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On Tuesday, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) went into effect in the U.S. The bill was conceived in 2019, approved by the Senate last July, and passed by Congress in December before...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/06/uyghur-forced-labor-prevention-act-enters-into-force/

A list of ten “forbidden” behaviors posted to (and then deleted from) the public WeChat account of China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU) in Beijing seemed to reveal discontent with strict p...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/06/china-foreign-affairs-university-posts-and-then-deletes-draconian-coronavirus-restrictions/

This week, BBC Africa Eye released a documentary titled “Racism for Sale,” an investigation by Runako Celina and Henry Mhango into the Chinese video-making industry built on the exploitation ...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/06/racism-for-sale-investigation-rekindles-debate-over-exploitation-in-china-africa-relationship/

Following the release of the Xinjiang Police Files and UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet’s “failed” visit to Xinjiang, Europe has called for action to address the human rights ...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/06/european-parliament-condemns-crimes-against-humanity-in-xinjiang-germany-scrutinizes-investments-in-china/

China’s media elites are searching for new ways to tell China’s story abroad, and local researchers have taken note. Last week, the National Bureau of Asian Research, a U.S.-based think tank,...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/06/ghana-study-highlights-chinese-drive-for-global-media-influence/

33 years have passed since the People’s Liberation Army violently crushed pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing and elsewhere. Memories of the 1989 movement have been suppressed by a similarl...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/06/censors-amplify-inadvertent-june-fourth-remembrance-while-quashing-others/

On Saturday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will wrap up his ten-day tour of eight Pacific Island Countries (PICs). Having initially aimed for an ambitious multilateral pact on security and dev...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/06/china-snubs-pacific-media-as-islands-navigate-between-continents/

On Saturday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet concluded her highly anticipated visit to Xinjiang. It had been hoped that Bachelet’s visit might provide some form of accou...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/05/bachelets-failed-xinjiang-visit-draws-widespread-condemnation-and-calls-for-her-to-resign/

With the release of the Xinjiang Police Files on Tuesday, the world has seen what Xinjiang’s “re-education” camps look like from inside official Chinese government databases: mugshots of th...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/05/heartbreak-disinformation-and-new-punitive-measures-in-the-wake-of-xinjiang-police-files-release/

On Tuesday, a consortium of 14 international media outlets released the “Xinjiang Police Files,” a cache of tens of thousands of confidential files from police computer servers in Xinjiang. D...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/05/xinjiang-police-files-show-the-human-faces-of-mass-detention-raise-stakes-for-bachelets-visit/

On Thursday, the Canadian government announced that it will ban Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE from its 5G networks. The move comes as the Biden administration debates imposing further sanction...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/05/canada-kicks-out-huawei-u-s-weighs-further-sanctions-on-hikvision-china-invests-in-undermining-sanctions/

On Saturday, China officially withdrew from its role as the host of the 2023 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup. The quadrennial event, which brings together 24 national soccer teams fr...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/05/covid-concerns-prompt-china-to-abandon-role-as-afc-cup-host/

A recently leaked police database reviewed by AFP and AP identifies over 10,000 Uyghurs from a county in southwestern Xinjiang who have been detained on terrorism-related charges. The list, thus ...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/05/leaked-database-reveals-intensity-of-imprisonment-in-xinjiang-rights-groups-skeptical-of-un-visit/

After nearly two and a half years of pandemic-related restrictions limiting inbound travel to China, the Chinese government is now increasing restrictions on outbound travel, as well. On Thursday...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/05/netizen-voices-china-tightens-restrictions-on-passports-and-outbound-travel-amid-covid/

Hong Kong national security police arrested Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun on Wednesday for alleged conspiracy to collude with foreign powers. Cardinal Zen is a 90-year-old former bishop and senior ...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/05/hong-kong-national-security-police-arrest-90-year-old-cardinal-zen/