More than a lots U.S. lawmakers took Zoom to job and required comprehensive description Friday after the California-based teleconferencing business confessed to suspending the accounts of 3 Chinese activists at Beijing’s demand. Zoom stated Thursday that it had actually shut off the accounts of U.S-based, pro-democracy activists Zhou Fengsuo and Wang Dan, and Hong Kong […]

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A Chinese ship rammed a Vietnamese fishing boat operating in the Paracel Islands, Vietnamese state media reported Friday, in what might be the first case of China implementing its unilateral fishing restriction in parts of the South China Sea versus vessels of another country. Tuoi Tre (Youth) paper reported that Wednesday’s occurrence occurred near Lincoln […]

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Vietnam objected Thursday to China’s current reported laying of undersea cable televisions in the challenged Paracel Islands, stating it was an offense of Vietnamese sovereignty. The Foreign Ministry comment came as Vietnam released a coastguard vessel into another objected to island chain in the South China Sea, the Spratlys, in evident action to the existence […]

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Authorities in Aksu (in Chinese, Akesu) prefecture, in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Self-governing Area (XUAR), are requiring Uyghur households to divide their courtyards according to rigorous guidelines or run the risk of detention in internment camps, according to sources. A current post in the official Aksu Daily declared that the “Three Separates” campaign, which needs […]

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Cambodia’s top human rights body stated Wednesday that the nation does not wish to lose preferential trade status in the European Union but is not able to adhere to the bloc’s requirements on rights reforms to keep those benefits, mentioning its status as a sovereign country. The EU in mid-February revealed strategies to suspend tariff-free […]

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Source: Adobe/David Alary. Policymakers in China have actually recommended developing a joint Japan-China-South Korea-Hong Kong digital currency that would operate in a way not unlike Facebook‘s original prepare for the Libra project. Per Seoul Daily, 10 members of the National People’s Congress– the most significant and most effective policy-making organ in China, have actually recommended […]

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The United States is having a hard time to take on China’s growing influence in Southeast Asia, according to a brand-new survey of the area’s specialists, despite the fact that there is strong assistance amongst them for democratic worths. China currently has far more financial influence than the U.S., and somewhat more political power, in […]

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The Philippines inaugurated a beaching ramp on Pag-asa Island on Tuesday, with authorities explaining it as the first of numerous upgrades on the area that Manila claims in South China Sea waters near where Beijing has actually developed military stations. The ramp is a concrete pier that will enable ships to dock on Pag-asa, Philippine […]

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A prominent Uyghur journalist has actually been confirmed detained in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area (XUAR) after vanishing nearly three years earlier, according to an official in the local capital Urumqi. Qurban Mamut, the former editor-in-chief of the official Xinjiang Cultural Journal, went missing out on around November 2017, numerous months after he and […]

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Jewlan Shirmemet, a Uyghur who has actually resided in Turkey’s biggest city Istanbul considering that 2008, had actually remained quiet about politics till around 6 months earlier, when he started to speak up as part of a campaign to complimentary his mom, Suriye Tursun, from approximate detention back home in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area […]

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