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Venezuela: Another black eye for Chinese economic diplomacy

AFP | China and Venezuela seemed like natural bedfellows: one is the planet's top crude-oil importer and the other possesses the world's largest reserves. But...

Re-education camp: China rejects Turkish claim of Uighur Muslim’s death

News Analysis | Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying has strongly refuted that a 57-year-old Uighur musician Abdurehim Heyit has died in the re-education camp...

Missing Uighurs’ kin demand ‘proof of life’ videos from China

AFP | Ethnic Uighurs have launched a global campaign to press China for video proof that their missing relatives are alive, turning the tables on...

Harsh Turkish condemnation of Xinjiang cracks Muslim wall of silence – James M Dorsey

James M Dorsey | In perhaps the most significant condemnation to date of China’s brutal crackdown on Turkic Muslims in its north-western province of Xinjiang....

China’s Xinjiang – a role model for Pakistan to develop Baluchistan – Jan Achakzai

Jan Achakzai | “My heart goes out to the people living in hardship,” said President Xi Jinping while stressing the twin goals of creating jobs...

Chinese hunger for ‘world’s smelliest fruit’ threatens Malaysian forests

AFP | Soaring demand for durians in China is being blamed for a new wave of deforestation in Malaysia with environmentalists warning vast amounts of...

Don’t let Huawei help set up 5G, US warns EU nations

AFP | US officials are fanning out across Europe to warn about the security risks of allowing Chinese telecoms giant Huawei to help build 5G...

China’s so-called re-education camps: Torture cells for Muslims

Abdul Rasool Syed | What’s happening in China under the guise of re-education of the Uighur Muslims is quite shameful. It seems that China, like...

Canadian envoy sacking shows ‘political interference’: Chinese media

AFP | Chinese state-run media on Monday decried the sacking of Canada's ambassador to Beijing, who was fired after he suggested it would be “great”...

Is a slowdown in the Chinese Economy sufficient to end the US-China Trade War?

News Analysis | The World Economic Forum, held in the snow-packed Swiss town of Davos, contemplated various powerful questions for the future. Christine Lagarde, the...

China to arrest 19 over military veteran protests: state media

AFP | Chinese authorities on Friday ordered the arrest of 19 people for allegedly organising protests by military veterans in two cities last year, state...

China, Russia side with Maduro as US backs Venezuela challenger

AFP | The United States, Britain, and major South American nations recognized opposition chief Juan Guaido as Venezuela's interim leader Thursday but China and Russia...