US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that his administration was moving to retake control of Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, claiming that such a move was necessary because of the facility’s proximity to nuclear weapons sites in China. Bagram, located 44 kilometres (27 miles) north of Kabul, was the largest US military base in…
The first official meeting between the European Parliament and China’s National People’s Congress for seven years is slated for October 16, confirming a continued thaw in relations between the two chambers. The meeting has been in the works for months since the sides moved to lift restrictions on each other, but it was confirmed by…
Chinese scholars have criticised US-led sanctions over Xinjiang, saying their research showed the measures had resulted in long-term economic damage, including job losses. The findings, presented at an academic seminar in Hong Kong last month, offered one of the first aggregated assessments of the impacts of US sanctions imposed on Chinese companies over alleged human…
China reviewed two legislative proposals on Monday as the country ramps up a drive to promote further ethnic integration through the use of standard Mandarin – both the spoken and written language – among minorities. The draft “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress”, submitted to China’s top legislative body, the National People’s Congress (NPC)…
For the past 25 years, top American tech firms including IBM, Cisco, and NVIDIA helped build China’s digital police state, an Associated Press investigation revealed Tuesday. The report shows these companies sold billions of dollars in technology that became the foundation of China’s vast surveillance network. This equipment enabled severe human rights abuses, from the…
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s resignation after less than a year in the job might not be surprising, but it will add to uncertainty over relations with China. “Now is the time for me to resign as the negotiations on US tariffs have come to an end,” Ishiba said on Sunday, citing a trade deal…
BEIJING (AP) — The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody and paralyzed in a hospital bed after a police beating with bricks. By then, surveillance was nothing new for the Yang family in rural China, snared in an intricate…
A second Hong Kong tour group member has died following a crash on a scenic highway in Xinjiang last week that left two others injured. The Travel Industry Authority said a member of the tour organised by Travel Circle International (TCI) died on Monday. The first person was killed on the night of the accident…
A second Hong Kong tour group member has died following a crash on a scenic highway in Xinjiang last week that left two others injured. The Travel Industry Authority said a member of the tour organised by Travel Circle International (TCI) died on Monday. The first person was killed on the night of the accident…
One person has died and three others have been injured in a traffic accident involving a Hong Kong tour group in Xinjiang. The Travel Industry Authority said on Friday that it was notified by Travel Circle International on Wednesday that the tour group was involved in a traffic accident that day in the autonomous mainland…