China sanctions Canadian institutes, individuals over Tibet, Xinjiang rights row

China sanctions Canadian institutes, individuals over Tibet, Xinjiang rights row

Beijing has sanctioned two Canadian institutes and several individuals concerned with Tibet and Xinjiang issues as tensions with Ottawa continue to worsen. The Uygur Rights Advocacy Project, the Canada Tibet Committee and 20 people from the two organisations had been placed on the sanctions list, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Sunday, citing China’s anti-sanctions…

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Chinese surveillance firm Hikvision ends Xinjiang government contracts ahead of Trump 2.0

Chinese surveillance firm Hikvision ends Xinjiang government contracts ahead of Trump 2.0

US-sanctioned Chinese surveillance giant Hikvision has terminated five contracts with local government authorities in Xinjiang, as it braces for the second term of US president-elect Donald Trump, who first put Hikvision on a trade blacklist in 2019. Hikvision ended the contracts for its public security projects in the far-western region of China, where local subsidiaries…

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