The White House said President Joe Biden will address China’s human rights record in his next meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. A meeting between the two world leaders appears to be in the works. On Thursday, Biden announced, “I expect to be speaking with President Xi.” The Biden administration has indicated this meeting […]
The prime minister promises the government will do “whatever it takes” to keep the UK public safe from Chinese spy balloons. Politicians join protesters after reports that the Chinese Communist Party’s deputy secretary of the Xinjiang region, sanctioned by the United States for persecuting Uyghurs, will be meeting Foreign Office officials. A man is in […]
OTTAWA—The Canadian parliament on Wednesday unanimously voted in favor of a non-binding proposal for the resettlement of 10,000 Uyghur Muslim refugees from China’s Xinjiang region into Canada over two years. The House of Commons voted 322–0 for Liberal member of parliament Sameer Zuberi’s bill, which also called on the government to recognize that Uyghurs and […]
The International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit 2023 is being held in Washington, D.C., from Jan. 31 to Feb. 1. The summit intended to create a powerful coalition of organizations that operate together for the cause of religious freedom around the world. The summit also intended to increase public awareness and political strength for the international […]
With any car bought in the last five years, some of its parts may have been made by Uyghurs forced to work in China. A new report claims that the Chinese regime has deliberately shifted raw materials mining, processing, and auto parts manufacturing, into Xinjiang. This would essentially make international supply chains captive to repressive […]
Overseas Chinese students at University of California–Berkeley will protest and mourn the deaths of Urumqi fire victims in China at 10 p.m. ET on Nov. 28. NTD will livestream the event. Access the livestream on this page, and also at EpochTV.
Rare mass protests against COVID-19 lockdowns have broken out across China, including in major cities, following the horrific deaths of at least 10 people in Xinjiang’s capital city of Urumqi in north-western China, when first responders were unable to reach an apartment fire that was left to burn for hours due to COVID-19 blockades and locks throughout […]
Massive protests erupted in China’s far western Xinjiang region on Friday as long-simmering frustrations over the country’s strict COVID-19 policies hit a boiling point when claims circulated online blaming lockdown restrictions for hindering escape from a deadly apartment building fire. Multiple videos said to be from the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi and shared on social […]
BEIJING—A fire in an apartment building in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region killed at least 10 people and injured at least nine, authorities said on Nov. 25, amid stringent lockdowns that have left many residents in the area stuck in their homes for more than three months. The fire broke out Thursday night in the regional […]
