"More than 50 #Uyghur groups on Thursday urged heads of states and leaders of international organizations meeting with #China's President Xi Jinping this week in Saudi Arabia to condemn China’s atrocity crimes against the #Uyghurs and ...rfa.org/english/news/u…
... end the genocide in its far-western Xinjiang region."
“On various occasions, Uyghur organizations have expressed their great disappointment over the silence of Muslim-majority countries on the Uyghur genocide, which has involved the arbitrary detainment of millions of Uyghurs in concentration camps, ...
... where they are forced to renounce their religious beliefs and practices,” a statement issued by the groups said.
"It went on to say that authorities have destroyed or damaged thousands of mosques and cemeteries in Xinjiang, while banning religious practices such as giving Islamic names to children, fasting during the holy month of Ramadan, and forcing Muslims to eat pork and drink alcohol.
@Dolkun_Isa said China is not only committing genocide against the Uyghur Muslims, but also has declared war on Islam.
“It is completely unacceptable that the leaders of the Muslim world will sit with China’s dictator on the same stage and just talk about business and cooperation by turning a blind eye to China’s attack on Islam."
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“And many, or perhaps most, Taiwanese people would not want to unify with #China regardless of the nature of its government. #Taiwan has its own history, culture, identity, and sense of national pride.” foreignaffairs.com/taiwan/taiwan-…
“Yet although public opinion data make it clear that the overwhelming majority of Taiwanese people have little interest in being ruled by Beijing, that does not mean they want a formal declaration of independence.”
“To most people, Taiwan is already a fully sovereign country, not merely a self-governing island that exists in a state of limbo.
Officials in #China announced on Monday that they will abolish its Covid-19 trace tracking service, the “Mobile Itinerary card,” on Tuesday. edition.cnn.com/2022/12/11/asi…
“Mobile Itinerary card inquiry channels such as text messages, web pages, WeChat extensions, Alipay extensions and app will go offline at the same time,” according to a statement from the country’s Academy of Information and Communications Technology.
"Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, China has used the itinerary card system to track individuals’ travel histories over 14 days.
Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu also suggested cross-strait communications may diminish even further now that Xi Jinping has secured his third term, with last month’s extraordinary political purges of rival Communist party members severing the few unofficial ties remaining.
Wu said the Chinese military threat was “getting more serious than ever”, with a five-fold increase in warplane incursions into Taiwan’s defence zone since 2020.
By @JKynge: "The big risks, however, concern what comes next. #China is in uncharted territory: a dash towards herd immunity could cause the deaths of as many as 1mn people in a massive “winter wave” of infections." ft.com/content/c6c484…
"Under a scenario in which China’s leadership continues to roll back zero-Covid, the national health system would quickly become overwhelmed. With daily fatalities reaching as high as 20,000 in mid-March, ...
... demand for intensive care units would peak at 10 times higher than capacity by late March, according to the Wigram Capital Advisors’ model."
The @NewYorker interview with @vshih2: "It took something like a multi-city protest to really make Xi Jinping realize that perhaps there is a groundswell of demand for a more relaxed approach." #Chinanewyorker.com/news/q-and-a/w…
"It really speaks to the challenge of authoritarian government, especially a kind of dictatorship that controls all forms of media, and has explicitly ordered the media to obey everything the government wants to convey."
"At the highest level, among Politburo Standing Committee members, we don’t know whether there has been a debate. I suspect that there has been—not an open debate, ...
“Japan needs to increase its military spending in the face of the “grim reality” of the threat from #China and North Korea, a senior member of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) said on Sunday during a visit to #Taiwan.” straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia…
LDP policy chief and former industry minister Koichi Hagiuda said during a visit to Taipei that since World War II, Japan has “walked the path of peace” and that will not change in the future.
“However, just reciting the word peace is of course not enough for our peace to be protected,” he told a forum on Japan-Taiwan relations.