Xinjiang

KASHGAR (China): As visitors to China's Xinjiang enjoyed new theme park-style tourist centres showcasing the region's Muslim Uyghur culture on a recent national holiday, signs of heavy security and state surveillance were never far away.…

BEIJING: China on Monday accused the G7 of "political manipulation" after it criticised Beijing over its human rights record in Xinjiang and Hong Kong. In a communique after a three-day summit in England, G7 leaders slammed China over…

In a rare move – and with the backing of US president Joe Biden - China was heavily criticised throughout the G7 leaders’ communiqué - condemned both for undermining the global economy and for abusing human rights in Hong Kong and…

BEIJING: Top US and Chinese diplomats appear to have had another sharply worded exchange, with Beijing saying it told the US to cease interfering in its internal affairs and accusing it of politicizing the search for the origin of the…

CARBIS BAY: The Group of Seven will seek to rival China’s multi-trillion-dollar Belt and Road initiative on Saturday by announcing a global infrastructure plan to help developing nations, a senior official in US President Joe Biden's…

LONDON: The repression of hundreds of thousands of China's Uyghur Muslim minority amounts to "crimes against humanity", a report published Thursday by human rights group Amnesty International said. In a 160-page document that includes…

BEIJING: China's foreign minister warned the Biden administration on Sunday to roll back former President Donald Trump's “dangerous practice” of showing support for Taiwan, the island democracy claimed by Beijing as its own territory.…

PARIS: Gulbahar Haitiwaji knew that China would not be happy about her book describing nearly three years of imprisonment, brainwashing and harassment at the hands of the authorities simply because she is Uighur. But the ferocity with…

BEIJING: China, under growing global pressure over its treatment of a Muslim minority in its far west, is mounting an unprecedented and aggressive campaign to push back, including explicit attacks on women who have made claims of abuse.…

AMSTERDAM: The Dutch parliament on Thursday passed a non-binding motion saying the treatment of the Uighur Muslim minority in China amounts to genocide, the first such move by a European country. Activists and UN rights experts say at…