese government's Xinjiang detention centers, indicating what Beijing claims are voluntary training schools for Muslim-majority Uyghurs are in fact heavily policed re-education camps.
China's response to the leaked Xinjiang camp cables
The Chinese embassy in the UK comments on the Guardian’s reporting on the Uighur detention camp telegrams
'Allow no escapes': leak exposes reality of China's vast prison camp network
Documents confirm operational details of largest mass incarceration of an ethnic-religious minority since second world war
China hits out at New York Times over report on Xinjiang documents
Foreign ministry does not question validity of papers but says article ignores success of campaign involving the detention of more than a million Muslims.
China detaining Uygurs ‘in nearly 500 camps and prisons’
Activist group gives geographic coordinates of facilities in Xinjiang, many of which had not been identified before, and says there could be ‘far greater numbers’ than the one million people usually cited as held.
How AI and human rights became embroiled in US-China tech war
The US move to blacklist China AI champions threatens to cleave global technology into rival US and China camps.
‘Like a movie’: In Xinjiang, new evidence that China stages prayers, street scenes for visiting delegations
China has staged intricately managed scenes filled with pedestrians, street vendors and drivers played by people – police officers, teachers, retirees – who have been screened by the authorities and assigned their role
Cuffs, cattle prods, and Chinese textbooks in Xinjiang
Ben Dooley of Agence France-Presse has a new report on the internment camps in Xinjiang, which begins like this: On state television, the vocational education centre…
The ‘students’ of Xinjiang — Beijing on the defensive
“Dispelling any doubts that the Chinese government is trying to create a new narrative about its indoctrination camps in Xinjiang, CCTV on Tuesday broadcast a…
Sinica Podcast: Nury Turkel and the Uyghur plight
This week’s Sinica Podcast is now live. This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy are joined by Nury Turkel, a prominent voice in the overseas…
China explicitly acknowledges, tries to justify concentration camps in Xinjiang
The South China Morning Post reports that Xinjiang “has revised its legislation to allow local governments to ‘educate and transform’ people influenced by extremism at ‘vocational…
Cui Tiankai denies existence of camps in Xinjiang
Cuī Tiānkǎi 崔天凯, China’s ambassador in Washington, gave an interview to NPR yesterday. Most of the speech seemed quite sensible, and Cui’s silver-tongued responses show…
Xinjiang: Beijing hits back with propaganda campaign
“China is mounting an increasingly sophisticated counterattack to criticism of its policies in the restive, heavily Muslim region of Xinjiang, courting foreign media and running…
Changing place names to ‘better reflect Chinese culture’ in Ningxia, and ‘wonderful’ Xinjiang
“China’s Muslim detention camps spark protests in Islamic world” reads the headline of this Wall Street Journal article (paywall) by Jeremy Page, Eva Dou, and Saeed Shah…
‘China’s big mistake’ in Xinjiang
“Pakistani businessmen whose wives and children are trapped in China’s restive Xinjiang are traveling to Beijing to lobby their embassy,” reports Reuters. They hope “that…
Pakistan raises treatment of Uyghurs with China
The Nation, a respected Pakistani newspaper, has this noteworthy report: Pakistan has demanded China to soften restrictions on Chinese Muslims living in Xinjiang province. Federal…
Increasing Uyghur activism abroad against abuses in Xinjiang
The South China Morning Post says: “Emboldened by international scrutiny, the American Uyghur diaspora is increasingly willing to publicly condemn China’s re-education programmes, despite the…
Beijing dismisses reports of enormous abuses in Xinjiang
As we noted in our Access newsletter yesterday (paywall), several events coincided over the weekend and on Monday that signaled the world is really starting to…
Will the U.S. sanction China over its Muslim ‘re-education’ camps?
Over the past year, a vast system of extralegal internment camps for Muslims in China’s far-western region of Xinjiang has quickly come to light. As…
Xinjiang, and a journalist expelled from China
Yesterday, BuzzFeed’s Beijing bureau chief, Megha Rajagopalan, tweeted: It is bittersweet to leave Beijing after spending six wonderful and eye-opening years as a journalist there…
Propaganda about Xinjiang re-education camps
On Monday, China said there were “no such thing as re-education centers” in Xinjiang, denying all the abuses alleged at the United Nations Committee on the…
A hotpot of mixed up news
In no particular order: The future of a bitcoin billionaire Bitmain is the dominant force in bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining in China, and therefore the…
Xinjiang in the spotlight at forthcoming UN hearing
Today, from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Geneva time (4 a.m. – 7 a.m. EST, or starting 4 p.m. China time), the United Nations Committee…
The ‘happiest Muslims in the world’ and their GPS trackers
“How the ‘Happiest Muslims in the World’ are coping with their happiness” is the caustic title of a grim account of ordinary Uyghurs’ lives rights…
New burial artifacts discovered in Xinjiang
These findings, which included a horse skeleton, shed light on what life was like in Xinjiang more than 2,000 years ago…
