China Intensifies Lobbying to Thwart Criticism of Muslim Detentions

Chinese delegates delivered a defiant defense of its mass detentions of Muslims at a United Nations human-rights panel in Geneva on Tuesday that became a showdown with the U.S. and other critics of the Chinese policy......»»

Chinese authorities aggressively expanded the scale of internment camps in Xinjiang this year, even as the government’s program of mass detentions of Muslims in the region started to draw international scrutiny......»»

A senior Chinese official offered the government’s fullest defense so far of its mass detention program for Muslims in China’s far west, saying it formed a bulwark for social stability and suggesting the detentions are voluntary......»»

A senior Chinese official offered the government’s fullest defense so far of its mass detention program for Muslims in China’s far west, saying it formed a bulwark for social stability and suggesting the detentions are voluntary......»»

Thomson Reuters The Turkic mostly Muslim Uighur minority in China's Xinjiang region face arbitrary detentions, daily restrictions on religious practice and "forced political indoctrination," Human Rights Watch says. The United Nations.....»»

In its far western region of Xinjiang, China says it’s fighting separatism and religious extremism among Uighurs, a Muslim ethnic group. To some outsiders, it’s building a 21st-century gulag, combining police-state repression backed by high-tech fa.....»»

One of China's richest men has drawn criticism after endorsing a culture of 12-hour workdays in the country's red-hot tech industry......»»

In a major ethical leap for the tech world, Chinese start-ups have built algorithms that the government uses to track members of a largely Muslim minority group......»»

The president accused the tech giant of helping China and not the U.S. in a tweet on Saturday......»»

The president accused the tech giant of helping China and not the U.S. in a tweet on Saturday......»»

Watch China Cut BBC Live Feed When Correspondent Mentions Muslim Internment Camps .....»»

As China's mass incarceration of members of its Uighur Muslim minority in its far-flung Xinjiang province has elicited condemnation from editori.....»»

Concern over the fate of a well-regarded Uighur musician in China prompted Turkey to demand that Beijing end its mass incarceration of Turkic Muslims—a rare public rebuke of the forced assimilation campaign from a government in the Muslim world......»»

Abdurahman Tohti via Uyghur Bulletin/Twitter China is waging an unprecedented crackdown on the Uighurs, a majority-Muslim ethnic group in the western region of Xinjiang. Authorities are suspected to have detained up .....»»

China's Huawei on Thursday said it could become the world's biggest-selling smartphone vendor this year even without the U.S. market and as global scrutiny of the firm intensifies. David Pollard reports......»»

China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] on Thursday said it could become the world's biggest-selling smartphone vendor this year even without the U.S. market and as global scrutiny of the firm intensifies......»»

More than 100 Western academics and former diplomats urged Beijing to release two Canadians detained last month, warning that the detentions during a diplomatic row with Canada will heighten distrust of China......»»

Authorities are using harsh methods to target people posting criticism of the government on a social media platform that is blocked in the country, extending online censorship beyond China’s borders......»»

China's indebted HNA Group met bankers on Tuesday to tout the latest assets that the sprawling conglomerate is putting on the block as it looks to raise funds and stave off an intensifying cash crunch......»»

When previously last year the United Nations began scrutinizing claims that China has interned one million of its ethnic Uighur Muslim in "re-education" camps, Beijing stridently denied such charges, but now months after Western media and human rights gro.....»»