Tag: #Xinjiang

Architect Liu Kecheng interprets histories behind China’s heritage sites through contemporary design

Li Yuche September 01, 2023

Architect Liu Kecheng interprets histories behind China’s heritage sites through contemporary design

Born in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, 60-year-old architect Liu Kecheng calls Xi'an, in Shaanxi Province, his second home. Here people often use the classic Chinese saying "Above ground, Xi'an; under the ground, Chang'an" to describe the city's abundance in ­historical and archaeological resources. Having lived in...More

Xinjiang residents benefit from strong healthcare through disease screening campaign

Lin Xiaoyi in Kashi June 06, 2023

Xinjiang residents benefit from strong healthcare through disease screening campaign

What additional support and care can be given to one of the most vulnerable groups on China's frontiers? In Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the "Journey for Angel - Xinjiang Congenital Heart Disease Screening and Assistance Action" event by the Chinese Red Cross Foundation (CRCF), along with...More

GT investigates: What’s behind OHCHR so-called Xinjiang ‘report’?

GT staff reporters September 07, 2022

GT investigates: What’s behind OHCHR so-called Xinjiang ‘report’?

The so-called assessment report on China's Xinjiang region, which was released by the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR), was mulled since 2019 without taking Chinese government's advice or getting authorization from the UN Human Rights Council or having credible basis, the Global Times has...More

1st counter-terrorism exhibit held outside Xinjiang

Liu Xin and Fan Lingzhi October 15, 2021

1st counter-terrorism exhibit held outside Xinjiang

An exhibition on the counter-terrorism situation in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was displayed in Beijing on Monday - the first time such an exhibit was held outside the region with a large number of pictures and videos on more than 50 terror attacks. Senior officials and...More

How big a security threat does China face as Taliban draws closer to border with Xinjiang?

Left Review Online July 16, 2021

How big a security threat does China face as Taliban draws closer to border with Xinjiang?

There are increasing concerns that Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is facing a resurgence of terrorism infiltrating through the Wakhan corridor, on the Afghanistan border, after the Taliban swept through northeastern Badakhshan province and is drawing closer to the border with China's Xinjiang. However, Chinese observers believe...More

Young Uygurs look to sue Australian think tank over report on ‘forced labor’ in Xinjiang

Liu Xin in Changsha and Fan Lingzhi in Beijing June 27, 2021

Young Uygurs look to sue Australian think tank over report on ‘forced labor’ in Xinjiang

Nuradli Wublikas, a young Uygur man from Kashi of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is seeking to sue Australian think tank Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) for its report on the so-called forced labor in China's Xinjiang, as the ASPI report has hurt the image of the...More

Whitewashing terror groups on Xinjiang ‘will backfire on US’

Liu Xin May 21, 2021

Whitewashing terror groups on Xinjiang ‘will backfire on US’

Turning a blind eye to its nature as terrorist group and attempting to whitewash its ties with al-Qaeda, the US' double standards on anti-terrorism will backfire, analysts warned in referring to CNN's latest report on exonerating the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) terrorist group. By citing some former...More

Court accepts lawsuit of Xinjiang enterprise suing Adrian Zenz over ‘forced labor’ rumor

GT Staff Reporters April 27, 2021

Court accepts lawsuit of Xinjiang enterprise suing Adrian Zenz over ‘forced labor’ rumor

A local court in Kashi, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has accepted the case of a Xinjiang local textile enterprise suing the notorious anti-China German scholar Adrian Zenz for fabricating "forced labor" rumors against the enterprise, a local news website reported on Friday. Xinjiang Shache Xiongying Textile...More

Foreign enterprises welcomed to visit Xinjiang cotton fields, textile companies to ‘make wise choice’

Zhang Hui April 04, 2021

Foreign enterprises welcomed to visit Xinjiang cotton fields, textile companies to ‘make wise choice’

Foreign enterprises are welcomed to visit local Xinjiang cotton producing areas and textile companies, talk to cotton growers to make a wise choice, the local Xinjiang government said on Monday, while denouncing Western countries putting "genocide" label on Xinjiang as the "biggest case of a frame-up in human...More

Global brands should avoid Xinjiang hack-trap

Mario Cavolo March 30, 2021

Global brands should avoid Xinjiang hack-trap

Sometimes in life, the best defense is a strong offense. That time has finally arrived and I for one could not be more pleased that is the case. Several weeks earlier, I had predicted that in the face of an endless barrage of false accusations this past year,...More

China hits back at EU sanctions over Xinjiang affairs, sending strong signal urging foreign countries to stop meddling in its internal affairs

Chen Qingqing, Zhao Yusha and Hu Yuwei March 23, 2021

China hits back at EU sanctions over Xinjiang affairs, sending strong signal urging foreign countries to stop meddling in its internal affairs

Shortly after European Union foreign ministers signed off on a slate of punitive measures on Monday over alleged human rights abuses, including sanctions directed at China, China hit back with tit-for-tat countermeasures by sanctioning 10 individuals and four entities that have spread rumors and lies about Xinjiang. The...More

Companies, individuals in Xinjiang to sue rumormongering Adrian Zenz for causing reputation damage, economic losses

Left Review Online March 14, 2021

Companies, individuals in Xinjiang to sue rumormongering Adrian Zenz for causing reputation damage, economic losses

A number of enterprises and individuals in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have directed lawyers to sue German national Adrian Zenz (who calls himself Zheng Guoen in Chinese), Xinjiang local news outlet www.ts.cn reported. Local people said that Zenz spread "forced labor" and other rumors related to...More

Hyping Xinjiang topic to contain China may further damage bilateral ties, experts warn US

Liu Xin and Fan Lingzhi February 06, 2021

Hyping Xinjiang topic to contain China may further damage bilateral ties, experts warn US

Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region welcomes people from all around the world, including officials from the new US administration, to visit but it opposes any presumption of guilt, senior officials from the region told a press conference in Beijing on Monday. Analysts said that China's attitude toward...More

PLA Xinjiang Military Command commissions first Type 15 light tanks

Liu Xuanzun February 04, 2021

PLA Xinjiang Military Command commissions first Type 15 light tanks

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Xinjiang Military Command recently received delivery of and commissioned its first batch of China's newly developed Type 15 light tanks, which excels at rapid reaction combat in plateau regions, a Chinese expert said on Monday. With the commissioning, both Xinjiang and Tibet...More

Xinjiang official debunks lies, says US ‘commits genocide’ of American Indians

Liu Xin January 14, 2021

Xinjiang official debunks lies, says US ‘commits genocide’ of American Indians

All the policies adopted in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region fit into regional developments and serve local residents' interests, while the US is the country that commits the genocide of American Indians, discriminates against minority races, and severely violates workers' human rights, a senior official from the...More