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Risk of ‘tragic miscalculation’ in China’s military secrecy: UK

Foreign minister also warns on Taiwan, Xinjiang but says countries must work with China on world’s pressing problems.

Al Jazeera

Hikvision internal review found Xinjiang contracts targeted Uyghurs

"We're not going to absolve the company," the team conducting the review told Hikvision, per a recording of a private meeting.

Axios

Exposed: The links between Indonesia’s deforestation and Xinjiang

Chinese demand for Indonesian wood pulp is propping up industry ostracised elsewhere over sustainability concerns.

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‘Like a war zone’: Congress hears of China’s abuses in Xinjiang ‘re-education camps’

Pair tell of witnessing or experiencing torture and brainwashing, as Republicans and Democrats vow to document ‘genocide’

The Guardian - US

U.S. House panel on China highlights abuse of Uyghurs in second hearing

A new U.S. congressional committee on China held its second hearing on Thursday, highlighting what Washington says is an ongoing genocide against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China's Xinjiang region.

Reuters

Additions to Xinjiang sanctions list a priority -US DHS official

One of the top priorities for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security this year is to add more companies to a sanctions list for using forced labor in China's Xinjiang region, a senior DHS official said on Friday.

Reuters

McCaul, Meeks trigger sanctions review for Chinese firm

WASHINGTON — The Republican and Democratic leaders of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said they triggered a requirement that the Biden administration determine within four months whether a Chinese surveillance company should be sanctioned for human rights violations against ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang province.

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New UN rights chief opens ‘communication’ with China

Volker Türk’s first speech falls short of activists’ hopes for a tougher stand after UN report on abuses in Xinjiang.

Al Jazeera

McCaul, Meeks trigger sanctions review for Chinese firm - Roll Call

House Foreign Affairs Committee leaders have triggered a sanctions review of a Chinese surveillance equipment maker.

Roll Call

Ahead of China hearing, lawmakers share 'next steps' the U.S. can take for Uyghurs

Reps. Mike Gallagher and Raja Krishnamoorthi, leaders of the House select committee focused on the threat of China, say raising awareness of human rights abuses is a crucial first step.

WEKU

Time to solve Uighur saga

The death of Aziz Abdullah, a Uighur detainee at Bangkok's Immigration Detention Centre, is the epitome of the government's mishandling of those escaping China's southwestern Xinjiang region as well as the Muslim minority group's long-forgotten plight on Thai soil.

Bangkok Post

Parliament says China is committing a genocide. Why were officials planning to meet one of the perpetrators?

Erkin Tuniyaz’s visit is no longer going ahead, but Britain should never have engaged with this whitewashing of the treatment of Uyghurs and other minorities, says James McMurray of the University of Sussex

The Guardian - UK

Governor of China’s Xinjiang cancels UK visit after British MPs call for his arrest

Erkin Tuniyaz was due to visit London as part of his EU trip

The Independent UK

China says U.S. balloons flew over Xinjiang, Tibet, warns of countermeasures

Diplomatic friction festered between the United States and China on Wednesday as Beijing charged that U.S. high altitude balloons flew over its Xinjiang and Tibet regions and said it would take measures against U.S. entities that undermine Chinese sovereignty.

Reuters

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The Independent UK

Governor of China’s Xinjiang cancels controversial visit to UK

China is alleged to have forcibly sterilised women and put children in ‘concentration camps’ in the province.

The Guardian - UK

Iain Duncan Smith accuses Xinjiang governor of ‘murder’ at Uyghur protest

Demonstrators gathered in Westminster after reports Erkin Tuniyaz was to meet UK officials

The Independent UK

Sir Iain Duncan Smith joins protest by Uyghur activists at FCDO

The protesters stayed outside the FCDO’s headquarters on King Charles Street in Westminster throughout Monday.

The Guardian - UK

Iain Duncan Smith calls for arrest of Chinese governor for ‘crimes against humanity’

Erkin Tuniyaz is head of the Xinjiang region, where human rights abuses are alleged to be taking place

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The Independent UK

UK MPs call for arrest of visiting Chinese governor over Uighur ‘genocide’

MPs condemn foreign, commonwealth and development office for planning talks with Erkin Tuniyaz

The Independent UK

UK urged to arrest visiting Xinjiang governor over Uighur ‘genocide’

MPs also condemned the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office for planning talks with Erkin Tuniyaz.

The Guardian - UK

Lawyer asks to prosecute Xinjiang governor in the UK

Erkin Tuniyaz, who allegedly played a central role in Uyghur persecution, is expected to visit the UK

The Independent UK

Row erupts over Chinese official’s visit to UK as senior Tories blast it as ‘propoganda coup’

Minister accused of approving of visit from ‘one of the masterminds’ of genocide

Daily Mirror

Fury over government plans to meet with genocide 'mastermind' in London

The Commons heard that Erkin Tuniyaz, governor of Xinjiang in China, plans to travel to the UK on a diplomatic passport, and could meet Whitehall officials next week - despite being branded a "mastermind" of the genocide of Uyghur Muslims

Reuters

Britain defends possible talks with governor of China's Xinjiang

Britain on Thursday defended the possibility that officials will hold talks with Erkin Tuniyaz, the governor of the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, amid outrage from lawmakers who have highlighted alleged rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims there.

The Guardian - UK

Cross-party MPs shocked by Foreign Office talks with Xinjiang governor

Exclusive: Erkin Tuniyaz ‘played central role’ in persecution of Uyghurs, says inter-parliamentary alliance on China

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