The US State Department’s annual review of China’s human rights record, released on Tuesday, was pared back as part of a broader restructuring of its country reports but still retained many of its most politically sensitive criticisms of Beijing’s conduct. “Genocide and crimes against humanity occurred during the year in China against predominantly Muslim Uygurs…
Syria’s new President Ahmed al-Sharaa met the Chinese ambassador to Damascus in the first public bilateral engagement since the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in December, Syrian state media reported on Friday. China, which backed Assad, saw its embassy in Damascus looted after his fall. Syria’s new Islamist rulers have also installed some foreign fighters including…
A year ago in Woodside, California, the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies met and agreed to improve “people-to-people” exchanges. During the summit with US President Joe Biden, Chinese leader Xi Jinping said the country was ready to receive 50,000 young Americans over the next five years. Since then, China has made it easier…
The United States added two Chinese companies to a trade restriction list on Tuesday for allegedly enabling human rights violations as President Joe Biden kept up the pressure on Beijing in the waning days of his administration. The Commerce Department, which oversees export policy, added Zhejiang Uniview Technologies Co., Ltd. to the entity list, “because…
President Xi Jinping has called for national security and social stability to be upheld in China’s border regions and for Mandarin to be spoken more broadly in those areas, according to state media. Addressing a Politburo study session on Monday, Xi said maintaining security and stability was the “baseline requirement” for border governance, state news…