‘This is only the beginning’: After a decision by Canada’s parliament to welcome Turkic Muslim refugees who have fled China, Uyghur activists believe the government and prime minister Justin Trudeau himself will follow up with further action.
One year has passed since a panel of ordinary citizens in the U.K. declared a genocide to be unfolding in the Uyghur homeland, but much of the world still has to act on its implications.
The love affair between Beijing and Muslim leaders deepened last December with a rare visit by Xi Jinping to Saudi Arabia. Then over the New Year, a group of Islamic dignitaries came to Ürümchi, supposedly to see for themselves how well their beleaguered Uyghur brethren are being treated by the Chinese government.
As Turkey heads into an election season, officials are promising that the country will not extradite Uyghurs to China. Can they be trusted?
Half a year after Washington enacted a set of laws intended to prevent products of coerced labor from entering the U.S. market, supply chains in the solar power and apparel industries are snarled up, but it’s uncertain if the Uyghurs themselves have seen any benefit.
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For nearly a decade, Uyghurs in China have been living in an extreme surveillance state. In the last few weeks, they have not been able to join the demonstrations in China against excessive COVID surveillance and lockdown policies, despite being the worst-affected group, and the victims of the Ürümchi fire that sparked the protests.
One of Time magazine’s “top 100 influential people in the world,” Andrew Sheng is a Malaysian-born banker, financial regulator, and scholar, and one of the most interesting people in the world to talk to.
Craig Allen, president of the U.S.-China Business Council, and Jon Gold, vice president of Supply Chain and Customs Policy at the National Retail Federation, help make sense of how companies can deal with the sweeping effects of the Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act, which just went into effect in late June.
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